SaaS Contracts in Cheshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 47 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing SaaS 11 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.45% 2.18% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.02% 6.29% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 10
10th Percentile - - £505
25th Percentile £230 £445 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £455 £565
Median % change year-on-year -11.98% -19.51% +8.71%
75th Percentile £425 £487 £569
90th Percentile £628 £487 £630
North West median daily rate £450 £487 £525
% change year-on-year -7.60% -7.24% +10.53%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

SaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 122 175 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.17% 34.72% 42.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 118 166
10th Percentile £312 £281 £214
25th Percentile £364 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £638
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - £16.98 £12.63
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £21.21
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -16.43% -18.44%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.60
90th Percentile - - £52.88
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Cheshire

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Cheshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Cheshire

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Warrington - 9 £230 - 35
Knutsford -9 2 £626 +39.00% 1
SaaS
North West

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (81.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
1 9 (81.82%) Entra ID
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) ITIL
2 7 (63.64%) ITSM
3 5 (45.45%) Problem Management
4 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
6 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Use Case
7 1 (9.09%) Line Management
7 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk