SaaS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 138 128
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -3
Contract jobs citing SaaS 293 412 632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.42% 1.81% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.50% 5.52% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 299 458
10th Percentile £384 £400 £360
25th Percentile £433 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £675 £751 £714
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile - £15.38 £42.43
25th Percentile £25.50 £22.06 £45.69
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -44.22% +64.05%
75th Percentile £26.50 £70.24 £82.24
90th Percentile - £93.62 £85.83
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £67.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -61.48% +68.75% +185.71%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,330 7,465 9,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.75% 32.74% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,768 5,497 7,344
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +10.86%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £590
90th Percentile £675 £689 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 222 281
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.02 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.68 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% +36.75% -
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £37.25 £22.40
% change year-on-year -42.63% +66.29% +0.67%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
North of England +2 81 £500 -9.09% 200
South East -40 74 £530 +4.18% 159
South West +32 54 £650 +18.18% 73
North West +13 51 £500 -6.98% 146
Midlands +2 43 £475 -13.64% 101
Scotland +20 38 £506 -3.57% 31
Yorkshire -8 28 £525 -9.72% 44
West Midlands -10 26 £500 -9.09% 72
East Midlands +19 17 £445 -15.24% 29
East of England -6 7 £450 -20.35% 40
Wales +18 2 £500 +17.65% 13
North East +6 2 £531 -21.30% 12
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (1.37%) Confluence
2 2 (0.68%) ColdFusion
2 2 (0.68%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.34%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.34%) SAS
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.37%) Sketch
5 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.02%) Maximo
2 3 (1.02%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.34%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.34%) Relativity
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.34%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 111 (37.88%) PaaS
2 89 (30.38%) IaaS
3 74 (25.26%) Azure
4 57 (19.45%) AWS
5 36 (12.29%) Cloud Computing
6 21 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (4.10%) Google Workspace
8 9 (3.07%) Entra ID
8 9 (3.07%) OCI
9 8 (2.73%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.73%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.71%) Figma
11 5 (1.71%) GCP
12 4 (1.37%) Azure API Management
12 4 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.37%) Miro
13 3 (1.02%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.58%) WAN
2 29 (9.90%) LAN
3 17 (5.80%) VoIP
4 16 (5.46%) PBX
5 9 (3.07%) Network Security
5 9 (3.07%) VPN
6 6 (2.05%) DNS
7 4 (1.37%) IPsec
7 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.02%) Firewall
9 2 (0.68%) BGP
9 2 (0.68%) IP Telephony
9 2 (0.68%) OSPF
9 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.68%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.68%) Wireless
10 1 (0.34%) MPLS
10 1 (0.34%) NaaS
10 1 (0.34%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.71%) Power BI
4 4 (1.37%) DB2
4 4 (1.37%) GIS
4 4 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.02%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.68%) MySQL
6 2 (0.68%) QlikView
6 2 (0.68%) Sisense
7 1 (0.34%) Metadata
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.34%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 14 (4.78%) JIRA
2 9 (3.07%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (1.71%) Git
4 4 (1.37%) Selenium
4 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.02%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.68%) Subversion
6 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.68%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.34%) ESLint
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) MSI
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 60 (20.48%) Public Sector
2 51 (17.41%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.31%) Finance
4 31 (10.58%) Legal
5 20 (6.83%) Telecoms
6 17 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.07%) Banking
7 9 (3.07%) Retail
8 7 (2.39%) Digital Economy
8 7 (2.39%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.39%) Marketing
9 6 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Back Office
12 2 (0.68%) Electronics
12 2 (0.68%) Games
12 2 (0.68%) Law
13 1 (0.34%) Automotive
13 1 (0.34%) Billing
13 1 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 83 (28.33%) Architect
2 45 (15.36%) Developer
3 32 (10.92%) Solutions Architect
4 27 (9.22%) Network Architect
5 25 (8.53%) Analyst
6 24 (8.19%) Project Manager
7 16 (5.46%) IT Manager
8 15 (5.12%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.12%) Senior
9 14 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.75%) Service Manager
11 10 (3.41%) Lead
12 9 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
13 8 (2.73%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (2.73%) Consultant
13 8 (2.73%) ERP Manager
13 8 (2.73%) ERP Project Manager
13 8 (2.73%) IT Services Delivery Manager
13 8 (2.73%) IT Services Manager
13 8 (2.73%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.46%) .NET
2 14 (4.78%) REST
3 13 (4.44%) React
4 9 (3.07%) Middleware
4 9 (3.07%) Web Services
5 6 (2.05%) CSS
5 6 (2.05%) HTML
5 6 (2.05%) SOAP
6 5 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.37%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (1.37%) Visualforce
8 3 (1.02%) Flask
8 3 (1.02%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.02%) JSON
8 3 (1.02%) Node.js
8 3 (1.02%) RESTful
8 3 (1.02%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.68%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.68%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.58%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.46%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (3.41%) Blackberry
3 10 (3.41%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.07%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.07%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.05%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.71%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.37%) IVR
8 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.17%) Apple iOS
2 16 (5.46%) Windows
3 12 (4.10%) Android
4 6 (2.05%) Linux
5 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.02%) Unix
7 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (25.94%) Agile
2 45 (15.36%) Migration
3 39 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (12.29%) Zero Trust
6 34 (11.60%) Open Source
7 32 (10.92%) ERP
8 31 (10.58%) Network Management
8 31 (10.58%) Waterfall
9 30 (10.24%) Roadmaps
10 29 (9.90%) Business Strategy
10 29 (9.90%) DevOps
10 29 (9.90%) Service Management
11 28 (9.56%) Project Management
12 22 (7.51%) Business Analysis
12 22 (7.51%) Service Delivery
13 21 (7.17%) Decision-Making
13 21 (7.17%) ITIL
13 21 (7.17%) Scrum
14 20 (6.83%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.17%) SQL
2 14 (4.78%) Java
3 11 (3.75%) JavaScript
3 11 (3.75%) Python
4 10 (3.41%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.41%) Swift
5 9 (3.07%) C#
6 8 (2.73%) PHP
7 6 (2.05%) Ruby
7 6 (2.05%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.37%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.37%) C
9 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.68%) C++
10 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.68%) VBA
10 2 (0.68%) VBScript
11 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.34%) JCL
11 1 (0.34%) REXX
Qualifications
1 57 (19.45%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.99%) DV Cleared
3 32 (10.92%) Degree
4 20 (6.83%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.44%) PMP
6 11 (3.75%) PMI Certification
7 10 (3.41%) APMP
8 8 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (2.39%) HND
10 5 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.71%) CISSP
11 4 (1.37%) CCNP
11 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.37%) ISEB
11 4 (1.37%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.02%) CISM
13 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.75%) QA
2 5 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.68%) GxP
4 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (4.10%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.07%) Docker
4 6 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.37%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (2.73%) Kubernetes
1 8 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.05%) Terraform
4 2 (0.68%) SCCM
5 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.34%) OMEGAMON
5 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 69 (23.55%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.97%) Oracle
3 27 (9.22%) Google
4 18 (6.14%) Salesforce
5 17 (5.80%) Cisco
6 14 (4.78%) VMware
7 12 (4.10%) Juniper
8 11 (3.75%) Okta
8 11 (3.75%) SAP
9 10 (3.41%) Avaya
9 10 (3.41%) Ericsson
9 10 (3.41%) IBM
9 10 (3.41%) Nokia
9 10 (3.41%) Ribbon
10 9 (3.07%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.73%) Sage
12 7 (2.39%) Guidewire
13 4 (1.37%) Meraki
13 4 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (1.37%) Workday