Abaqus Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SIMULIA Abaqus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Abaqus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 - 404
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Contract jobs citing Abaqus 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - 0.005%
As % of the Applications category 0.12% - 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £233 - -
25th Percentile £237 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 - -
75th Percentile £251 - -
90th Percentile £252 - -
UK median daily rate £245 - -

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

Abaqus falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,710 1,319 1,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.34% 9.07% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 731 1,075
10th Percentile £175 £156 £150
25th Percentile £273 £213 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 £350
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +3.57% -11.39%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £500
90th Percentile £625 £590 £600
UK median daily rate £440 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 184 232
10th Percentile £12.60 - £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £16.22
Median hourly rate £19.91 £25.09 £26.89
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% -6.68% +3.40%
75th Percentile £29.61 £45.30 £46.75
90th Percentile £69.38 £80.08 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £20.26 £25.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.98% -7.41% +4.16%

Abaqus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Abaqus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Abaqus job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Abaqus
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Abaqus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Abaqus

Abaqus
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Abaqus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Abaqus

Abaqus
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 Abaqus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
South West - 2 £245 - 1
Abaqus
UK

Abaqus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Snakemake
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Tcl