ADO.NET Contract Job Trends

Microsoft ADO.NET
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ADO.NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 666 549 -
Rank change year-on-year -117 - -
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.006% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.059% 0.027% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £652 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 £550 -
% change year-on-year -33.18% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ADO.NET 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,177 7,379 8,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.97% 22.39% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,619 4,943 5,786
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 176 242
10th Percentile £28.15 £29.63 £22.86
25th Percentile £41.35 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

ADO.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ADO.NET job vacancy trend in the UK

ADO.NET
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ADO.NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ADO.NET

ADO.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO.NET over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ADO.NET in the UK

ADO.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ADO.NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ADO.NET

ADO.NET
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO.NET within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 2026. 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
London -65 5 £750 - 2
England -120 5 £750 +36.36% 3
Work from Home - 5 £750 - 1
UK excluding London -103 1 £368 -33.18% 1
Scotland - 1 £368 -

ADO.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (66.67%) Entity Framework
3 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (50.00%) RESTful
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) XML
4 2 (33.33%) XSL
4 2 (33.33%) XSLT
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (83.33%) Refactoring
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) ETL
4 3 (50.00%) Garbage Collection
4 3 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Sitecore