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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 76 34
Rank change year-on-year +14 -42 +47
Contract jobs citing SaaS 53 34 103
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.56% 2.31% 6.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.00% 7.23% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 23
10th Percentile £454 £276 £386
25th Percentile £480 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £566
90th Percentile £670 £800 £598
South East median daily rate £450 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.75 - £86.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £88.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -67.23% +17.22%
75th Percentile £67.83 - £90.25
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £32.25 £29.00 £88.50
% change year-on-year +11.21% -67.23% +17.22%

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 589 470 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.56% 31.97% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 298 371
10th Percentile £265 £367 £311
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +3.68% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £488 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.26 £27.00 £42.76
Median hourly rate £57.72 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.81% -32.54% +186.36%
75th Percentile £92.75 £54.24 £79.78
90th Percentile £98.75 £64.73 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -29.82% -11.82% +61.60%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 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 23 December 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 +18 32 £633 +6.30% 45
Wokingham - 5 £559 - 1
Bracknell -6 3 - - 7
Windsor - 3 £425 - 1
Slough - 1 £352 - 110
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 8 (15.09%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) Azure
2 16 (30.19%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (28.30%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (24.53%) Power Platform
5 11 (20.75%) AWS
6 6 (11.32%) Miro
6 6 (11.32%) PaaS
7 5 (9.43%) IaaS
8 3 (5.66%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.77%) AtomSphere
9 2 (3.77%) Boomi
9 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.77%) GCP
9 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.89%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.89%) GitHub
10 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) HTTP
2 1 (1.89%) IPsec
2 1 (1.89%) MQTT
2 1 (1.89%) Network Security
2 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.89%) SSL
2 1 (1.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Power BI
2 5 (9.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.55%) Billing
3 4 (7.55%) French Language
4 3 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Retail
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Military
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Architect
2 9 (16.98%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (15.09%) Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Customer Service Advisor
4 5 (9.43%) Data Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) HR Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) HR Data Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Lead
4 5 (9.43%) Service Transition Leader
4 5 (9.43%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Security Architect
5 4 (7.55%) SIEM Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Integration Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle Project Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) ADO
2 3 (5.66%) REST
3 2 (3.77%) GraphQL
3 2 (3.77%) JSON
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (3.77%) OAuth
3 2 (3.77%) SOAP
3 2 (3.77%) XML
4 1 (1.89%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.89%) Ajax
4 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.89%) Node.js
4 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.89%) OpenID
4 1 (1.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.55%) CSOC
4 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.66%) PKI
5 2 (3.77%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.77%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.89%) CMDB
6 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.89%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) DevOps
2 16 (30.19%) Agile
3 12 (22.64%) PRINCE2
4 11 (20.75%) ERP
5 10 (18.87%) CRM
5 10 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (18.87%) ITIL
5 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (18.87%) Waterfall
6 9 (16.98%) ITSM
7 8 (15.09%) Contingency Planning
7 8 (15.09%) E-business
7 8 (15.09%) Matrix Organization
7 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (13.21%) Scrum
8 7 (13.21%) Security Operations
8 7 (13.21%) Service Management
9 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.66%) C#
1 3 (5.66%) Java
1 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.77%) Groovy
2 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.89%) Bash
3 1 (1.89%) Perl
3 1 (1.89%) PHP
3 1 (1.89%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.66%) CISSP
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.66%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (5.66%) NIST
2 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) NCSC
3 1 (1.89%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) SCCM
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Oracle
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.98%) Salesforce
3 6 (11.32%) SAP
4 5 (9.43%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.55%) Splunk
6 3 (5.66%) MuleSoft
6 3 (5.66%) Tenable
6 3 (5.66%) Workday
7 2 (3.77%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.77%) Qualys
8 1 (1.89%) BiZZdesign