SaaS Contracts in Central London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 94 75
Rank change year-on-year -3 -19 +31
Contract jobs citing SaaS 35 82 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.46% 2.19% 3.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 5.65% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 114
10th Percentile £371 £398 £406
25th Percentile £481 £456 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £624
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -3.81% +18.81%
75th Percentile £609 £756 £719
90th Percentile £731 £890 £850
London median daily rate £525 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.86% +10.48%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 970 1,451 1,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.33% 38.69% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 980 1,593
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £425 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £768
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 11
10th Percentile £12.75 £22.45 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £35.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +308.72% -10.29%
75th Percentile £25.38 £88.30 £34.63
90th Percentile £36.30 - £50.00
London median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.26% +18.75% +12.68%

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 21 May 2024.

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 21 May 2024. 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 0 31 £525 -12.50% 25
West End of London +4 2 £535 - 1
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 1 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (2.86%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
1 11 (31.43%) IaaS
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) PaaS
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) Akamai
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.86%) Boomi
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) OCI
5 1 (2.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) Internet
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) Redis
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) GitLab
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Local Government
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Senior
2 7 (20.00%) Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Product Owner
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Product Owner
6 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Solution Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Development Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) React
3 1 (2.86%) JSON
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) LDAP
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.86%) SAML
3 1 (2.86%) Web Services
3 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) BYOD
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) FMCG
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Agile
2 7 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 7 (20.00%) Microservices
2 7 (20.00%) Scrum
3 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (17.14%) Information Security
3 6 (17.14%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (14.29%) Budget Management
4 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (14.29%) Kanban
4 5 (14.29%) Product Vision
5 4 (11.43%) Analytics
5 4 (11.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (11.43%) Business Case
5 4 (11.43%) DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.43%) Objectives and Key Results
5 4 (11.43%) Product Strategy
5 4 (11.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (5.71%) Java
2 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.86%) C#
3 1 (2.86%) Go
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) CISM
2 1 (2.86%) CISSP
2 1 (2.86%) CRISC
2 1 (2.86%) ISEB
2 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) NIST
1 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.86%) Puppet
3 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Okta
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Foundry
3 2 (5.71%) Ping Identity
3 2 (5.71%) Rapid7
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) Adobe
4 1 (2.86%) Dell
4 1 (2.86%) New Relic
4 1 (2.86%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.86%) Palantir
4 1 (2.86%) Remedy
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow