ADO Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.086% - 0.067%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% - 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £483 - £566
25th Percentile £494 - £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £638
75th Percentile £544 - £691
90th Percentile £548 - £719
England median daily rate £425 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -14.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 338 408 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.51% 19.32% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 240 378
10th Percentile £335 £400 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 44
10th Percentile £61.55 £61.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.40 £75.60
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

ADO job vacancy trend in the South West

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

ADO
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Bristol - 1 £500 - 2
Somerset - 1 £550 -
ADO
England

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (50.00%) MODAF Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) B2C
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) MODAF
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Okta
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce