SaaS Contracts in Central London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 94 92
Rank change year-on-year +25 -2 -18
Contract jobs citing SaaS 58 36 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.90% 1.48% 2.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.68% 3.75% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 67
10th Percentile £471 £375 £395
25th Percentile £513 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £715 £619 £780
90th Percentile £838 £713 £876
London median daily rate £575 £548 £575
% change year-on-year +5.02% -4.78% -

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 868 960 1,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.38% 39.57% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 693 1,007
10th Percentile £363 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -6.96% -
75th Percentile £664 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £30.21 £25.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +20.83% -37.89% +8.05%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Central London

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Central London

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Central London

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in Central London

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
City of London +21 49 £650 +23.81% 77
City of Westminster - 6 £550 - 3
West End of London -1 4 £550 -5.17% 21
SaaS
London

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.45%) Confluence
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.45%) NetSuite
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle iProcurement
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (3.45%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Azure
2 8 (13.79%) AWS
2 8 (13.79%) IaaS
2 8 (13.79%) PaaS
3 6 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.90%) OCI
4 4 (6.90%) Serverless
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.17%) GCP
5 3 (5.17%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.72%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Power BI
1 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.17%) Data Mining
2 3 (5.17%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) Serena SBM
3 1 (1.72%) Subversion
3 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (41.38%) Finance
2 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Back Office
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Automotive
7 2 (3.45%) Billing
7 2 (3.45%) Military
7 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.72%) Police
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Architect
1 9 (15.52%) Consultant
2 6 (10.34%) Analyst
2 6 (10.34%) Lead
2 6 (10.34%) Senior
2 6 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (8.62%) Product Owner
4 4 (6.90%) Azure Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Oracle Consultant
5 3 (5.17%) Applications Support
5 3 (5.17%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.17%) Risk Consultant
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (3.45%) CRM Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Senior Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.45%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.45%) Jest
2 2 (3.45%) Node.js
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.45%) React
3 1 (1.72%) LDAP
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.72%) REST
3 1 (1.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.17%) Market Risk
2 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.17%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.45%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.72%) Clustering
4 1 (1.72%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.72%) PKI
4 1 (1.72%) Replication
4 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
2 6 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.90%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Agile
2 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (22.41%) Analytics
4 11 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (15.52%) Migration
6 8 (13.79%) User Experience
7 7 (12.07%) Change Management
8 6 (10.34%) DevOps
8 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.34%) Service Delivery
8 6 (10.34%) User Research
9 5 (8.62%) B2B
9 5 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (8.62%) Data Management
9 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (8.62%) Product Roadmap
9 5 (8.62%) Project Management
9 5 (8.62%) Scrum
9 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.90%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) SQL
2 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.62%) Python
4 2 (3.45%) Bicep
4 2 (3.45%) Go
4 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.45%) Rust
4 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.72%) Bash
5 1 (1.72%) C#
5 1 (1.72%) Java
5 1 (1.72%) Perl
5 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.72%) Ruby
5 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Basel II
2 3 (5.17%) GDPR
3 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.45%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) GxP
4 1 (1.72%) IFRS
4 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Control-M
3 1 (1.72%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.72%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (1.72%) Nessus
3 1 (1.72%) QRadar
3 1 (1.72%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.52%) Oracle
3 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.17%) SAP
5 2 (3.45%) IBM
5 2 (3.45%) Qualys
6 1 (1.72%) BMC
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco
6 1 (1.72%) Concur
6 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.72%) EMC
6 1 (1.72%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.72%) Foundry
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.72%) Serena
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) Splunk
6 1 (1.72%) Sybase
6 1 (1.72%) Tripwire
6 1 (1.72%) VMware