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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 148 202
Rank change year-on-year +7 +54 +57
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ADO 29 34 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 0.71% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.97% 4.78% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 11
10th Percentile £400 £391 £419
25th Percentile £413 £424 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £546 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% -12.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £472 £638 £663
90th Percentile £536 £644 £675
England median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 584 712 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.54% 14.90% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 476 585
10th Percentile £293 £313 £313
25th Percentile £380 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £550 £620 £625
90th Percentile £625 £670 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 35
10th Percentile £20.09 £27.15 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.42 £54.85 £53.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £71.86
90th Percentile £58.69 £73.89 £75.00
England median hourly rate £54.70 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.48% - +4.17%

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

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ADO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ADO

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in the South East over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the South East

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ADO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ADO

ADO
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +29 25 £425 -30.61% 2
Thames Valley +20 25 £425 -30.61% 3
Hampshire +15 4 £413 -8.33%
Surrey +5 1 £425 -
East Sussex - 1 £925 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (89.66%) Azure
2 25 (86.21%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (48.28%) Azure AKS
4 12 (41.38%) Azure Storage
5 9 (31.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (31.03%) IaaS
5 9 (31.03%) PaaS
6 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
7 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (10.34%) Azure Table
8 3 (10.34%) GitHub
8 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
9 2 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (3.45%) dbt
10 1 (3.45%) GCP
10 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (17.24%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (37.93%) Site Engineer
3 11 (37.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Test Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Lead
6 3 (10.34%) Senior
7 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Operational Security Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 2 (6.90%) Security Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Security Operations Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Security Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Test Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Telemetry Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) ARM Templates
3 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
3 3 (10.34%) YAML
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) Blazor
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.45%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) DevOps
2 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 12 (41.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (27.59%) Agile
5 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.79%) User Stories
8 3 (10.34%) Identity Management
8 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
8 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (10.34%) Project Management
8 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
9 2 (6.90%) Change Control
9 2 (6.90%) Change Management
9 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (6.90%) Logistics
9 2 (6.90%) Manual Testing
9 2 (6.90%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (6.90%) Test Management
9 2 (6.90%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Bicep
2 5 (17.24%) C#
3 4 (13.79%) Bash
3 4 (13.79%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (44.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (31.03%) Terraform
3 4 (13.79%) Grafana
3 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Salesforce