The first table below looks at the demand for NATURAL skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NATURAL over the 3 months to 20 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.

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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software AG NATURAL
Rank 540 571 580
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +9
Contract jobs citing NATURAL 1 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.014% 0.016%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.005% 0.040% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £363 £510
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -28.92%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £375 £550
% change year-on-year
- -31.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.25
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18427 20093 23572
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.69% 35.15% 37.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11300 11915 13947
Average daily rate £400 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 733 846
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.51 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00

NATURAL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

NATURAL Daily Rate Trend

NATURAL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NATURAL within the UK.

NATURAL Hourly Rate Trend

NATURAL
Top 7 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 UK over the 3 months to 20 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +24 1 - -
Bournemouth - - - -
Guildford - - - -
Dorset - - - -
Surrey - - - -
South East - - - -
South West - - - -

NATURAL
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 2 (100.00%) Adabas
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (50.00%) JCL
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows

NATURAL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Adabas
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Natural/Adabas Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) HP