SaaS Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 105 107
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 -17
Contract jobs citing SaaS 41 82 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.24% 1.72% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.69% 5.82% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 49 91
10th Percentile £230 £406 £425
25th Percentile £363 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £600
90th Percentile £646 £623 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate £77.19 £26.00 £76.71
% change year-on-year +196.88% -66.10% +65.85%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North West -4 32 £450 -7.60% 291
Yorkshire -14 5 £400 -23.81% 124
North East +2 4 £534 +0.52% 26
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 13 (31.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (31.71%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.76%) Confluence
3 2 (4.88%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (2.44%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (51.22%) Azure
2 15 (36.59%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (29.27%) Entra ID
4 9 (21.95%) IaaS
5 7 (17.07%) PaaS
6 5 (12.20%) AWS
7 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.88%) Google Workspace
8 2 (4.88%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.44%) GitHub
9 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Internet
2 1 (2.44%) Intranet
2 1 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.44%) Postman
2 1 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 10 (24.39%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Law
4 2 (4.88%) Legal
4 2 (4.88%) Military
5 1 (2.44%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Lead
4 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Commercial Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (4.88%) Project Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Report Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Sales Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Project Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) React
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.44%) LDAP
2 1 (2.44%) Middleware
2 1 (2.44%) Node.js
2 1 (2.44%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.44%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) Swagger
2 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Blog
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (2.44%) IoT
3 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
2 2 (4.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Agile
2 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (24.39%) ITIL
4 8 (19.51%) ITSM
5 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (12.20%) Migration
5 5 (12.20%) Problem Management
5 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
6 4 (9.76%) DevOps
6 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.76%) Task Automation
7 3 (7.32%) Business Analysis
7 3 (7.32%) Data Architecture
7 3 (7.32%) Data Management
7 3 (7.32%) Decision-Making
7 3 (7.32%) Mentoring
7 3 (7.32%) Microservices
7 3 (7.32%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (4.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.32%) SQL
3 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.44%) Java
4 1 (2.44%) Python
4 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 12 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.88%) CISM
3 2 (4.88%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (4.88%) CREST Certified
3 2 (4.88%) CRISC
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) OSCE
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (7.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.88%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) Commvault