ADO Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 367 396
Rank change year-on-year +66 +29 +66
Contract jobs citing ADO 38 32 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 0.97% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 39
10th Percentile £363 £378 £378
25th Percentile £408 £411 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £605
90th Percentile £638 £729 £685
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% -10.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,391 3,290 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.69% 15.85% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,153 3,284
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 199 91
10th Percentile £31.71 £21.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £78.00
UK 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 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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
South East +52 20 £425 - 9
Midlands +21 10 £538 -17.31% 2
West Midlands +16 9 £550 -15.38% 2
North of England +24 7 £450 +8.96% 4
North West - 6 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +2 1 £315 -23.73% 2
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Scotland - 1 £650 - 1
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 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (86.84%) Azure
2 30 (78.95%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (31.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (21.05%) Power Platform
5 7 (18.42%) Azure AKS
5 7 (18.42%) Azure API Management
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (15.79%) Azure Storage
7 5 (13.16%) IaaS
8 4 (10.53%) GitHub
8 4 (10.53%) PaaS
9 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (7.89%) Power Automate
10 2 (5.26%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (5.26%) Azure Table
10 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (5.26%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (18.42%) Power BI
3 2 (5.26%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.26%) Metadata
3 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) Selenium
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Law
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Site Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Azure Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Administrator
5 4 (10.53%) Lead
5 4 (10.53%) PMO Administrator
6 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow Manager
7 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.89%) .NET
2 3 (7.89%) PySpark
2 3 (7.89%) YAML
3 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.63%) Blazor
4 1 (2.63%) HTML
4 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.63%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) DevOps
2 19 (50.00%) Agile
3 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (18.42%) Test Automation
6 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (13.16%) Data Management
7 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.16%) Project Management
8 4 (10.53%) Analytics
8 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.53%) DevSecOps
8 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
8 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (7.89%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (7.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 3 (7.89%) Sprint Planning
9 3 (7.89%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 7 (18.42%) Java
4 5 (13.16%) C#
5 4 (10.53%) Bash
5 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.26%) Bicep
6 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) APMP
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) PMO
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Grafana
3 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
3 1 (2.63%) Perforce
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow