ADO Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.64% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £624 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 - -
75th Percentile £673 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £629 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 39 37 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 12.46% 19.89% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 9
10th Percentile £359 £359 £355
25th Percentile £403 £418 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £605 £634 £515
90th Percentile £673 £775 £575
North West median daily rate £530 £447 £486
% change year-on-year +18.57% -8.07% -7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.00%
North West median hourly rate £72.00 £51.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +41.18% +7.37% +2.86%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

ADO job vacancy trend in Merseyside

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing ADO

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing ADO

ADO
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 27 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
Liverpool - 2 £649 - 4
ADO
North West

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Planning Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Planning Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (50.00%) Demand Management
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PMO
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft