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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 78 92
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing SaaS 45 35 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.84% 2.06% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.62% 7.06% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 15
10th Percentile £241 £451 £405
25th Percentile £475 £513 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £547 £647 £613
90th Percentile £560 £796 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +12.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.75 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
75th Percentile £16.25 - -
90th Percentile £30.33 - -
South East median hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £103.50
% change year-on-year -3.13% -84.54% -

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 468 496 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.90% 29.23% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 333 376
10th Percentile £320 £375 £340
25th Percentile £413 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £673
90th Percentile £664 £663 £738
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 10
10th Percentile - £19.45 £17.21
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.00 £19.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £58.17 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.56% +29.27% +113.78%
75th Percentile £32.12 £61.98 £63.84
90th Percentile £44.08 £64.73 £72.72
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.83
% change year-on-year -53.53% +45.53% +33.41%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +29 31 £538 -12.60% 27
Bracknell - 5 £123 - 3
Wokingham -11 3 £560 -6.75%
Windsor - 2 £425 -
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 6 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.11%) AWS
5 5 (11.11%) Miro
5 5 (11.11%) PaaS
6 4 (8.89%) IaaS
7 2 (4.44%) GCP
7 2 (4.44%) OCI
8 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Power BI
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.22%) Power Query
3 1 (2.22%) Sisense
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Fiddler
General
1 15 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.56%) French Language
5 6 (13.33%) Finance
6 3 (6.67%) Billing
6 3 (6.67%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Italian Language
7 1 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Military
7 1 (2.22%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Customer Service Advisor
3 4 (8.89%) Analyst
3 4 (8.89%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (8.89%) SIEM Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Business Analyst
4 2 (4.44%) Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Data Analyst
4 2 (4.44%) HR Data Analyst
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Project Manager
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Security Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Procurement Officer
4 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.44%) Security Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Technical Support
4 2 (4.44%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) ADO
1 2 (4.44%) Web Services
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.22%) Ajax
2 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.22%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) HTML
2 1 (2.22%) MDX
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.22%) Middleware
2 1 (2.22%) OAuth
2 1 (2.22%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) SOAP
2 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.89%) CSOC
1 4 (8.89%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (4.44%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) CMDB
3 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) IoT
3 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) ERP
2 13 (28.89%) CRM
3 10 (22.22%) Agile
3 10 (22.22%) DevOps
4 7 (15.56%) Customer Service
4 7 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (15.56%) Scrum
5 6 (13.33%) Capacity Management
5 6 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
5 6 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (11.11%) Contingency Planning
6 5 (11.11%) E-business
6 5 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (11.11%) PRINCE2
6 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 4 (8.89%) Cloud Security
7 4 (8.89%) Security Operations
7 4 (8.89%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CISM
4 1 (2.22%) CISSP
4 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) SLA
2 6 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Oracle
2 12 (26.67%) Salesforce
3 10 (22.22%) SAP
4 4 (8.89%) Splunk
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.44%) MuleSoft
6 2 (4.44%) Qualys
6 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.44%) Workday
7 1 (2.22%) MicroStrategy