SaaS Contracts in Dorset

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 18 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing SaaS 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 6.12% - 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.38% - 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £409 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.42
Median hourly rate - - £76.71
75th Percentile - - £81.99
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - - £76.71
% change year-on-year - - -6.30%

All Cloud Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 39 30 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 39.80% 18.18% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 58
10th Percentile £223 £175 £160
25th Percentile £413 £175 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £185 £494
Median % change year-on-year +157.02% -62.57% -1.15%
75th Percentile £550 £425 £625
90th Percentile £683 £769 £679
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 12
10th Percentile £14.70 - £13.64
25th Percentile £14.99 - £17.22
Median hourly rate £16.78 £14.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.86% -26.32% -69.30%
75th Percentile £20.03 - £57.72
90th Percentile £23.01 - £60.61
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Dorset

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Dorset

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth - 5 £425 - 32
Poole - 1 £413 -
SaaS
South West

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 6 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Skype
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) B2B
1 6 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 6 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (50.00%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft