SaaS Contracts in the City of London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 96 94
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 -19
Contract jobs citing SaaS 49 31 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.79% 1.41% 2.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.43% 3.61% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 64
10th Percentile £473 £373 £413
25th Percentile £513 £481 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -3.61%
75th Percentile £679 £638 £785
90th Percentile £813 £725 £882
Central London median daily rate £625 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +19.05% -12.50% -3.61%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 762 858 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.39% 39.14% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 612 934
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £460 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £669 £671 £713
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (4.08%) Confluence
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle iProcurement
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (4.08%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.57%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) IaaS
2 8 (16.33%) PaaS
3 7 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.16%) Serverless
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.12%) GCP
6 3 (6.12%) GitHub
6 3 (6.12%) OCI
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.04%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Power BI
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.12%) Data Mining
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.04%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.04%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) Serena SBM
3 1 (2.04%) Subversion
3 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (38.78%) Finance
2 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Banking
4 6 (12.24%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Back Office
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Automotive
6 2 (4.08%) Military
7 1 (2.04%) Billing
7 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.04%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.04%) Police
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (16.33%) Architect
2 7 (14.29%) Consultant
3 6 (12.24%) Analyst
3 6 (12.24%) Senior
4 5 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Azure Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Applications Support
6 3 (6.12%) Lead
6 3 (6.12%) Product Owner
6 3 (6.12%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Risk Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) Applications Support Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Service Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.08%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (4.08%) GraphQL
2 2 (4.08%) Jest
2 2 (4.08%) Node.js
2 2 (4.08%) React
3 1 (2.04%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.12%) Market Risk
2 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.04%) Clustering
4 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.16%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Agile
2 12 (24.49%) Analytics
2 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (14.29%) Migration
5 6 (12.24%) DevOps
5 6 (12.24%) User Experience
6 5 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (10.20%) Roadmaps
6 5 (10.20%) Scrum
6 5 (10.20%) Service Delivery
7 4 (8.16%) B2B
7 4 (8.16%) Change Management
7 4 (8.16%) Data Management
7 4 (8.16%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (8.16%) Project Delivery
7 4 (8.16%) Project Management
7 4 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.16%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.16%) Python
4 2 (4.08%) Bicep
4 2 (4.08%) Go
4 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.08%) Rust
4 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) C#
5 1 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) Perl
5 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.04%) Ruby
5 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) Basel II
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.04%) GRC
4 1 (2.04%) GxP
4 1 (2.04%) PMO
4 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Control-M
3 1 (2.04%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.04%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (2.04%) Nessus
3 1 (2.04%) QRadar
3 1 (2.04%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle
3 3 (6.12%) SAP
4 2 (4.08%) IBM
4 2 (4.08%) Qualys
4 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.04%) BMC
5 1 (2.04%) Concur
5 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.04%) EMC
5 1 (2.04%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) Okta
5 1 (2.04%) Serena
5 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.04%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) Sybase
5 1 (2.04%) Tenable
5 1 (2.04%) Tripwire
5 1 (2.04%) VMware