Ab Initio Developer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Ab Initio Developer
North West > Cheshire

The median Ab Initio Developer daily rate in Cheshire is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Ab Initio Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
North West median daily rate £358 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 621 447 347
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.10% 89.94% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 258 224
10th Percentile £270 £323 £265
25th Percentile £358 £379 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% -3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £568 £553
90th Percentile £688 £642 £595
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.49 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.36 £20.07
Median hourly rate £22.85 £22.09 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% -34.14% +56.00%
75th Percentile £35.38 £35.00 £35.56
90th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £43.50
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £30.50 £33.54
% change year-on-year -2.95% -9.06% +67.70%

Ab Initio Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Ab Initio Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Ab Initio Developer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Ab Initio Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Ab Initio Developer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Ab Initio Developer job vacancies in Cheshire

Ab Initio Developer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ab Initio Developer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 November 2025. 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
Knutsford - 1 £358 - 1
Ab Initio Developer
North West

Ab Initio Developer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, Ab Initio Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Ab Initio Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Parallel Processing
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unix

Ab Initio Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Parallel Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica