SaaS Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 103 96
Rank change year-on-year +28 -7 +16
Contract jobs citing SaaS 20 8 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.62% 0.44% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.42% 2.82% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 15
10th Percentile £435 £428 £406
25th Percentile - - £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% -9.43%
75th Percentile £656 £506 £716
90th Percentile £720 £593 £913
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.69
25th Percentile - - £65.49
Median hourly rate - - £74.72
75th Percentile - - £82.71
90th Percentile - - £86.75
England median hourly rate £15.50 £26.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -40.38% -67.50% +72.97%

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 369 284 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.95% 15.48% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 163 360
10th Percentile £200 £220 £185
25th Percentile £400 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 55 31
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.56 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £19.27 £16.30 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.22% -25.91% +41.94%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £51.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +55.64%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the East of England

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the East of England

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 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the East of England

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the East of England

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 16 July 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
Norfolk - 8 £450 - 8
Hertfordshire +15 5 £550 +22.22% 50
Cambridgeshire - 3 £450 - 34
Bedfordshire -5 2 £700 - 12
Suffolk - 2 £588 - 4
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) 1Password
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) IaaS
3 4 (20.00%) PaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) Figma
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (10.00%) PowerCenter
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Transformation Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Transformation Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Transformation Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) ITSM Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) CSS
2 5 (25.00%) Alpine.js
2 5 (25.00%) Laravel
2 5 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 4 (20.00%) .NET
4 3 (15.00%) REST
4 3 (15.00%) SOAP
5 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.00%) EPoS
1 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) Microservices
2 6 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) ETL
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) ITSM
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) PHP
3 3 (15.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Informatica
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Netskope
3 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Spotify