SaaS Contracts in the Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 100 102
Rank change year-on-year +17 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing SaaS 43 38 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.98% 1.28% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.48% 5.25% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 45
10th Percentile £346 £338 £363
25th Percentile £358 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -15.91% +1.15%
75th Percentile £552 £523 £713
90th Percentile £578 £719 £731
England median daily rate £525 £525 £553
% change year-on-year - -4.98% -4.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.39 £26.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +78.40% -59.22% +37.84%

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 664 724 1,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.50% 24.45% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 516 794
10th Percentile £250 £200 £223
25th Percentile £375 £323 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £556 £598 £588
90th Percentile £649 £688 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 19
10th Percentile £15.17 £13.93 £13.23
25th Percentile £17.43 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £19.95 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -0.25% +3.90%
75th Percentile £28.44 £26.50 £26.48
90th Percentile £39.18 £31.36 £38.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £32.30
% change year-on-year +15.63% -32.66% +53.81%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the Midlands

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 25 June 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 +8 24 £544 +11.49% 169
East Midlands +9 19 £425 -4.49% 123
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.33%) InDesign
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Sprinklr
2 2 (4.65%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) PaaS
2 4 (9.30%) Serverless
3 3 (6.98%) AWS
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.65%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (4.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Boomi
4 2 (4.65%) BrowserStack
4 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.65%) IaaS
4 2 (4.65%) OCI
4 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (4.65%) Metadata
1 2 (4.65%) Power BI
1 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.33%) GIS
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.65%) JMeter
2 2 (4.65%) Postman
2 2 (4.65%) Selenium
2 2 (4.65%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.33%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (2.33%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Retail
5 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Local Government
7 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (13.95%) Analyst
1 6 (13.95%) Digital Product Owner
1 6 (13.95%) Product Owner
2 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Lead
3 4 (9.30%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Implementation Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Senior
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Security Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) HTML
2 2 (4.65%) CSS
2 2 (4.65%) Django
2 2 (4.65%) MACH
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.33%) Flash
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth
3 1 (2.33%) OpenID
3 1 (2.33%) SAML
3 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) Blog
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Agile
2 14 (32.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.93%) Migration
5 8 (18.60%) Analytics
5 8 (18.60%) Scrum
6 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (16.28%) DevOps
7 6 (13.95%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (13.95%) CRM
7 6 (13.95%) ITIL
7 6 (13.95%) Observability
7 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Product Management
7 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (13.95%) User Experience
7 6 (13.95%) User Stories
8 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
8 5 (11.63%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) SQL
3 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
3 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.98%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) C#
5 2 (4.65%) Perl
5 2 (4.65%) R
5 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Degree
1 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) NCSC
3 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) Docker
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (4.65%) Grafana
2 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Dynatrace
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) CyberArk
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Avaya
4 2 (4.65%) BMC
4 2 (4.65%) Genesys
4 2 (4.65%) Nintex
4 2 (4.65%) OpenText
4 2 (4.65%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Adobe
5 1 (2.33%) Ariba
5 1 (2.33%) Concur
5 1 (2.33%) Facebook
5 1 (2.33%) Instagram
5 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.33%) Trapeze
5 1 (2.33%) Twitter
5 1 (2.33%) YouTube