The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 57 70 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing SaaS 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.306% 0.208% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.504% 1.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £550 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.41% -
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
133 198 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 20.34% 20.56% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 77 63
Average daily rate £388 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £210 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 9
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.75 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.91% -41.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £10.97 £25.49
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £37.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
SaaS
East of England

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire SaaS Daily Rate Trend

SaaS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Mason
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Force.com
1 1 (50.00%) Visualforce
1 1 (50.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) Mason
1 1 (50.00%) Visualforce
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Force.com
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Apex Code
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
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