The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 24 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 South East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 176 218 233
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +15
Contract jobs citing SaaS 48 21 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.616% 0.207% 0.193%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.071% 1.097% 1.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 8
Average daily rate £425 £388 £493
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% -21.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £238 £414
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £513 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £455
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £47.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year
+82.50% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1563 1915 1952
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.05% 18.87% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 810 808
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 177 180
Average hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £30.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -10.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.60 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
SaaS
England

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East SaaS Daily Rate Trend

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SaaS across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East SaaS Daily Rate Histogram

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SaaS across the South East region.

South East SaaS Hourly Rate Trend

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SaaS across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East SaaS Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hampshire - 25 £403 -
Surrey +17 5 £513 +7.89%
Berkshire +13 5 £443 +14.19%
Buckinghamshire +10 4 £274 +36.87%
M4 Corridor - 2 - -
West Sussex +15 1 £425 +46.55%
East Sussex - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 -
SaaS
England

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 57 (47.50%) Telecoms
2 55 (45.83%) Manufacturing
3 54 (45.00%) ERP
4 22 (18.33%) SQL
4 22 (18.33%) .NET
5 19 (15.83%) Microsoft
5 19 (15.83%) Oracle
5 19 (15.83%) C#
6 18 (15.00%) Scrum
7 17 (14.17%) Java
7 17 (14.17%) SAP
7 17 (14.17%) Project Management
7 17 (14.17%) Salesforce.com
8 16 (13.33%) ASP.NET
9 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
9 14 (11.67%) Agile Software Development
10 13 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (10.83%) Windows
11 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
11 12 (10.00%) Migration
11 12 (10.00%) MVC
12 11 (9.167%) Marketing
12 11 (9.167%) CRM
12 11 (9.167%) Apex Code
13 10 (8.333%) jQuery
13 10 (8.333%) CSS
13 10 (8.333%) SAN
14 9 (7.500%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (7.500%) ITIL
14 9 (7.500%) HTML

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 22 (18.33%) .NET
2 16 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 10 (8.333%) jQuery
3 10 (8.333%) CSS
4 9 (7.500%) HTML
5 7 (5.833%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (5.000%) Web Services
6 6 (5.000%) .NET Framework
7 5 (4.167%) Visualforce
7 5 (4.167%) Mason
7 5 (4.167%) HTML5
7 5 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 4 (3.333%) CSS3
8 4 (3.333%) WCF
9 3 (2.500%) J2EE
9 3 (2.500%) XML
9 3 (2.500%) Middleware
10 2 (1.667%) Robotlegs
10 2 (1.667%) Mustache
10 2 (1.667%) Adobe AIR
Application Platforms
1 9 (7.500%) Force.com
2 7 (5.833%) WebLogic
3 6 (5.000%) Apache
4 3 (2.500%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.500%) IIS
4 3 (2.500%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.667%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.667%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (1.667%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (1.667%) SAS
5 2 (1.667%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.667%) CMS
6 1 (0.833%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.833%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.833%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.833%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.833%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.833%) Lync
6 1 (0.833%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.833%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (7.500%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.500%) MS Project
3 1 (0.833%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.833%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.667%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 7 (5.833%) SAP CRM
3 3 (2.500%) Taleo
4 1 (0.833%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.333%) SAN
2 3 (2.500%) VoIP
2 3 (2.500%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.667%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.667%) HTTP
3 2 (1.667%) VPN
3 2 (1.667%) Firewall
3 2 (1.667%) VLAN
4 1 (0.833%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.833%) OSPF
4 1 (0.833%) Internet
4 1 (0.833%) BGP
4 1 (0.833%) DNS
4 1 (0.833%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.833%) SMTP
4 1 (0.833%) DHCP
4 1 (0.833%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.833%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.833%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.833%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.167%) MySQL
3 4 (3.333%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.667%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.667%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.667%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.667%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.667%) MS Access
5 2 (1.667%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.667%) Oracle 9i
5 2 (1.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.833%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.833%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.833%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.833%) Cognos Impromptu
6 1 (0.833%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.833%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (4.167%) Selenium
1 5 (4.167%) SpecFlow
2 4 (3.333%) ReSharper
2 4 (3.333%) Git (software)
2 4 (3.333%) Subversion
3 3 (2.500%) Maven
3 3 (2.500%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (2.500%) ProC
3 3 (2.500%) JIRA
4 2 (1.667%) CruiseControl
4 2 (1.667%) NUnit
5 1 (0.833%) Moq
5 1 (0.833%) Hudson
5 1 (0.833%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.833%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.833%) GCC
General
1 57 (47.50%) Telecoms
2 55 (45.83%) Manufacturing
3 11 (9.167%) Marketing
4 9 (7.500%) Finance
5 3 (2.500%) Electronics
6 2 (1.667%) Retail
7 1 (0.833%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (23.33%) Developer
2 20 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 14 (11.67%) Architect
4 10 (8.333%) Analyst
5 7 (5.833%) Technical Leader
5 7 (5.833%) C# Developer
6 6 (5.000%) .NET Developer
6 6 (5.000%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.167%) Senior Manager
7 5 (4.167%) Administrator
7 5 (4.167%) Senior Project Manager
7 5 (4.167%) Designer
7 5 (4.167%) Agile C# Developer
8 4 (3.333%) Programme Manager
8 4 (3.333%) Consultant
8 4 (3.333%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (2.500%) Security Architect
9 3 (2.500%) Cisco Specialist
9 3 (2.500%) Technical Architect
9 3 (2.500%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.000%) PaaS
1 6 (5.000%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (4.167%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.167%) IaaS
2 5 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.333%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.333%) Heroku
3 4 (3.333%) Smart Meter
4 3 (2.500%) N-Tier
4 3 (2.500%) DTV
4 3 (2.500%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.667%) Open Source
5 2 (1.667%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.833%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.833%) Replication
6 1 (0.833%) Clustering
6 1 (0.833%) HACMP
6 1 (0.833%) PMI
6 1 (0.833%) Telematics
6 1 (0.833%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.83%) Windows
2 7 (5.833%) Linux
3 4 (3.333%) UNIX
3 4 (3.333%) AIX
3 4 (3.333%) Solaris
4 3 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.667%) CentOS
5 2 (1.667%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.833%) HPUX
6 1 (0.833%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.833%) NetWare
6 1 (0.833%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.00%) ERP
2 18 (15.00%) Scrum
3 17 (14.17%) Project Management
4 14 (11.67%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (10.00%) Migration
6 12 (10.00%) MVC
7 11 (9.167%) CRM
8 9 (7.500%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (7.500%) ITIL
8 9 (7.500%) E-Commerce
8 9 (7.500%) Performance Management
9 7 (5.833%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (5.000%) Validation
10 6 (5.000%) Business Analysis
10 6 (5.000%) TDD
11 5 (4.167%) Technical Architecture
11 5 (4.167%) Quality Management
11 5 (4.167%) Programme Management
11 5 (4.167%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.33%) SQL
2 19 (15.83%) C#
3 17 (14.17%) Java
4 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.167%) Apex Code
6 6 (5.000%) T-SQL
7 5 (4.167%) C++
8 4 (3.333%) Python
8 4 (3.333%) Korn
9 3 (2.500%) C
9 3 (2.500%) Perl
9 3 (2.500%) PHP
9 3 (2.500%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.500%) Bash shell
10 2 (1.667%) SAS Macro
10 2 (1.667%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.833%) Ruby
11 1 (0.833%) XPath
11 1 (0.833%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.833%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (3.333%) Security Cleared
1 4 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (3.333%) Degree
2 3 (2.500%) MCSA
2 3 (2.500%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (2.500%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.667%) ISEB
3 2 (1.667%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.833%) MCPD
4 1 (0.833%) MCAD
4 1 (0.833%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.500%) SLA
2 1 (0.833%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.167%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.500%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (2.500%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.667%) vSphere
4 1 (0.833%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.833%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.833%) XenApp
4 1 (0.833%) XenServer
4 1 (0.833%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.833%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 3 (2.500%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (1.667%) HP SIM
2 2 (1.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.833%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.833%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.833%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (15.83%) Microsoft
1 19 (15.83%) Oracle
2 17 (14.17%) SAP
2 17 (14.17%) Salesforce.com
3 9 (7.500%) Siebel
4 6 (5.000%) VMware
5 5 (4.167%) Cisco
6 4 (3.333%) HP
6 4 (3.333%) Citrix
6 4 (3.333%) Adobe
7 3 (2.500%) JBoss
7 3 (2.500%) Remedy
7 3 (2.500%) McAfee
7 3 (2.500%) Compuware
7 3 (2.500%) NetApp
8 2 (1.667%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.667%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.667%) Business Objects
9 1 (0.833%) Niku
9 1 (0.833%) IBM
Buckinghamshire
C# .Net Developer (with Xamarin), Buckinghamshire, £275-300pd... They are currently using Xamarin to convert C# to Android and iOS apps... Key skills - Experienced .Net Developer working across...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Middlesex
The Senior ASP.Net C# Developer should have experience with WPF, Silverlight and NHibernate. In addition to previous development with WPF, Silverlight and NHibernate the successful ASP.Net...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Keep abreast of the data management arena and technologies including but not limited to Big data, Open Source, SQL, BI, SaaS, Paas, Iaas, .DaaS, .Net, JQuery, SOAP and...
Integrity IT Solutions
Rate: Up to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Ideally, you will have extensive skills in the following technologies / agile methodologies: * C# with ASP.Net MVC * SOLID coding principles * Strong skills in SQL * Agile development using Scrum...
People Source Consulting
Rate: £380 - £425 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
A market leading business based in Berkshire requires an experienced Salesforce.com Business Analyst to join their high profile deployment. This is one of the premier projects in...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Hampshire
To assist with the migration strategy of the VMWare Virtualisation Infrastructure - To administer and utilise the call logging and change system, and construct and deliver reports... Skills Required - -...
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £1 per day + neg
Posted: 23 May 2013
West Sussex
Our client is upgrading their technical environment including the purchase of ERP, CRM and a Product Management Service... You will ideally hold current Security Clearance to SC Level...
Smart Sourcing
Rate: From £550 to £650 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
They will have a strong knowledge of payroll systems and integrating payroll systems with SaaS based HR systems. The successful candidate will have very strong stakeholder management skills...
Annapurna HR
Rate: £400.00 - £600.00 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013