Natural Contracts

Software AG Natural
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Natural skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Natural over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 696 843
Rank change year-on-year +141 +147 -122
Contract jobs citing Natural 29 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.002% 0.006%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.22% 0.005% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £408 - £529
25th Percentile £481 £313 £629
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £798
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -59.25% +165.83%
75th Percentile £519 £338 £799
90th Percentile £550 - £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £325 £475
% change year-on-year +29.23% -31.58% +62.67%

All Programming Languages
UK

Natural falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,173 18,905 31,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.16% 34.04% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,279 13,615 23,014
10th Percentile £350 £381 £388
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £663
90th Percentile £765 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 534 437 496
10th Percentile £31.55 £30.45 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £79.19 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Natural in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Natural in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Natural in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Natural within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Work from Home - 25 £420 - 1
UK excluding London +50 22 £420 +29.23%
England +104 19 £500 +53.85% 1
North of England - 9 £340 -
Yorkshire - 5 £340 -
North West - 4 - -
London - 4 £500 - 1
Wales - 3 £500 -
Midlands +18 2 - -
South East - 2 - -
South West - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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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 2 (6.90%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (100.00%) Adabas
2 1 (3.45%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) CA Gen
General
1 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
1 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (86.21%) Consultant
2 22 (75.86%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Database Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Adabas Natural Developer
4 1 (3.45%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Ajax
1 1 (3.45%) EntireX
1 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.90%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 24 (82.76%) zOS
2 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (3.45%) Agile
2 1 (3.45%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (3.45%) Data Modelling
2 1 (3.45%) Decision-Making
2 1 (3.45%) DevOps
2 1 (3.45%) Migration
2 1 (3.45%) Order Management
2 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2
2 1 (3.45%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (3.45%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (3.45%) Roadmaps
2 1 (3.45%) Scrum
2 1 (3.45%) Software Engineering
2 1 (3.45%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (3.45%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) COBOL
1 1 (3.45%) JCL
1 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (86.21%) Security Cleared
2 24 (82.76%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 26 (89.66%) Software AG
2 2 (6.90%) CA
3 1 (3.45%) IBM