ADO Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 265 309 414
Rank change year-on-year +44 +105 +103
Contract jobs citing ADO 39 36 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.52% 0.98% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 37
10th Percentile - £430 £393
25th Percentile £388 £470 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £589 £625 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £697
UK median daily rate £493 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -9.09% -10.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

ADO
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ADO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ADO trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ADO
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ADO.

ADO daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ADO over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

ADO daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.56%) CMS
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 31 (79.49%) Azure
2 16 (41.03%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 6 (15.38%) Azure Service Fabric
4 6 (15.38%) GitHub
5 5 (12.82%) Azure API Management
5 5 (12.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (12.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (12.82%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (5.13%) Miro
7 2 (5.13%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.56%) dbt
8 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.56%) Serverless
8 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.56%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) Firewall
2 7 (17.95%) DNS
2 7 (17.95%) NGFW
2 7 (17.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Selenium
2 3 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) MSTest
3 2 (5.13%) NUnit
3 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (15.38%) Finance
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.56%) Billing
3 1 (2.56%) Legal
3 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) .NET Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Azure Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Network Support
2 7 (17.95%) Network Support Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.13%) Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.13%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) WCF
2 2 (5.13%) Web Services
2 2 (5.13%) YAML
3 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.56%) PySpark
3 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Anti-Spyware
2 5 (12.82%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.56%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Agile
2 20 (51.28%) DevOps
3 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (23.08%) Migration
5 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 7 (17.95%) Kalman Filter
5 7 (17.95%) Project Management
6 6 (15.38%) Scrum
6 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (10.26%) Agile Project Management
8 4 (10.26%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (10.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 3 (7.69%) Business Analysis
9 3 (7.69%) High Availability
9 3 (7.69%) Kanban
9 3 (7.69%) OO
9 3 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) C#
1 8 (20.51%) Python
2 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
3 6 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) NIST
1 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Terraform
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) CheckPoint
1 7 (17.95%) Infoblox
1 7 (17.95%) Palo Alto
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) Infor