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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 79 93
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 -23
Contract jobs citing SaaS 26 52 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.34% 2.31% 2.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 6.37% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 62
10th Percentile £313 £368 £364
25th Percentile £394 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £644 £713 £658
90th Percentile £850 £731 £736
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
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 £67.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -61.48% +58.82% +203.57%

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 463 816 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.80% 36.28% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 572 892
10th Percentile £207 £277 £216
25th Percentile £346 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 17
10th Percentile £14.14 £15.54 £12.60
25th Percentile £15.56 £15.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +12.44% +22.03%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.51
90th Percentile £33.19 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +1 14 £500 -13.04% 35
Coventry +13 3 £375 -46.43% 8
Worcestershire +6 1 £280 -25.33% 4
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 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Maximo
1 3 (11.54%) SAP ERP
2 2 (7.69%) NetSuite
3 1 (3.85%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (3.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
1 6 (23.08%) IaaS
1 6 (23.08%) PaaS
2 3 (11.54%) Google Workspace
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) Boomi
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) VoIP
2 1 (3.85%) Internet
2 1 (3.85%) IPsec
2 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Legal
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) ERP Manager
2 3 (11.54%) ERP Project Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Facilities Management Project Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Facilities Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Facilities Project Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) QA Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) JSON
1 2 (7.69%) REST
1 2 (7.69%) SOAP
1 2 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
2 1 (3.85%) WSDL
2 1 (3.85%) XSD
2 1 (3.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (11.54%) Virtual Team
2 2 (7.69%) IVR
2 2 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) ERP
3 4 (15.38%) Facilities Management
3 4 (15.38%) Service Management
3 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (11.54%) Asset Management
4 3 (11.54%) CAFM
4 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (11.54%) CRM
4 3 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) EAM
4 3 (11.54%) IT Strategy
4 3 (11.54%) Project Management
4 3 (11.54%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (11.54%) WFM
5 2 (7.69%) Business Strategy
5 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 2 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) C#
2 1 (3.85%) Groovy
2 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) PMI Certification
2 4 (15.38%) PMP
3 3 (11.54%) APMP
4 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Salesforce
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 4 (15.38%) SAP
3 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 3 (11.54%) Google
4 3 (11.54%) Sage
5 2 (7.69%) Genesys
5 2 (7.69%) Workday
6 1 (3.85%) Citrix
6 1 (3.85%) HubSpot
6 1 (3.85%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (3.85%) Snow