The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 21 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 Bristol 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 49 - 48
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SaaS 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.188% - 0.161%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.176% - 0.909%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £485
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -17.52%
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
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
85 140 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 15.98% 16.75% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 92 43
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £239 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £451 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
Average hourly rate £42.50 £19.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+117.94% +8.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
SaaS
South West

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol SaaS Daily Rate Trend

SaaS
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 8 (88.89%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (66.67%) MySQL
2 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) RDBMS
3 4 (44.44%) PHP
3 4 (44.44%) PHP5
4 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
4 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
4 2 (22.22%) User Stories
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Ruby
4 2 (22.22%) WATIR
4 2 (22.22%) Selenium
4 2 (22.22%) FitNesse
5 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 1 (11.11%) ISEB

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 2 (22.22%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
1 6 (66.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) WATIR
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) FitNesse
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) PHP Developer
3 3 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Tester
4 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
5 1 (11.11%) Automated Tester
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) User Stories
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PHP
1 4 (44.44%) PHP5
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
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