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 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 563 684
Rank change year-on-year +59 +121 +124
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 18 24 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.056% 0.038%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.13% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 9
10th Percentile £271 £413 £490
25th Percentile £335 £425 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £490 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% -18.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £653
90th Percentile £500 £575 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £475 £471
% change year-on-year -5.89% +0.80% -

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 13,882 18,070 24,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.67% 42.35% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,652 11,208 16,527
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £644
90th Percentile £713 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 1,111 680
10th Percentile £14.66 £12.13 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £70.00 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +97.37%

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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 15 May 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 11 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 15 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
England +63 16 £461 -3.96% 13
London +50 10 £405 -19.00% 7
UK excluding London +42 8 £447 -5.89% 11
Work from Home +43 5 £475 - 7
North of England +19 3 £447 -10.60%
North West +11 3 £447 -10.60%
Midlands +19 2 £500 -2.44% 4
East Midlands +11 2 £500 -2.44% 3
South East +41 1 £475 +8.57% 2
Wales - 1 £263 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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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 (22.22%) SAS
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) Confluence
3 2 (11.11%) CICS
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 3 (16.67%) Collibra
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Tableau
2 4 (22.22%) Metadata
3 3 (16.67%) Data Mining
3 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (16.67%) DB2
3 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (16.67%) QlikView
4 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.56%) Data Hub
5 1 (5.56%) MS Access
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Selenium
3 2 (11.11%) SOAtest
4 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
4 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.56%) Military
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Ab Initio Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Data Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) SharePoint Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Tableau Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Banking Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Data Quality Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Test Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Financials Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SAS Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SAS Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) SPFx
1 3 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (11.11%) J2EE
2 2 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (5.56%) Middleware
3 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 3 (16.67%) Taxonomies
3 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (11.11%) VSAM
4 1 (5.56%) CMDB
4 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
1 8 (44.44%) ETL
2 7 (38.89%) Data Visualisation
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Visualisation
3 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (22.22%) Business Transformation
3 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 4 (22.22%) Data Lineage
3 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 3 (16.67%) BPMN
4 3 (16.67%) Data Management
4 3 (16.67%) Document Management
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Quality Management
4 3 (16.67%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) COBOL
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JCL
3 2 (11.11%) REXX
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) Korn
4 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) Informatica
3 3 (16.67%) IBM
4 2 (11.11%) Parasoft
5 1 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.56%) webMethods