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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 34 37
Rank change year-on-year -34 +3 +25
Contract jobs citing SaaS 6 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.70% 1.56% 2.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 4.85% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £438 - £506
25th Percentile £475 £475 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +7.14% +16.53%
75th Percentile £560 £625 £574
90th Percentile £564 - £663
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +14.22%

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 248 103 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 28.97% 32.09% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 58 81
10th Percentile £400 £199 £351
25th Percentile £462 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £482
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -10.79% -12.36%
75th Percentile £588 £536 £550
90th Percentile £623 £616 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £18.78
25th Percentile - £13.25 £19.19
Median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -36.47% +11.84%
75th Percentile - £14.75 £23.19
90th Percentile - £15.35 £23.53
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £18.82 £28.50
% change year-on-year +245.38% -33.96% +1.21%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -33 6 £543 -9.58% 25
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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) IaaS
1 3 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Educational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
2 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (16.67%) Epics
3 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Tenable