ADO Contracts in London

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring ADO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ADO over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 316 387
Rank change year-on-year +11 +71 +66
Contract jobs citing ADO 48 75 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 1.68% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 49 57
10th Percentile - £383 £425
25th Percentile £388 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £547 £611 £775
90th Percentile £725 £810 £875
England median daily rate £468 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% -9.09% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.13
Median hourly rate - - £38.75
75th Percentile - - £39.38
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £38.75

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

ADO falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing ADO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for ADO in London

ADO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADO in London.

Daily rate trend for ADO in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADO in London.

Hourly rate trend for ADO in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +2 14 £438 -12.50%
East London +13 1 £360 +5.88% 1
ADO
England

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.08%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.17%) Kondor
2 1 (2.08%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 41 (85.42%) Azure
2 18 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 6 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.33%) GitHub
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Fabric
6 3 (6.25%) Miro
6 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.17%) SaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.08%) dbt
8 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (33.33%) DNS
1 16 (33.33%) Firewall
1 16 (33.33%) NGFW
1 16 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) LAN
2 1 (2.08%) WAN
2 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (2.08%) eggPlant
3 1 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (2.08%) Poetry
3 1 (2.08%) Postman
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (22.92%) Finance
2 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Billing
4 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Front Office
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 16 (33.33%) Network Support
2 16 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
2 16 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Product Owner
6 3 (6.25%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.25%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (4.17%) Lead
7 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Software Tester
7 2 (4.17%) Tester
8 1 (2.08%) Architect
8 1 (2.08%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.08%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (2.08%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.08%) EDI
2 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.08%) NumPy
2 1 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.08%) Pandas
2 1 (2.08%) pytest
2 1 (2.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) Anti-Spyware
2 10 (20.83%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.17%) Online Banking
3 2 (4.17%) Wiki
4 1 (2.08%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) Agile
2 19 (39.58%) DevOps
3 16 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 16 (33.33%) Migration
4 8 (16.67%) Project Management
4 8 (16.67%) Scrum
5 7 (14.58%) User Stories
6 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 5 (10.42%) CRM
7 5 (10.42%) Product Backlog
7 5 (10.42%) Software Testing
7 5 (10.42%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.33%) Roadmaps
8 4 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (6.25%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) C#
2 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (2.08%) C++
3 1 (2.08%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) PMO
Systems Management
1 16 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 16 (33.33%) Infoblox
1 16 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) Calypso
3 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.17%) Workday
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco
4 1 (2.08%) OneTrust
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds