SaaS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 88 86
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 -14
Contract jobs citing SaaS 37 59 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.42% 2.10% 2.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.20% 6.95% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 47 75
10th Percentile £425 £440 £294
25th Percentile £463 £480 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -4.55% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £650
90th Percentile £639 £757 £656
South East median daily rate £538 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +2.38% -10.64% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £20.45 - -
25th Percentile £27.13 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £13.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +196.15% -74.00% -
75th Percentile £50.13 - £52.50
90th Percentile £56.95 - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £18.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.11% -63.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 712 849 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.34% 30.16% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 618 858
10th Percentile £275 £300 £185
25th Percentile £413 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +2.99%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 16
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.25 £12.05
25th Percentile £19.37 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% +19.05% -0.24%
75th Percentile £59.95 £56.50 £33.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £73.95
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.27% +14.29% -2.44%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 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
Berkshire -17 30 £538 -10.42% 38
Buckinghamshire +15 4 £568 +18.16% 29
Oxfordshire +2 3 £465 +3.33% 24
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) PaaS
2 12 (32.43%) IaaS
3 10 (27.03%) AWS
3 10 (27.03%) Azure
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (13.51%) Azure API Management
6 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.41%) Google Workspace
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.70%) GCP
9 1 (2.70%) Google App Engine
9 1 (2.70%) Serverless
9 1 (2.70%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) VPN
2 3 (8.11%) Network Security
3 2 (5.41%) DNS
3 2 (5.41%) Firewall
3 2 (5.41%) LAN
3 2 (5.41%) WAN
3 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Legal
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
5 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Architect
2 4 (10.81%) Lead
2 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Procurement Officer
3 3 (8.11%) Ruby Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Senior Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Integration Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Product Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
2 3 (8.11%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (8.11%) Web Services
3 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.70%) gRPC
3 1 (2.70%) J2EE
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) OAuth
3 1 (2.70%) OpenID
3 1 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) SOAP
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) IVR
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Life Science
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Agile
2 10 (27.03%) Migration
3 8 (21.62%) DevSecOps
3 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (18.92%) DevOps
5 6 (16.22%) API Management
5 6 (16.22%) Cloud Security
5 6 (16.22%) High Availability
5 6 (16.22%) Microservices
5 6 (16.22%) Network Architecture
5 6 (16.22%) Performance Management
6 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (13.51%) Data Protection
6 5 (13.51%) Security Architecture
7 4 (10.81%) Creative Thinking
7 4 (10.81%) Cryptography
7 4 (10.81%) Information Security
7 4 (10.81%) ITSM
7 4 (10.81%) Key Management
7 4 (10.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Ruby
2 4 (10.81%) C#
2 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) PHP
3 3 (8.11%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
1 6 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.41%) SCCM
4 1 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.62%) Oracle
3 7 (18.92%) VMware
4 5 (13.51%) Citrix
4 5 (13.51%) HP
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco
5 2 (5.41%) Google
5 2 (5.41%) Meraki
6 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.70%) Workday