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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 331 397
Rank change year-on-year +34 +66 +51
Contract jobs citing ADO 44 66 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 1.47% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 39 53
10th Percentile - £361 £450
25th Percentile £388 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.48% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £788
90th Percentile £725 £853 £865
England median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -15.38%

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 3,158 4,485 6,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.03% 25.76% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,213 3,351 5,180
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £838 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 37
10th Percentile £31.16 £16.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.91 £42.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -39.29% +47.37%
75th Percentile £57.19 £62.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.80 £85.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +30.00%

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 23 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 23 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 13 £425 -15.00%
East London +16 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.55%) CMS
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.27%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 40 (90.91%) Azure
2 17 (38.64%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 6 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub
6 3 (6.82%) SaaS
6 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.55%) Miro
8 1 (2.27%) AWS
8 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.27%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.27%) dbt
8 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.27%) GCP
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (36.36%) DNS
1 16 (36.36%) Firewall
1 16 (36.36%) NGFW
1 16 (36.36%) VPN
2 1 (2.27%) LAN
2 1 (2.27%) WAN
2 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) Postman
2 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (2.27%) eggPlant
3 1 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (2.27%) Poetry
3 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (27.27%) Finance
2 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Billing
5 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Front Office
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 16 (36.36%) Network Support
2 16 (36.36%) Network Support Engineer
2 16 (36.36%) Support Engineer
3 8 (18.18%) Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Product Owner
5 3 (6.82%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Digital Product Owner
6 2 (4.55%) Lead
6 2 (4.55%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Tester
7 1 (2.27%) Consultant
7 1 (2.27%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) .NET
1 2 (4.55%) React
2 1 (2.27%) EDI
2 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.27%) NumPy
2 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.27%) Pandas
2 1 (2.27%) pytest
2 1 (2.27%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (36.36%) Anti-Spyware
2 9 (20.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.82%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.55%) Online Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Android
1 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.27%) Unix
1 1 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (77.27%) Agile
2 18 (40.91%) DevOps
3 17 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (38.64%) Migration
4 16 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (13.64%) Project Management
5 6 (13.64%) Scrum
5 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 6 (13.64%) User Stories
6 5 (11.36%) CRM
6 5 (11.36%) Software Testing
7 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 4 (9.09%) Product Backlog
7 4 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 4 (9.09%) SDLC
7 4 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (6.82%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) C++
3 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.27%) R
3 1 (2.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.27%) PMP
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) PMO
Systems Management
1 17 (38.64%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) CheckPoint
1 16 (36.36%) Infoblox
1 16 (36.36%) Palo Alto
2 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.55%) Workday
4 1 (2.27%) Calypso
4 1 (2.27%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) OneTrust
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds