SaaS Contracts in Manchester

Software as a Service (SaaS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 57 72
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing SaaS 15 34 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.68% 2.34% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.19% 6.31% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 37
10th Percentile £313 £413 £435
25th Percentile £425 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +0.48%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £623 £693
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £26.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 358 539 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 40.18% 37.15% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 428 553
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £586
90th Percentile £665 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 18
10th Percentile £68.38 £22.90 £16.35
25th Percentile £69.69 £25.50 £21.56
Median hourly rate £76.25 £67.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% +3.08% +136.36%
75th Percentile £84.69 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.13 £74.10 -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.02% -56.94% +61.79%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Manchester

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Manchester

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Manchester

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in Manchester

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Salford -3 2 £450 - 7
SaaS
North West

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) SAS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Law
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Military
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Commercial Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Report Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Sales Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Software Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Planning Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Procurement Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
2 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Data Design
3 2 (13.33%) Demand Management
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Red Team
3 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.67%) Application Security
4 1 (6.67%) Offensive Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) CREST Certified
2 2 (13.33%) OSCE
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Google