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 citing SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 89 74
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 +10
Contract jobs citing SaaS 33 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.40% 0.93% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.27% 3.28% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 13
10th Percentile £325 - £337
25th Percentile £463 £450 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £363
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +31.03% -36.96%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £525 £539
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.60% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £25.65 £32.50
% change year-on-year +132.94% -21.08% -56.67%

All Cloud Computing 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 citing cloud computing skills in the East of England.

6 months to
26 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills 526 396 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 22.27% 28.29% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 221 168
10th Percentile £185 £213 £213
25th Percentile £250 £375 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +19.05% -11.58%
75th Percentile £573 £580 £564
90th Percentile £665 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 28 11
10th Percentile £14.85 £12.29 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.00 £16.14
Median hourly rate £19.00 £31.25 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -39.20% +46.23% +6.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.56 £25.73
90th Percentile £75.10 £67.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £36.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -30.14% +32.84%

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 26 October 2026.

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 26 October 2026. 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -13 14 £600 +29.73% 4
Cambridgeshire +9 12 £505 +12.17% 9
Essex - 4 £525 - 1
Suffolk - 2 £350 - 1
Norfolk -4 1 £300 -50.00% 4
SaaS
England

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Azure24.2%8
2AWS18.2%6
3Entra ID15.2%5
4Microsoft 3659.1%3
4OCI9.1%3
6IaaS6.1%2
6PaaS6.1%2
8Amazon Bedrock3.0%1
8Azure DevOps3.0%1
8Copilot Studio3.0%1
8Google Gemini3.0%1
8Microsoft Copilot3.0%1
8Serverless3.0%1
8Smartsheet3.0%1
8Vertex AI3.0%1