SaaS Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 22 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 West Midlands 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 95 105 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing SaaS 4 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.239% 0.219% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.379% 1.330% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £313 £260 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.19% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £485
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -17.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year
+82.50% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 290 376 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.29% 16.46% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 169 118
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 40
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.63 £21.79
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+71.42% -23.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.85 £11.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.80 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
SaaS
England

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands SaaS Hourly Rate Trend

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Warwickshire -5 1 £200 -21.56%
Birmingham - 1 - -
Solihull - 1 - -
SaaS
England

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 6 (54.55%) Web Services
1 6 (54.55%) Service Delivery
1 6 (54.55%) E-Learning
2 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (36.36%) CMS
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) VB.NET
3 3 (27.27%) .NET
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
3 3 (27.27%) CRM
4 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
4 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
4 2 (18.18%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
4 2 (18.18%) Apex Code
4 2 (18.18%) Information Management
4 2 (18.18%) Mason
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (18.18%) Force.com
4 2 (18.18%) Visualforce
5 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
5 1 (9.091%) ERP
5 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
5 1 (9.091%) Middleware
5 1 (9.091%) Project Management
5 1 (9.091%) CSS
5 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.091%) HTML

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 6 (54.55%) Web Services
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
3 2 (18.18%) Mason
3 2 (18.18%) Visualforce
4 1 (9.091%) Middleware
4 1 (9.091%) CSS
4 1 (9.091%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
1 4 (36.36%) CMS
2 2 (18.18%) Force.com
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
1 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Service Manager
1 5 (45.45%) Web Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) CRM Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Salesforce.com Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Leader
4 1 (9.091%) Coordinator
4 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) E-Learning
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Service Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) CRM
3 2 (18.18%) Information Management
4 1 (9.091%) ERP
4 1 (9.091%) Project Management
4 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C#
1 3 (27.27%) VB.NET
2 2 (18.18%) Apex Code
3 1 (9.091%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) VB
3 1 (9.091%) VB6
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce.com
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