SaaS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 35 31
Rank change year-on-year -40 -4 +23
Contract jobs citing SaaS 13 5 24
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.80% 1.62% 6.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.39% 6.02% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 22
10th Percentile £372 £436 £563
25th Percentile £422 £490 £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £579 £590
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% -1.86% +31.11%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £610
90th Percentile £551 £580 £618
South Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £579 £590
% change year-on-year -12.56% -1.86% +31.11%

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 296 83 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 41.05% 26.95% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 55 86
10th Percentile £315 £416 £369
25th Percentile £400 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -7.57% -1.22%
75th Percentile £537 £618 £607
90th Percentile £600 £700 £684
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -7.22% -6.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Sheffield

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
4 3 (23.08%) IaaS
4 3 (23.08%) PaaS
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
5 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DHCP
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) MySQL
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
1 6 (46.15%) Postman
1 6 (46.15%) Selenium
2 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
2 5 (38.46%) GitLab
2 5 (38.46%) REST Assured
2 5 (38.46%) TestRail
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.69%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Law
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
1 4 (30.77%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Test Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Legal Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) OpenID
2 6 (46.15%) LDAP
2 6 (46.15%) REST
2 6 (46.15%) SailPoint
3 5 (38.46%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) JSON
4 2 (15.38%) OAuth
4 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
4 2 (15.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
1 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (46.15%) API Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (46.15%) ETL
2 6 (46.15%) GitOps
2 6 (46.15%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (46.15%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
3 5 (38.46%) BDD
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Manual Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 5 (38.46%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (38.46%) TDD
3 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
3 5 (38.46%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) PHP
2 5 (38.46%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Alibaba
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft