SaaS Contracts in Wales

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 54 67
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 -15
Contract jobs citing SaaS 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.71% 1.02% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 3.45% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £447 £304
25th Percentile £525 £545 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +53.13% -33.33%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £491
90th Percentile - £708 £526
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £75.85 £61.93
% change year-on-year -62.43% +22.49% +44.85%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 124 145 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 29.18% 29.59% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 112 148
10th Percentile £185 £183 £181
25th Percentile £331 £295 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £620
90th Percentile £616 £638 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile £20.58 - £12.27
25th Percentile £21.01 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £26.25 £20.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% +33.33% -30.23%
75th Percentile £31.82 £23.75 £15.75
90th Percentile £35.10 £25.10 £16.61
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +62.79% -

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Wales

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Wales.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Wales

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in Wales

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
South Wales +6 2 £550 -10.20% 8
West Wales +1 1 - - 1
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Skype
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Flutter Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Flutter
1 1 (33.33%) GWT
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Swift
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Genesys
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) VMware