The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 91 - 82
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SaaS 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.292% - 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.384% - 0.418%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £449 £485
% change year-on-year
-5.29% -7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+90.00% -11.11%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
289 281 239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 21.06% 16.15% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 140 103
Average daily rate £300 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £215 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 20
Average hourly rate £15.25 £14.75 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.38% -34.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.76 £11.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.05 £25.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
SaaS
Yorkshire

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire SaaS Jobs Demand 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Vacancies
Leeds - 4 £500 -
Wakefield - - - -
Bradford - - - -
Dewsbury - - - -
SaaS
Yorkshire

SaaS
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 4 (66.67%) Salesforce.com
1 4 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Back Office
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Force.com
2 2 (33.33%) Visualforce
2 2 (33.33%) Apex Code

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (33.33%) Visualforce
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Force.com
General
1 2 (33.33%) Back Office
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce.com Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Procurement Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce.com Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce.com
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