SaaS Contracts in South Wales

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 54 66
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -18
Contract jobs citing SaaS 2 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.58% 0.75% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 3.05% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £386 - £423
25th Percentile £392 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -15.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £455 £588 £547
90th Percentile £467 £678 £560
Wales median daily rate £419 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -4.29% -12.50% -16.67%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 131 131 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 38.08% 24.72% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 111 178
10th Percentile £150 £160 £256
25th Percentile £317 £260 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £548 £606 £575
90th Percentile £623 £663 £638
Wales median daily rate £490 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 14
10th Percentile - £12.53 -
25th Percentile £12.25 £12.56 £11.15
Median hourly rate £12.50 £14.25 £13.90
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +2.50% -36.29%
75th Percentile £12.75 £16.27 £18.73
90th Percentile - £16.51 £20.75
Wales median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £15.50
% change year-on-year +8.27% -5.65% -8.82%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in South Wales

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in South Wales

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 24 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
Cardiff +8 1 £388 -8.82% 11
Newport +5 1 £450 -37.93%
SaaS
Wales

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Angular Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Operations Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript