Ab Initio Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Ab Initio
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of Ab Initio products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ab Initio over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
North West median daily rate £358 - -

All Vendors
Cheshire

Ab Initio falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 404 233 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 61.59% 51.66% 59.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 124 143
10th Percentile £275 £325 £265
25th Percentile £360 £422 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% -2.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £553
90th Percentile £716 £668 £586
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.61 £16.96
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £21.00 £23.05 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -32.22% +142.86%
75th Percentile £31.50 £26.89 £35.56
90th Percentile £73.85 £81.75 £38.08
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +74.43%

Ab Initio
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Ab Initio job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Ab Initio
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Ab Initio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Ab Initio

Ab Initio
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 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 -
Ab Initio
North West

Ab Initio
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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
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%) Informatica