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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 71 55
Rank change year-on-year -20 -16 -26
Contract jobs citing SaaS 11 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.96% 1.49% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.63% 4.52% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 3
10th Percentile £460 £405 £486
25th Percentile £472 £406 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £579
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -29.36% -1.86%
75th Percentile £551 £500 £580
90th Percentile £600 £555 £580
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -14.89%

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 418 221 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.44% 32.89% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 161 95
10th Percentile £362 £312 £400
25th Percentile £444 £384 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -6.13% -11.47%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £606
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -90.50% +852.38% -6.71%

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
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 9 October 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 -32 9 £500 +22.25% 23
Doncaster - 2 £490 - 7
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Datadog
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Gatling
1 2 (18.18%) JMeter
1 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
1 2 (18.18%) NeoLoad
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Test Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Change Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
1 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) CCTV
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Housing Association
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 2 (18.18%) GitOps
5 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Runbook
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Cypher
2 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
1 1 (9.09%) PMP
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) AppDynamics
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian