Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ADO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ADO over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 824 914 1078
Rank change year-on-year +90 +164 -187
Permanent jobs citing ADO 60 61 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.061% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.20% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 35 34 122
10th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,563 £57,500 £55,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +20.75% +26.19%
75th Percentile £91,875 £88,438 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% +16.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,099 30,098 66,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.26% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 15,738 18,568 30,087
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,853 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,939 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ADO in the UK

ADO
Top 11 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 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +82 46 £69,000 -6.44% 19
UK excluding London -12 29 £65,000 +8.33% 18
London +121 27 £70,750 -21.39% 6
Work from Home +80 26 £88,750 +10.94% 14
South East +11 10 £65,000 -10.34% 8
Wales - 8 - - 2
North of England +34 7 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Yorkshire +81 6 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Scotland - 4 £75,000 - 2
North West -2 1 £61,750 - 1
East of England - 1 £85,000 - 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 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Chatbot
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (3.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 39 (65.00%) Azure
2 24 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (28.33%) Power Platform
5 12 (20.00%) Power Automate
6 9 (15.00%) SaaS
7 8 (13.33%) GCP
8 6 (10.00%) AWS
9 4 (6.67%) GitHub
9 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (6.67%) Mimecast
9 4 (6.67%) PowerApps
10 3 (5.00%) PaaS
11 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (3.33%) Serverless
11 2 (3.33%) WhatsApp
12 1 (1.67%) Azure App Service
12 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (1.67%) Azure Storage
12 1 (1.67%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) BGP
1 4 (6.67%) DHCP
1 4 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Git
2 8 (13.33%) JIRA
3 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) Zephyr
4 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.67%) JUnit
5 1 (1.67%) Maven
5 1 (1.67%) Selenium
5 1 (1.67%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.67%) TestNG
5 1 (1.67%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Finance
2 8 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (1.67%) Electronics
4 1 (1.67%) Front Office
4 1 (1.67%) German Language
4 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.67%) Law
4 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.67%) Marketing
4 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.67%) Retail
4 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Developer
2 10 (16.67%) CRM Developer
3 8 (13.33%) Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Citrix Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Senior
6 4 (6.67%) Test Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) CSS
1 8 (13.33%) HTML
1 8 (13.33%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (3.33%) EDI
3 2 (3.33%) Express.js
3 2 (3.33%) MERN Stack
3 2 (3.33%) Node.js
3 2 (3.33%) React
3 2 (3.33%) XML
4 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.67%) JSON
4 1 (1.67%) REST
4 1 (1.67%) RESTful
4 1 (1.67%) SOAP
4 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.33%) Housing Association
6 2 (3.33%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (51.67%) DevOps
2 23 (38.33%) Agile
3 18 (30.00%) CRM
4 14 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 13 (21.67%) Configuration Management
5 13 (21.67%) Customer Service
6 12 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 12 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 11 (18.33%) DevSecOps
7 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (16.67%) Project Delivery
9 9 (15.00%) Software Engineering
10 8 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (13.33%) Coaching
10 8 (13.33%) Data Management
10 8 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 8 (13.33%) ETL
10 8 (13.33%) Information Security
10 8 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) C#
2 11 (18.33%) Python
3 9 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.00%) SQL
6 5 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.33%) Bicep
8 2 (3.33%) Go
8 2 (3.33%) Java
8 2 (3.33%) Ruby
9 1 (1.67%) Bash
9 1 (1.67%) VB
9 1 (1.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.33%) CCNA
3 5 (8.33%) CCNP
3 5 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
1 4 (6.67%) XenApp
1 4 (6.67%) XenDesktop
2 2 (3.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (16.67%) Terraform
2 7 (11.67%) Ansible
3 5 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.67%) SCCM
5 2 (3.33%) Puppet
6 1 (1.67%) Consul
6 1 (1.67%) Packer
6 1 (1.67%) Podman
6 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 29 (48.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Citrix
2 4 (6.67%) Ivanti
2 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (6.67%) VMware
2 4 (6.67%) Zscaler
3 3 (5.00%) Databricks
3 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.00%) Workday
4 2 (3.33%) NEC
4 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Ariba
5 1 (1.67%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) Progress
5 1 (1.67%) Rapid7