SaaS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 77 81
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing SaaS 72 45 55
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.31% 1.93% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.89% 6.25% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 35 44
10th Percentile £447 £400 £377
25th Percentile £471 £478 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £607 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +10.36% +2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £680 £647
90th Percentile £675 £713 £750
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% - -2.00%
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 £32.14 £29.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +10.81% -61.33% +3.45%

All Cloud Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,045 720 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.58% 30.84% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 471 702
10th Percentile £291 £213 £213
25th Percentile £402 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £495 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% +7.03% -7.50%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £685 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 25
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.05 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.28 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £26.31 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +66.89% +16.13%
75th Percentile £31.50 £35.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £42.74 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Midlands -13 64 £572 -5.72% 150
East Midlands -18 8 £463 +42.31% 94
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Revit
2 1 (1.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Elite 3E
1 2 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.56%) Azure
2 9 (12.50%) AWS
3 7 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (9.72%) IaaS
3 7 (9.72%) PaaS
3 7 (9.72%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (4.17%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (4.17%) AWS KMS
6 3 (4.17%) Serverless
6 3 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) DNS
2 7 (9.72%) FTP
3 5 (6.94%) DKIM
3 5 (6.94%) DMARC
3 5 (6.94%) Internet
3 5 (6.94%) SMTP
4 3 (4.17%) DHCP
5 1 (1.39%) Network Security
5 1 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) Power BI
2 6 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.94%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.78%) EDMS
5 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.39%) Big Data
5 1 (1.39%) Dremio
5 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Postman
2 1 (1.39%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Finance
3 6 (8.33%) Law
4 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Legal
5 2 (2.78%) Retail
6 1 (1.39%) Automotive
6 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.39%) Marketing
6 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (36.11%) Architect
2 13 (18.06%) Senior
3 8 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 7 (9.72%) Developer
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Architect
5 5 (6.94%) Business Architect
5 5 (6.94%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
5 5 (6.94%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow Developer
5 5 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.94%) TOGAF Architect
5 5 (6.94%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
6 4 (5.56%) Consultant
6 4 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Administrator
7 3 (4.17%) AWS Administrator
7 3 (4.17%) Lead
8 2 (2.78%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) OAuth
2 3 (4.17%) SAML
2 3 (4.17%) XML
3 2 (2.78%) .NET
3 2 (2.78%) WebCenter
4 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.39%) CSS
4 1 (1.39%) HTML
4 1 (1.39%) Jest
4 1 (1.39%) JSON
4 1 (1.39%) LDAP
4 1 (1.39%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.39%) OpenID
4 1 (1.39%) PySpark
4 1 (1.39%) React
4 1 (1.39%) React Native
4 1 (1.39%) RESTful
4 1 (1.39%) Web Services
4 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.17%) SCADA
3 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.39%) CMDB
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) Agile
2 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (16.67%) DevOps
4 10 (13.89%) AI
5 9 (12.50%) Analytics
5 9 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (9.72%) Business Case
6 7 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.72%) Validation
7 6 (8.33%) Business Analysis
7 6 (8.33%) Data Modelling
7 6 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 6 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (8.33%) TOGAF
8 5 (6.94%) Architectural Design
8 5 (6.94%) Building Information Modelling
8 5 (6.94%) CI/CD
8 5 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (6.94%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.94%) SQL
2 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (2.78%) Python
4 1 (1.39%) C#
4 1 (1.39%) Groovy
4 1 (1.39%) Java
4 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.78%) PMP
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.39%) CISSP
5 1 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.39%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) QA
2 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.17%) GDPR
4 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.78%) ITGC
5 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.39%) ISO 19650
5 1 (1.39%) NCSC
5 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.94%) Dovecot
2 5 (6.94%) Postfix
3 1 (1.39%) Docker
3 1 (1.39%) HDFS
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.56%) Terraform
3 3 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (1.39%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.67%) Broadcom
2 12 (16.67%) VMware
3 7 (9.72%) Dynatrace
4 6 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.94%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.56%) AppDynamics
7 3 (4.17%) Oracle
8 2 (2.78%) Guidewire
8 2 (2.78%) IBM
8 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.39%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.39%) Autodesk
9 1 (1.39%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.39%) Intapp
9 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.39%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.39%) Splunk
9 1 (1.39%) Workday