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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 58 102
Rank change year-on-year -16 +44 -13
Contract jobs citing SaaS 36 22 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.81% 2.28% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.57% 8.49% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 6
10th Percentile - £343 £369
25th Percentile £413 £396 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -35.71%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £478
90th Percentile £656 £757 £497
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £19.04 - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.31 - £67.56
75th Percentile £22.07 - -
90th Percentile £22.70 - -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £77.19 £26.00
% change year-on-year -26.80% +196.88% -62.86%

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 420 259 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.08% 26.87% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 162 182
10th Percentile £205 £200 £194
25th Percentile £363 £322 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £559
90th Percentile £688 £675 £673
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 30 53
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.82 £14.41
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.37 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +31.10% -6.86%
75th Percentile £42.58 £28.67 £21.46
90th Percentile £60.00 £69.88 £65.75
England median hourly rate £40.25 £27.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.05% +29.46% -17.58%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -18 16 £575 +36.09% 24
Bedfordshire - 12 £425 - 8
Cambridgeshire +4 6 £505 - 14
Suffolk 0 1 £350 -40.48% 2
Essex - 1 £450 - 4
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 1 (2.78%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) AWS
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (8.33%) OCI
3 3 (8.33%) PaaS
4 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.78%) Boomi
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) IaaS
5 1 (2.78%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.78%) Hudson
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) JMeter
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) Serenity BDD
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (13.89%) Aviation
5 4 (11.11%) Law
6 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Local Government
7 2 (5.56%) Marketing
8 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Consultant
3 4 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Excel Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Product Specialist
3 4 (11.11%) Salesforce Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Analytics Consultant
4 3 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Information Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Information Security Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) IT Support Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) EDI
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.56%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Data Structures
2 4 (11.11%) Learning Management System
2 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Educational Technology
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.56%) FMCG
3 2 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.56%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Migration
2 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (16.67%) Analytics
4 6 (16.67%) B2B
4 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 5 (13.89%) ITIL
5 5 (13.89%) Presales
5 5 (13.89%) Ticket Management
6 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.11%) Coaching
6 4 (11.11%) Customer Insight
6 4 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 4 (11.11%) ERP
6 4 (11.11%) Fintech
6 4 (11.11%) Information Security
6 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.33%) Event-Driven
7 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) VBA
2 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Python
4 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.78%) PMP
3 1 (2.78%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) PMO
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Oracle
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.67%) Salesforce
4 5 (13.89%) IBM
5 3 (8.33%) Atlassian
5 3 (8.33%) MuleSoft
5 3 (8.33%) SAP
6 2 (5.56%) Google
6 2 (5.56%) Pega
6 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.78%) Ariba
7 1 (2.78%) Civica
7 1 (2.78%) Orchard
7 1 (2.78%) Talend
7 1 (2.78%) VMware
7 1 (2.78%) Workday