Ab Initio Contracts

Ab Initio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 583 691
Rank change year-on-year +81 +108 +139
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 17 17 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.039% 0.037%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.092% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 10
10th Percentile £331 £413 £501
25th Percentile £384 £441 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £480 £618
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -22.27% -1.20%
75th Percentile £491 £575 £707
90th Percentile £500 - £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £475 £540
% change year-on-year -2.95% -12.04% -10.00%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ab Initio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ab Initio in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ab Initio.

Daily rate trend for Ab Initio in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ab Initio over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ab Initio in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ab Initio.

Hourly rate trend for Ab Initio in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +62 16 £461 -3.96% 10
London +40 10 £405 -26.36% 3
UK excluding London +51 7 £461 -2.95% 10
Work from Home +53 5 £475 - 8
North of England +30 3 £447 -10.60%
North West +13 3 £447 -10.60%
Midlands +24 2 £500 -2.44% 5
East Midlands +10 2 £500 -2.44% 4
South East +37 1 £475 +8.57% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (23.53%) SAS
1 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) Confluence
3 2 (11.76%) CICS
3 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Collibra
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Tableau
2 4 (23.53%) Metadata
3 3 (17.65%) Data Mining
3 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (17.65%) DB2
3 3 (17.65%) Power BI
3 3 (17.65%) QlikView
4 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.88%) Data Hub
5 1 (5.88%) MS Access
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) Selenium
3 2 (11.76%) SOAtest
3 2 (11.76%) Subversion
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) General Ledger
4 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Ab Initio Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Data Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) SharePoint Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Tableau Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Banking Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Data Quality Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Test Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Financials Developer
6 1 (5.88%) SAS Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) SAS Data Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) SPFx
2 2 (11.76%) J2EE
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 2 (11.76%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (17.65%) Reference Data
2 3 (17.65%) Taxonomies
3 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (11.76%) VSAM
4 1 (5.88%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) ETL
2 7 (41.18%) Data Visualisation
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) Visualisation
3 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) Business Transformation
4 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
4 4 (23.53%) Data Lineage
4 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
5 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (17.65%) Conceptual Models
5 3 (17.65%) Master Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) Metadata Management
5 3 (17.65%) Reference Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) Scorecard
5 3 (17.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) COBOL
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) JCL
3 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
3 2 (11.76%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Informatica
3 3 (17.65%) IBM
4 2 (11.76%) Parasoft
4 2 (11.76%) webMethods
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce