The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SaaS 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.229% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.136% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £455
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year
+82.50% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
88 84 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.14% 13.42% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 43
Average daily rate £340 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +3.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £175 £159
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £523 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
Average hourly rate £32.50 £14.25 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+128.07% +9.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.15 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £92.20 £19.15 £61.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
SaaS
West Midlands

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SaaS across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Birmingham SaaS Jobs Demand Trend

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SaaS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SaaS Daily Rate Trend

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SaaS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SaaS Hourly Rate Trend

SaaS
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SaaS 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited SaaS.

1 6 (75.00%) Web Services
1 6 (75.00%) Service Delivery
1 6 (75.00%) E-Learning
2 4 (50.00%) CMS
2 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) Information Management
3 1 (12.50%) Web Design
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Mason
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Force.com
3 1 (12.50%) Visualforce
3 1 (12.50%) Apex Code

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SaaS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Mason
2 1 (12.50%) Visualforce
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) CMS
1 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Force.com
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Service Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Web Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM Developer
2 1 (12.50%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) E-Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Information Management
2 1 (12.50%) Web Design
2 1 (12.50%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
1 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce.com