Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ADO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ADO over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 820 910 1075
Rank change year-on-year +90 +165 -202
Permanent jobs citing ADO 58 62 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.061% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.20% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 34 37 120
10th Percentile £47,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,406 £52,500 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +16.98% +26.19%
75th Percentile £94,063 £87,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +14.29% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ADO is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,024 30,475 64,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.23% 30.11% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 18,827 30,056
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.22% +15.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ADO in the UK

ADO
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ADO.

Salary trend for ADO in the UK

ADO
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ADO over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ADO in the UK

ADO
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
England +99 44 £70,750 -4.07% 16
UK excluding London -13 30 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Work from Home +79 27 £85,000 +7.94% 13
London +122 24 £73,750 -18.06% 4
South East +12 10 £65,000 -10.34% 5
North of England +49 8 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Wales - 8 - - 3
Yorkshire +83 7 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Scotland - 4 £75,000 - 3
East of England - 2 £85,000 - 1
North West +3 1 £61,750 -

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Chatbot
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (3.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (3.45%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 37 (63.79%) Azure
2 25 (43.10%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (31.03%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (29.31%) Power Platform
5 12 (20.69%) Power Automate
6 8 (13.79%) SaaS
7 7 (12.07%) GCP
8 5 (8.62%) AWS
9 4 (6.90%) GitHub
9 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (6.90%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.45%) Mimecast
10 2 (3.45%) PaaS
10 2 (3.45%) Serverless
10 2 (3.45%) WhatsApp
11 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.72%) IaaS
11 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) BGP
2 2 (3.45%) DHCP
2 2 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) Power BI
2 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
2 8 (13.79%) JIRA
3 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) Zephyr
4 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) Selenium
5 1 (1.72%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (1.72%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.72%) TestNG
5 1 (1.72%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Legal
3 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Finance
5 2 (3.45%) Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Electronics
6 1 (1.72%) Front Office
6 1 (1.72%) German Language
6 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Developer
2 10 (17.24%) CRM Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Architect
4 6 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.62%) Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior
6 4 (6.90%) Test Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) CSS
1 8 (13.79%) HTML
1 8 (13.79%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) EDI
3 2 (3.45%) Express.js
3 2 (3.45%) MERN Stack
3 2 (3.45%) Node.js
3 2 (3.45%) React
3 2 (3.45%) XML
4 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.72%) JSON
4 1 (1.72%) REST
4 1 (1.72%) RESTful
4 1 (1.72%) SOAP
4 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.79%) Virtual Team
3 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.17%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.45%) Housing Association
6 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.45%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.72%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Windows 10
2 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) DevOps
2 23 (39.66%) Agile
3 18 (31.03%) CRM
4 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
5 14 (24.14%) Configuration Management
6 13 (22.41%) Customer Service
7 12 (20.69%) DevSecOps
7 12 (20.69%) Mentoring
7 12 (20.69%) Roadmaps
8 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (17.24%) Project Delivery
10 9 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
11 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (13.79%) Coaching
11 8 (13.79%) Data Management
11 8 (13.79%) Decision-Making
11 8 (13.79%) ETL
11 8 (13.79%) Information Security
11 8 (13.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) C#
2 11 (18.97%) Python
3 9 (15.52%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.34%) SQL
5 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.17%) Ruby
7 2 (3.45%) Bicep
7 2 (3.45%) Go
7 2 (3.45%) Java
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) VB
8 1 (1.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Degree
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.62%) CCNA
3 5 (8.62%) CCNP
3 5 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.90%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.90%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.45%) XenApp
2 2 (3.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Terraform
2 7 (12.07%) Ansible
3 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.17%) Puppet
4 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.45%) SCCM
6 1 (1.72%) Consul
6 1 (1.72%) Packer
6 1 (1.72%) Podman
6 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.72%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.17%) Databricks
3 3 (5.17%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.17%) Workday
4 2 (3.45%) Citrix
4 2 (3.45%) Ivanti
4 2 (3.45%) NEC
4 2 (3.45%) SAP
4 2 (3.45%) VMware
4 2 (3.45%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.72%) Ariba
5 1 (1.72%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.72%) Google
5 1 (1.72%) Progress
5 1 (1.72%) Rapid7