SaaS Contracts in the North West

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 95 83
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 +27
Contract jobs citing SaaS 50 67 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.81% 2.10% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.64% 5.59% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 54 89
10th Percentile £413 £425 £305
25th Percentile £431 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -6.86%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £610
90th Percentile £623 £669 £678
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +10.84%
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 £76.71 £50.00
% change year-on-year -66.10% +53.41% +150.00%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 886 1,198 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.07% 37.50% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 887 1,070
10th Percentile £284 £311 £213
25th Percentile £393 £419 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +100.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +8 31 £500 -2.44% 105
Cheshire -5 8 £469 -17.08% 20
Merseyside +19 6 £425 -19.05% 6
Cumbria - 1 £500 -
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) IaaS
1 22 (44.00%) PaaS
2 16 (32.00%) Azure
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.00%) Google Workspace
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.00%) Miro
5 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Network Security
2 2 (4.00%) BGP
2 2 (4.00%) OSPF
2 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.00%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) Selenium
2 1 (2.00%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Legal
4 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Architect
2 10 (20.00%) Developer
3 6 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) React Developer
8 1 (2.00%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) Django
2 4 (8.00%) FastAPI
2 4 (8.00%) Flask
2 4 (8.00%) React
3 3 (6.00%) .NET
3 3 (6.00%) Middleware
3 3 (6.00%) Node.js
4 2 (4.00%) REST
5 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.00%) Express.js
5 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.00%) HTML
5 1 (2.00%) HTML5
5 1 (2.00%) koa
5 1 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.00%) Redux
5 1 (2.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (8.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.00%) CMDB
3 1 (2.00%) Digital Signage
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Windows
2 7 (14.00%) Unix
3 3 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Agile
2 9 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (12.00%) DevOps
3 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (10.00%) Information Security
4 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (10.00%) TOGAF
4 5 (10.00%) Waterfall
5 4 (8.00%) API Development
5 4 (8.00%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (8.00%) Design Patterns
5 4 (8.00%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (8.00%) Observability
5 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (4.00%) Java
3 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) PHP
4 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) APMP
3 4 (8.00%) CISSP
3 4 (8.00%) PMI Certification
3 4 (8.00%) PMP
4 3 (6.00%) CISM
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) Ansible
2 4 (8.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Oracle
3 5 (10.00%) Google
4 4 (8.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.00%) SAP
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco
7 1 (2.00%) Kronos
7 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.00%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.00%) Remedy
7 1 (2.00%) Sophos
7 1 (2.00%) VMware