The first table below looks at the demand for the Ab Initio Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ab Initio Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AbInitio Developer
Rank 547 581 570
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -11
Contract jobs requiring an Ab Initio Developer 7 8 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.014% 0.014% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.015% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
Average daily rate £375 £461 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.69% +8.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £428 £329
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £496 £497
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £435 £450
% change year-on-year
-19.54% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44867 53712 57592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.50% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25887 29609 31515
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2132 2587 2980
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Ab Initio Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Ab Initio Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Ab Initio Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Ab Initio Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ab Initio Developer within the UK.

Ab Initio Developer Daily Rate Trend

Ab Initio Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ab Initio Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Ab Initio Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Ab Initio Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ab Initio Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +14 7 £375 -18.69% 5
Berkshire +26 4 £325 -25.28% 3
South East +17 4 £325 -25.28% 3
London +20 2 £475 -2.56%
Reading +11 1 - - 3
St Albans - - - - 2
Scotland - - - -
East of England - - - - 2
Manchester - - - -
Chester - - - -
Livingston - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - - 2
West Lothian - - - -
City of London - - - -
North West - - - -

Ab Initio Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Ab Initio Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Ab Initio Developer in their job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Ab Initio
2 10 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (36.00%) ETL
3 9 (36.00%) Finance
4 7 (28.00%) UNIX
5 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 4 (16.00%) Informatica
5 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Resource Management
6 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (12.00%) IBM
6 3 (12.00%) Oracle
7 2 (8.000%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.000%) PL/SQL
7 2 (8.000%) Control-M
7 2 (8.000%) Mainframe
7 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
7 2 (8.000%) Games
7 2 (8.000%) Teradata
7 2 (8.000%) QA
7 2 (8.000%) Online Games
7 2 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (8.000%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (8.000%) Automated Testing
7 2 (8.000%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (8.000%) Metadata Management
8 1 (4.000%) Data Transformation
8 1 (4.000%) System Testing
8 1 (4.000%) Dimensional Modelling
8 1 (4.000%) Data Migration

Ab Initio Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Ab Initio Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Ab Initio Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.000%) Web Services
1 1 (4.000%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (4.000%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.000%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.000%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.000%) DataStage
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) ERwin
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.000%) Games
2 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.000%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (8.000%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.000%) Online Games
2 2 (8.000%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.000%) Replication
3 1 (4.000%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) UNIX
2 1 (4.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ETL
2 3 (12.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (8.000%) Data Modelling
3 2 (8.000%) Automated Testing
3 2 (8.000%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (8.000%) Metadata Management
4 1 (4.000%) Data Transformation
4 1 (4.000%) Waterfall
4 1 (4.000%) System Testing
4 1 (4.000%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (4.000%) Data Migration
4 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.000%) Project Management
4 1 (4.000%) Migration
4 1 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.000%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (4.000%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.000%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.000%) Korn
4 1 (4.000%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Ab Initio
2 4 (16.00%) Informatica
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) IBM
4 2 (8.000%) Teradata
5 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
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