The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 20 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 Buckinghamshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 64 74 77
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +3
Contract jobs citing SaaS 4 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.501% 0.099% 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.941% 0.418% 0.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £274 £200 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.87% -60.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £405 £485
% change year-on-year
+4.93% -16.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
136 239 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 17.02% 23.69% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 85 68
Average daily rate £350 £340 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £164 £251 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £475 £444
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 21
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £10.48 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire SaaS Hourly Rate Trend

SaaS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +11 1 £288 +43.75%
Beaconsfield - 1 £260 -
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (42.86%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
2 5 (35.71%) ERP
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
4 3 (21.43%) WCF
4 3 (21.43%) jQuery
4 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
4 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
4 3 (21.43%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 2 (14.29%) Web Services
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 2 (14.29%) VPN
5 2 (14.29%) MVC
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Umbraco
5 2 (14.29%) VLAN
5 2 (14.29%) Marketing
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (14.29%) Mustache

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (42.86%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
4 3 (21.43%) WCF
4 3 (21.43%) jQuery
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 2 (14.29%) Web Services
5 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Mustache
6 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1 (7.143%) LINQ
6 1 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (7.143%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 1 (7.143%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (7.143%) XML
6 1 (7.143%) XSLT
6 1 (7.143%) WinForms
6 1 (7.143%) Ajax
6 1 (7.143%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Umbraco
2 1 (7.143%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
1 2 (14.29%) VLAN
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (7.143%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.143%) HSRP
2 1 (7.143%) SAN
2 1 (7.143%) Internet
2 1 (7.143%) OSPF
2 1 (7.143%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
1 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Project Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Software Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (7.143%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Digital Media
1 1 (7.143%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) ERP
2 2 (14.29%) Project Management
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (7.143%) Migration
3 1 (7.143%) ITIL
3 1 (7.143%) Scrum
3 1 (7.143%) Information Management
3 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) Market Research
3 1 (7.143%) Service Management
3 1 (7.143%) Change Management
3 1 (7.143%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.143%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.143%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint