Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 545 610
Rank change year-on-year +65 +65 -17
Contract jobs citing ADO 112 176 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 1.28% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 109 159
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £411 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +18.48%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £854
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +29.41%

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 contract job vacancies 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 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADO.

Daily rate trend for ADO in the UK

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the UK

ADO
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADO.

Hourly rate trend for ADO in the UK

ADO
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +62 103 £500 -16.67% 19
London +75 74 £500 -16.67% 4
Work from Home +101 35 £575 +4.55% 17
UK excluding London +39 28 £550 +10.00% 16
South East +11 14 - - 3
Midlands +28 7 £600 +20.00% 5
West Midlands +25 7 £600 +20.00% 4
South West +25 3 £625 -10.71% 3
North of England +22 3 £463 -11.90% 3
Yorkshire +21 3 £463 -15.91% 3
Wales - 1 - - 1

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 (4.46%) Confluence
2 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.89%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.68%) Trello
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.89%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.89%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.89%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.89%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.89%) SAP Travel Management
2 1 (0.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.43%) Azure
2 24 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (13.39%) AWS
4 14 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (8.04%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.46%) dbt
7 5 (4.46%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.57%) GitHub
8 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.57%) Serverless
9 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.68%) Miro
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.79%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) Internet
2 1 (0.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) Power BI
2 4 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.68%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.79%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.89%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (36.61%) JIRA
2 9 (8.04%) Selenium
3 8 (7.14%) JMeter
4 5 (4.46%) Git
5 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.79%) GitLab
6 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.89%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.89%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.89%) NUnit
7 1 (0.89%) SpecFlow
General
1 28 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.43%) Finance
3 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Banking
6 5 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Back Office
7 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.68%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.79%) Billing
8 2 (1.79%) Front Office
8 2 (1.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (12.50%) Analyst
2 12 (10.71%) Tester
3 9 (8.04%) Developer
3 9 (8.04%) Manual Tester
3 9 (8.04%) Test Manager
4 8 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (7.14%) Testing Manager
5 7 (6.25%) Lead
5 7 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.46%) Software Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Test Analyst
7 4 (3.57%) Architect
7 4 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (3.57%) Integration Developer
7 4 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.68%) Azure Architect
8 3 (2.68%) Data Engineer
8 3 (2.68%) Software Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.25%) .NET
2 5 (4.46%) .NET Core
3 4 (3.57%) JSON
3 4 (3.57%) Node.js
3 4 (3.57%) React
3 4 (3.57%) XML
4 3 (2.68%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.68%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (2.68%) Flask
4 3 (2.68%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.68%) Pandas
4 3 (2.68%) pytest
4 3 (2.68%) YAML
5 1 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.89%) Jest
5 1 (0.89%) JWT
5 1 (0.89%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.89%) Next.js
5 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.89%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.89%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.89%) Solar Panel
4 1 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.82%) Linux
2 9 (8.04%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.68%) Android
3 3 (2.68%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.68%) Unix
4 2 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (41.96%) DevOps
2 40 (35.71%) Agile
3 21 (18.75%) Test Management
4 18 (16.07%) Project Management
5 17 (15.18%) End-to-End Testing
6 16 (14.29%) Scrum
7 15 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (12.50%) Project Delivery
9 13 (11.61%) CI/CD
9 13 (11.61%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (9.82%) Defect Management
10 11 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.93%) Data Modelling
11 10 (8.93%) Scenario Testing
11 10 (8.93%) SDLC
11 10 (8.93%) Test Automation
11 10 (8.93%) Test Planning
11 10 (8.93%) Validation
12 9 (8.04%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.29%) C#
2 13 (11.61%) Python
2 13 (11.61%) SQL
3 11 (9.82%) C++
4 10 (8.93%) Java
5 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.57%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.57%) X++
8 2 (1.79%) Bicep
9 1 (0.89%) Bash
9 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (7.14%) Degree
2 4 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) PMP
4 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) PMO
3 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (8.93%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.68%) Terraform
3 2 (1.79%) Grafana
3 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.46%) Oracle
2 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.57%) Genesys
3 4 (3.57%) Informatica
4 2 (1.79%) SAP
5 1 (0.89%) Apple
5 1 (0.89%) Avaya
5 1 (0.89%) Databricks
5 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.89%) JDA
5 1 (0.89%) Planview
5 1 (0.89%) Splunk