SaaS Contracts in the East Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 46 48 74
Rank change year-on-year +2 +26 -4
Contract jobs citing SaaS 10 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.87% 2.33% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.04% 8.49% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 10
10th Percentile £356 - £423
25th Percentile £358 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £445 £503
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -11.44% +3.08%
75th Percentile £481 £750 £570
90th Percentile £526 - £600
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate £77.19 £26.00 £76.71
% change year-on-year +196.88% -66.10% +65.85%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 142 212 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.49% 27.43% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 149 231
10th Percentile £240 £163 £181
25th Percentile £356 £310 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £538
90th Percentile £558 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile £13.25 - £14.57
25th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £15.09 £16.63 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -11.82% +10.26%
75th Percentile £19.50 £27.50 £24.43
90th Percentile £21.60 £32.10 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the East Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the East Midlands

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the East Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the East Midlands

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire +1 6 £392 -12.02% 28
Nottinghamshire 0 2 £538 - 54
Derbyshire +8 1 - - 64
Leicestershire +6 1 - - 39
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (20.00%) JMeter
1 2 (20.00%) Postman
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
1 2 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Digital Product Owner
1 3 (30.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Integration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Procurement Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Integration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Product Management
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) User Stories
3 3 (30.00%) UX Design
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Nintex
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP