SaaS Contracts in the City of London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 93 96 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 -16 +22
Contract jobs citing SaaS 34 86 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.53% 2.34% 3.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.95% 6.14% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 64 106
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £481 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £619
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -3.03% +7.61%
75th Percentile £619 £785 £710
90th Percentile £713 £882 £850
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £619
% change year-on-year -12.50% -3.03% +16.75%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 860 1,400 1,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.77% 38.16% 42.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 948 1,453
10th Percentile £363 £322 £410
25th Percentile £429 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £663 £708 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.96% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £29.23 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £47.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -72.99% +383.78% -7.43%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £57.30 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £17.22
% change year-on-year -66.67% +292.04% -26.58%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (2.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Solr
1 1 (2.94%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (2.94%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) IaaS
2 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) PaaS
3 7 (20.59%) AWS
4 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub
7 1 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (2.94%) Akamai
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.94%) Boomi
7 1 (2.94%) OCI
7 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) DHCP
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) Internet
2 1 (2.94%) Intranet
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) GitLab
2 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Billing
6 1 (2.94%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Local Government
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Architect
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Product Owner
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Product Owner
4 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Full Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Solution Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Customer Executive
7 1 (2.94%) Development Director
7 1 (2.94%) Digital Executive
7 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) JSON
1 2 (5.88%) Middleware
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (5.88%) React
1 2 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (2.94%) HTML
2 1 (2.94%) HTML5
2 1 (2.94%) Kafka
2 1 (2.94%) LDAP
2 1 (2.94%) Node.js
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) SAML
2 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) BYOD
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) FMCG
3 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
1 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Agile
2 8 (23.53%) Customer Experience
2 8 (23.53%) Microservices
3 7 (20.59%) Scrum
4 6 (17.65%) Information Security
4 6 (17.65%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (14.71%) Analytics
5 5 (14.71%) Budget Management
5 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (14.71%) DevOps
5 5 (14.71%) Kanban
5 5 (14.71%) Product Vision
6 4 (11.76%) Business Case
6 4 (11.76%) Change Management
6 4 (11.76%) Data Modelling
6 4 (11.76%) Objectives and Key Results
6 4 (11.76%) Product Management
6 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) C#
2 2 (5.88%) Java
2 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.94%) Go
3 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) CISM
2 1 (2.94%) CISSP
2 1 (2.94%) CRISC
2 1 (2.94%) ISEB
2 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
3 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Okta
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) Ping Identity
3 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.88%) Adobe
4 2 (5.88%) Rapid7
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Dell
5 1 (2.94%) New Relic
5 1 (2.94%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow