Ab Initio Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ab Initio
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 329 389 458
Rank change year-on-year +60 +69 +52
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 7 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.048% 0.017%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.11% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £424 £413 £429
25th Percentile £447 £419 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -12.04% -10.00%
75th Percentile £494 £494 £633
90th Percentile £500 £530 £688
UK median daily rate £461 £480 £618
% change year-on-year -3.96% -22.27% -1.20%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ab Initio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ab Initio in the UK excluding London

Ab Initio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ab Initio in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ab Initio in the UK excluding London

Ab Initio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ab Initio in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ab Initio in the UK excluding London

Ab Initio
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Ab Initio
UK

Ab Initio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (28.57%) CICS
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) DB2
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) Data Hub
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) MS Access
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) SOAtest
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) General Ledger
2 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Ab Initio Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Test Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) J2EE
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (28.57%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Product Management
4 1 (14.29%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) COBOL
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JCL
1 2 (28.57%) REXX
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Informatica
2 2 (28.57%) Parasoft
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft