SaaS Contracts in the North West

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 98 76
Rank change year-on-year +10 -22 +29
Contract jobs citing SaaS 54 63 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.02% 2.05% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.30% 5.49% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 50 92
10th Percentile £383 £425 £313
25th Percentile £413 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £607
90th Percentile £623 £676 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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
North West

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 North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 857 1,148 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.13% 37.39% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 850 1,071
10th Percentile £284 £313 £230
25th Percentile £393 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £651 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 33 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.81 £14.63
25th Percentile - £16.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £24.03
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +45.67% +32.31%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £60.40 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester +11 34 £500 -4.76% 97
Cheshire -4 8 £445 -21.24% 28
Merseyside +17 6 £425 -19.05% 4
Lancashire +5 1 £475 -29.63% 7
Cumbria - 1 £500 -
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) SAP Business ByDesign
1 1 (1.85%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) IaaS
1 23 (42.59%) PaaS
2 20 (37.04%) Azure
3 11 (20.37%) AWS
4 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.41%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.70%) Miro
6 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) BigCommerce
7 1 (1.85%) GCP
7 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Network Security
2 2 (3.70%) BGP
2 2 (3.70%) OSPF
2 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.85%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) DB2
1 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.85%) MySQL
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.85%) ESLint
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) Selenium
2 1 (1.85%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (16.67%) Finance
2 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Legal
5 3 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Billing
7 1 (1.85%) Military
7 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Architect
2 9 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (12.96%) Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.41%) Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (5.56%) React Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Full Stack Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Consultant
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Developer
8 1 (1.85%) Digital Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) PMO Planning Manager
8 1 (1.85%) PMO Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) React
2 6 (11.11%) .NET
3 3 (5.56%) Middleware
3 3 (5.56%) Node.js
3 3 (5.56%) REST
4 2 (3.70%) HTML
4 2 (3.70%) Redux
5 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.85%) CSS
5 1 (1.85%) Django
5 1 (1.85%) Express.js
5 1 (1.85%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.85%) HTML5
5 1 (1.85%) Jest
5 1 (1.85%) koa
5 1 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.85%) Laravel
5 1 (1.85%) React Native
5 1 (1.85%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (7.41%) Virtual Team
2 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.56%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) CMDB
4 1 (1.85%) Digital Signage
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Windows
2 5 (9.26%) Android
2 5 (9.26%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.56%) Linux
3 3 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) Agile
2 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (12.96%) Waterfall
4 6 (11.11%) Architectural Design
4 6 (11.11%) DevOps
4 6 (11.11%) Information Security
4 6 (11.11%) Project Management
5 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (9.26%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
5 5 (9.26%) Microservices
5 5 (9.26%) Migration
5 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (9.26%) Risk Management
5 5 (9.26%) SDLC
5 5 (9.26%) TOGAF
6 4 (7.41%) Containerisation
6 4 (7.41%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.26%) Java
2 3 (5.56%) C
2 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.70%) PHP
3 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.70%) Python
4 1 (1.85%) C#
4 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) APMP
3 4 (7.41%) CISSP
3 4 (7.41%) PMI Certification
3 4 (7.41%) PMP
4 3 (5.56%) CISM
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) QA
2 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.85%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 5 (9.26%) Google
4 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.70%) SAP
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco
7 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.85%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.85%) Remedy
7 1 (1.85%) Sophos
7 1 (1.85%) VMware
7 1 (1.85%) Workday