ADO Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ADO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ADO over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 394 470
Rank change year-on-year +40 +76 -56
Contract jobs citing ADO 31 50 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 1.19% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 38 34
10th Percentile £402 £371 £354
25th Percentile - £403 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £647 £634 £747
90th Percentile £659 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +27.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,257 4,203 6,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,139 3,144 4,316
10th Percentile £324 £351 £362
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 87 146
10th Percentile £21.88 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.49 £79.19 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ADO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ADO in the UK excluding London

ADO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADO in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ADO in the UK excluding London

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the UK excluding London

ADO
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADO in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ADO in the UK excluding London

ADO
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +27 16 - - 7
Midlands +23 6 £650 +30.00% 2
West Midlands +23 6 £650 +30.00% 2
North of England +29 3 £463 +8.82% 2
Yorkshire +16 3 £463 -15.91% 1
South West +9 3 £625 -10.71% 1
Scotland +35 2 £550 +44.26% 2
Wales - 1 - - 2
ADO
UK

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.45%) Trello
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (3.23%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.23%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) Azure
2 10 (32.26%) AWS
3 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
4 8 (25.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (12.90%) Power Automate
6 4 (12.90%) PowerApps
7 3 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (9.68%) dbt
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub
8 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Power BI
2 4 (12.90%) Data Lake
2 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.68%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
2 3 (9.68%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.23%) JMeter
4 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.23%) NeoLoad
4 1 (3.23%) Selenium
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Integration Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Scrum Master
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Product Owner
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Service Owner
4 2 (6.45%) Test Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Performance Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) JSON
1 4 (12.90%) XML
2 3 (9.68%) Flask
2 3 (9.68%) Pandas
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.23%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 8 (25.81%) Application Packaging
3 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (22.58%) Data Transformation
5 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (19.35%) Scrum
6 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.90%) API Development
7 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.90%) Data Mapping
7 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
7 4 (12.90%) Product Backlog
7 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (9.68%) Business Case
8 3 (9.68%) DataOps
8 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Python
1 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) C#
2 4 (12.90%) T-SQL
2 4 (12.90%) X++
3 2 (6.45%) C
3 2 (6.45%) Java
3 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.45%) VB
3 2 (6.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) PMP
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Grafana
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Informatica
3 3 (9.68%) SAP
4 2 (6.45%) Micro Focus
4 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) JDA
5 1 (3.23%) Planview