The first table below looks at the demand for NATURAL skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NATURAL over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the South East region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software AG NATURAL
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing NATURAL 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £375 £550
% change year-on-year
- -31.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £33.00
All Programming Languages
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2652 2991 3537
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.12% 29.92% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1324 1452 1594
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 213 289
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £21.68 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £45.10 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
NATURAL
England

NATURAL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NATURAL across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

South East NATURAL Jobs Demand Trend

NATURAL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing NATURAL across the South East region.

South East NATURAL Daily Rate Trend

NATURAL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NATURAL within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Vacancies
Surrey - - - -
NATURAL
England

NATURAL
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing NATURAL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited NATURAL.

1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005

NATURAL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing NATURAL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited NATURAL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Natural/Adabas Programmer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP