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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 70 93
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing SaaS 49 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.25% 1.60% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.14% 5.38% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 7
10th Percentile £325 £435 £340
25th Percentile £413 - £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% - -25.00%
75th Percentile £609 £656 £478
90th Percentile £700 £720 £564
England median daily rate £538 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.75 £26.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year +100.57% +5.20% -68.75%

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 483 372 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.17% 29.78% 15.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 205 148
10th Percentile £193 £200 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £555
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 47 48
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.74 £15.93 £14.46
Median hourly rate £21.00 £20.50 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +25.77% -23.51%
75th Percentile £55.13 £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £65.63 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -7 14 £600 +9.09% 12
Cambridgeshire +17 13 £509 +13.11% 19
Essex - 7 £450 - 3
Bedfordshire 0 6 £425 -39.29% 3
Norfolk -17 5 £469 +4.17% 2
Suffolk -8 4 £350 -40.48% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.16%) OpenEdge
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) AWS
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) PaaS
3 6 (12.24%) OCI
4 5 (10.20%) IaaS
5 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.12%) GCP
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.08%) Boomi
6 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.08%) Serverless
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.04%) GitHub
7 1 (2.04%) Google Gemini
7 1 (2.04%) iPaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.04%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
2 2 (4.08%) Internet
3 1 (2.04%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.04%) LAN
3 1 (2.04%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) VoIP
3 1 (2.04%) WAN
3 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.04%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) Hudson
3 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) JMeter
3 1 (2.04%) Selenium
3 1 (2.04%) Serenity BDD
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Finance
3 6 (12.24%) Local Government
4 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Retail
6 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.12%) Law
6 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Analyst
2 6 (12.24%) Architect
2 6 (12.24%) Business Development Manager
2 6 (12.24%) Business Manager
2 6 (12.24%) Consultant
2 6 (12.24%) Development Manager
3 5 (10.20%) Applications Support
3 5 (10.20%) Applications Support Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) SaaS Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) Senior
3 5 (10.20%) Support Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Excel Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Lead
4 4 (8.16%) Salesforce Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) REST
1 4 (8.16%) SailPoint
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.08%) SOAP
2 2 (4.08%) XML
3 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (10.20%) FMCG
3 4 (8.16%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.16%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.12%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.08%) Low-Code
5 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.04%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.04%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.04%) Robotics
6 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Android
1 4 (8.16%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.12%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.08%) Unix
4 1 (2.04%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Migration
2 11 (22.45%) Data Management
3 9 (18.37%) Decision-Making
4 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (16.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 7 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (12.24%) Business Development
6 6 (12.24%) Validation
7 5 (10.20%) Agile
7 5 (10.20%) B2B
7 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
8 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (8.16%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (8.16%) DevOps
8 4 (8.16%) ITIL
8 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.16%) Project Management
8 4 (8.16%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.16%) VBA
2 3 (6.12%) SQL
3 2 (4.08%) C
3 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.08%) ProC
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.04%) CCSP
3 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.04%) CISSP
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 4 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.16%) GDPR
3 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.16%) Civica
3 4 (8.16%) Orchard
4 3 (6.12%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.12%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.12%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.08%) VMware
6 1 (2.04%) Apple
6 1 (2.04%) Ariba
6 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.04%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) Informatica
6 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.04%) Pega