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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 63 86
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing SaaS 13 21 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.83% 1.96% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 8.14% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 11
10th Percentile - £336 £450
25th Percentile £413 £340 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £423 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -23.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £441 £553 £613
90th Percentile £446 £725 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £69.54
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £29.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.31% -61.33% +3.45%

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 requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 320 258 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.49% 24.11% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 152 202
10th Percentile £213 £213 £185
25th Percentile £353 £309 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £591 £550
90th Percentile £713 £686 £648
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 32
10th Percentile £6.00 £16.28 -
25th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +19.22% +16.13%
75th Percentile £25.00 £55.00 £39.69
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £76.88
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -0.07%

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
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 13 January 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -19 9 £450 +6.51% 102
Bedfordshire - 4 £425 - 96
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 13 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (23.08%) Aviation
3 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Consultant
1 4 (30.77%) Product Specialist
2 3 (23.08%) Analytics Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) EDI
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Learning Management System
2 2 (15.38%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (38.46%) Presales
3 4 (30.77%) Coaching
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Insight
3 4 (30.77%) Fintech
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) ETL
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Ticket Management
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) ERP
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft
3 2 (15.38%) Pega
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Talend
4 1 (7.69%) Workday