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 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 380 447
Rank change year-on-year +52 +67 +58
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 8 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.049% 0.013%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.12% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
10th Percentile £343 £413 £415
25th Percentile £424 £419 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £488 £494 £506
90th Percentile £500 £530 £526
UK median daily rate £447 £490 £600
% change year-on-year -8.78% -18.33% -4.00%

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 6,347 8,695 10,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.08% 42.46% 44.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,992 5,243 7,113
10th Percentile £214 £206 £205
25th Percentile £365 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 959 480
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -43.53% +100.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £59.94 £62.63
90th Percentile £74.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ab Initio in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 11 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 +19 3 £447 -10.60%
North West +16 3 £447 -10.60%
Midlands +21 2 £500 -2.44% 4
East Midlands +8 2 £500 -2.44% 3
South East +39 1 £475 +8.57% 2
Wales - 1 £263 -
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 (25.00%) CICS
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) DB2
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Data Hub
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) MS Access
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) SOAtest
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) General Ledger
2 2 (25.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Ab Initio Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Test Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) J2EE
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
1 2 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (25.00%) VSAM
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) COBOL
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JCL
1 2 (25.00%) REXX
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Informatica
2 2 (25.00%) Parasoft
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft