ADO Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 103 133
Rank change year-on-year +15 +30 +28
Contract jobs citing ADO 9 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.67% 0.41% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.95% 3.10% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £371 £445 £491
25th Percentile £463 £550 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £584 - £503
90th Percentile £611 £710 £509
England median daily rate £468 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% -9.09% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 258 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.95% 13.25% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 189 247
10th Percentile £384 £310 £360
25th Percentile £422 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England 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 West Midlands

Job postings citing ADO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for ADO in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADO in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for ADO in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADO in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for ADO in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire +3 7 £550 -15.38%
Birmingham - 1 £315 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £525 - 1
ADO
England

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) Figma
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (33.33%) Law
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Agile Coach
1 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Manager
1 1 (11.11%) Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Architect
1 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Consultant
1 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
1 1 (11.11%) CRM Architect
1 1 (11.11%) CRM Solutions Architect
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM Architect
1 1 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (11.11%) PMO Lead
1 1 (11.11%) PMO Manager
1 1 (11.11%) Programme Planner
1 1 (11.11%) Project Implementation Manager
1 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Business Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) User Stories
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) API Management
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) SAFe Practitioner
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) APMP
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow