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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 64 51
Rank change year-on-year -24 -13 -12
Contract jobs citing SaaS 14 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.23% 1.75% 1.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.34% 5.91% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £461 £402 £436
25th Percentile £484 £405 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £408 £580
Median % change year-on-year +29.94% -29.68% -3.86%
75th Percentile £584 £488 £595
90th Percentile £630 £548 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £565 £442 £513
% change year-on-year +27.83% -13.76% -8.89%

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 419 186 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.79% 29.52% 34.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 142 108
10th Percentile £355 £297 £221
25th Percentile £449 £358 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £473 £506
Median % change year-on-year +8.99% -6.62% -14.67%
75th Percentile £594 £548 £588
90th Percentile £688 £635 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £62.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.91% +197.14% -1.20%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -26 14 £530 +29.94% 12
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 (21.43%) GCP
1 3 (21.43%) PaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Gatling
1 2 (14.29%) JMeter
1 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
1 2 (14.29%) NeoLoad
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Product Owner
2 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Test Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Change Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Design Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) CCTV
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Roadmaps
1 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (21.43%) Architecture Roadmap
5 3 (21.43%) Budget Management
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
5 3 (21.43%) Technology Transformation
5 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
6 2 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (14.29%) GitOps
6 2 (14.29%) Observability
6 2 (14.29%) Product Backlog
6 2 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Cypher
2 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 2 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow