Ab Initio Contracts

Ab Initio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Ab Initio products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ab Initio over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Ab Initio Software Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 697 825
Rank change year-on-year +116 +128 -168
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 17 22 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.037% 0.027%
As % of the Vendors category 0.092% 0.086% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 18
10th Percentile £413 £501 £513
25th Percentile £441 £521 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £618 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% -1.20% +16.28%
75th Percentile £575 £707 £675
90th Percentile - £739 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -12.04% -10.00% +9.09%

All Vendors
UK

Ab Initio is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ab Initio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ab Initio in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ab Initio in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ab Initio over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ab Initio in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ab Initio in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ab Initio within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +125 17 £480 -20.00% 6
UK excluding London +71 10 £475 -12.04% 2
South East +31 7 £438 -29.44%
London +94 5 £550 -2.65% 3
Work from Home +118 2 £475 -16.67% 4
East Midlands - 2 £513 -
Midlands - 2 £513 -
North of England +33 1 £500 +24.22% 2
North West +16 1 £500 +24.22% 2

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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 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
1 3 (17.65%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) FLEXCUBE
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
2 7 (41.18%) Serverless
3 6 (35.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (29.41%) Azure Functions
5 3 (17.65%) AWS
6 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Power BI
2 5 (29.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (17.65%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 3 (17.65%) DB2
4 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
4 3 (17.65%) IBM InfoSphere
4 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
4 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
4 3 (17.65%) Scylla
5 2 (11.76%) Big Data
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
1 3 (17.65%) Selenium
1 3 (17.65%) Toad
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (35.29%) Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Azure Data Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Ab Initio Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Smart Meter
2 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) ETL
2 8 (47.06%) Analytics
3 7 (41.18%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
3 7 (41.18%) ETL Development
4 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Data Science
4 5 (29.41%) Dimensional Modelling
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (29.41%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (23.53%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) User Stories
6 3 (17.65%) Change Data Capture
6 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
6 3 (17.65%) High Availability
6 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Teradata
3 3 (17.65%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (17.65%) Talend
4 1 (5.88%) Databricks
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft