ADO Contracts in the South East

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 191 201
Rank change year-on-year +51 +10 +38
Contract jobs citing ADO 19 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.80% 1.92% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 18
10th Percentile £363 - £407
25th Percentile £406 - £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.44%
75th Percentile £638 - £669
90th Percentile - - £675
England median daily rate £468 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% -9.09% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
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 South East

Job postings citing ADO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for ADO in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADO in the South East.

Daily rate trend for ADO in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADO in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for ADO in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the South East 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
Thames Valley +59 18 £471 - 3
Berkshire +48 18 £471 - 1
Surrey +14 1 £425 - 1
ADO
England

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) Azure
1 18 (94.74%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (47.37%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (31.58%) Azure AKS
3 6 (31.58%) Azure API Management
3 6 (31.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (31.58%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Storage
5 3 (15.79%) IaaS
5 3 (15.79%) PaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Table
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (5.26%) dbt
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Power BI
2 5 (26.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Selenium
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Site Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) PMO Administrator
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
2 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) Blazor
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) PySpark
3 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) DevOps
2 11 (57.89%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
4 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Artefact Management
6 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.53%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (10.53%) SDLC
6 2 (10.53%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) Bash
4 3 (15.79%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) Bicep
5 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft