Natural Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software AG Natural
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 401 455
Rank change year-on-year +68 +54 +66
Contract jobs citing Natural 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.010% 0.004%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.027% 0.041% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £420 £330
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £330
% change year-on-year -3.00% +51.52% -58.68%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,658 4,852 6,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.62% 23.48% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,269 4,965
10th Percentile £325 £317 £350
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 404 341
10th Percentile £22.48 £37.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £42.00 £52.19 £49.68
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £61.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +2.17% +23.49%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.67% +20.00%

Natural
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Natural as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Natural in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Natural in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Natural in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Natural in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
Wales +7 1 - -
Natural
UK

Natural
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian