SaaS Contracts in Berkshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 70 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -18
Contract jobs citing SaaS 51 45 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.59% 2.48% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.19% 8.86% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 32 50
10th Percentile £425 £513 £148
25th Percentile £456 £533 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £680 £629
90th Percentile £615 £795 £656
South East median daily rate £534 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -2.95% -5.38% +6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £13.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +369.23% -74.00% -
75th Percentile £61.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £18.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.11% -63.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 555 508 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.17% 27.97% 29.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 367 524
10th Percentile £329 £383 £185
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £652
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 14
10th Percentile £20.49 £18.03 £17.68
25th Percentile £41.25 £20.50 £21.01
Median hourly rate £58.30 £33.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +74.03% +53.85% +3.44%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £61.96 £79.19 £85.37
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £24.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -5.24% +16.39% -4.32%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Berkshire

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Berkshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Berkshire

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in Berkshire

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Reading -18 23 £538 -8.51% 10
Wokingham - 7 £650 - 2
Newbury - 7 - - 1
Maidenhead +3 6 - - 2
Bracknell -10 5 - - 14
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 34 (66.67%) PaaS
2 31 (60.78%) IaaS
3 5 (9.80%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) Azure
3 5 (9.80%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (5.88%) Azure API Management
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.96%) Serverless
6 1 (1.96%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 26 (50.98%) 5G
1 26 (50.98%) Broadband
2 2 (3.92%) Network Security
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 26 (50.98%) Law
1 26 (50.98%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Legal
2 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (50.98%) Penetration Tester
1 26 (50.98%) Security Penetration Tester
1 26 (50.98%) Security Specialist
1 26 (50.98%) Security Tester
1 26 (50.98%) Tester
1 26 (50.98%) Testing Specialist
2 4 (7.84%) Project Manager
3 3 (5.88%) Architect
3 3 (5.88%) Developer
3 3 (5.88%) Lead
3 3 (5.88%) Procurement Officer
3 3 (5.88%) Ruby Developer
3 3 (5.88%) Senior
3 3 (5.88%) Senior Manager
3 3 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (3.92%) Analyst
4 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (3.92%) Product Analyst
4 2 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (54.90%) Web Services
2 3 (5.88%) .NET
2 3 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.96%) JSON
3 1 (1.96%) OAuth
3 1 (1.96%) OpenID
3 1 (1.96%) REST
3 1 (1.96%) SOAP
3 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (50.98%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.96%) Life Science
3 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (58.82%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (54.90%) Penetration Testing
4 27 (52.94%) Application Security
4 27 (52.94%) Security Testing
5 26 (50.98%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 26 (50.98%) OWASP
6 13 (25.49%) Agile
7 6 (11.76%) Performance Management
8 5 (9.80%) DevOps
8 5 (9.80%) Migration
9 4 (7.84%) API Management
9 4 (7.84%) Cloud Security
9 4 (7.84%) Creative Thinking
9 4 (7.84%) Data Protection
9 4 (7.84%) DevSecOps
9 4 (7.84%) High Availability
9 4 (7.84%) Microservices
9 4 (7.84%) Network Architecture
9 4 (7.84%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.80%) Ruby
2 3 (5.88%) C#
3 2 (3.92%) Java
3 2 (3.92%) PHP
3 2 (3.92%) Python
4 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (50.98%) CREST Certified
1 26 (50.98%) GIAC
1 26 (50.98%) GPEN
1 26 (50.98%) OSCP
1 26 (50.98%) SANS
1 26 (50.98%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (50.98%) GDPR
1 26 (50.98%) NCSC
1 26 (50.98%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (50.98%) Virgin Media
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.69%) Oracle
4 6 (11.76%) Citrix
4 6 (11.76%) HP
5 2 (3.92%) VMware
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce