SaaS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 77 84
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing SaaS 11 17 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.79% 1.22% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.83% 5.96% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 16
10th Percentile - £337 £488
25th Percentile £450 £340 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £361 £575
Median % change year-on-year +31.49% -37.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £613
90th Percentile £700 £644 £638
England median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.60% -2.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £63.54
25th Percentile - - £70.03
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £82.28
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -56.67% +2.15%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 389 285 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.01% 20.39% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 169 292
10th Percentile £213 £213 £186
25th Percentile £395 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% -5.75%
75th Percentile £580 £556 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 28
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.06 £15.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.86% +3.43% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.25 £27.87 £65.64
90th Percentile £67.00 £55.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in the East of England

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the East of England

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SaaS

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Hertfordshire -10 4 £463 +9.47% 69
Norfolk - 3 £600 - 3
Cambridgeshire -5 2 £450 +25.00% 21
Bedfordshire -7 2 £700 - 10
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) 1Password
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) IaaS
1 3 (27.27%) PaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) PowerCenter
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
1 3 (27.27%) Technical Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Chief Technology Officer
2 2 (18.18%) Product Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) ITSM Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) SOAP
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Learning Management System
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Coaching
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Insight
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Data Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Fintech
3 2 (18.18%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Presales
3 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (9.09%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Informatica
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Netskope
3 1 (9.09%) Rapid7