Ab Initio Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Ab Initio
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.055% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
England median daily rate £447 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -10.60% -8.26% -19.26%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 942 890 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 51.45% 46.50% 50.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 590 647
10th Percentile £238 £250 £217
25th Percentile £381 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 17
10th Percentile £14.72 £14.40 £17.30
25th Percentile £26.66 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% +29.61%
75th Percentile £44.94 £48.75 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £59.00 £46.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.86
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.62% +83.44%

Ab Initio
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Ab Initio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Ab Initio in the West Midlands

Ab Initio
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Ab Initio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Ab Initio

Ab Initio
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Solihull - 1 £447 -
Ab Initio
England

Ab Initio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Dremio
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle