Natural Contracts

Software AG Natural
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 596 712
Rank change year-on-year +81 +116 +139
Contract jobs citing Natural 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.040% 0.031% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £342 £483 -
25th Percentile £389 £494 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £330
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +51.52% -58.68%
75th Percentile £589 £538 -
90th Percentile £641 £560 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £330
% change year-on-year - +51.52% -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Natural as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Natural in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural.

Daily rate trend for Natural in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Natural in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Natural.

Hourly rate trend for Natural in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Work from Home - 4 £485 - 4
England +62 2 £650 +30.00% 4
UK excluding London +54 1 - - 1
London +33 1 £650 +30.00% 3
Wales +5 1 - -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Adabas
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Adabas Natural Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DB2 Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Software Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) EntireX
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JCL
2 2 (50.00%) Assembly Language
2 2 (50.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) COBOL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Fujitsu
2 2 (50.00%) Software AG
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) webMethods