SaaS Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring SaaS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 32 27
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing SaaS 7 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.33% 1.48% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.37% 5.80% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £304 - £529
25th Percentile £341 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 £445 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% -20.89% +17.19%
75th Percentile £417 - £584
90th Percentile £475 - £586
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £445 £563
% change year-on-year -6.18% -20.89% +12.50%

All Cloud Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 95 69 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 31.56% 25.56% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 43 52
10th Percentile £340 £356 £185
25th Percentile £363 £413 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -10.61%
75th Percentile £481 £506 £534
90th Percentile £525 £615 £586
East Midlands median daily rate £440 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.58%
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.95 £18.32 £20.00
% change year-on-year +14.33% -8.40% -11.11%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Northamptonshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Northamptonshire

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Northampton -11 6 £355 -20.22% 4
SaaS
East Midlands

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (28.57%) JMeter
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Product Owner
2 4 (57.14%) Digital Product Owner
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (71.43%) User Experience
1 5 (71.43%) User Stories
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Business Process Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Business Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Product Management
3 3 (42.86%) UX Design
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Nintex