SaaS Contracts in the East Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 72 68
Rank change year-on-year +24 -4 -20
Contract jobs citing SaaS 16 10 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.07% 0.99% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.69% 3.42% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 20
10th Percentile - £420 £411
25th Percentile - £480 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +6.33% +14.16%
75th Percentile - £588 £586
90th Percentile - £613 £711
England median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £67.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -61.48% +58.82% +112.50%

All Cloud Skills
East 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 East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 208 292 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.94% 28.97% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 221 314
10th Percentile £163 £205 £163
25th Percentile £302 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £503 £563 £525
90th Percentile £638 £700 £634
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 16
10th Percentile - £14.52 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £16.20
Median hourly rate £16.63 £20.00 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -16.85% +5.96% +25.83%
75th Percentile £27.50 £26.48 £24.13
90th Percentile £32.10 £30.00 £31.57
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.25% +51.16% +2.14%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the East Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the East Midlands

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the East Midlands

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Nottinghamshire +21 10 - - 16
Northamptonshire +6 4 £445 -20.89% 4
Derbyshire 0 1 - - 5
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
3 2 (12.50%) IaaS
3 2 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Intacct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) DB2
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
2 10 (62.50%) Legal
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 8 (50.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
1 8 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
1 8 (50.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 8 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Deployment Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) ERP Manager
3 1 (6.25%) ERP Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Facilities Management Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Facilities Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Facilities Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Service Management
2 9 (56.25%) Business Analysis
3 8 (50.00%) Change Management
3 8 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 8 (50.00%) Information Security
3 8 (50.00%) IT Governance
3 8 (50.00%) ITSM
3 8 (50.00%) Migration
3 8 (50.00%) People Management
3 8 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
3 8 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 8 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) API Design
4 4 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
4 4 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Swift
2 4 (25.00%) C
2 4 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) APMP
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 2 (12.50%) PMP
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) Okta
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) Sage