ADO Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 159 179 213
Rank change year-on-year +20 +34 +16
Contract jobs citing ADO 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 0.67% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £347 £378 £413
25th Percentile £406 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.96% -24.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £513 £447 £688
90th Percentile - £509 £808
England median daily rate £468 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% -9.09% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
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 the North of England

Job postings citing ADO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for ADO in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADO in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for ADO in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADO in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for ADO in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the North of England 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
North West - 6 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +3 1 £315 -23.73% 2
ADO
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) Delta Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) DataOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Quality Management
4 2 (28.57%) Runbook
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Databricks