SaaS Contracts in Bristol

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 51 87
Rank change year-on-year +14 +36 +2
Contract jobs citing SaaS 18 23 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 3.35% 2.18% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.91% 8.39% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 10
10th Percentile £406 £455 £501
25th Percentile £481 £538 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £551
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +8.84% -4.13%
75th Percentile £555 £634 £698
90th Percentile £788 £641 £726
South West median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +7.26%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 165 274 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 30.73% 25.92% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 194 295
10th Percentile £213 £259 £318
25th Percentile £355 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £557 £570 £630
90th Percentile £668 £630 £711
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 24
10th Percentile - £12.86 £18.40
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.96 £28.88
Median hourly rate £18.51 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.08% +14.58% +140.00%
75th Percentile £27.25 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £37.50 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Bristol

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Bristol

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Bristol

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) PaaS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) PBX
1 7 (38.89%) VoIP
2 2 (11.11%) 4G
2 2 (11.11%) 5G
3 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) MLflow
General
1 8 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Aviation
5 1 (5.56%) Electronics
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 3 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 3 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Chief Technology Officer
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 6 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Migration
2 8 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 7 (38.89%) Commercial Awareness
3 7 (38.89%) Impact Assessments
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (38.89%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (33.33%) Service Design
4 6 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
4 6 (33.33%) Validation
5 5 (27.78%) Cost Reduction
5 5 (27.78%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 2 (11.11%) Analytics
8 2 (11.11%) Data Design
8 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
1 1 (5.56%) Java
1 1 (5.56%) Perl
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
4 6 (33.33%) CCNP
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (11.11%) Degree
6 1 (5.56%) MCITP
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Cisco
1 7 (38.89%) Ericsson
1 7 (38.89%) F5
1 7 (38.89%) Juniper
1 7 (38.89%) Nokia
1 7 (38.89%) Palo Alto
2 6 (33.33%) Avaya
2 6 (33.33%) Ribbon
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) SAP