SaaS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 88 85
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing SaaS 48 33 50
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.61% 1.63% 2.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.29% 4.16% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 39
10th Percentile £412 £416 £396
25th Percentile £458 £472 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.11% -4.66%
75th Percentile £725 £678 £650
90th Percentile £778 £688 £745
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.45% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.62 - -
Median hourly rate £40.78 - -
75th Percentile £41.94 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £40.78 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 763 794 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.51% 39.19% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 508 715
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £422 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +309.64% +3.75%
75th Percentile £41.94 £92.50 £40.69
90th Percentile £45.28 - £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in the City of London

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SaaS

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 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SaaS

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
London Bridge - 1 £725 -
SaaS
Central London

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.08%) CICS
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) PaaS
3 9 (18.75%) IaaS
4 7 (14.58%) AWS
5 4 (8.33%) GCP
6 3 (6.25%) iPaaS
6 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.25%) OCI
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.17%) Boomi
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.17%) GitHub
7 2 (4.17%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (4.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Mixpanel
1 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) JMeter
3 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Marketing
4 4 (8.33%) Legal
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.25%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Retail
6 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.17%) Military
7 1 (2.08%) Back Office
7 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (12.50%) Architect
2 4 (8.33%) Analyst
2 4 (8.33%) Senior
2 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 3 (6.25%) Consultant
3 3 (6.25%) Conversion Specialist
4 2 (4.17%) Business IT Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) Developer
4 2 (4.17%) Environment Manager
4 2 (4.17%) IT Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) Security Manager
4 2 (4.17%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Specialist
5 1 (2.08%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.17%) CSS
2 2 (4.17%) HTML
2 2 (4.17%) Kafka
2 2 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) JWT
3 1 (2.08%) LAMP
3 1 (2.08%) Laravel
3 1 (2.08%) MACH
3 1 (2.08%) Node.js
3 1 (2.08%) OAuth
3 1 (2.08%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.08%) RESTful
3 1 (2.08%) SOAP
3 1 (2.08%) Spring
3 1 (2.08%) Symfony
3 1 (2.08%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) Replication
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.08%) AIX
4 1 (2.08%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 11 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (20.83%) Analytics
4 6 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 6 (12.50%) ERP
4 6 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (10.42%) Agile
5 5 (10.42%) AI
5 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.42%) CRM
5 5 (10.42%) DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (10.42%) User Experience
6 4 (8.33%) Change Control
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 4 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) SQL
2 6 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.17%) Go
4 2 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.08%) Bash
5 1 (2.08%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) COBOL
5 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.08%) PHP
5 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.08%) ProC
5 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.17%) CISSP
3 2 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.17%) MCITP
4 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.08%) CCSP
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.08%) OSCP
4 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.33%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.17%) GRC
3 2 (4.17%) NCSC
3 2 (4.17%) NIST
3 2 (4.17%) SLA
3 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.08%) PMO
4 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Argo
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.17%) SCOM
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 8 (16.67%) Google
2 8 (16.67%) Oracle
3 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.25%) Amplitude
4 3 (6.25%) Hotjar
4 3 (6.25%) Optimizely
5 2 (4.17%) HP
5 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.08%) Adobe
6 1 (2.08%) Ariba
6 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.08%) DocuSign
6 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.08%) Marketo
6 1 (2.08%) NetApp
6 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.08%) Workday