SaaS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 102 105
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing SaaS 304 587 1,086
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.01% 2.34% 2.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.59% 5.91% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 414 846
10th Percentile £394 £402 £407
25th Percentile £441 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £670
90th Percentile £718 £754 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 3
10th Percentile - £27.60 £32.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -12.50% +196.30%
75th Percentile £29.41 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £45.94 £73.00 -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £72.10 £40.00
% change year-on-year -63.94% +80.26% +185.71%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

SaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS.

SaaS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SaaS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

SaaS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS.

SaaS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SaaS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

SaaS hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (4.61%) Confluence
2 6 (1.97%) CMS
3 4 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.99%) WordPress
5 2 (0.66%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.33%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.33%) Mule
Applications
1 18 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (4.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.30%) Trello
5 3 (0.99%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.32%) Workfront
2 3 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (31.25%) Azure
1 95 (31.25%) PaaS
2 76 (25.00%) IaaS
3 75 (24.67%) AWS
4 24 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (5.59%) GCP
5 17 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (4.93%) Google Workspace
7 14 (4.61%) GitHub
8 13 (4.28%) Miro
9 11 (3.62%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.29%) Serverless
11 8 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.63%) Nutanix
12 7 (2.30%) Rubrik
13 6 (1.97%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.97%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.62%) Firewall
1 11 (3.62%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.96%) NAS
3 8 (2.63%) DNS
3 8 (2.63%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.63%) SAN
4 7 (2.30%) DHCP
4 7 (2.30%) VLAN
5 4 (1.32%) Network Security
6 3 (0.99%) VPN
7 2 (0.66%) BGP
7 2 (0.66%) IPsec
7 2 (0.66%) LAN
7 2 (0.66%) OSPF
7 2 (0.66%) SSH
8 1 (0.33%) FTP
8 1 (0.33%) Internet
8 1 (0.33%) NaaS
8 1 (0.33%) VoIP
8 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.62%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.64%) MySQL
5 4 (1.32%) GIS
5 4 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.32%) Power BI
6 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.99%) DB2
6 3 (0.99%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.99%) QlikView
7 2 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) Sisense
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (7.24%) JIRA
2 14 (4.61%) Git
3 11 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.29%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.96%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.32%) GitLab
6 4 (1.32%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (1.32%) Selenium
6 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.99%) webpack
8 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.66%) Snyk
9 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.33%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.33%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 56 (18.42%) Finance
1 56 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 24 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 21 (6.91%) Legal
4 18 (5.92%) Marketing
5 14 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.96%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.63%) Banking
10 6 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.64%) Police
11 5 (1.64%) Retail
12 4 (1.32%) Back Office
12 4 (1.32%) French Language
12 4 (1.32%) German Language
13 3 (0.99%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.99%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.66%) Aviation
14 2 (0.66%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 51 (16.78%) Architect
2 39 (12.83%) Developer
3 35 (11.51%) Senior
4 28 (9.21%) Analyst
5 22 (7.24%) Solutions Architect
6 21 (6.91%) Business Analyst
7 20 (6.58%) Consultant
7 20 (6.58%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.61%) Lead
9 13 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.63%) Business IT Analyst
10 8 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (2.63%) Integration Developer
10 8 (2.63%) IT Analyst
10 8 (2.63%) IT Business Analyst
10 8 (2.63%) Security Architect
10 8 (2.63%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.30%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.59%) React
2 15 (4.93%) .NET
3 13 (4.28%) ARM Templates
4 11 (3.62%) Node.js
4 11 (3.62%) REST
5 10 (3.29%) Azure Blueprints
5 10 (3.29%) CSS
6 9 (2.96%) HTML
7 8 (2.63%) LDAP
8 7 (2.30%) Middleware
8 7 (2.30%) SOAP
9 5 (1.64%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.64%) HTML5
9 5 (1.64%) OpenID
9 5 (1.64%) Web Services
10 4 (1.32%) JSON
10 4 (1.32%) OAuth
10 4 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.32%) RESTful
10 4 (1.32%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.92%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.93%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.28%) Virtual Team
6 10 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.96%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.63%) Clustering
9 7 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.30%) Replication
10 5 (1.64%) NHS
11 4 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.32%) IoT
11 4 (1.32%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.86%) Windows
2 19 (6.25%) Linux
3 11 (3.62%) Solaris
4 10 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.96%) Unix
6 7 (2.30%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (2.30%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.32%) VMS
8 3 (0.99%) Android
8 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.57%) Agile
2 67 (22.04%) DevOps
3 52 (17.11%) Project Management
4 45 (14.80%) Migration
5 42 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (10.86%) Cybersecurity
6 33 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (8.88%) Roadmaps
8 26 (8.55%) Scrum
8 26 (8.55%) Test Automation
9 25 (8.22%) ERP
10 22 (7.24%) Waterfall
11 19 (6.25%) Analytics
12 18 (5.92%) Containerisation
13 17 (5.59%) Customer Requirements
13 17 (5.59%) Deployment Automation
13 17 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (5.59%) Microservices
13 17 (5.59%) Software Engineering
14 16 (5.26%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.57%) Python
2 21 (6.91%) SQL
3 18 (5.92%) Java
4 16 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 13 (4.28%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.95%) C#
6 12 (3.95%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.62%) Bash
8 8 (2.63%) Ruby
9 3 (0.99%) C
9 3 (0.99%) PHP
10 2 (0.66%) ABAP
10 2 (0.66%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) Bicep
11 1 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) VBA
11 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.84%) Degree
2 36 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.26%) PMP
4 15 (4.93%) PMI Certification
5 14 (4.61%) APMP
6 12 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.64%) CISSP
7 5 (1.64%) CTC Cleared
7 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.32%) CISM
8 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.99%) ISEB
9 3 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.66%) CRISC
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.66%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.92%) QA
2 12 (3.95%) GDPR
3 10 (3.29%) NCSC
4 8 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.97%) NIST
6 4 (1.32%) PMO
7 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.66%) GRC
8 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) COPPA
9 1 (0.33%) GLBA
9 1 (0.33%) GxP
9 1 (0.33%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (7.89%) Docker
2 16 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (10.20%) Terraform
2 26 (8.55%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.89%) Ansible
4 7 (2.30%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (2.30%) Netcool
4 7 (2.30%) Tivoli
4 7 (2.30%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.66%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.66%) Packer
8 1 (0.33%) CASB
8 1 (0.33%) Grafana
8 1 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 72 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 55 (18.09%) Oracle
3 22 (7.24%) Salesforce
4 20 (6.58%) Google
5 17 (5.59%) Splunk
6 13 (4.28%) SAP
7 12 (3.95%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.62%) Dynatrace
9 10 (3.29%) CyberArk
9 10 (3.29%) HP
9 10 (3.29%) VMware
10 9 (2.96%) Cisco
10 9 (2.96%) Dell
11 7 (2.30%) Adobe
11 7 (2.30%) EMC
11 7 (2.30%) Guidewire
11 7 (2.30%) IBM
11 7 (2.30%) Isilon
11 7 (2.30%) Qualys
11 7 (2.30%) Serena