Ab Initio Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Ab Initio
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 22 May 2026, 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
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.095% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 523 174 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 49.76% 52.73% 58.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 112 128
10th Percentile £367 £178 £385
25th Percentile £425 £352 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £503
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.42% -8.64%
75th Percentile £556 £525 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £447 £475
% change year-on-year +11.86% -5.89% -10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £15.74 - £16.38
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.10 -
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.51 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -15.86% +16.65%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.87 £41.88
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £22.00
% change year-on-year -9.94% -15.86% +16.65%

Ab Initio
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Ab Initio job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Ab Initio
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Ab Initio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M