Ab Initio Contracts in England

Ab Initio
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 525 633
Rank change year-on-year +56 +108 +128
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 16 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.046% 0.040%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.11% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 9
10th Percentile £331 £413 £490
25th Percentile £384 £441 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £480 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -20.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £491 £575 £725
90th Percentile £500 - £740
UK median daily rate £461 £480 £618
% change year-on-year -3.96% -22.27% -1.20%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Ab Initio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ab Initio in England

Ab Initio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ab Initio in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ab Initio in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ab Initio in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Ab Initio in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +43 10 £405 -26.36% 3
North of England +21 3 £447 -10.60%
North West +19 3 £447 -10.60%
Midlands +22 2 £500 -2.44% 5
East Midlands +10 2 £500 -2.44% 4
South East +40 1 £475 +8.57% 1
Ab Initio
UK

Ab Initio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (25.00%) SAS
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (18.75%) Confluence
3 2 (12.50%) CICS
3 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) Collibra
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Tableau
2 4 (25.00%) Metadata
3 3 (18.75%) Data Mining
3 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (18.75%) DB2
3 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 3 (18.75%) QlikView
4 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (6.25%) Data Hub
5 1 (6.25%) MS Access
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (12.50%) SOAtest
3 2 (12.50%) Subversion
4 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) General Ledger
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Tableau Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Ab Initio Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Banking Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Data Quality Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Test Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Development Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Financials Developer
6 1 (6.25%) SAS Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) SAS Data Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) SPFx
2 2 (12.50%) J2EE
2 2 (12.50%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (18.75%) Reference Data
2 3 (18.75%) Taxonomies
3 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (12.50%) VSAM
4 1 (6.25%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
1 7 (43.75%) Data Visualisation
1 7 (43.75%) ETL
1 7 (43.75%) Visualisation
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 4 (25.00%) Business Transformation
4 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (25.00%) Data Lineage
4 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (18.75%) BPMN
5 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
5 3 (18.75%) High Availability
5 3 (18.75%) Master Data Management
5 3 (18.75%) Quantitative Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) COBOL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) JCL
3 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 2 (12.50%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) Informatica
3 3 (18.75%) IBM
4 2 (12.50%) Parasoft
4 2 (12.50%) webMethods
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce