ADO Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 322 344
Rank change year-on-year -66 +22 +47
Contract jobs citing ADO 66 45 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 1.15% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 29 27
10th Percentile £378 £358 £338
25th Percentile £458 £380 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -17.07% -4.21%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £619
90th Percentile £840 £728 £780
England median daily rate £613 £425 £519
% change year-on-year +44.12% -18.07% -5.68%

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 5,350 3,926 4,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.31% 29.29% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,558 2,714 3,432
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £430 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -29.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ADO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

ADO job vacancy trend in London

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ADO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ADO

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in London over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in London

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ADO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ADO

ADO
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 9 September 2026. 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 -29 6 £583 +37.06% 3
East London +3 1 £775 +115.28%
ADO
England

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.52%) Appian
1 1 (1.52%) Confluence
1 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (89.39%) Azure
2 55 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (12.12%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.61%) AWS
4 7 (10.61%) GitHub
5 5 (7.58%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (6.06%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (6.06%) GCP
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.55%) Serverless
7 3 (4.55%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.03%) Figma
8 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) Power BI
2 3 (4.55%) SQLite
3 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.03%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.52%) Metadata
4 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Claude Code
1 4 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (3.03%) AdminStudio
2 2 (3.03%) Git
2 2 (3.03%) InstallShield
2 2 (3.03%) MSI
3 1 (1.52%) GitLab
3 1 (1.52%) QADirector
3 1 (1.52%) Selenium
3 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.52%) TestDirector
3 1 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Banking
4 2 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.52%) Marketing
5 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Azure Specialist
1 16 (24.24%) DevOps Specialist
2 9 (13.64%) Analyst
2 9 (13.64%) Azure Consultant
2 9 (13.64%) Consultant
2 9 (13.64%) DevOps Consultant
3 8 (12.12%) Senior
4 7 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Lead
5 5 (7.58%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.58%) Test Leader
6 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Test Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Head of Engineering
7 3 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) Terraform
2 4 (6.06%) .NET
2 4 (6.06%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (4.55%) Pandas
3 3 (4.55%) PySpark
3 3 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (4.55%) Web Services
4 2 (3.03%) JSON
4 2 (3.03%) Kafka
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (3.03%) YAML
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.52%) Playwright
5 1 (1.52%) RESTful
5 1 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.03%) LIMS
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.52%) CMDB
4 1 (1.52%) Life Science
4 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) VMS
2 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (83.33%) DevOps
2 22 (33.33%) Agile
3 16 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 13 (19.70%) Project Management
5 11 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 11 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (15.15%) Containerisation
7 9 (13.64%) Acceptance Criteria
7 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (13.64%) Migration
7 9 (13.64%) Scrum
7 9 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (12.12%) Cloud Security
8 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.12%) Waterfall
9 7 (10.61%) Business Analysis
10 6 (9.09%) AI
10 6 (9.09%) Test Management
10 6 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.73%) Python
2 9 (13.64%) SQL
3 5 (7.58%) Bash
3 5 (7.58%) Java
3 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.06%) Bicep
4 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.52%) Degree
3 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (6.06%) PMO
3 2 (3.03%) GRC
4 1 (1.52%) GDPR
4 1 (1.52%) GMP
4 1 (1.52%) GxP
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
4 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.55%) Grafana
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.03%) SCCM
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.64%) Databricks
3 3 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco
4 1 (1.52%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.52%) Okta
4 1 (1.52%) Pega
4 1 (1.52%) SAP
4 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.52%) Solace