SaaS Contracts in the North of England

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 102 93
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 +23
Contract jobs citing SaaS 81 124 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.74% 2.17% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.94% 5.97% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 91 141
10th Percentile £406 £425 £350
25th Percentile £413 £489 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £623 £688 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £72.10 £46.25
% change year-on-year -63.94% +55.90% +131.25%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,363 2,077 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.25% 36.39% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,552 1,901
10th Percentile £263 £300 £195
25th Percentile £375 £414 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £687 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 36 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.80 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.65% +112.27% -1.32%
75th Percentile £21.69 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £20.97 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -35.08% +51.55% +0.95%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the North of England

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the North of England

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the North of England

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the North of England

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
North West +12 54 £494 -5.95% 149
Yorkshire -5 25 £525 -6.67% 55
North East +13 2 £531 -21.30% 9
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (2.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) SAP Business ByDesign
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.51%) PaaS
2 31 (38.27%) Azure
2 31 (38.27%) IaaS
3 15 (18.52%) AWS
4 6 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.94%) GCP
5 4 (4.94%) Google Workspace
6 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.70%) Miro
7 2 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.47%) Serverless
7 2 (2.47%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.23%) GitHub
8 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) Network Security
2 2 (2.47%) BGP
2 2 (2.47%) OSPF
2 2 (2.47%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.47%) WAN
2 2 (2.47%) Wireless
3 1 (1.23%) DHCP
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.70%) DB2
2 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.47%) Sisense
3 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) GitLab
2 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.23%) Selenium
2 1 (1.23%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (13.58%) Finance
1 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Legal
4 3 (3.70%) Banking
4 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Retail
5 2 (2.47%) Law
6 1 (1.23%) Billing
6 1 (1.23%) Marketing
6 1 (1.23%) Military
6 1 (1.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (24.69%) Architect
2 13 (16.05%) Developer
3 11 (13.58%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (9.88%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.64%) Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Senior
8 4 (4.94%) Security Architect
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 3 (3.70%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (3.70%) ITSM Developer
9 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Technical Manager
10 2 (2.47%) Agile Developer
10 2 (2.47%) React Developer
10 2 (2.47%) Senior Agile Developer
10 2 (2.47%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) React
2 7 (8.64%) .NET
3 6 (7.41%) Middleware
4 3 (3.70%) Node.js
4 3 (3.70%) REST
4 3 (3.70%) Web Services
5 2 (2.47%) Django
5 2 (2.47%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.23%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.23%) Blazor
6 1 (1.23%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.23%) Flask
6 1 (1.23%) HTML5
6 1 (1.23%) JSON
6 1 (1.23%) koa
6 1 (1.23%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.23%) Laravel
6 1 (1.23%) React Native
6 1 (1.23%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (4.94%) Virtual Team
2 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.70%) Mainframe
2 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.23%) CMDB
4 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.23%) Digital Signage
4 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.64%) Windows
2 4 (4.94%) Android
2 4 (4.94%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.94%) Unix
3 3 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) Agile
2 17 (20.99%) Waterfall
3 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (13.58%) DevOps
5 10 (12.35%) Roadmaps
6 9 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 8 (9.88%) Architectural Design
7 8 (9.88%) ERP
7 8 (9.88%) Scrum
8 7 (8.64%) Asset Management
8 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (8.64%) Migration
8 7 (8.64%) Project Management
9 6 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (7.41%) Information Security
9 6 (7.41%) ITIL
9 6 (7.41%) Microservices
9 6 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (7.41%) Project Delivery
9 6 (7.41%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.17%) Java
2 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
3 3 (3.70%) C
3 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.70%) Python
3 3 (3.70%) SQL
4 2 (2.47%) C#
4 2 (2.47%) PHP
4 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) Degree
3 4 (4.94%) APMP
3 4 (4.94%) CISSP
3 4 (4.94%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.94%) PMP
4 3 (3.70%) CISM
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.41%) Terraform
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.23%) Ansible
4 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.11%) Google
3 7 (8.64%) Oracle
4 5 (6.17%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.94%) MuleSoft
5 4 (4.94%) SAP
6 3 (3.70%) Cisco
6 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.70%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.47%) Aruba
7 2 (2.47%) Juniper
7 2 (2.47%) Meraki
7 2 (2.47%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.23%) Kronos
8 1 (1.23%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.23%) Remedy
8 1 (1.23%) Sage
8 1 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) Sophos
8 1 (1.23%) Workday