SaaS Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 61 53
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing SaaS 10 7 31
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.09% 0.99% 2.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.60% 2.19% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 19
10th Percentile £455 - £420
25th Percentile £521 £350 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £575
90th Percentile £680 £760 £590
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £450 £587
% change year-on-year +16.67% -23.40% +6.81%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 385 320 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 41.98% 45.45% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 210 263
10th Percentile £315 £330 £281
25th Percentile £400 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £600
90th Percentile £625 £713 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.79% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile - £20.67 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% -33.87% +175.56%
75th Percentile £21.50 £99.32 -
90th Percentile £97.25 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £38.43 £34.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year +12.20% +71.25% -11.11%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

SaaS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in West Yorkshire

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Leeds -10 8 £575 +9.52% 18
SaaS
Yorkshire

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Magento
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) AtomSphere
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Boomi
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) DigitalOcean
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 2 (20.00%) SAP Programme Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Science Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Science Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal PHP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior SAP Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) SOAP
1 2 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) Laravel
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) Groovy
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Ariba
2 1 (10.00%) BMC
2 1 (10.00%) Concur
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) DocuSign
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft