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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -36 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing SaaS 6 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.68% 1.64% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.58% 5.05% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £488 - £506
25th Percentile £513 £475 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +2.68% +16.53%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £574
90th Percentile £564 £610 £663
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £560
% change year-on-year -5.00% -10.71% +8.74%

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 233 99 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 26.48% 32.46% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 56 93
10th Percentile £363 £293 £350
25th Percentile £458 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -12.84%
75th Percentile £597 £541 £525
90th Percentile £638 £619 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -4.65%
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 £70.00 £18.82 £28.50
% change year-on-year +271.94% -33.96% +5.56%

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 29 July 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 -32 6 £543 -5.65% 10
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 4 (66.67%) IaaS
1 4 (66.67%) PaaS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) IPv6
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Multicast
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) SNMP
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Educational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) CCDA
3 1 (16.67%) CCDP
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCIP
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) CASB
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Tenable
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler