ADO Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 87 145
Rank change year-on-year -10 +58 +20
Contract jobs citing ADO 29 35 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.39% 1.73% 0.041%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.22% 9.38% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 1
10th Percentile £380 £363 -
25th Percentile £400 £406 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% +16.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £450 £639 £538
90th Percentile £536 £658 -
South East median daily rate £425 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -26.88% +10.71% +10.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 353 373 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.89% 18.47% 15.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 253 216
10th Percentile £363 £376 £310
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £503
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +14.43% -8.64%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £626 £671 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £33.53 £40.05
25th Percentile - £42.20 £53.42
Median hourly rate £81.00 £58.30 £63.03
Median % change year-on-year +38.94% -7.50% +41.24%
75th Percentile £81.25 £67.41 £90.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £71.88 -
South East median hourly rate £48.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% - -2.09%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

ADO job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ADO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ADO

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the Thames Valley

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ADO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ADO

ADO
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 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
Berkshire -10 29 £425 -30.61%
ADO
South East

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (24.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (89.66%) Azure
1 26 (89.66%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Azure AKS
3 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Storage
4 4 (13.79%) IaaS
4 4 (13.79%) PaaS
4 4 (13.79%) SaaS
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.45%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.45%) IPsec
2 1 (3.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Power BI
2 4 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Git
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Billing
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Business Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Project Manager
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Site Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Junior
5 3 (10.34%) PMO Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Senior PMO
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Security Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Security Project Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Senior PMO Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) YAML
3 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) DevOps
2 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) Waterfall
5 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (17.24%) Change Control
5 5 (17.24%) CRM
5 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.79%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Business Analysis
7 3 (10.34%) Cyber Resilience
7 3 (10.34%) Epics
7 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) PRINCE2
7 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.34%) Project Management
7 3 (10.34%) Resource Management
7 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) PMI Certification
1 3 (10.34%) PMP
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) PMO
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) MuleSoft
1 5 (17.24%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow