ADO Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.25% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £540 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 97 21 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 24.13% 17.07% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 15 3
10th Percentile £400 £435 £360
25th Percentile £443 £471 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £545 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +36.25% -25.02%
75th Percentile £513 £567 £425
90th Percentile £563 £571 £440
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -14.29%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

ADO job vacancy trend in Shropshire

ADO
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 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
Telford - 1 £530 - 1
ADO
West Midlands

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Ingres
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle