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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 57 55
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing SaaS 16 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.36% 0.46% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.39% 1.63% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 4
10th Percentile £375 £408 £426
25th Percentile £438 £419 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.28% -20.37%
75th Percentile £558 £494 £600
90th Percentile £586 £513 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £497 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.60% -4.76% -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 472 123 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 40.10% 28.15% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 95 102
10th Percentile £366 £262 £210
25th Percentile £431 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £503
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% +1.94% -8.70%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £584
90th Percentile £674 £650 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -37 16 £500 +11.11% 21
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 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
1 6 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (18.75%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
1 6 (37.50%) Postman
1 6 (37.50%) Selenium
2 5 (31.25%) Cucumber
2 5 (31.25%) GitLab
2 5 (31.25%) REST Assured
2 5 (31.25%) TestRail
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
3 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
3 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Product Owner
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Banking Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Design Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) LDAP
1 6 (37.50%) OpenID
1 6 (37.50%) REST
1 6 (37.50%) SailPoint
2 5 (31.25%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) CCTV
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
1 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (37.50%) API Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (37.50%) ETL
2 6 (37.50%) GitOps
2 6 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 6 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 5 (31.25%) BDD
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Manual Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 5 (31.25%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (31.25%) TDD
3 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
3 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) PHP
2 5 (31.25%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft