SaaS Contracts in Wales

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 44 56 63
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing SaaS 2 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.51% 0.79% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 3.03% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £386 - £425
25th Percentile £392 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -12.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £455 £541 £550
90th Percentile £467 £659 £563
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 142 165 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 36.32% 26.07% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 137 190
10th Percentile £157 £161 £200
25th Percentile £356 £253 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £540 £600 £575
90th Percentile £623 £675 £639
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.54 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +2.63% -16.18%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £19.72
90th Percentile £18.53 £16.43 £22.88
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Wales

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Wales

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Wales 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
South Wales +14 2 £419 -1.47% 10
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Angular Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Operations Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript