SaaS Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Software as a Service (SaaS) UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	251	229	326
Rank change year-on-year	-22	+97
Contract jobs citing SaaS	409	554	337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.95%	1.12%	0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category	6.77%	10.99%	10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted	287	391	190
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£439
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£298	£305
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£628	£650	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£431	£425	£425
% change year-on-year	+1.47%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	6	7
Median hourly rate	£55.00	£19.31	£34.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+184.90%	-43.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£39.05	£16.00	£10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£65.00	£19.61	£44.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£65.00	£19.61	£16.25
% change year-on-year	+231.46%	+20.67%

SaaS is in the cloud computing skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract Cloud Computing Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	6039	5043	3215
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	13.96%	10.17%	6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted	4110	3583	2114
Median daily rate	£475	£467	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.65%	+13.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£310	£325	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£570
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£390
% change year-on-year	-	+15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted	101	66	63
Median hourly rate	£29.00	£19.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+52.63%	-45.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£12.50	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£65.00	£43.50	£40.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£29.00	£16.50	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+75.75%	-36.53%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing SaaS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Cloud Services category.

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SaaS in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for SaaS in England

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SaaS in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SaaS in England

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SaaS in England

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing SaaS in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for SaaS in England

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the England region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-29	193	£500	-	181
South East	-11	88	£425	+19.71%	59
North West	+23	32	£550	+37.50%	20
West Midlands	+24	27	£500	+5.26%	15
East of England	-18	23	£400	-3.03%	21
South West	-21	19	£400	-20.00%	25
East Midlands	+4	16	£400	+6.66%	10
Yorkshire	+2	10	£475	-5.00%	8
Midlands	+10	2	-	-	25
SaaS UK

SaaS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SaaS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for SaaS.

1	255 (31.99%)	Agile Software Development
2	207 (25.97%)	PaaS
3	183 (22.96%)	Amazon AWS
4	178 (22.33%)	IaaS
5	157 (19.70%)	Finance
6	150 (18.82%)	Microsoft
7	132 (16.56%)	DevOps
8	131 (16.44%)	Microsoft Azure
9	104 (13.05%)	JavaScript
10	102 (12.80%)	HTML
10	102 (12.80%)	Web Services
11	99 (12.42%)	Java
12	98 (12.30%)	Oracle
13	94 (11.79%)	SQL
14	91 (11.42%)	ITIL

15	90 (11.29%)	Linux
16	89 (11.17%)	CSS
17	81 (10.16%)	Project Management
17	81 (10.16%)	Windows
18	80 (10.04%)	Open Source
19	79 (9.91%)	Migration
20	77 (9.66%)	.NET
21	73 (9.16%)	Firewall
22	71 (8.91%)	Scrum
23	70 (8.78%)	Continuous Integration
24	69 (8.66%)	VMware
25	68 (8.53%)	Salesforce.com
26	67 (8.41%)	SQL Server
26	67 (8.41%)	REST
27	63 (7.90%)	C#

SaaS
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	32 (4.02%)	SharePoint
2	23 (2.89%)	CMS
3	21 (2.63%)	Confluence
4	14 (1.76%)	OpenStack
5	13 (1.63%)	Cloud Foundry
5	13 (1.63%)	JBoss
6	12 (1.51%)	Apache
7	11 (1.38%)	NServiceBus
8	10 (1.25%)	MS Exchange
8	10 (1.25%)	WebLogic
9	9 (1.13%)	Elasticsearch
9	9 (1.13%)	Oracle SOA Suite
10	8 (1.00%)	nginx
11	7 (0.88%)	IIS
11	7 (0.88%)	Tomcat
12	6 (0.75%)	Adobe Experience Manager
13	5 (0.63%)	Apache Spark
13	5 (0.63%)	Drupal
13	5 (0.63%)	Exchange Server 2010
13	5 (0.63%)	Skype for Business

Applications
1	21 (2.63%)	Microsoft Office
2	12 (1.51%)	Microsoft Excel
3	8 (1.00%)	MS Visio
4	7 (0.88%)	Microsoft Project
5	3 (0.38%)	Adobe Illustrator
5	3 (0.38%)	InVision
5	3 (0.38%)	Photoshop
6	2 (0.25%)	Adobe Creative Suite
6	2 (0.25%)	HipChat
6	2 (0.25%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	2 (0.25%)	OmniGraffle
6	2 (0.25%)	Spreadsheet
7	1 (0.13%)	UXPin

Business Applications
1	18 (2.26%)	Dynamics CRM
2	8 (1.00%)	Oracle EBS
3	6 (0.75%)	Oracle ERP
3	6 (0.75%)	Oracle iRecruitment
3	6 (0.75%)	Oracle Payables
3	6 (0.75%)	Oracle Retail
4	5 (0.63%)	Dynamics NAV
4	5 (0.63%)	NetSuite
4	5 (0.63%)	Oracle Payroll
4	5 (0.63%)	SAP HR
5	4 (0.50%)	Eloqua
5	4 (0.50%)	iTrent
6	3 (0.38%)	Oracle FAH
6	3 (0.38%)	Oracle Receivables
6	3 (0.38%)	SAP Oil and Gas
7	2 (0.25%)	Dynamics AX
7	2 (0.25%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7	2 (0.25%)	Relativity
7	2 (0.25%)	SAP ERP
7	2 (0.25%)	SAP HCM

Cloud Services
1	207 (25.97%)	PaaS
2	183 (22.96%)	Amazon AWS
3	178 (22.33%)	IaaS
4	131 (16.44%)	Microsoft Azure
5	43 (5.40%)	Office 365
6	28 (3.51%)	Cloud Computing
7	19 (2.38%)	SuccessFactors
8	18 (2.26%)	GitHub
9	14 (1.76%)	AWS Lambda
10	12 (1.51%)	Azure Active Directory
11	11 (1.38%)	AWS CloudFormation
12	10 (1.25%)	Amazon EC2
12	10 (1.25%)	Heroku
12	10 (1.25%)	OpenShift
13	9 (1.13%)	Amazon S3
14	8 (1.00%)	Virtual Private Cloud
15	6 (0.75%)	Force.com
15	6 (0.75%)	Taleo
16	5 (0.63%)	Amazon CloudWatch
16	5 (0.63%)	CloudFront

Communications & Networking
1	73 (9.16%)	Firewall
2	43 (5.40%)	DNS
3	42 (5.27%)	VPN
4	36 (4.52%)	Internet
5	26 (3.26%)	LAN
6	25 (3.14%)	TCP/IP
6	25 (3.14%)	WAN
7	22 (2.76%)	LDAP
8	16 (2.01%)	SSL
9	14 (1.76%)	HTTP
10	13 (1.63%)	Network Security
11	12 (1.51%)	VoIP
12	10 (1.25%)	DHCP
12	10 (1.25%)	Intranet
12	10 (1.25%)	SAN
12	10 (1.25%)	Wi-Fi
13	9 (1.13%)	Intrusion Detection
14	7 (0.88%)	Cisco ASA
15	6 (0.75%)	X.509
16	5 (0.63%)	IPsec

Database & Business Intelligence
1	67 (8.41%)	SQL Server
2	44 (5.52%)	Big Data
3	31 (3.89%)	PostgreSQL
4	26 (3.26%)	MongoDB
5	22 (2.76%)	NoSQL
6	19 (2.38%)	MySQL
7	17 (2.13%)	Relational Database
8	15 (1.88%)	Hadoop
9	14 (1.76%)	Data Warehouse
10	13 (1.63%)	Amazon Redshift
11	11 (1.38%)	Amazon DynamoDB
12	10 (1.25%)	Oracle Database
12	10 (1.25%)	Power BI
13	9 (1.13%)	Apache Cassandra
13	9 (1.13%)	SQL Server Integration Services
14	8 (1.00%)	RDBMS
15	7 (0.88%)	Amazon RDS
15	7 (0.88%)	Apache Hive
15	7 (0.88%)	Azure SQL Database
15	7 (0.88%)	Oracle BI EE

Development Applications
1	41 (5.14%)	Jenkins
2	36 (4.52%)	Git (software)
3	34 (4.27%)	JIRA
4	17 (2.13%)	Bitbucket
5	11 (1.38%)	JSUnit
6	10 (1.25%)	GitLab
6	10 (1.25%)	Selenium
6	10 (1.25%)	Team Foundation Server
7	9 (1.13%)	Cucumber
7	9 (1.13%)	NUnit
7	9 (1.13%)	Visual Studio
8	8 (1.00%)	Grunt
8	8 (1.00%)	Maven
9	6 (0.75%)	FitNesse
9	6 (0.75%)	GoCD
9	6 (0.75%)	gulp
9	6 (0.75%)	Sonatype Nexus
10	5 (0.63%)	AppScan
10	5 (0.63%)	TeamCity
10	5 (0.63%)	Visual Studio Team System

General
1	157 (19.70%)	Finance
2	38 (4.77%)	Retail
3	34 (4.27%)	Marketing
4	26 (3.26%)	Banking
5	18 (2.26%)	Telecoms
6	16 (2.01%)	Legal
7	13 (1.63%)	Billing
8	12 (1.51%)	Advertising
8	12 (1.51%)	Back Office
9	9 (1.13%)	Manufacturing
10	7 (0.88%)	Law
11	6 (0.75%)	Investment Banking
12	4 (0.50%)	Pharmaceutical
12	4 (0.50%)	Publishing
13	3 (0.38%)	Aerospace
13	3 (0.38%)	Electronics
13	3 (0.38%)	Financial Institution
13	3 (0.38%)	French Language
13	3 (0.38%)	General Ledger
14	2 (0.25%)	German Language

Job Titles
1	178 (22.33%)	Architect
2	126 (15.81%)	Developer
3	82 (10.29%)	Analyst
4	65 (8.16%)	Consultant
5	58 (7.28%)	Solutions Architect
6	50 (6.27%)	Cloud Architect
7	46 (5.77%)	Project Manager
8	32 (4.02%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9	31 (3.89%)	.NET Developer
10	28 (3.51%)	Business Analyst
10	28 (3.51%)	DevOps Engineer
11	25 (3.14%)	Technical Architect
12	24 (3.01%)	C# Developer
12	24 (3.01%)	JavaScript Developer
13	23 (2.89%)	Infrastructure Architect
13	23 (2.89%)	Senior Developer
14	22 (2.76%)	C# .NET Developer
14	22 (2.76%)	Cloud Engineer
15	21 (2.63%)	Security Architect
16	20 (2.51%)	Security Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	102 (12.80%)	HTML
1	102 (12.80%)	Web Services
2	89 (11.17%)	CSS
3	77 (9.66%)	.NET
4	67 (8.41%)	REST
5	51 (6.40%)	HTML5
6	48 (6.02%)	AngularJS
7	41 (5.14%)	JSON
8	37 (4.64%)	XML
9	35 (4.39%)	ASP.NET
9	35 (4.39%)	SOAP
10	29 (3.64%)	Middleware
11	27 (3.39%)	Node.js
11	27 (3.39%)	SAML
12	25 (3.14%)	OAuth
13	24 (3.01%)	ASP.NET Web API
14	23 (2.89%)	CSS3
15	22 (2.76%)	.NET Framework
16	17 (2.13%)	Sass
16	17 (2.13%)	Spring

Miscellaneous
1	57 (7.15%)	Analytical Skills
2	56 (7.03%)	Data Centre
3	47 (5.90%)	Management Information System
4	44 (5.52%)	User Experience
5	30 (3.76%)	Enterprise Software
6	26 (3.26%)	Computer Science
7	21 (2.63%)	Greenfield Project
8	20 (2.51%)	Mobile App
9	19 (2.38%)	Public Cloud
10	18 (2.26%)	Hybrid Cloud
10	18 (2.26%)	Private Cloud
11	17 (2.13%)	PKI
12	13 (1.63%)	Social Media
13	10 (1.25%)	Fintech
13	10 (1.25%)	Life Science
14	7 (0.88%)	Video on Demand
15	6 (0.75%)	Cloud Native
15	6 (0.75%)	Learning Management System
15	6 (0.75%)	Replication
15	6 (0.75%)	Smartphone

Operating Systems
1	90 (11.29%)	Linux
2	81 (10.16%)	Windows
3	29 (3.64%)	Windows Server
4	25 (3.14%)	Unix
5	16 (2.01%)	Windows Server 2012
6	13 (1.63%)	Windows Server 2008
7	11 (1.38%)	Android
7	11 (1.38%)	CentOS
7	11 (1.38%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	9 (1.13%)	AIX
8	9 (1.13%)	Ubuntu
9	8 (1.00%)	Windows 7
10	7 (0.88%)	Apple iOS
10	7 (0.88%)	Windows 10
11	5 (0.63%)	Solaris
11	5 (0.63%)	VMS
12	4 (0.50%)	HPUX
12	4 (0.50%)	Windows Server 2003
12	4 (0.50%)	Windows XP
13	2 (0.25%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	255 (31.99%)	Agile Software Development
2	132 (16.56%)	DevOps
3	91 (11.42%)	ITIL
4	81 (10.16%)	Project Management
5	80 (10.04%)	Open Source
6	79 (9.91%)	Migration
7	71 (8.91%)	Scrum
8	70 (8.78%)	Continuous Integration
9	63 (7.90%)	Stakeholder Management
10	61 (7.65%)	TDD
11	56 (7.03%)	SOA
12	54 (6.78%)	Enterprise Architecture
13	53 (6.65%)	Software Engineering
14	50 (6.27%)	TOGAF
15	49 (6.15%)	Analytics
16	47 (5.90%)	Test Automation
17	46 (5.77%)	SDLC
18	45 (5.65%)	ERP
18	45 (5.65%)	Microservices
18	45 (5.65%)	Waterfall

Programming Languages
1	104 (13.05%)	JavaScript
2	99 (12.42%)	Java
3	94 (11.79%)	SQL
4	63 (7.90%)	C#
5	54 (6.78%)	Python
6	32 (4.02%)	PowerShell
7	27 (3.39%)	PHP
8	23 (2.89%)	Ruby
9	22 (2.76%)	T-SQL
10	21 (2.63%)	Bash Shell
11	19 (2.38%)	Perl
12	15 (1.88%)	TypeScript
13	13 (1.63%)	C
14	11 (1.38%)	Scala
15	7 (0.88%)	Apex Code
15	7 (0.88%)	Go
16	6 (0.75%)	C++
16	6 (0.75%)	ES6
16	6 (0.75%)	PL/SQL
16	6 (0.75%)	R

Qualifications
1	56 (7.03%)	Degree
2	48 (6.02%)	Security Cleared
3	30 (3.76%)	SC Cleared
4	23 (2.89%)	CISSP
5	17 (2.13%)	Microsoft Certification
6	14 (1.76%)	Cisco Certification
7	12 (1.51%)	CISA
7	12 (1.51%)	ISEB
7	12 (1.51%)	ITIL Certification
8	11 (1.38%)	Computer Science Degree
9	10 (1.25%)	AWS Certification
9	10 (1.25%)	ISTQB
9	10 (1.25%)	MCSE
10	9 (1.13%)	PRINCE2 Certification
11	8 (1.00%)	CISM
11	8 (1.00%)	DV Cleared
12	7 (0.88%)	BPSS Clearance
12	7 (0.88%)	CEH
12	7 (0.88%)	PMI Certification
12	7 (0.88%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	27 (3.39%)	QA
2	20 (2.51%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	14 (1.76%)	PCI DSS
4	12 (1.51%)	Data Quality
4	12 (1.51%)	SLA
5	10 (1.25%)	COBIT
6	7 (0.88%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7	5 (0.63%)	GxP
8	4 (0.50%)	GPG13
8	4 (0.50%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	4 (0.50%)	JSP 440
8	4 (0.50%)	PMO
9	3 (0.38%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	3 (0.38%)	ISO/IEC 19770
10	2 (0.25%)	GDPR
10	2 (0.25%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
10	2 (0.25%)	IFRS
10	2 (0.25%)	IFRS 9
10	2 (0.25%)	ISO/IEC 27005
10	2 (0.25%)	RMADS

System Software
1	52 (6.52%)	Docker
2	46 (5.77%)	Active Directory
3	29 (3.64%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	15 (1.88%)	Hyper-V
5	8 (1.00%)	KVM
6	6 (0.75%)	Virtual Machines
6	6 (0.75%)	Xen
7	4 (0.50%)	Virtual Servers
7	4 (0.50%)	VMware ESXi
8	3 (0.38%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
9	2 (0.25%)	vSphere
9	2 (0.25%)	XenApp
9	2 (0.25%)	XenDesktop
10	1 (0.13%)	Apache Flume
10	1 (0.13%)	LXC
10	1 (0.13%)	Snort
10	1 (0.13%)	VirtualBox
10	1 (0.13%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	39 (4.89%)	Puppet
2	36 (4.52%)	Ansible
3	31 (3.89%)	Opscode Chef
4	29 (3.64%)	Kubernetes
5	12 (1.51%)	Terraform
6	11 (1.38%)	SCCM
7	8 (1.00%)	vCenter Server
8	7 (0.88%)	AirWatch
9	6 (0.75%)	SCOM
10	5 (0.63%)	Consul
10	5 (0.63%)	HP Fortify
10	5 (0.63%)	logstash
11	4 (0.50%)	Grafana
11	4 (0.50%)	Mesos
12	3 (0.38%)	EMC VPLEX
12	3 (0.38%)	Marathon
12	3 (0.38%)	Red Hat Satellite
12	3 (0.38%)	SCOrch
13	2 (0.25%)	MOM
13	2 (0.25%)	OSSEC

Vendors
1	150 (18.82%)	Microsoft
2	98 (12.30%)	Oracle
3	69 (8.66%)	VMware
4	68 (8.53%)	Salesforce.com
5	45 (5.65%)	ServiceNow
6	34 (4.27%)	SAP
7	33 (4.14%)	Workday
8	31 (3.89%)	Cisco
8	31 (3.89%)	Red Hat
9	21 (2.63%)	HP
10	16 (2.01%)	CheckPoint
10	16 (2.01%)	Google
11	14 (1.76%)	Citrix
11	14 (1.76%)	MuleSoft
12	13 (1.63%)	Splunk
13	12 (1.51%)	Atlassian
13	12 (1.51%)	IBM
14	10 (1.25%)	Apigee
14	10 (1.25%)	CA
14	10 (1.25%)	EMC