The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Ab Initio products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors 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.

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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ab Initio
Rank 458 496 495
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -1
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 76 90 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.161% 0.152% 0.151%
As % of the Vendors category 0.343% 0.327% 0.325%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 53 52
Average daily rate £410 £443 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.34% +8.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £350 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £543 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £72.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £72.50 - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22169 27540 27997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.04% 46.46% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11827 14057 14005
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1214 1336 1586
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Ab Initio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ab Initio Jobs Demand Trend

Ab Initio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Ab Initio Daily Rate Trend

Ab Initio
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ab Initio within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Ab Initio Daily Rate Histogram

Ab Initio
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Ab Initio Hourly Rate Trend

Ab Initio
Top 24 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 within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 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
England +39 61 £405 -10.00%
South East +25 31 £375 -3.22%
Berkshire +23 31 £375 -8.81%
London +3 22 £470 -1.05%
Slough +2 15 £375 -
Scotland -15 11 £425 +21.42%
City of London 0 10 £450 -2.70%
North West +8 4 £390 -13.33%
Edinburgh +3 4 £525 +46.85%
West Lothian - 4 £425 -
Livingston - 4 £425 -
Reading -2 3 £375 -26.82%
Glasgow -20 3 £338 -3.57%
East of England - 3 £450 -
Cheshire +1 2 £380 -15.55%
Hertfordshire - 2 £430 -
Warrington - 2 £380 -
St Albans - 2 £430 -
South West - 1 £375 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £500 -
Peterborough - 1 £500 -
Newbury - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 £450 -
Bristol - 1 £375 -

Ab Initio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Ab Initio also 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 that cited Ab Initio.

1 76 (58.02%) ETL
2 64 (48.85%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (40.46%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (34.35%) Informatica
5 44 (33.59%) SQL
6 43 (32.82%) Data Modelling
7 37 (28.24%) Oracle
8 33 (25.19%) Finance
9 31 (23.66%) ERwin
9 31 (23.66%) IBM
10 29 (22.14%) Teradata
11 28 (21.37%) UNIX
12 22 (16.79%) Retail
13 21 (16.03%) Telecoms
13 21 (16.03%) Kimball Methodology
14 20 (15.27%) Waterfall
15 19 (14.50%) Metadata Management
16 18 (13.74%) Data Quality
16 18 (13.74%) Inmon Methodology
16 18 (13.74%) Business Analysis
16 18 (13.74%) DataFlux
16 18 (13.74%) SQL Server
17 17 (12.98%) Zachman Framework
17 17 (12.98%) TOGAF
18 16 (12.21%) Netezza
19 15 (11.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 14 (10.69%) Banking
21 13 (9.924%) DB2
22 11 (8.397%) Dimensional Modelling
23 10 (7.634%) Data Management

Ab Initio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Ab Initio also 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 that cited Ab Initio. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (4.580%) WebSphere
2 5 (3.817%) Web Services
3 4 (3.053%) XML
3 4 (3.053%) JRules
3 4 (3.053%) Java EE
4 1 (0.763%) REST
4 1 (0.763%) Middleware
4 1 (0.763%) JMS
4 1 (0.763%) DOM
4 1 (0.763%) ASP
4 1 (0.763%) CSS
4 1 (0.763%) Servlets
4 1 (0.763%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.817%) SAS
2 2 (1.527%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.527%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (1.527%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.763%) ESB
3 1 (0.763%) Apache
3 1 (0.763%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.763%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.763%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.527%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.763%) PowerPivot
2 1 (0.763%) SPSS
2 1 (0.763%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.763%) AWD
1 1 (0.763%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.763%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.763%) Unica Affinium
1 1 (0.763%) HFM
1 1 (0.763%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.527%) HTTP
1 2 (1.527%) 4G
2 1 (0.763%) ATM
2 1 (0.763%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (48.85%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (13.74%) SQL Server
3 15 (11.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (9.924%) DB2
5 9 (6.870%) OLAP
6 8 (6.107%) Oracle 8/8i
6 8 (6.107%) RDBMS
6 8 (6.107%) PowerCenter
7 7 (5.344%) Star Schema
8 5 (3.817%) DataStage
9 4 (3.053%) IBM InfoSphere
10 3 (2.290%) Data Mart
10 3 (2.290%) Big Data
10 3 (2.290%) Oracle 10g
11 2 (1.527%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.527%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.527%) QlikView
12 1 (0.763%) Spotfire
12 1 (0.763%) Oracle OLAP
12 1 (0.763%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (23.66%) ERwin
2 1 (0.763%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (0.763%) WinRunner
2 1 (0.763%) TestDirector
General
1 33 (25.19%) Finance
2 22 (16.79%) Retail
3 21 (16.03%) Telecoms
4 14 (10.69%) Banking
5 8 (6.107%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.527%) Games
6 2 (1.527%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.527%) Marketing
7 1 (0.763%) German Language
7 1 (0.763%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.763%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.763%) Automotive
7 1 (0.763%) Advertising
7 1 (0.763%) Billing
Job Titles
1 47 (35.88%) Developer
2 23 (17.56%) Ab Initio Developer
3 20 (15.27%) Consultant
4 19 (14.50%) Architect
5 17 (12.98%) Analyst
6 16 (12.21%) Designer
7 12 (9.160%) Test Leader
8 11 (8.397%) ETL Developer
9 8 (6.107%) Ab Initio Consultant
10 7 (5.344%) Data Analyst
10 7 (5.344%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.580%) Informatica Developer
12 5 (3.817%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.817%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 5 (3.817%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 5 (3.817%) Business Analyst
13 4 (3.053%) Integration Architect
13 4 (3.053%) Applications Architect
14 3 (2.290%) Data Modeller
15 2 (1.527%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.817%) Data Integration
1 5 (3.817%) Data Extraction
2 4 (3.053%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.290%) Mathematics
4 2 (1.527%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.527%) DataPower
4 2 (1.527%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (1.527%) Online Games
5 1 (0.763%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.763%) Statistics
5 1 (0.763%) Visualisation
5 1 (0.763%) iSeries
5 1 (0.763%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.763%) Replication
5 1 (0.763%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.763%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.37%) UNIX
2 3 (2.290%) Linux
3 1 (0.763%) zOS
3 1 (0.763%) OS/400
3 1 (0.763%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (58.02%) ETL
2 53 (40.46%) Business Intelligence
3 43 (32.82%) Data Modelling
4 21 (16.03%) Kimball Methodology
5 20 (15.27%) Waterfall
6 19 (14.50%) Metadata Management
7 18 (13.74%) Inmon Methodology
7 18 (13.74%) Business Analysis
8 17 (12.98%) Zachman Framework
8 17 (12.98%) TOGAF
9 11 (8.397%) Dimensional Modelling
10 10 (7.634%) Data Management
10 10 (7.634%) E-Commerce
10 10 (7.634%) Data Mapping
11 9 (6.870%) Requirements Analysis
11 9 (6.870%) Data Analysis
11 9 (6.870%) Agile Software Development
11 9 (6.870%) Scrum
12 7 (5.344%) Master Data Management
12 7 (5.344%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 44 (33.59%) SQL
2 10 (7.634%) Shell Script
2 10 (7.634%) Java
3 8 (6.107%) PL/SQL
4 4 (3.053%) C++
5 1 (0.763%) Korn
5 1 (0.763%) Bash shell
5 1 (0.763%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (4.580%) SC Cleared
1 6 (4.580%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.290%) Degree
3 1 (0.763%) CIPFA
3 1 (0.763%) CIMA
3 1 (0.763%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.053%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.763%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.763%) vSphere
1 1 (0.763%) VMware ESX
1 1 (0.763%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.107%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 45 (34.35%) Informatica
2 37 (28.24%) Oracle
3 31 (23.66%) IBM
4 29 (22.14%) Teradata
5 18 (13.74%) DataFlux
6 16 (12.21%) Netezza
7 10 (7.634%) Cognos
8 7 (5.344%) Microsoft
9 4 (3.053%) Business Objects
9 4 (3.053%) SAP
10 3 (2.290%) TIBCO
10 3 (2.290%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (1.527%) Tableau
12 1 (0.763%) Unica
12 1 (0.763%) Pega
12 1 (0.763%) Talend
12 1 (0.763%) VMware
12 1 (0.763%) Open Text
12 1 (0.763%) Remedy
12 1 (0.763%) BMC
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