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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 758 934
Rank change year-on-year +82 +176 +63
Permanent jobs citing ADO 58 46 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.060% 0.075%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.26% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 29 33 48
10th Percentile £45,950 £52,750 £41,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,875 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £130,500 £94,750 £86,327
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% +14.29%

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 11,089 17,974 34,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.50% 23.33% 31.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,716 14,194 21,298
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £61,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -8.89% +8.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 19 February 2025.

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 19 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +71 48 £71,250 -10.94% 38
UK excluding London +93 40 £70,000 -12.50% 26
London +31 15 £125,000 +66.67% 23
Work from Home +73 12 £70,000 -17.65% 19
North of England +40 11 £70,000 -8.20% 4
West Midlands - 11 £46,500 - 4
Midlands - 11 £46,500 - 5
North West +14 10 £71,250 +15.38% 1
South West - 8 £57,500 - 2
Scotland +55 6 £77,500 -3.13% 2
South East +33 2 - - 12
Wales - 2 - -
Yorkshire +35 1 £40,681 -52.14% 3

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 2 (3.45%) Apache
1 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.45%) Confluence
1 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 55 (94.83%) Azure
2 21 (36.21%) Power Platform
3 14 (24.14%) GitHub
4 12 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (15.52%) Azure API Management
5 9 (15.52%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (13.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (12.07%) PowerApps
7 7 (12.07%) Serverless
8 6 (10.34%) PaaS
8 6 (10.34%) SaaS
9 5 (8.62%) Entra ID
10 4 (6.90%) AWS
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (6.90%) IaaS
11 3 (5.17%) Azure Functions
11 3 (5.17%) GCP
12 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) Power BI
2 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
3 7 (12.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.72%) MS Access
5 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Jenkins
2 10 (17.24%) TeamCity
3 7 (12.07%) Visual Studio
3 7 (12.07%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (8.62%) JIRA
5 4 (6.90%) Git
6 2 (3.45%) Postman
6 2 (3.45%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.72%) PROIV
7 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (25.86%) Finance
1 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Retail
3 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.72%) Front Office
4 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.72%) Law
4 1 (1.72%) Legal
4 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Lead
2 14 (24.14%) Architect
3 10 (17.24%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Lead Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Designer
5 5 (8.62%) Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Solutions Designer
7 3 (5.17%) CRM Architect
7 3 (5.17%) CRM Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Release Manager
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) MERN Stack
1 8 (13.79%) Middleware
1 8 (13.79%) React
1 8 (13.79%) REST
1 8 (13.79%) SOAP
1 8 (13.79%) WebSockets
2 7 (12.07%) CSS
3 2 (3.45%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) Pandas
4 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.72%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.72%) Blazor
4 1 (1.72%) ODBC
4 1 (1.72%) Plotly
4 1 (1.72%) PySpark
4 1 (1.72%) pytest
4 1 (1.72%) RESTful
4 1 (1.72%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Data Structures
2 8 (13.79%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
1 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.72%) Android
2 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
2 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 29 (50.00%) Agile
3 28 (48.28%) DevOps
4 24 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (36.21%) API Management
6 16 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (25.86%) Mentoring
7 15 (25.86%) Microservices
8 14 (24.14%) Analytics
8 14 (24.14%) Roadmaps
9 11 (18.97%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (17.24%) Data Governance
11 9 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (15.52%) CRM
11 9 (15.52%) Data Migration
11 9 (15.52%) Information Security
11 9 (15.52%) ITIL
11 9 (15.52%) Migration
12 8 (13.79%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) C#
3 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
4 10 (17.24%) Bicep
5 9 (15.52%) Bash
5 9 (15.52%) Ruby
6 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.62%) SQL
8 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.72%) Delphi
9 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.72%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.45%) PMP
3 2 (3.45%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (43.10%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) Ansible
3 9 (15.52%) Progress Chef
3 9 (15.52%) Puppet
4 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.69%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow