ADO Contract Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring ADO skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 45 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.28% 0.25% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 1.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - -
75th Percentile £415 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £425 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -22.73% - -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 70 80 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 19.72% 19.80% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 48 81
10th Percentile £305 £210 £263
25th Percentile £375 £375 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £495 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% +13.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £550
90th Percentile £644 £579 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 £21.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.51% - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing ADO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for ADO in Wales

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing ADO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing ADO

ADO
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the Wales region over the 6 months to 14 September 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 Wales +7 1 £410 - 2
ADO
UK

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft