SaaS Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Software as a Service (SaaS)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 30 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing SaaS 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.64% 0.82% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 4.76% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £484 £428 -
25th Percentile £516 £461 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £531 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -21.30% +14.89%
75th Percentile £588 £611 -
90th Percentile £685 £649 -
North East median daily rate £534 £531 £675
% change year-on-year +0.52% -21.30% +14.89%

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 94 42 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 38.52% 17.28% 50.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 25 136
10th Percentile £325 £170 £350
25th Percentile £412 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £571
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -16.50% +8.81%
75th Percentile £611 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £775
North East median daily rate £484 £453 £565
% change year-on-year +6.79% -19.82% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £13.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
% change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Tyne and Wear

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Tyne and Wear

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Tyne and Wear

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -7 4 £534 +0.52% 35
SaaS
North East

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Project Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Project Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (50.00%) CRISC
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft