Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring ADO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ADO over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 831 1145
Rank change year-on-year +65 +314 -184
Permanent jobs citing ADO 76 56 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.069% 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 0.25% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 45 42 104
10th Percentile £46,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £80,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +20.75% +20.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,250 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +5.42% -9.43% +26.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for ADO in the UK

ADO
Top 13 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 26 July 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 +50 57 £68,000 -15.00% 9
UK excluding London -3 48 £63,250 +5.42% 9
London +84 24 £69,000 -23.33%
Work from Home +27 17 £95,000 +18.75% 3
North of England +10 11 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Scotland -34 9 £75,000 +25.00%
South East +13 8 £65,000 -23.53% 2
Wales - 8 - -
West Midlands -1 6 £68,000 -2.86% 1
South West -2 6 £55,000 -35.29% 5
North West -5 6 £57,500 -28.13% 1
Midlands -20 6 £68,000 +13.33% 1
Yorkshire +56 5 £50,000 -

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 10 (13.16%) SharePoint
2 9 (11.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (7.89%) ArcGIS
4 4 (5.26%) WildFly
5 3 (3.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.63%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (22.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (6.58%) Maximo
3 3 (3.95%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (2.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (64.47%) Azure
2 24 (31.58%) Dynamics 365
3 20 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (22.37%) Power Platform
5 13 (17.11%) SaaS
6 12 (15.79%) Power Automate
7 10 (13.16%) GCP
8 9 (11.84%) Mimecast
9 8 (10.53%) AWS
10 7 (9.21%) PaaS
11 5 (6.58%) Miro
11 5 (6.58%) PowerApps
12 4 (5.26%) GitHub
13 3 (3.95%) Azure AKS
13 3 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (3.95%) WhatsApp
14 2 (2.63%) Azure Storage
14 2 (2.63%) Serverless
15 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.84%) DHCP
1 9 (11.84%) DNS
2 4 (5.26%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) Power BI
2 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.32%) Power Query
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (23.68%) Git
2 13 (17.11%) JIRA
3 7 (9.21%) Selenium
4 5 (6.58%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.95%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.32%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.32%) JMeter
7 1 (1.32%) Maven
7 1 (1.32%) Postman
7 1 (1.32%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.32%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.32%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.32%) TestNG
7 1 (1.32%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.05%) Finance
3 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Back Office
5 4 (5.26%) Law
6 3 (3.95%) Banking
6 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Legal
7 2 (2.63%) Military
8 1 (1.32%) Front Office
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (23.68%) Analyst
2 13 (17.11%) Developer
3 11 (14.47%) CRM Developer
3 11 (14.47%) Technical Analyst
4 10 (13.16%) Architect
5 9 (11.84%) Citrix Analyst
6 8 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Project Manager
7 6 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Network Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Test Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) DevOps Architect
10 3 (3.95%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) CSS
2 8 (10.53%) HTML
2 8 (10.53%) HTML5 Canvas
3 7 (9.21%) .NET
4 6 (7.89%) REST
4 6 (7.89%) SOAP
5 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.26%) Java EE
5 4 (5.26%) OpenJDK
5 4 (5.26%) Spring
5 4 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.95%) XML
7 2 (2.63%) EDI
8 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.32%) Nightwatchjs
8 1 (1.32%) Playwright
8 1 (1.32%) React
8 1 (1.32%) RESTful
8 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Public Cloud
2 8 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.58%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.95%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.63%) BYOD
7 1 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.32%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.16%) Windows
2 9 (11.84%) Windows 10
2 9 (11.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.84%) Agile
2 24 (31.58%) DevOps
3 21 (27.63%) CRM
4 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (19.74%) CI/CD
6 13 (17.11%) Customer Service
6 13 (17.11%) Mentoring
7 11 (14.47%) Project Management
8 10 (13.16%) DevSecOps
9 9 (11.84%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (11.84%) Project Delivery
9 9 (11.84%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (11.84%) Software Engineering
9 9 (11.84%) Test Automation
10 8 (10.53%) Configuration Management
10 8 (10.53%) Critical Thinking
10 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (10.53%) Roadmaps
10 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (10.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.74%) C#
2 14 (18.42%) PowerShell
3 12 (15.79%) Python
3 12 (15.79%) SQL
4 10 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.89%) Java
5 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.58%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.32%) Bash
8 1 (1.32%) Bicep
8 1 (1.32%) Go
8 1 (1.32%) VB
8 1 (1.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (17.11%) Degree
2 11 (14.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.58%) CCNA
4 5 (6.58%) CCNP
4 5 (6.58%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (11.84%) Active Directory
1 9 (11.84%) XenApp
1 9 (11.84%) XenDesktop
2 2 (2.63%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (22.37%) Terraform
2 10 (13.16%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (11.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 9 (11.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (11.84%) SCCM
4 7 (9.21%) Ansible
5 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.32%) Consul
6 1 (1.32%) Packer
6 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.32%) Puppet
6 1 (1.32%) Salt
Vendors
1 44 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) Citrix
2 9 (11.84%) Ivanti
2 9 (11.84%) VMware
2 9 (11.84%) Zscaler
3 7 (9.21%) Databricks
4 6 (7.89%) ESRI
5 5 (6.58%) IBM
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle
6 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.63%) Workday
7 1 (1.32%) Ariba
7 1 (1.32%) CyberTech
7 1 (1.32%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.32%) Google
7 1 (1.32%) Progress
7 1 (1.32%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.32%) SAP