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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 35 34
Rank change year-on-year -47 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing SaaS 11 3 24
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.40% 1.09% 5.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.48% 4.05% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 21
10th Percentile £372 - £585
25th Percentile £468 - £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £590
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -32.20% +31.11%
75th Percentile £538 - £610
90th Percentile £565 - £619
Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +29.69% -30.43% +4.55%

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 316 74 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 40.25% 26.91% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 49 87
10th Percentile £309 £343 £340
25th Percentile £404 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £510 £561
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -9.09% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £609
90th Percentile £613 £680 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £54.00 £41.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year +31.71% - +64.00%

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 January 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 January 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 -42 11 £513 +28.13% 37
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) IaaS
3 3 (27.27%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DHCP
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
1 6 (54.55%) Postman
1 6 (54.55%) Selenium
2 5 (45.45%) Cucumber
2 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 5 (45.45%) REST Assured
2 5 (45.45%) TestRail
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
3 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
3 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Law
1 2 (18.18%) Legal
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
1 4 (36.36%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Test Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Legal Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) LDAP
1 6 (54.55%) OpenID
1 6 (54.55%) REST
1 6 (54.55%) SailPoint
2 5 (45.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (54.55%) API Testing
2 6 (54.55%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (54.55%) ETL
2 6 (54.55%) GitOps
2 6 (54.55%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (54.55%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) BDD
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Manual Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 5 (45.45%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (45.45%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
3 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) PHP
2 5 (45.45%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft