SaaS Contracts in the East Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 74 70
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 -20
Contract jobs citing SaaS 18 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.33% 1.06% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.49% 3.65% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 20
10th Percentile - £423 £411
25th Percentile - £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £503 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% +3.08% +14.71%
75th Percentile £750 £570 £575
90th Percentile - £600 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £76.71 £46.25
% change year-on-year -66.10% +65.85% +131.25%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 212 301 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.43% 28.89% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 231 296
10th Percentile £163 £181 £168
25th Percentile £310 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £519
90th Percentile £663 £700 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile - £14.57 £14.40
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.63 £18.86 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +10.26% +14.03%
75th Percentile £27.50 £24.43 £21.00
90th Percentile £32.10 £26.48 £26.90
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%

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 30 April 2024.

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 30 April 2024. 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
Nottinghamshire +11 10 - - 19
Northamptonshire +15 4 £445 -19.09% 3
Leicestershire - 2 £750 - 8
Derbyshire +3 1 - - 3
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
2 12 (66.67%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
4 2 (11.11%) IaaS
4 2 (11.11%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Intacct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) DB2
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 10 (55.56%) Legal
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (44.44%) IT Manager
1 8 (44.44%) IT Services Delivery Manager
1 8 (44.44%) IT Services Manager
1 8 (44.44%) Service Delivery Manager
1 8 (44.44%) Service Manager
2 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Facilities Management Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Facilities Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Facilities Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
1 4 (22.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (22.22%) Mainframe
1 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 4 (22.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Migration
1 10 (55.56%) Service Management
2 9 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 8 (44.44%) Change Management
3 8 (44.44%) Decision-Making
3 8 (44.44%) Information Security
3 8 (44.44%) IT Governance
3 8 (44.44%) ITSM
3 8 (44.44%) People Management
3 8 (44.44%) Performance Metrics
3 8 (44.44%) Problem Management
3 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (44.44%) Service Delivery
3 8 (44.44%) Service Delivery Management
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) API Design
4 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Swift
2 4 (22.22%) C
2 4 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) APMP
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 2 (11.11%) PMP
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) Okta
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) Sage