SaaS Contracts in Edinburgh

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 86 87
Rank change year-on-year +41 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing SaaS 26 27 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.21% 2.09% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.47% 5.39% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 25
10th Percentile £463 £465 £418
25th Percentile £494 £496 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -1.26% +8.68%
75th Percentile £654 £613 £675
90th Percentile £778 £650 £723
Scotland median daily rate £594 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +13.10% -8.70% +15.00%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 307 501 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.95% 38.84% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 387 424
10th Percentile £298 £260 £308
25th Percentile £414 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - +5.79%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £580
90th Percentile £688 £618 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £15.80 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £19.83
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -39.93% -
75th Percentile £17.50 - £40.56
90th Percentile £17.61 - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) PaaS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) OCI
3 7 (26.92%) IaaS
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Akamai
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.85%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) IPsec
1 3 (11.54%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
1 2 (7.69%) Subversion
1 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
1 2 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (69.23%) Public Sector
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Finance
4 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Back Office
5 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Administrator
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Cloud Administrator
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (11.54%) REST
2 3 (11.54%) SOAP
3 2 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Migration
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) ERP
3 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (23.08%) Analytics
4 6 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 5 (19.23%) Data Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.54%) Data Mapping
7 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
7 3 (11.54%) DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) Integration Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
7 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Java
2 2 (7.69%) C#
2 2 (7.69%) C++
2 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) VBA
2 2 (7.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) ISEB
2 4 (15.38%) ISTQB
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Okta
4 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 2 (7.69%) Informatica
5 1 (3.85%) Cognos