SaaS Contracts in the West Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 92 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing SaaS 24 24 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.61% 1.17% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.18% 4.96% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 36
10th Percentile £369 £305 £369
25th Percentile £503 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £488 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £569 £628 £713
90th Percentile £689 £850 £731
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate £68.60 £26.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +163.83% -59.22% +37.84%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 463 484 816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.14% 23.60% 36.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 358 574
10th Percentile £204 £202 £263
25th Percentile £388 £329 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +0.20%
75th Percentile £597 £611 £609
90th Percentile £674 £688 £700
England median daily rate £516 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 4
10th Percentile £15.27 £14.14 £15.54
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.56 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.74 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +11.17% +6.53%
75th Percentile £34.98 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £45.70 £33.19 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.46 £34.90
% change year-on-year +16.52% -38.51% +62.31%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the West Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the West Midlands

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the West Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the West Midlands

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Warwickshire - 7 £350 - 38
Shropshire - 6 £550 - 470
Birmingham 0 5 £625 +25.00% 417
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 252
Worcestershire +3 1 £800 +185.71% 259
Coventry 0 1 £500 +33.33% 241
Herefordshire - 1 £800 - 1
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (4.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.33%) Boomi
3 2 (8.33%) OCI
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.17%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.33%) Metadata
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (4.17%) IT Finance Manager
5 1 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Operations Support Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Product Manager
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Support
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Django
1 2 (8.33%) MACH
2 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Agile
1 6 (25.00%) Migration
1 6 (25.00%) Observability
1 6 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (12.50%) CRM
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Budget Management
5 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.33%) Data Collection
5 2 (8.33%) Data Governance
5 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (8.33%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) Perl
3 2 (8.33%) R
3 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (12.50%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.33%) BMC
3 2 (8.33%) OpenText
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Ariba
4 1 (4.17%) Concur
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) SAP