Ab Initio Contract Job Trends in the South East

Ab Initio
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.046% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.089% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
England median daily rate £447 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.73% +10.00% -4.21%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,242 1,891 2,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.32% 50.39% 52.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,585 1,251 1,671
10th Percentile £221 £239 £205
25th Percentile £401 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +2.60%
75th Percentile £600 £633 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £678
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 54 125
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.94 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.31 £24.18 £24.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.67% -32.58% +129.17%
75th Percentile £64.38 £63.45 £66.44
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

Ab Initio
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Ab Initio job vacancy trend in the South East

Ab Initio
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ab Initio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ab Initio

Ab Initio
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ab Initio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ab Initio

Ab Initio
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Surrey - 2 £575 -
Ab Initio
England

Ab Initio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft