SaaS Contracts in Birmingham

Software as a Service (SaaS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 44 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -21
Contract jobs citing SaaS 13 33 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.74% 3.73% 3.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.25% 9.91% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 34
10th Percentile £440 £379 £364
25th Percentile £463 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% +14.74%
75th Percentile £683 £717 £632
90th Percentile £890 £731 £696
West Midlands median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% +20.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 208 333 451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.77% 37.63% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 239 344
10th Percentile £250 £333 £308
25th Percentile £358 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.50% +10.56%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 2
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.54 £11.14
25th Percentile £15.53 £15.98 £11.78
Median hourly rate £22.98 £20.24 £12.86
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +57.45% -19.66%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £13.93
90th Percentile £35.05 £25.31 £14.57
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.23 £20.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year +4.87% +7.95% +20.97%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Birmingham

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Birmingham

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Birmingham

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) IaaS
1 4 (30.77%) PaaS
2 3 (23.08%) Google Workspace
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Boomi
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) IPsec
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 3 (23.08%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Coach
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Flutter Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) SOAP
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) WSDL
2 1 (7.69%) XSD
2 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (23.08%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
3 2 (15.38%) Software Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) User Stories
4 1 (7.69%) ArchiMate
4 1 (7.69%) BPEL
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Open Source
4 1 (7.69%) Project Planning
4 1 (7.69%) TDD
4 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) UX Design
4 1 (7.69%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) Groovy
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) APMP
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) PMI Certification
1 3 (23.08%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Salesforce
3 3 (23.08%) Google
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.69%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) Snow