SaaS Contracts in Merseyside

Software as a Service (SaaS)
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 44 36
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing SaaS 6 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.67% 1.22% 3.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.04% 3.67% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £383 £473 £450
25th Percentile £394 £488 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £458
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +14.75% -
75th Percentile £444 £544 £461
90th Percentile £448 £548 £506
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 46 109 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 20.44% 33.33% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 84 80
10th Percentile £143 £307 £166
25th Percentile £172 £423 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £236 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -52.75% +17.65% +28.79%
75th Percentile £388 £550 £500
90th Percentile £444 £675 £638
North West median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.45% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile - £16.22 £14.63
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £17.63 £22.63 £17.81
90th Percentile £18.80 £25.53 £18.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.84
% change year-on-year -56.94% +97.96% +8.10%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Merseyside

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Merseyside

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool +10 5 £425 -20.93% 6
SaaS
North West

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (50.00%) IaaS
1 3 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Military
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) EPR Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) SAP