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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 51 28
Rank change year-on-year -20 -23 +38
Contract jobs citing SaaS 13 5 24
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.90% 1.14% 6.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.63% 3.91% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 22
10th Percentile £406 £486 £563
25th Percentile £407 £521 £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £579 £590
Median % change year-on-year -15.80% -1.86% +31.11%
75th Percentile £536 £580 £610
90th Percentile £608 £580 £618
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £587
% change year-on-year +2.50% -14.89% +16.04%

All Cloud 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 231 128 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 33.72% 29.09% 32.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 82 100
10th Percentile £304 £400 £400
25th Percentile £375 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -11.48% +6.81%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £625
90th Percentile £645 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £490 £510
% change year-on-year -0.51% -3.92% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 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
Sheffield -19 13 £488 -15.80% 18
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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
1 10 (76.92%) Entra ID
2 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) GCP
3 8 (61.54%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (61.54%) Azure AKS
3 8 (61.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 7 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
General
1 10 (76.92%) 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 9 (69.23%) Business Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Legal Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) SAML
2 8 (61.54%) JSON
2 8 (61.54%) OAuth
2 8 (61.54%) OpenID
3 6 (46.15%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (46.15%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) GAP Analysis
1 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (69.23%) RBAC
1 9 (69.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Identity Management
2 8 (61.54%) Workshop Facilitation
3 7 (53.85%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (7.69%) Business Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.69%) ERP
5 1 (7.69%) Practice Management
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
3 8 (61.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Alibaba
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft