Natural Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software AG Natural
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 - 476
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing Natural 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% - 0.004%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £342 - -
25th Percentile £389 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - £330
Median % change year-on-year - - -58.75%
75th Percentile £589 - -
90th Percentile £641 - -
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £330
% change year-on-year -3.00% +51.52% -58.68%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Natural falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Natural as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Natural trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Natural.

Natural daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Natural over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Natural daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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