SaaS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 48 46
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing SaaS 9 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.01% 1.18% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.31% 4.52% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £373 - £525
25th Percentile £405 £313 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £325 £600
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -45.83% +17.07%
75th Percentile £485 £338 £713
90th Percentile £487 - £750
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.25
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.59% -61.33% +3.45%

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 272 155 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.56% 26.05% 36.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 92 219
10th Percentile £205 £185 £223
25th Percentile £358 £336 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% - -7.88%
75th Percentile £506 £539 £530
90th Percentile £613 £611 £603
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 16
10th Percentile £15.17 £14.49 £11.39
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £12.94
Median hourly rate £20.50 £29.00 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -29.31% +64.73% +13.58%
75th Percentile £24.56 £43.51 £47.13
90th Percentile £43.37 £50.40 £91.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

SaaS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SaaS

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SaaS

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 25 December 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
Derbyshire - 5 £463 - 62
Northamptonshire -13 1 £352 - 39
Nottinghamshire -13 1 £485 +49.23% 45
Leicestershire - 1 - - 35
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Figma
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) Jest
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) React Native
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Dependency Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) SDLC
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) User Experience
2 2 (22.22%) UX Design
3 1 (11.11%) AI
3 1 (11.11%) API Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) UML
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAI