SaaS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 53 41
Rank change year-on-year -19 -12 +21
Contract jobs citing SaaS 45 43 98
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.64% 3.42% 4.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.26% 9.91% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 28 21
10th Percentile £461 £281 £385
25th Percentile £480 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% +6.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £670 £600 £573
90th Percentile - £638 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £53.65 £38.64 £63.13
25th Percentile £73.80 £53.10 £67.06
Median hourly rate £95.00 £77.19 £74.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.07% +3.26% +68.93%
75th Percentile £101.38 £86.35 £83.06
90th Percentile £103.85 £91.84 £87.38
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £77.19 £74.75
% change year-on-year -52.07% +3.26% +68.93%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 620 434 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.34% 34.47% 31.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 274 392
10th Percentile £274 £325 £331
25th Percentile £389 £409 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £656 £656 £688
South East median daily rate £494 £513 £501
% change year-on-year -3.71% +2.30% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 25
10th Percentile £19.78 £24.98 £20.49
25th Percentile £70.85 £29.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.25 £48.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +69.27% -17.67% +74.03%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £62.00
90th Percentile £99.75 £76.85 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.59% -3.33% +33.33%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Berkshire

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 February 2026. 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 -2 27 £635 +12.89% 24
Slough +3 5 £352 -45.85% 2
Windsor -1 3 £425 -15.00%
Bracknell -5 2 - - 4
Wokingham -39 2 £520 +1.46% 2
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
Business Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (31.11%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (24.44%) Power Platform
5 10 (22.22%) AWS
6 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 4 (8.89%) IaaS
7 4 (8.89%) PaaS
8 3 (6.67%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.44%) AtomSphere
9 2 (4.44%) Boomi
9 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (2.22%) GCP
10 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.22%) Miro
10 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) IPsec
1 4 (8.89%) MQTT
1 4 (8.89%) SD-WAN
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 8 (17.78%) Power BI
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Billing
2 4 (8.89%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Retail
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Security Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (13.33%) Analyst
3 6 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (13.33%) Integration Manager
3 6 (13.33%) Security Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Lead
4 5 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Service Transition Leader
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) HR Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) HR Data Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Oracle Project Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Service Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Integration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) ADO
2 3 (6.67%) REST
3 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
3 2 (4.44%) JSON
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (4.44%) OAuth
3 2 (4.44%) SOAP
3 2 (4.44%) XML
4 1 (2.22%) .NET
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.22%) Ajax
4 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.22%) Node.js
4 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.22%) OpenID
4 1 (2.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 4 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) PKI
3 3 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.22%) CMDB
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) FMCG
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) DevOps
2 11 (24.44%) Agile
2 11 (24.44%) PRINCE2
3 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (20.00%) ITIL
4 9 (20.00%) ITSM
5 8 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (17.78%) Waterfall
6 7 (15.56%) Cyber Resilience
6 7 (15.56%) Security Architecture
6 7 (15.56%) Service Management
7 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
8 5 (11.11%) Supplier Management
8 5 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) C#
1 3 (6.67%) Java
1 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.44%) Groovy
2 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.22%) Bash
3 1 (2.22%) Perl
3 1 (2.22%) PHP
3 1 (2.22%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.67%) CISSP
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) NIST
2 4 (8.89%) NCSC
2 4 (8.89%) NIST 800
3 3 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (4.44%) GDPR
5 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) SCCM
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) Oracle
2 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.89%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (6.67%) MuleSoft
5 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.67%) Tenable
6 2 (4.44%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.22%) Adobe
7 1 (2.22%) Qualys
7 1 (2.22%) Workday