SaaS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 122 75
Rank change year-on-year +19 -47 +12
Contract jobs citing SaaS 104 43 123
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.20% 1.21% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.82% 3.62% 7.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 25 89
10th Percentile £360 £350 £370
25th Percentile £411 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £533
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -15.49% +1.04%
75th Percentile £628 £513 £595
90th Percentile £650 £622 £642
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £57.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.93 - -
England median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.59% -61.33% +3.45%

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 1,787 1,187 1,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.81% 33.36% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 776 1,186
10th Percentile £214 £266 £257
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.30%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 22 59
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.87 £35.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% +48.24% -2.05%
75th Percentile £58.81 £66.81 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.73 £95.73 £54.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -8.62% +22.83% +4.93%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in the North of England

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SaaS

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 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the North of England

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SaaS

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 21 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
North West +12 70 £575 +27.78% 79
Yorkshire -28 30 £525 +16.67% 47
North East -3 4 £450 - 14
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.92%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.92%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.96%) Magento
3 1 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.46%) Azure
2 18 (17.31%) Google Workspace
2 18 (17.31%) PaaS
3 17 (16.35%) GCP
4 16 (15.38%) AWS
5 12 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 12 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (9.62%) IaaS
7 9 (8.65%) Boomi
7 9 (8.65%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.77%) GitHub
9 5 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.81%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.81%) Serverless
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.85%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.54%) DNS
2 7 (6.73%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.81%) Internet
3 5 (4.81%) SAN
3 5 (4.81%) Unified Communications
4 4 (3.85%) DHCP
4 4 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.85%) VPN
5 3 (2.88%) Firewall
5 3 (2.88%) iSCSI
5 3 (2.88%) VLAN
6 1 (0.96%) HTTP
6 1 (0.96%) LAN
6 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) MySQL
2 10 (9.62%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.81%) Redis
5 4 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.85%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.88%) Power BI
6 3 (2.88%) Tableau
7 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.96%) DTS
7 1 (0.96%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 11 (10.58%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.65%) JIRA
3 7 (6.73%) Postman
4 6 (5.77%) Selenium
5 5 (4.81%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.81%) Git
5 5 (4.81%) GitLab
5 5 (4.81%) Maven
5 5 (4.81%) REST Assured
5 5 (4.81%) TestRail
6 4 (3.85%) Gradle
6 4 (3.85%) SonarLint
6 4 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.96%) JUnit
7 1 (0.96%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.96%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Finance
5 5 (4.81%) Banking
5 5 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Publishing
6 3 (2.88%) Law
6 3 (2.88%) Legal
6 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (1.92%) Marketing
8 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.96%) Military
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 12 (11.54%) Lead
2 11 (10.58%) Architect
2 11 (10.58%) Senior
3 8 (7.69%) Analyst
3 8 (7.69%) Developer
4 7 (6.73%) Administrator
4 7 (6.73%) IT Support
4 7 (6.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.81%) IT Support Technician
5 5 (4.81%) IT Technician
5 5 (4.81%) Release Manager
5 5 (4.81%) Service Desk Support
5 5 (4.81%) Service Desk Technician
5 5 (4.81%) Support Technician
6 4 (3.85%) Environment And Release Manager
6 4 (3.85%) Integration Developer
6 4 (3.85%) Technical Architect
6 4 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) REST
2 8 (7.69%) Node.js
3 7 (6.73%) OpenID
4 6 (5.77%) .NET
4 6 (5.77%) LDAP
4 6 (5.77%) SailPoint
5 5 (4.81%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.81%) JSON
5 5 (4.81%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (4.81%) RESTful
5 5 (4.81%) SAP Basis
5 5 (4.81%) XML
6 4 (3.85%) Dropwizard
6 4 (3.85%) J2EE
6 4 (3.85%) JWT
6 4 (3.85%) Micronaut
6 4 (3.85%) Middleware
6 4 (3.85%) SOAP
6 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.65%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (7.69%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.77%) Taxonomies
6 5 (4.81%) Low-Code
6 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.81%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.85%) N-Tier
8 3 (2.88%) Digital Signage
8 3 (2.88%) IVR
8 3 (2.88%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.88%) Replication
8 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.92%) Clustering
9 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.23%) Windows
2 10 (9.62%) Linux
3 4 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.08%) Agile
2 20 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (17.31%) User Experience
4 17 (16.35%) CI/CD
4 17 (16.35%) DevOps
4 17 (16.35%) Mobile Device Management
5 16 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 14 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (12.50%) Benchmarking
8 11 (10.58%) ETL
8 11 (10.58%) TDD
9 10 (9.62%) BPMN
9 10 (9.62%) ERP
9 10 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (9.62%) Waterfall
10 9 (8.65%) BDD
10 9 (8.65%) Service Design
10 9 (8.65%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.38%) Python
2 15 (14.42%) Java
3 13 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 13 (12.50%) PHP
4 9 (8.65%) PowerShell
4 9 (8.65%) SQL
5 4 (3.85%) C#
5 4 (3.85%) Groovy
5 4 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.42%) Degree
4 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.92%) GCIA
6 2 (1.92%) GCIH
7 1 (0.96%) APMG
7 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) GDPR
2 1 (0.96%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.62%) Docker
3 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (10.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.62%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.69%) Terraform
5 5 (4.81%) Grafana
5 5 (4.81%) SCCM
6 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (19.23%) Google
2 18 (17.31%) Microsoft
3 17 (16.35%) ServiceNow
4 13 (12.50%) Oracle
5 11 (10.58%) SAP
6 6 (5.77%) Okta
7 5 (4.81%) AppDynamics
7 5 (4.81%) VMware
8 4 (3.85%) Cisco
8 4 (3.85%) Gigya
8 4 (3.85%) Veeam
9 3 (2.88%) Dell
9 3 (2.88%) Genesys
9 3 (2.88%) NetApp
9 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.88%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.88%) UiPath
10 2 (1.92%) Citrix
10 2 (1.92%) HP
10 2 (1.92%) IBM