The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 23 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 Reading 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 63 77 79
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +2
Contract jobs citing SaaS 2 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.238% 0.179% 0.281%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.026% 1.064% 1.364%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £421 £400 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.31% +3.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £455
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -12.08%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
195 188 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.24% 16.86% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 76 99
Average daily rate £373 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.42% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £484 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 8
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.79 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.84% +3.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.53 £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
SaaS
Berkshire

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading SaaS Hourly Rate Trend

SaaS
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) ABAP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Ariba
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) BAPI
1 1 (33.33%) SAP XI
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Mason
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Force.com
1 1 (33.33%) Visualforce
1 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) MVVM
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) BAPI
1 1 (33.33%) SAP XI
1 1 (33.33%) Mason
1 1 (33.33%) Visualforce
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Force.com
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) UI Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) ABAP
1 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Ariba
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce.com