SaaS Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -
Contract jobs citing SaaS 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 1.33% 1.03% 1.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.41% 4.17% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £570
25th Percentile £263 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - £750
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £275 £392 £725
% change year-on-year -29.76% -46.00% +38.10%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 37 24 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 24.67% 24.74% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 33
10th Percentile £334 - £288
25th Percentile £402 £250 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £374 £419
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -10.80% -0.24%
75th Percentile £588 £469 £625
90th Percentile £625 £612 £688
East Midlands median daily rate £438 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £15.32 - -
25th Percentile £18.00 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £25.62 - £27.50
90th Percentile £26.60 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.48 £14.80 £17.17
% change year-on-year -2.16% -13.83% -3.10%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SaaS

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 13 April 2026. 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
Leicester +2 1 - - 4
SaaS
East Midlands

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft