SaaS Contracts in the Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 92 102
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -31
Contract jobs citing SaaS 42 73 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.54% 2.12% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.21% 5.93% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 49 84
10th Percentile £363 £385 £385
25th Percentile £438 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +13.64%
75th Percentile £706 £638 £644
90th Percentile £850 £731 £734
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £76.71 £50.00
% change year-on-year -66.10% +53.41% +150.00%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 676 1,230 1,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.78% 35.76% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 880 1,225
10th Percentile £199 £213 £204
25th Percentile £325 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £23.75 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £27.25 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £50.04 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West Midlands -2 28 £510 -7.27% 72
East Midlands +21 14 £750 +49.25% 32
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Maximo
1 3 (7.14%) SAP ERP
1 3 (7.14%) Workday HCM
2 2 (4.76%) NetSuite
2 2 (4.76%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) Azure
2 13 (30.95%) AWS
3 9 (21.43%) IaaS
3 9 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (21.43%) PaaS
4 5 (11.90%) Google Workspace
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Boomi
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.38%) Intacct
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
6 1 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) VoIP
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) IPsec
2 1 (2.38%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
2 1 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Fiddler
1 1 (2.38%) Selenium
General
1 13 (30.95%) Legal
2 9 (21.43%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (19.05%) IT Manager
1 8 (19.05%) IT Services Delivery Manager
1 8 (19.05%) IT Services Manager
1 8 (19.05%) Service Delivery Manager
1 8 (19.05%) Service Manager
2 5 (11.90%) Analyst
2 5 (11.90%) Architect
3 4 (9.52%) Business Analyst
3 4 (9.52%) ERP Manager
3 4 (9.52%) ERP Project Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Facilities Management Project Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Facilities Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Facilities Project Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
3 4 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Developer
4 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) JSON
1 2 (4.76%) REST
1 2 (4.76%) SOAP
1 2 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (2.38%) .NET
2 1 (2.38%) Web Services
2 1 (2.38%) WSDL
2 1 (2.38%) XSD
2 1 (2.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
1 5 (11.90%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.76%) IVR
2 2 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Migration
1 14 (33.33%) Service Management
2 10 (23.81%) Business Analysis
2 10 (23.81%) Decision-Making
3 9 (21.43%) IT Governance
3 9 (21.43%) ITSM
3 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.05%) Change Management
4 8 (19.05%) Information Security
4 8 (19.05%) People Management
4 8 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
4 8 (19.05%) Problem Management
4 8 (19.05%) Service Delivery
4 8 (19.05%) Service Delivery Management
5 7 (16.67%) Agile
5 7 (16.67%) ERP
6 6 (14.29%) Facilities Management
7 5 (11.90%) Asset Management
7 5 (11.90%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (9.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) Swift
2 6 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (2.38%) C#
3 1 (2.38%) Groovy
3 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.38%) PHP
3 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 6 (14.29%) PMP
3 5 (11.90%) APMP
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) Okta
3 7 (16.67%) Oracle
3 7 (16.67%) Salesforce
4 5 (11.90%) Google
5 4 (9.52%) Sage
5 4 (9.52%) SAP
5 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.14%) Workday
7 2 (4.76%) Genesys
7 2 (4.76%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (2.38%) Citrix
8 1 (2.38%) HubSpot
8 1 (2.38%) Snow
8 1 (2.38%) Zscaler