SaaS Contracts in Berkshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 85 74
Rank change year-on-year +31 -11 +15
Contract jobs citing SaaS 37 30 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.19% 1.55% 2.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.49% 5.79% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 28
10th Percentile £194 £425 £511
25th Percentile £425 £463 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £534 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -14.60% +15.74%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £694
90th Percentile £620 £626 £799
South East median daily rate £501 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.88% +2.38% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £38.64 - -
25th Percentile £53.10 £60.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.19 £61.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.54% +369.23% -74.00%
75th Percentile £86.35 £61.50 -
90th Percentile £91.84 - -
South East median hourly rate £77.19 £38.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +100.49% +108.11% -63.00%

All Cloud 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 390 518 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.65% 26.80% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 362 375
10th Percentile £325 £326 £389
25th Percentile £450 £452 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £719
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 14
10th Percentile £24.04 £20.49 £17.63
25th Percentile £29.31 £41.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £39.15
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +48.91% +79.79%
75th Percentile £68.63 £61.60 £72.94
90th Percentile £79.02 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £23.22 £23.08
% change year-on-year +20.61% +0.61% +8.46%

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 9 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

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 9 May 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
Reading +36 16 £538 -1.15% 32
Bracknell +26 6 £350 - 8
Wokingham -11 5 £513 -14.58% 1
Windsor - 5 £500 -
Slough -7 1 £650 - 7
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) AWS
3 8 (21.62%) PaaS
4 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
4 5 (13.51%) IaaS
4 5 (13.51%) Serverless
5 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (8.11%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Stack
7 2 (5.41%) GCP
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) HTTP
2 2 (5.41%) MQTT
2 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) NGFW
3 1 (2.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Power Query
3 1 (2.70%) Sisense
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Telecoms
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Billing
4 4 (10.81%) Dutch Language
5 3 (8.11%) Finance
6 2 (5.41%) Automotive
6 2 (5.41%) Marketing
6 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Back Office
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) French Language
7 1 (2.70%) German Language
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Italian Language
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Architect
2 5 (13.51%) Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Applications Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Automation Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Sales Representative
5 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Security Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) .NET
2 6 (16.22%) REST
3 5 (13.51%) XML
4 4 (10.81%) .NET Framework
4 4 (10.81%) SAML
5 3 (8.11%) Ajax
5 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (8.11%) CSS
5 3 (8.11%) HTML
5 3 (8.11%) SOAP
5 3 (8.11%) Web Services
6 2 (5.41%) OAuth
6 2 (5.41%) OpenID
6 2 (5.41%) PostGIS
7 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.70%) MDX
7 1 (2.70%) Node.js
7 1 (2.70%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (10.81%) IoT
2 3 (8.11%) CMDB
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.41%) Infotainment
3 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) PKI
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Agile
2 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
3 5 (13.51%) DevOps
3 5 (13.51%) ITIL
3 5 (13.51%) Migration
3 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
3 5 (13.51%) Telematics
4 4 (10.81%) B2B
4 4 (10.81%) Customer Retention
4 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (10.81%) Scrum
4 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.11%) CRM
5 3 (8.11%) Incident Management
5 3 (8.11%) ITSM
5 3 (8.11%) Problem Management
5 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
5 3 (8.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) C#
3 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.11%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
4 2 (5.41%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) ActionScript
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) CISM
5 1 (2.70%) CISSP
5 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) ISEB
5 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.11%) CyberArk
4 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 3 (8.11%) VMware
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) Infor
5 1 (2.70%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.70%) Splunk