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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 97 106
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing SaaS 53 87 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.56% 1.81% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.70% 6.05% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 77
10th Percentile £271 £406 £424
25th Percentile £356 £429 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £656
90th Percentile £650 £624 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate £77.19 £26.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +196.88% -61.48% +58.82%

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 1,127 1,438 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.19% 29.88% 36.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 1,003 1,463
10th Percentile £270 £266 £288
25th Percentile £388 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.59% +2.50%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 74 41
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.72% +12.65%
75th Percentile £43.39 £22.56 £44.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £45.45 £65.00
England median hourly rate £24.83 £21.46 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.70% -38.69% +62.79%

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 10 June 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 10 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
North West -9 41 £450 -10.00% 467
North East +4 6 £534 +0.52% 68
Yorkshire -13 6 £500 -4.76% 181
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 11 (20.75%) SharePoint
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (7.55%) Confluence
4 2 (3.77%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.89%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.85%) Azure
2 13 (24.53%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (20.75%) Entra ID
4 8 (15.09%) AWS
5 5 (9.43%) IaaS
6 3 (5.66%) Google Workspace
6 3 (5.66%) PaaS
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.77%) Figma
7 2 (3.77%) GitHub
7 2 (3.77%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.89%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.89%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.89%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.89%) Serverless
8 1 (1.89%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) HTTP
2 1 (1.89%) Internet
2 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (3.77%) Postman
2 2 (3.77%) UI Automator
3 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 14 (26.42%) Finance
2 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Legal
5 4 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Military
7 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Law
7 2 (3.77%) Marketing
7 2 (3.77%) Publishing
8 1 (1.89%) Automotive
8 1 (1.89%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (11.32%) Lead
2 5 (9.43%) Developer
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 5 (9.43%) Senior
3 4 (7.55%) Analyst
3 4 (7.55%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Architect
4 3 (5.66%) Business Manager
4 3 (5.66%) Operations Manager
5 2 (3.77%) .NET Developer
5 2 (3.77%) C# Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Product Manager
5 2 (3.77%) Project Consultant
5 2 (3.77%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Senior Project Consultant
5 2 (3.77%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Service Manager
5 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
5 2 (3.77%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) .NET
1 4 (7.55%) React
2 3 (5.66%) .NET Core
2 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.66%) JSON
2 3 (5.66%) XML
3 2 (3.77%) Ajax
3 2 (3.77%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.77%) CSS
3 2 (3.77%) HTML
3 2 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (3.77%) Semantic HTML
3 2 (3.77%) Vue
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.89%) Middleware
4 1 (1.89%) Node.js
4 1 (1.89%) REST
4 1 (1.89%) Swagger
4 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.66%) Robotics
3 2 (3.77%) CSOC
3 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.89%) IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Agile
2 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (20.75%) ITIL
4 9 (16.98%) ITSM
5 7 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (13.21%) DevOps
5 7 (13.21%) User Experience
6 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (11.32%) Migration
7 5 (9.43%) Problem Management
7 5 (9.43%) Project Management
7 5 (9.43%) Roadmaps
7 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (7.55%) Product Management
8 4 (7.55%) Security Operations
8 4 (7.55%) Service Delivery
8 4 (7.55%) Service Design
8 4 (7.55%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (7.55%) Task Automation
8 4 (7.55%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.66%) C#
3 3 (5.66%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) Java
4 1 (1.89%) Python
4 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (28.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.77%) CISM
4 2 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (3.77%) CREST Certified
4 2 (3.77%) CRISC
4 2 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.77%) OSCE
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.77%) SLA
1 2 (3.77%) WCAG
2 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Google
2 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
2 4 (7.55%) Splunk
3 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Commvault