SaaS Contracts in England

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 132 119
Rank change year-on-year -14 -13 +12
Contract jobs citing SaaS 607 987 1,668
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.65% 2.02% 2.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.17% 5.51% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 712 1,265
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £449 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £786 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 8
10th Percentile £23.09 £17.28 -
25th Percentile £25.31 £28.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £72.10 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +55.90% +131.25%
75th Percentile £31.75 £82.37 £67.88
90th Percentile £43.44 £85.23 £82.64
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £72.10 £40.00
% change year-on-year -63.94% +80.26% +185.71%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,745 17,918 26,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.95% 36.59% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,475 13,111 19,842
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 304 351
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +1.84%
75th Percentile £33.25 £65.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in England

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in England

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in England

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in England

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in England

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London -4 339 £525 -8.70% 473
North of England -3 80 £500 -9.09% 180
South East -38 71 £538 +2.38% 166
South West +33 54 £650 +18.18% 83
North West +11 53 £500 -4.76% 122
Midlands +3 43 £500 -5.88% 102
West Midlands -11 26 £510 -5.12% 74
Yorkshire -14 25 £525 -6.67% 49
East Midlands +28 17 £445 -16.24% 28
East of England +2 7 £450 -33.33% 26
North East +14 2 £531 -21.30% 10
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (3.13%) Confluence
2 9 (1.48%) CMS
3 8 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.82%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.49%) WordPress
7 2 (0.33%) Apache
7 2 (0.33%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
7 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.49%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.66%) Workfront
3 3 (0.49%) Maximo
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.49%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.33%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Shopify
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 196 (32.29%) PaaS
2 171 (28.17%) IaaS
3 165 (27.18%) Azure
4 138 (22.73%) AWS
5 54 (8.90%) Cloud Computing
6 39 (6.43%) Serverless
7 36 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.95%) Entra ID
8 24 (3.95%) GCP
9 20 (3.29%) Google Workspace
10 19 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.47%) Power Platform
13 14 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.65%) Amazon S3
15 9 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (1.48%) Nutanix
15 9 (1.48%) OCI
16 8 (1.32%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.25%) Firewall
2 36 (5.93%) LAN
3 34 (5.60%) WAN
4 28 (4.61%) DNS
5 18 (2.97%) VoIP
6 14 (2.31%) DHCP
7 13 (2.14%) PBX
8 12 (1.98%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.81%) NAS
10 10 (1.65%) Network Security
10 10 (1.65%) SAN
10 10 (1.65%) VPN
11 9 (1.48%) Kerberos
12 8 (1.32%) VLAN
13 7 (1.15%) IPsec
14 6 (0.99%) HTTP
14 6 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.82%) HTTPS
15 5 (0.82%) Internet
16 4 (0.66%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.29%) NoSQL
3 15 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.14%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.65%) MySQL
7 9 (1.48%) Power BI
8 8 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.15%) DB2
10 6 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.82%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.66%) Big Data
12 4 (0.66%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.66%) GIS
12 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.49%) OLTP
13 3 (0.49%) QlikView
13 3 (0.49%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 34 (5.60%) JIRA
2 22 (3.62%) Git
3 18 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.14%) TeamCity
5 10 (1.65%) Visual Studio
6 9 (1.48%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.82%) webpack
8 4 (0.66%) GitLab
8 4 (0.66%) Selenium
9 3 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.33%) gulp
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.33%) Postman
10 2 (0.33%) Snyk
10 2 (0.33%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.16%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.16%) JUnit
11 1 (0.16%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.16%) Storybook
General
1 121 (19.93%) Finance
2 116 (19.11%) Social Skills
3 63 (10.38%) Public Sector
4 41 (6.75%) Marketing
5 37 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (5.93%) Legal
7 32 (5.27%) Banking
8 23 (3.79%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.64%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.31%) Retail
11 13 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.15%) Digital Economy
12 7 (1.15%) Games
13 5 (0.82%) Law
13 5 (0.82%) Police
14 4 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.66%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.66%) Local Government
15 3 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 173 (28.50%) Architect
2 65 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
3 64 (10.54%) Developer
4 60 (9.88%) Senior
5 55 (9.06%) Analyst
6 45 (7.41%) Project Manager
7 38 (6.26%) Business Analyst
8 35 (5.77%) Security Architect
9 34 (5.60%) Cloud Architect
9 34 (5.60%) Lead
10 31 (5.11%) Network Architect
11 21 (3.46%) Consultant
12 20 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (3.29%) Senior Architect
13 19 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
13 19 (3.13%) IT Manager
14 17 (2.80%) Senior Security Architect
15 14 (2.31%) Enterprise Architect
16 13 (2.14%) Senior Manager
16 13 (2.14%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.94%) REST
2 26 (4.28%) .NET
3 24 (3.95%) Node.js
3 24 (3.95%) React
4 18 (2.97%) Middleware
5 16 (2.64%) CSS
5 16 (2.64%) HTML
6 14 (2.31%) LDAP
6 14 (2.31%) SAML
6 14 (2.31%) SOAP
7 13 (2.14%) OpenID
8 10 (1.65%) JSON
8 10 (1.65%) OAuth
9 9 (1.48%) Web Services
9 9 (1.48%) XML
10 7 (1.15%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.15%) HTML5
10 7 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (1.15%) Swagger
11 6 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.24%) Data Centre
2 24 (3.95%) Public Cloud
3 21 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.29%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
6 17 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.64%) IoT
7 16 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.31%) Clustering
9 14 (2.31%) Virtual Team
10 13 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
11 12 (1.98%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.48%) Blackberry
12 9 (1.48%) Replication
13 8 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.15%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.41%) Windows
2 37 (6.10%) Linux
3 15 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.65%) Solaris
7 8 (1.32%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.99%) Android
8 6 (0.99%) Unix
9 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (25.21%) Agile
2 80 (13.18%) Migration
3 72 (11.86%) DevOps
4 61 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (9.88%) Roadmaps
6 58 (9.56%) Project Management
7 57 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (8.57%) ERP
9 49 (8.07%) Information Security
10 48 (7.91%) Cloud Security
10 48 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 45 (7.41%) Decision-Making
12 44 (7.25%) Security Architecture
13 43 (7.08%) Business Strategy
14 42 (6.92%) Microservices
15 41 (6.75%) Waterfall
16 40 (6.59%) CI/CD
17 39 (6.43%) Scrum
17 39 (6.43%) Zero Trust
18 37 (6.10%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 49 (8.07%) SQL
2 44 (7.25%) Python
3 36 (5.93%) PowerShell
4 20 (3.29%) Java
4 20 (3.29%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.97%) C#
6 15 (2.47%) Bash
6 15 (2.47%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.65%) Ruby
8 9 (1.48%) C
9 8 (1.32%) Swift
10 7 (1.15%) PHP
11 6 (0.99%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.82%) Go
13 4 (0.66%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.49%) Rust
15 2 (0.33%) Bicep
16 1 (0.16%) C++
16 1 (0.16%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 81 (13.34%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.20%) Degree
3 44 (7.25%) DV Cleared
4 39 (6.43%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.46%) PMP
6 17 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.31%) APMP
8 12 (1.98%) CISSP
9 10 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.32%) CISM
11 8 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.15%) HND
12 7 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.99%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.99%) CCNP
14 5 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.66%) GIAC
16 3 (0.49%) CCIE
16 3 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.27%) QA
2 22 (3.62%) GDPR
2 22 (3.62%) NIST
3 10 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.82%) PMO
6 5 (0.82%) SLA
7 4 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.16%) COPPA
10 1 (0.16%) GLBA
10 1 (0.16%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 44 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.94%) Docker
3 22 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.66%) Firmware
5 4 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.16%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (7.91%) Terraform
2 33 (5.44%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.80%) Ansible
3 17 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (1.32%) Netcool
5 8 (1.32%) Tivoli
5 8 (1.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (0.82%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.49%) SCCM
8 2 (0.33%) Grafana
9 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.16%) Puppet
9 1 (0.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 138 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 80 (13.18%) Oracle
3 43 (7.08%) Google
4 36 (5.93%) Salesforce
5 32 (5.27%) Cisco
6 29 (4.78%) ServiceNow
7 28 (4.61%) SAP
8 25 (4.12%) VMware
9 20 (3.29%) IBM
10 18 (2.97%) Okta
11 17 (2.80%) HP
12 12 (1.98%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.98%) Splunk
13 11 (1.81%) Avaya
13 11 (1.81%) Dell
13 11 (1.81%) Juniper
13 11 (1.81%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.81%) Workday
14 9 (1.48%) Ericsson
14 9 (1.48%) Nokia