SaaS Contracts in Reading

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 51 51
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 -19
Contract jobs citing SaaS 23 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.94% 3.46% 3.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.23% 11.25% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 43
10th Percentile £425 £511 £191
25th Percentile £463 £533 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% - +2.17%
75th Percentile £600 £680 £650
90th Percentile £615 £773 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £530 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -9.79% +6.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £13.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +369.23% -74.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 369 320 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 31.17% 30.74% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 247 335
10th Percentile £380 £413 £184
25th Percentile £489 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £560 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £619
90th Percentile £688 £725 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £56.50 £38.59 £13.20
25th Percentile £56.58 £53.00 £18.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £75.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.78% +211.34% -59.58%
75th Percentile £59.95 £79.19 £33.00
90th Percentile £60.61 - £44.70
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £33.50 £21.78
% change year-on-year +74.03% +53.85% +3.44%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Reading

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Reading

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Reading

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in Reading

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (4.35%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) PaaS
2 5 (21.74%) IaaS
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Azure API Management
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) 5G
1 5 (21.74%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (21.74%) Law
1 5 (21.74%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Legal
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Penetration Tester
1 5 (21.74%) Security Penetration Tester
1 5 (21.74%) Security Specialist
1 5 (21.74%) Security Tester
1 5 (21.74%) Tester
1 5 (21.74%) Testing Specialist
2 3 (13.04%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Procurement Officer
2 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Ruby Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) Senior Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Procurement Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Web Services
2 3 (13.04%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth
3 1 (4.35%) OpenID
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (47.83%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Application Security
3 6 (26.09%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (26.09%) Performance Management
3 6 (26.09%) Security Testing
4 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (21.74%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 5 (21.74%) OWASP
5 3 (13.04%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) Waterfall
6 2 (8.70%) Application Discovery
6 2 (8.70%) Business Case
6 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) Project Management
6 2 (8.70%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Ruby
2 1 (4.35%) C#
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) CREST Certified
1 5 (21.74%) GIAC
1 5 (21.74%) GPEN
1 5 (21.74%) OSCP
1 5 (21.74%) SANS
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
1 5 (21.74%) NCSC
1 5 (21.74%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (26.09%) Citrix
3 6 (26.09%) HP
4 5 (21.74%) Virgin Media
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce