SaaS Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing SaaS 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.34% 0.60% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.49% 3.33% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £361 £575
% change year-on-year +31.49% -37.17% -11.54%

All Cloud Skills
Bedfordshire

SaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 86 30 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 38.39% 18.07% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 19 39
10th Percentile £244 £283 £186
25th Percentile £450 £325 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -6.08%
75th Percentile £638 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £585 £628
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £483
% change year-on-year +19.05% -12.95% -8.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £53.16 £37.50 £52.23
25th Percentile £70.73 £48.75 £53.69
Median hourly rate £100.00 £55.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -3.93% +172.62%
75th Percentile £102.75 £61.25 £60.69
90th Percentile £104.40 £72.50 £62.08
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

SaaS job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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
Luton - 1 - - 3
SaaS
East of England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) TMap
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Talend