Senior Ab Initio Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Ab Initio Developer
UK

The median Senior Ab Initio Developer daily rate in the UK is £401, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 - 640
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Ab Initio Developer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile £402 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,128 34,701 45,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.90% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,009 20,914 30,950
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,674 1,398 1,545
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.02 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.16 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.38% -10.75% +68.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.42 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.44% -9.38% +97.78%

Senior Ab Initio Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Ab Initio Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Ab Initio Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Ab Initio Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Ab Initio Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Ab Initio Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Ab Initio Developer
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Ab Initio Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Scotland - 2 £401 -
UK excluding London - 2 £401 -
Work from Home - 1 £402 -

Senior Ab Initio Developer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Senior Ab Initio Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Ab Initio Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing

Senior Ab Initio Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (100.00%) IBM