SaaS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 49 55
Rank change year-on-year -46 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing SaaS 14 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.28% 0.27% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 0.90% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £372 - £448
25th Percentile £425 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -33.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £552 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £497 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +24.25% -23.81% -9.21%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 466 111 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.71% 30.16% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 87 90
10th Percentile £363 £185 £199
25th Percentile £414 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £513 £474
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +8.24% -17.65%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £660 £626
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £90.42 £15.00
% change year-on-year -37.51% +502.77% -65.32%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in South Yorkshire

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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
Sheffield -38 14 £500 +25.00% 15
SaaS
Yorkshire

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MySQL
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
1 6 (42.86%) Postman
1 6 (42.86%) Selenium
2 5 (35.71%) Cucumber
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 5 (35.71%) REST Assured
2 5 (35.71%) TestRail
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Product Owner
4 2 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Design Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) LDAP
1 6 (42.86%) OpenID
1 6 (42.86%) REST
1 6 (42.86%) SailPoint
2 5 (35.71%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) CCTV
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
1 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) API Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (42.86%) ETL
2 6 (42.86%) GitOps
2 6 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 6 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 5 (35.71%) BDD
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Manual Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 5 (35.71%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (35.71%) TDD
3 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
3 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) PHP
2 5 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft