Natural Contracts

Software AG Natural
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Natural skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Natural over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 702 856
Rank change year-on-year +117 +154 -174
Contract jobs citing Natural 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.002% 0.005%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.039% 0.005% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £394 - £797
25th Percentile £475 - £797
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £330 £799
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% -58.68% +52.14%
75th Percentile £525 - £800
90th Percentile £555 - £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £330 -
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Natural is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,836 20,708 32,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.59% 34.95% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,125 14,930 23,486
10th Percentile £350 £395 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 468 511
10th Percentile £31.93 £26.21 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £49.92 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £77.30 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £49.54
% change year-on-year +2.17% +23.49% +17.25%

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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 3 May 2024.

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 7 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 3 May 2024. 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
England +128 4 £500 +51.52%
London - 3 £500 -
UK excluding London +55 2 £420 +27.27%
Work from Home +125 1 £340 +3.03%
Yorkshire - 1 £340 -
Wales - 1 £500 -
North of England - 1 £340 -

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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 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Adabas
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) CA Gen
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Unix Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Adabas Natural Developer
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Ajax
1 1 (20.00%) EntireX
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Order Management
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) COBOL
1 1 (20.00%) JCL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CA
1 2 (40.00%) Software AG
2 1 (20.00%) IBM