ADO Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ADO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ADO over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 403 460
Rank change year-on-year +45 +57 -59
Contract jobs citing ADO 27 53 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.83% 1.23% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 40 37
10th Percentile £393 £379 £358
25th Percentile £514 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £750
90th Percentile £676 £675 £793
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -6.82% -12.00% +19.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

ADO is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,250 4,294 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.27% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,209 4,365
10th Percentile £324 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 91 138
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.50 £20.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ADO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ADO in the UK excluding London

ADO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADO in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ADO in the UK excluding London

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the UK excluding London

ADO
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADO in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ADO in the UK excluding London

ADO
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
South East 0 14 - - 3
Midlands +29 6 £650 +30.00% 5
West Midlands +25 6 £650 +30.00% 4
Yorkshire +28 3 £463 -15.91% 3
North of England +26 3 £463 -2.63% 3
South West +21 3 £625 -10.71% 3
Wales - 1 - - 4
ADO
UK

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.41%) Trello
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (3.70%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.70%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (25.93%) Power Platform
5 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (14.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (14.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (14.81%) Power Automate
7 4 (14.81%) PowerApps
8 3 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (11.11%) dbt
9 1 (3.70%) GitHub
9 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
1 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.70%) JMeter
4 1 (3.70%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.70%) NeoLoad
4 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Integration Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Scrum Master
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Environment Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Performance Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Performance Test Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Programme Planner
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Scrum Master
5 1 (3.70%) Test Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Test Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) JSON
1 4 (14.81%) XML
2 3 (11.11%) Flask
2 3 (11.11%) Pandas
3 1 (3.70%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.70%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Ubuntu
3 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 8 (29.63%) Application Packaging
2 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (25.93%) Data Transformation
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
6 4 (14.81%) API Development
6 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.81%) Data Mapping
6 4 (14.81%) Data Protection
6 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.81%) Scrum
7 3 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (11.11%) Business Case
7 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 3 (11.11%) DataOps
7 3 (11.11%) User Experience
7 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) C#
3 4 (14.81%) T-SQL
3 4 (14.81%) X++
4 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) PMP
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) PMO
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Grafana
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Informatica
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) JDA
4 1 (3.70%) Planview
4 1 (3.70%) SAP