ADO Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ADO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 531 555
Rank change year-on-year +46 +24 +153
Permanent jobs citing ADO 21 41 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.050% 0.11% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.59% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5 21 10
10th Percentile - £46,250 £62,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £62,500 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -12.12% +24.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £63,500 £80,000 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% -9.38% +33.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,863 6,970 8,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.15% 19.43% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,956 3,865 6,354
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ADO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ADO job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ADO
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ADO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ADO

ADO
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ADO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ADO in the UK excluding London

ADO
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +12 14 - -
South East +23 3 £55,000 +69.23% 3
Midlands +19 3 £45,000 -4.26% 5
West Midlands +17 3 £45,000 -4.26% 4
North of England +21 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
ADO
UK

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (9.52%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) Datadog
2 14 (66.67%) GitHub
2 14 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MS Access
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 17 (80.95%) Finance
2 16 (76.19%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Law
3 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Development Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Senior
3 8 (38.10%) Senior Development Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.52%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Product Owner
4 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Delphi Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (85.71%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
2 2 (9.52%) Blazor
2 2 (9.52%) ODBC
2 2 (9.52%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (85.71%) Product Ownership
2 14 (66.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Sports Betting
4 1 (4.76%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (71.43%) Asset Management
2 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 15 (71.43%) DevOps
3 14 (66.67%) Brown Bag Session
3 14 (66.67%) Coaching
3 14 (66.67%) Code Quality
3 14 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 14 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (66.67%) Observability
3 14 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.52%) AI
5 2 (9.52%) Backlog Management
5 2 (9.52%) Integration Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) Scrum
5 2 (9.52%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) JavaScript
2 14 (66.67%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) Delphi
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) XAML
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Grafana
1 14 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 14 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 14 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.76%) Avaya
2 1 (4.76%) Genesys