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 5 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 729 695 991
Rank change year-on-year -34 +296 +12
Permanent jobs citing ADO 62 47 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.088% 0.069%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 0.34% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33 43 58
10th Percentile £45,250 £56,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £64,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% +27.27%

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 13,733 13,941 39,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.08% 26.19% 32.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8,201 10,911 24,122
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,056 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +1.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £106,289 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

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 5 December 2024.

Salary histogram for ADO in the UK

ADO
Top 12 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 5 December 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
UK excluding London -39 52 £68,000 -15.00% 16
England -53 51 £68,000 -15.00% 26
South West - 16 £75,000 - 3
Midlands -15 12 £68,000 +13.33% 2
West Midlands -29 12 £68,000 +13.33% 1
Work from Home -4 10 £47,500 -36.67% 17
North West -31 9 £61,500 -23.13% 2
North of England -36 9 £61,500 -27.65% 4
Scotland -4 8 £60,000 -14.29% 2
London -29 7 £59,750 -27.58% 13
South East -47 5 £32,500 -53.57% 5
Wales - 2 - -

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 (16.13%) ArcGIS
1 10 (16.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.45%) Confluence
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.84%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Maximo
2 8 (12.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.61%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 46 (74.19%) Azure
2 13 (20.97%) Dynamics 365
3 12 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (19.35%) Power Platform
4 8 (12.90%) GitHub
4 8 (12.90%) PaaS
4 8 (12.90%) PowerApps
4 8 (12.90%) SaaS
5 7 (11.29%) Azure API Management
6 6 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (9.68%) Serverless
7 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.45%) IaaS
9 3 (4.84%) Mimecast
9 3 (4.84%) WhatsApp
10 2 (3.23%) AWS
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) DHCP
2 3 (4.84%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.45%) Power BI
4 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (22.58%) Visual Studio
2 10 (16.13%) JIRA
3 6 (9.68%) Git
3 6 (9.68%) Selenium
3 6 (9.68%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.45%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.84%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.84%) Postman
7 2 (3.23%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.61%) JMeter
8 1 (1.61%) PROIV
8 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 29 (46.77%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Finance
3 10 (16.13%) Back Office
4 8 (12.90%) Military
5 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.84%) Law
8 2 (3.23%) Retail
9 1 (1.61%) Banking
9 1 (1.61%) Front Office
9 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Architect
1 10 (16.13%) Lead
2 6 (9.68%) Analyst
2 6 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (9.68%) Test Engineer
3 5 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (8.06%) Designer
4 4 (6.45%) .NET Architect
4 4 (6.45%) .NET Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Architect
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Developer
4 4 (6.45%) DevOps Architect
4 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Release Manager
4 4 (6.45%) Solutions Designer
4 4 (6.45%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Citrix Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) QA Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) .NET
1 7 (11.29%) React
2 6 (9.68%) CSS
3 4 (6.45%) .NET Framework
3 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.45%) REST
3 4 (6.45%) SOAP
4 3 (4.84%) Java EE
4 3 (4.84%) OpenJDK
4 3 (4.84%) Spring
4 3 (4.84%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.23%) Pandas
5 2 (3.23%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.61%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (1.61%) Playwright
6 1 (1.61%) Plotly
6 1 (1.61%) PySpark
6 1 (1.61%) pytest
6 1 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) BYOD
4 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Windows
1 7 (11.29%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.61%) Android
3 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.61%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (54.84%) Agile
2 27 (43.55%) DevOps
2 27 (43.55%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (30.65%) CI/CD
4 17 (27.42%) Mentoring
4 17 (27.42%) Roadmaps
5 16 (25.81%) CRM
5 16 (25.81%) Scrum
6 15 (24.19%) Project Management
7 14 (22.58%) API Management
7 14 (22.58%) Microservices
8 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (17.74%) ITIL
9 11 (17.74%) Strategic Roadmap
10 10 (16.13%) Asset Management
11 9 (14.52%) IT Strategy
11 9 (14.52%) Kanban
11 9 (14.52%) Service Delivery
12 8 (12.90%) Migration
12 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.13%) SQL
2 9 (14.52%) C#
2 9 (14.52%) JavaScript
2 9 (14.52%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.68%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.45%) Bicep
6 3 (4.84%) Bash
6 3 (4.84%) Java
6 3 (4.84%) Ruby
7 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) TOGAF Certification
2 7 (11.29%) Degree
3 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.84%) XenApp
3 3 (4.84%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (35.48%) Terraform
2 4 (6.45%) Ansible
3 3 (4.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.84%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.84%) Puppet
3 3 (4.84%) SCCM
3 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) ESRI
3 9 (14.52%) IBM
4 8 (12.90%) Databricks
5 3 (4.84%) Citrix
5 3 (4.84%) Ivanti
5 3 (4.84%) VMware
5 3 (4.84%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.61%) CyberTech
6 1 (1.61%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow