SaaS Contracts in the West Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 85 93
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -33
Contract jobs citing SaaS 27 62 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.40% 2.55% 2.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.84% 6.70% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 68
10th Percentile £363 £360 £379
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% +17.33%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £756 £731 £741
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £72.10 £50.00
% change year-on-year -63.94% +44.21% +92.31%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 462 926 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.00% 38.12% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 649 905
10th Percentile £213 £313 £228
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £505 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +3.06% +15.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £683 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.64 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.95 £16.23 £15.04
Median hourly rate £26.00 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.73% +1.26% +12.90%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.00 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.13 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.97 £29.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -28.92% +40.48% -2.33%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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
Birmingham -15 12 £488 -2.50% 33
Coventry +14 4 £463 -33.93% 6
Staffordshire +5 1 £625 +13.64% 1
Walsall - 1 £250 -
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:

Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Maximo
1 3 (11.11%) SAP ERP
1 3 (11.11%) Workday HCM
2 2 (7.41%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (3.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
1 8 (29.63%) IaaS
1 8 (29.63%) PaaS
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Google Workspace
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Boomi
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) VoIP
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.70%) Internet
2 1 (3.70%) IPsec
2 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.70%) SSL
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) MySQL
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Fiddler
1 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Legal
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Lead
2 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) ERP Manager
3 3 (11.11%) ERP Project Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Facilities Management Project Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Facilities Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Facilities Project Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Data Migration Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) JSON
1 2 (7.41%) REST
1 2 (7.41%) SOAP
1 2 (7.41%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Web Services
2 1 (3.70%) WSDL
2 1 (3.70%) XSD
2 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 2 (7.41%) IVR
2 2 (7.41%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Agile
2 5 (18.52%) ERP
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps
3 4 (14.81%) Facilities Management
3 4 (14.81%) Migration
3 4 (14.81%) Service Management
3 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 3 (11.11%) Business Transformation
4 3 (11.11%) CAFM
4 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (11.11%) CRM
4 3 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 3 (11.11%) EAM
4 3 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 3 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (7.41%) Business Strategy
5 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
5 2 (7.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) C#
2 1 (3.70%) Groovy
2 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) PHP
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) PMI Certification
2 4 (14.81%) PMP
3 3 (11.11%) APMP
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) Salesforce
3 4 (14.81%) SAP
4 3 (11.11%) Google
4 3 (11.11%) Sage
4 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (11.11%) Workday
5 2 (7.41%) Genesys
5 2 (7.41%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (3.70%) Citrix
6 1 (3.70%) HubSpot
6 1 (3.70%) Zscaler