SaaS Architect Contracts

SaaS Architect
UK

The median SaaS Architect daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 707 828
Rank change year-on-year +127 +121 -163
Contract jobs requiring a SaaS Architect 2 5 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.008% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.009% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 25
10th Percentile - £578 £543
25th Percentile £713 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £722 £700
90th Percentile - £784 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £638
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -7.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

SaaS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SaaS Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS Architect in the UK

SaaS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS Architect in the UK

SaaS Architect
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England +122 2 £725 +16.00% 8
London +104 2 £725 +7.41%
Work from Home +120 1 £725 +7.41% 8

SaaS Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, SaaS Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SaaS Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) FMCG
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Ariba
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (50.00%) Concur
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns

SaaS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FMCG
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Ariba
1 1 (50.00%) Concur
1 1 (50.00%) SAP