ADO Contracts in Reading

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 47 90 82
Rank change year-on-year +43 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing ADO 13 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.18% 0.084% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.56% 0.50% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £363 - £405
25th Percentile £381 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £638 - £550
90th Percentile - - £655
Berkshire median daily rate £471 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for ADO in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for ADO in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for ADO in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for ADO in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
1 12 (92.31%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Azure API Management
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (7.69%) dbt
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Administrator
3 4 (30.77%) PMO Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) Blazor
1 1 (7.69%) CSS
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Artefact Management
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (7.69%) Proactive Management
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft