SaaS Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 97 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 -21 +25
Contract jobs citing SaaS 31 78 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.42% 2.20% 3.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 5.79% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 57 108
10th Percentile £371 £413 £406
25th Percentile £481 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -2.44% +16.59%
75th Percentile £609 £800 £716
90th Percentile £731 £893 £850
Central London median daily rate £525 £588 £615
% change year-on-year -10.64% -4.47% +17.14%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 859 1,347 1,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.30% 38.03% 42.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 901 1,428
10th Percentile £363 £313 £400
25th Percentile £444 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -7.43%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £38.63 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £20.19
% change year-on-year -72.99% +312.66% -13.92%

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 9 May 2024.

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 1 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Solr
1 1 (3.23%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (3.23%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) IaaS
2 10 (32.26%) PaaS
3 9 (29.03%) Azure
4 7 (22.58%) AWS
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.68%) Serverless
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.23%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (3.23%) Akamai
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.23%) Boomi
7 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) OCI
7 1 (3.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) Internet
2 1 (3.23%) Intranet
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) Redis
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Marketing
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Local Government
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Product Owner
3 4 (12.90%) Senior Product Owner
3 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Full Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Development Director
6 1 (3.23%) Digital Executive
6 1 (3.23%) IT Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Middleware
1 2 (6.45%) React
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) HTML5
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Node.js
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) SAML
2 1 (3.23%) Web Services
2 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) BYOD
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) FMCG
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Agile
2 7 (22.58%) Customer Experience
2 7 (22.58%) Microservices
2 7 (22.58%) Scrum
3 6 (19.35%) Information Security
3 6 (19.35%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (16.13%) Analytics
4 5 (16.13%) Budget Management
4 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (16.13%) Kanban
4 5 (16.13%) Product Vision
5 4 (12.90%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (12.90%) Business Case
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Objectives and Key Results
5 4 (12.90%) Product Strategy
5 4 (12.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (12.90%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Java
2 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.23%) C#
3 1 (3.23%) Go
3 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.23%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) CISM
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) CRISC
2 1 (3.23%) ISEB
2 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
3 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Okta
3 3 (9.68%) Ping Identity
4 2 (6.45%) Adobe
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) Rapid7
4 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) Dell
5 1 (3.23%) New Relic
5 1 (3.23%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.23%) Remedy
5 1 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow