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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 21 47
Rank change year-on-year -36 +26 +13
Contract jobs citing SaaS 8 17 4
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.01% 7.02% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.90% 20.99% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 4
10th Percentile £488 £456 £553
25th Percentile £513 £500 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% +18.23%
75th Percentile £554 £630 £634
90th Percentile £560 £713 £719
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%

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 205 81 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 25.92% 33.47% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 67 97
10th Percentile £392 £315 £202
25th Percentile £451 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £560
90th Percentile £640 £707 £643
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £15.50 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year +132.26% -20.65% -
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.13
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +66.67% +22.77% +0.28%

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
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 23 April 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 -37 8 £525 -8.70% 18
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) IaaS
1 5 (62.50%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 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%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) VXLAN
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) NX-OS
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
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (12.50%) Educational Technology
3 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
3 2 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
3 2 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) CCDA
3 1 (12.50%) CCDP
3 1 (12.50%) CCIE
3 1 (12.50%) CCIP
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) CASB
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Arista
2 1 (12.50%) Aruba
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Zscaler
21 SaaS jobs in Buckinghamshire