The first table below looks at the demand for NATURAL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NATURAL over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Surrey 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
24 May 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 Surrey - - -
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 - - -
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
431 634 650
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 37.38% 39.35% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 336 349
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 49 32
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £21.75 £23.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.65 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
NATURAL
South East

NATURAL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey NATURAL Daily Rate Trend

NATURAL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) MS Project
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 1 (100.00%) RequisitePro
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
1 1 (100.00%) SCJP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration

NATURAL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) RequisitePro
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SCJP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Sun