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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 45 92
Rank change year-on-year -32 +47 -7
Contract jobs citing SaaS 42 53 25
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.21% 4.42% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.88% 11.67% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 19
10th Percentile £296 £273 £445
25th Percentile £481 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £600 £555 £615
90th Percentile £722 £600 £640
South East median daily rate £500 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 0
10th Percentile £28.13 - -
25th Percentile £30.38 £14.75 -
Median hourly rate £81.50 £15.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +425.81% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £40.11 -
90th Percentile - £82.68 -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +238.71% -3.13% -13.51%

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 533 454 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.05% 37.90% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 275 348
10th Percentile £349 £325 £356
25th Percentile £409 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £650 £670 £675
South East median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 19 26
10th Percentile £25.65 £14.75 £20.49
25th Percentile £31.25 £16.81 £41.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £31.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +161.90% -45.97% +151.84%
75th Percentile £103.88 £47.75 £61.47
90th Percentile £110.75 £75.84 £61.80
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £18.82 £30.00
% change year-on-year +218.81% -37.27% +11.11%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -29 28 £525 -2.33% 56
Maidenhead - 7 £500 - 4
Slough +12 4 £700 +7.69% 4
Bracknell -3 2 £625 +405.05% 6
Windsor -2 1 £575 +15.00% 5
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 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.76%) iTrent
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (2.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) OCI
4 3 (7.14%) AWS
4 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.14%) GCP
4 3 (7.14%) IaaS
4 3 (7.14%) PaaS
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.76%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Network Security
2 3 (7.14%) IPsec
2 3 (7.14%) MQTT
2 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (4.76%) MySQL
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (4.76%) Vitess
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Git
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Retail
5 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.38%) Automotive
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Architect
2 11 (26.19%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 5 (11.90%) Security Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) DBA
7 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Migration Project Manager
7 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) ADO
2 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 4 (9.52%) NestJS
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.76%) .NET
4 2 (4.76%) Middleware
4 2 (4.76%) React
5 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Security Operations Centre
1 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Replication
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) FMCG
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) ERP
2 10 (23.81%) DevOps
3 9 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (16.67%) RBAC
6 6 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.29%) SIEM
6 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (9.52%) Architectural Design
8 4 (9.52%) Decision-Making
8 4 (9.52%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (9.52%) Incident Management
8 4 (9.52%) Security Operations
8 4 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
2 4 (9.52%) SQL
2 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
3 2 (4.76%) Bash
3 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (2.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) CCSP
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.76%) CISSP
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) NCSC
2 5 (11.90%) NIST
3 4 (9.52%) GDPR
3 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (7.14%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) CASB
1 2 (4.76%) Grafana
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) SAP
3 3 (7.14%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.76%) Workday
5 1 (2.38%) Adobe