SaaS Contracts in the South East

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 86 100
Rank change year-on-year -38 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing SaaS 72 150 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.30% 2.60% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.38% 8.71% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 117 132
10th Percentile £400 £400 £355
25th Percentile £450 £470 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £641 £813 £784
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £20.45 £13.95 -
25th Percentile £27.13 £15.38 £47.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £18.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.11% -63.00% -
75th Percentile £50.13 £62.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £56.95 £88.05 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £72.10 £46.25
% change year-on-year -63.94% +55.90% +131.25%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,338 1,722 2,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.23% 29.81% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 1,249 1,800
10th Percentile £250 £252 £200
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 61
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.03 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.08 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +9.62% -4.32%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Thames Valley -12 39 £534 +1.67% 81
Berkshire -16 30 £530 -15.20% 32
Surrey +12 19 £550 +19.57% 38
Hampshire -28 6 £615 +4.24% 33
Buckinghamshire +14 5 £560 +16.67% 26
Oxfordshire 0 4 £458 +1.67% 23
Kent +1 3 £400 -20.00% 5
West Sussex +7 2 £600 -2.04% 2
East Sussex +2 2 £650 -21.21% 6
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.78%) Confluence
1 2 (2.78%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) PaaS
2 17 (23.61%) Azure
2 17 (23.61%) IaaS
3 13 (18.06%) AWS
4 7 (9.72%) Amazon S3
5 6 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.94%) Azure API Management
6 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (4.17%) Google Workspace
7 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.78%) Stripe
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.39%) Cloud Run
9 1 (1.39%) GCP
9 1 (1.39%) Google App Engine
9 1 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) VPN
2 4 (5.56%) 5G
2 4 (5.56%) Broadband
3 3 (4.17%) DNS
3 3 (4.17%) Network Security
4 2 (2.78%) Firewall
4 2 (2.78%) LAN
4 2 (2.78%) WAN
4 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.39%) MPLS
5 1 (1.39%) PBX
5 1 (1.39%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.56%) GIS
3 2 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.78%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) JIRA
2 4 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Finance
3 7 (9.72%) Legal
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Law
5 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Retail
7 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) Developer
2 11 (15.28%) Project Manager
3 7 (9.72%) Analyst
3 7 (9.72%) Integration Developer
4 6 (8.33%) Lead
5 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Security Specialist
5 5 (6.94%) Senior
6 4 (5.56%) Architect
6 4 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.56%) Consultant
6 4 (5.56%) Penetration Tester
6 4 (5.56%) Security Penetration Tester
6 4 (5.56%) Security Tester
6 4 (5.56%) Tester
6 4 (5.56%) Testing Specialist
6 4 (5.56%) Web Developer
7 3 (4.17%) ERP Manager
7 3 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (4.17%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Web Services
2 6 (8.33%) .NET
3 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.17%) REST
4 3 (4.17%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (2.78%) CSS
5 2 (2.78%) Flask
5 2 (2.78%) OpenLayers
5 2 (2.78%) PostGIS
5 2 (2.78%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.39%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.39%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.39%) gRPC
6 1 (1.39%) HTML
6 1 (1.39%) HTML5
6 1 (1.39%) OpenID
6 1 (1.39%) SOAP
6 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Mobile App
1 5 (6.94%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.17%) Life Science
2 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.78%) Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.33%) Agile
2 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (15.28%) DevOps
3 11 (15.28%) Project Management
4 10 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (13.89%) Migration
5 9 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 8 (11.11%) ERP
6 8 (11.11%) Scrum
7 7 (9.72%) Batch Processing
7 7 (9.72%) Microservices
7 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (8.33%) API Management
8 6 (8.33%) Cloud Security
8 6 (8.33%) DevSecOps
8 6 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (8.33%) High Availability
8 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (8.33%) Network Architecture
8 6 (8.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.33%) Ruby
3 5 (6.94%) C#
3 5 (6.94%) Python
4 4 (5.56%) SQL
5 3 (4.17%) Java
5 3 (4.17%) PHP
6 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.56%) CREST Certified
2 4 (5.56%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) GIAC
2 4 (5.56%) GPEN
2 4 (5.56%) OSCP
2 4 (5.56%) SANS
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) PMP
5 1 (1.39%) APMP
5 1 (1.39%) CCNA
5 1 (1.39%) CCSP
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.39%) CISSP
5 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) ISSEP
5 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.56%) GDPR
2 4 (5.56%) NCSC
3 3 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (1.39%) GxP
4 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Docker
2 7 (9.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.78%) SCCM
4 1 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.39%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) Oracle
3 8 (11.11%) VMware
4 7 (9.72%) Guidewire
5 6 (8.33%) Citrix
5 6 (8.33%) HP
6 4 (5.56%) Virgin Media
7 3 (4.17%) Google
7 3 (4.17%) Sage
8 2 (2.78%) Cisco
8 2 (2.78%) Meraki
9 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.39%) OneTrust
9 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.39%) SAP
9 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.39%) Splunk
9 1 (1.39%) Workday