SaaS Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 26 60
Rank change year-on-year -22 +34 +8
Contract jobs citing SaaS 8 19 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.50% 6.74% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 14.84% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 1
10th Percentile £409 £456 -
25th Percentile £417 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £538 £630 -
90th Percentile £575 £713 -
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -10.71%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 160 128 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 29.96% 45.39% 26.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 105 108
10th Percentile £365 £214 £185
25th Percentile £413 £350 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £501 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +11.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £550
90th Percentile £640 £656 £639
South East median daily rate £494 £513 £501
% change year-on-year -3.71% +2.30% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile - - £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.00
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.59% -3.33% +33.33%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

SaaS job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Buckinghamshire

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 24 February 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
Milton Keynes -21 8 £481 -3.85% 21
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) IaaS
1 3 (37.50%) OCI
1 3 (37.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) BGP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (37.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (37.50%) VXLAN
2 2 (25.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) IPsec
3 1 (12.50%) IPv6
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) Multicast
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) SNMP
3 1 (12.50%) VoIP
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Database
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Database 12c
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle ODI
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) CCDA
4 1 (12.50%) CCDP
4 1 (12.50%) CCIE
4 1 (12.50%) CCIP
4 1 (12.50%) CCNA
4 1 (12.50%) CCNP
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) vCloud
2 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) CASB
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) Aruba
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Zscaler
21 SaaS jobs in Buckinghamshire