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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 54 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 -17 +28
Contract jobs citing SaaS 10 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.57% 0.89% 4.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.98% 2.76% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 20
10th Percentile £405 £486 £560
25th Percentile £406 £521 £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £579 £592
Median % change year-on-year -29.36% -2.11% +33.30%
75th Percentile £500 £580 £610
90th Percentile £555 £580 £620
Yorkshire median daily rate £442 £500 £574
% change year-on-year -11.60% -12.93% +12.04%

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 201 145 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 31.50% 32.37% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 95 116
10th Percentile £280 £270 £409
25th Percentile £358 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £515 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -13.15% +7.82%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £625
90th Percentile £601 £642 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £200.00 £21.50 £21.26
% change year-on-year +830.23% +1.15% -5.53%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -10 10 £409 -29.36% 16
SaaS
Yorkshire

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
1 9 (90.00%) Entra ID
1 9 (90.00%) GCP
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (80.00%) Azure AKS
2 8 (80.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 7 (70.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) SAML
2 8 (80.00%) JSON
2 8 (80.00%) OAuth
2 8 (80.00%) OpenID
3 6 (60.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (60.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) GAP Analysis
1 9 (90.00%) RBAC
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Identity Management
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (80.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 7 (70.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (10.00%) B2B
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (90.00%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (70.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Alibaba
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft