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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 48 93
Rank change year-on-year -28 +45 -13
Contract jobs citing SaaS 38 44 26
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.09% 3.88% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.20% 10.65% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 33 21
10th Percentile £291 £236 £425
25th Percentile £470 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -10.42%
75th Percentile £653 £588 £615
90th Percentile £728 £600 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.45% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £27.75 £27.24 -
25th Percentile £29.44 £45.97 £60.50
Median hourly rate £56.13 £77.19 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.29% +26.54% +369.23%
75th Percentile £84.44 £86.35 £61.50
90th Percentile £86.58 £91.84 -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £77.19 £38.50
% change year-on-year -31.99% +100.49% +108.11%

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 528 413 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.98% 36.45% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 259 358
10th Percentile £306 £325 £336
25th Percentile £402 £423 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £531
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -5.79% -3.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 12 26
10th Percentile £24.64 £25.22 £20.49
25th Percentile £31.25 £31.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £38.66 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +110.84% -33.70% +150.21%
75th Percentile £104.00 £57.13 £61.39
90th Percentile £110.75 £77.02 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £51.25 £27.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +83.82% -7.07% -7.12%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -21 24 £556 +3.49% 47
Slough +15 7 £600 -7.69% 5
Maidenhead - 4 £500 - 2
Bracknell -3 2 £625 +78.57% 5
Windsor +1 1 £575 +15.00% 1
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 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (5.26%) iTrent
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (2.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.53%) OCI
4 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.26%) IaaS
6 2 (5.26%) PaaS
6 2 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.63%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) IPsec
1 3 (7.89%) MQTT
1 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (10.53%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (5.26%) MySQL
3 2 (5.26%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
1 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
2 3 (7.89%) Retail
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.63%) Automotive
4 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Architect
2 9 (23.68%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Project Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Integration Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
5 3 (7.89%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Security Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) DBA
6 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Migration Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Migration Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow Architect
7 1 (2.63%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) ADO
2 2 (5.26%) .NET
2 2 (5.26%) Middleware
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.26%) React
3 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.63%) NestJS
3 1 (2.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
1 3 (7.89%) Operational Technology
2 2 (5.26%) Replication
2 2 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) FMCG
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) DevOps
2 7 (18.42%) ERP
3 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (15.79%) PRINCE2
3 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
4 5 (13.16%) Penetration Testing
4 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.16%) Waterfall
5 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (10.53%) Contingency Planning
5 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (10.53%) E-business
5 4 (10.53%) Matrix Organization
5 4 (10.53%) RBAC
6 3 (7.89%) Agile
6 3 (7.89%) Analytics
6 3 (7.89%) Migration
6 3 (7.89%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
2 1 (2.63%) C#
2 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) NCSC
2 3 (7.89%) NIST
2 3 (7.89%) NIST 800
3 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Grafana
1 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) SAP
3 3 (7.89%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.26%) Workday
5 1 (2.63%) Adobe