The first table below looks at the demand for NATURAL skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NATURAL over the 3 months to 20 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software AG NATURAL
Rank 211 197 -
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -
Permanent jobs citing NATURAL 1 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.019% 0.181% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.031% 0.295% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £52,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 - £39,000
All Programming Languages
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
3184 3389 3309
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 60.97% 61.33% 57.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2849 2967 2891
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
NATURAL
England

NATURAL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West NATURAL Jobs Demand Trend

NATURAL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing NATURAL across the South West region.

South West NATURAL Salary Trend

NATURAL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NATURAL within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dorset - 1 £52,500 -
NATURAL
England

NATURAL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 IT job ads sampled that cited NATURAL.

1 2 (100.00%) Adabas
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Flex
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cash Management
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) SWIFT
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) XQuery
2 1 (50.00%) CICS
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script

NATURAL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 IT job ads sampled that cited NATURAL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) FpML
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MQSeries
1 1 (50.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Adabas
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Production Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cash Management
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) XQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) IBM