The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 23 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 215 205 235
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +30
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 34 31 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.476% 0.436% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.722% 1.623% 0.113%
Number of salaries quoted 32 21 0
Average salary £42,500 £48,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.37% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1975 1910 1764
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 27.64% 26.84% 25.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1665 1587 1529
Average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
SaaS
England

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West SaaS Salary Trend

SaaS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SaaS across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West SaaS Salary Histogram

SaaS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Lancashire - 16 £42,500 -
Manchester -16 13 £48,000 -20.00%
Merseyside - 4 £64,000 -
SaaS
England

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 41 (35.04%) CRM
2 40 (34.19%) SQL
2 40 (34.19%) .NET
3 39 (33.33%) C#
3 39 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
4 24 (20.51%) Agile Software Development
5 23 (19.66%) Business Development
5 23 (19.66%) WCF
5 23 (19.66%) JavaScript
5 23 (19.66%) CSS
6 22 (18.80%) MySQL
6 22 (18.80%) jQuery
7 21 (17.95%) Project Management
7 21 (17.95%) Oracle
8 20 (17.09%) Java
9 19 (16.24%) MVC
9 19 (16.24%) ASP.NET
9 19 (16.24%) HTML
10 18 (15.38%) Finance
10 18 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
11 17 (14.53%) Data Modelling
11 17 (14.53%) Microsoft
11 17 (14.53%) Service Management
12 16 (13.68%) Retail
12 16 (13.68%) Ajax
13 15 (12.82%) Visual Studio
13 15 (12.82%) MS Excel
14 14 (11.97%) Telecoms
15 13 (11.11%) Degree
16 12 (10.26%) Fujitsu

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 40 (34.19%) .NET
2 23 (19.66%) WCF
2 23 (19.66%) CSS
3 22 (18.80%) jQuery
4 19 (16.24%) ASP.NET
4 19 (16.24%) HTML
5 18 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
6 16 (13.68%) Ajax
7 12 (10.26%) Web Services
8 8 (6.838%) LAMP
9 6 (5.128%) XML
10 5 (4.274%) SOAP
10 5 (4.274%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.419%) MapReduce
12 3 (2.564%) J2EE
12 3 (2.564%) WebSphere
12 3 (2.564%) CSS3
12 3 (2.564%) HTML5
13 2 (1.709%) Java EE
14 1 (0.855%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.274%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (2.564%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.709%) SAS
4 1 (0.855%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (12.82%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.855%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.855%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.26%) Oracle iRecruitment
1 12 (10.26%) Oracle EBS
1 12 (10.26%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (8.547%) Oracle Payroll
3 5 (4.274%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (4.274%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.855%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.419%) SAN
2 1 (0.855%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.80%) MySQL
2 12 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.26%) Oracle BI EE
3 5 (4.274%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (3.419%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.419%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (12.82%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.419%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.564%) NUnit
3 3 (2.564%) Subversion
3 3 (2.564%) Git (software)
3 3 (2.564%) MSTest
General
1 18 (15.38%) Finance
2 16 (13.68%) Retail
3 14 (11.97%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.564%) Marketing
5 1 (0.855%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (31.62%) Consultant
2 22 (18.80%) Developer
3 20 (17.09%) Systems Integrator
4 18 (15.38%) SaaS Consultant
5 17 (14.53%) Functional Consultant
6 14 (11.97%) Architect
6 14 (11.97%) Project Manager
6 14 (11.97%) .NET Developer
7 12 (10.26%) Oracle Consultant
8 10 (8.547%) UI Developer
8 10 (8.547%) UI Programmer
9 8 (6.838%) Software Architect
10 7 (5.983%) Oracle HR Consultant
11 6 (5.128%) CRM Architect
12 5 (4.274%) Administrator
12 5 (4.274%) Payroll Consultant
12 5 (4.274%) Lead Architect
12 5 (4.274%) Information Security Specialist
12 5 (4.274%) Security Specialist
12 5 (4.274%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.128%) PaaS
1 6 (5.128%) IaaS
2 1 (0.855%) Computer Science
2 1 (0.855%) IVR
2 1 (0.855%) iPad
2 1 (0.855%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (0.855%) iPhone
2 1 (0.855%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.128%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.04%) CRM
2 24 (20.51%) Agile Software Development
3 23 (19.66%) Business Development
4 21 (17.95%) Project Management
5 19 (16.24%) MVC
6 17 (14.53%) Data Modelling
6 17 (14.53%) Service Management
7 10 (8.547%) Data Migration
7 10 (8.547%) Migration
8 9 (7.692%) Web Design
9 7 (5.983%) Unit Testing
10 5 (4.274%) Penetration Testing
10 5 (4.274%) Information Security
10 5 (4.274%) Integration Testing
11 4 (3.419%) Time Management
11 4 (3.419%) Waterfall
11 4 (3.419%) Network Design
11 4 (3.419%) TDD
11 4 (3.419%) Identity Management
11 4 (3.419%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (34.19%) SQL
2 39 (33.33%) C#
3 23 (19.66%) JavaScript
4 20 (17.09%) Java
5 9 (7.692%) PHP
6 8 (6.838%) C
7 6 (5.128%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.274%) C++
9 2 (1.709%) Prolog
9 2 (1.709%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.709%) Python
10 1 (0.855%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (11.11%) Degree
2 5 (4.274%) CISA
2 5 (4.274%) CISM
2 5 (4.274%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.855%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.564%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 39 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
2 21 (17.95%) Oracle
3 17 (14.53%) Microsoft
4 12 (10.26%) Fujitsu
5 5 (4.274%) TIBCO
6 3 (2.564%) JBoss
7 1 (0.855%) SAP
Liverpool, North West
Skills needed: C#.NET or VB.NET ASP.NET SQL Server HTML, CSS, JavaScript SaaS Any experience working with Dynamics CRM is highly desirable This is an excellent...
Computer Futures
Salary: £39000 - £44000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Essential Technical: - Excellent Microsoft .Net C# (2.0 +) - ASP.Net, MVC, Web Forms - Microsoft Visual Studio 2008+ - jQuery, jQuery UI, javascript, CSS, HTML, AJAX - Excellent Web UI design...
D Tech Recruitment
Salary: From £20,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Wigan, North West
Wigan based SaaS Company looking for a Software Architect - £50,000 + Benefits My client based in the Wigan area is the leading and fast growing, SaaS based company.
Computer Futures
Salary: £47000 - £50000 per annum + Share Options, Pension and Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester , North West .Leading Identity Management Company who provide solutions that enable the right access to the right systems... Skills and Knowledge: Essential: - Java development - Tomcat/JBOSS/Websphere -...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25,000 - 30,000 + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Crewe, North West
C#/ ASP.Net Developer - Crewe - £45,000 + Benefits I'm currently working with a Software House based in the Crewe area that is looking to improve its SaaS...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Award winning social media and mobile technology client in South Manchester are looking to increase their highly skilled development team by adding a PHP Developer.Due to rapid...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £31000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
London and Manchester with UK-wide travel
Our rapidly growing SaaS team has delivered more than 100 large-scale, tailored solutions in the last five years - and in the process, positioned us as one of...
Accenture
Salary: £40,000 - £55,000 + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Rochdale
This will include detailed design knowledge of cloud server storage solutions, SaaS, platform provisioning, networking, capacity and availability management as well as security and performance scaling and dynamics.....
Agilisys
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 per year
Posted: 22 May 2013