The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton 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 Southampton 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 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SaaS 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.334% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.587% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £555 - -
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
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
63 59 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 21.07% 25.43% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 25 10
Average daily rate £338 £360 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £216 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £479 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 12
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £26.68
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -17.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.47 £14.01 £20.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £37.15 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
SaaS
Hampshire

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton SaaS Daily Rate Trend

SaaS
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) EDI
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Demand Management
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) Compuware
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) BizTalk Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) BizTalk Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 1 (33.33%) Demand Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Compuware