The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 29 30 34
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 19 10 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 7.631% 5.263% 3.185%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 23.46% 14.93% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 5
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +17.64%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
81 67 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 32.53% 35.26% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 77 62 46
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SaaS
Bedfordshire

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford SaaS Jobs Demand Trend

SaaS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SaaS across the Bedford region.

Bedford SaaS Salary Trend

SaaS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SaaS across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bedford SaaS Salary Histogram

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SaaS.

1 12 (48.00%) MySQL
1 12 (48.00%) IIS
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
1 12 (48.00%) Linux
1 12 (48.00%) Apache
1 12 (48.00%) TCP/IP
1 12 (48.00%) SAN
1 12 (48.00%) VMware
1 12 (48.00%) VMware ESX
1 12 (48.00%) Supplier Management
1 12 (48.00%) iSCSI
1 12 (48.00%) vSphere
1 12 (48.00%) Fibre Channel
2 8 (32.00%) User Stories
2 8 (32.00%) Scrum
2 8 (32.00%) BPMN
2 8 (32.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (20.00%) C
4 4 (16.00%) jQuery
4 4 (16.00%) C#
4 4 (16.00%) HTML
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (16.00%) .NET
4 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (16.00%) CSS
4 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.000%) ISO 9001
6 1 (4.000%) ERP

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (16.00%) jQuery
1 4 (16.00%) HTML
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
1 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (16.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 12 (48.00%) IIS
1 12 (48.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) TCP/IP
1 12 (48.00%) SAN
1 12 (48.00%) iSCSI
1 12 (48.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.000%) Automotive
1 1 (4.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Systems Engineer
1 12 (48.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Business Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Administrator
3 5 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (20.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Web Developer
4 4 (16.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.00%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Software Quality Engineer
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
1 12 (48.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Supplier Management
2 8 (32.00%) User Stories
2 8 (32.00%) Scrum
2 8 (32.00%) BPMN
2 8 (32.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (4.000%) ERP
3 1 (4.000%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) C
2 4 (16.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) ISO 9001
1 1 (4.000%) TickIT
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) VMware ESX
1 12 (48.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) VMware
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The Company. Our client is a highly regarded international software company based just outside Milton Keynes. They are currently undergoing substantial growth supported by a dynamic focus on...
TD Group
Salary: Excellent opportunity to work for a growing company
Posted: 14 June 2013