SaaS Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing SaaS 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.07% 0.38% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.40% 1.30% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £468
25th Percentile - - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile - - £613
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -32.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £20.31 - £75.00

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 91 77 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.33% 29.17% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 37 26
10th Percentile £316 £375 £181
25th Percentile £363 £463 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £658 £675
East of England median daily rate £495 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 39
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.56 £15.00 £14.48
Median hourly rate £27.00 £17.80 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +51.69% +9.20% +5.16%
75th Percentile £35.91 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £39.50 - £24.17
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £21.46 £18.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +19.22% +2.86%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SaaS

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Cambridge -6 3 - - 20
Peterborough - 1 £500 - 2
SaaS
East of England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Excel Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) B2B
1 3 (75.00%) Data Cleansing
1 3 (75.00%) Data Conversion
1 3 (75.00%) Data Deduplication
1 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Ariba
2 1 (25.00%) SAP