Ab Initio Contract Job Trends 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 30 October 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
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 509 570
Rank change year-on-year -5 +61 +181
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 5 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.017% 0.026% 0.038%
As % of the Vendors category 0.036% 0.057% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £463 £363 £395
25th Percentile £487 £431 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% +6.80% -10.43%
75th Percentile £573 £685 £549
90th Percentile £598 £730 £565
UK median daily rate £447 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -12.78% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

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 13,888 14,043 17,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.80% 44.94% 44.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,866 8,423 11,752
10th Percentile £280 £300 £258
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £640
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 682 453 623
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.22 £15.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.11 £35.36 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.99% -19.45% +75.60%
75th Percentile £43.15 £65.00 £62.77
90th Percentile £69.96 £74.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -23.08% -25.71% +75.00%

Ab Initio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Ab Initio job vacancy trend in England

Ab Initio
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Ab Initio
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ab Initio in England over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ab Initio in England

Ab Initio
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ab Initio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ab Initio

Ab Initio
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 30 October 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 +8 2 £610 +3.39% 1
South East - 2 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £447 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £447 - 1
Ab Initio
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Ab Initio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Dremio
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Korn
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle