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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 80 83
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing SaaS 9 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.69% 1.05% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 5.78% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 15
10th Percentile £408 - £485
25th Percentile £450 £340 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £406 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -29.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £644 £713
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £62.00
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £80.49
90th Percentile - - £85.86
England median hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £78.35
% change year-on-year -12.28% -63.63% +5.38%

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 352 277 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.04% 18.21% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 162 319
10th Percentile £220 £213 £189
25th Percentile £407 £291 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £420 £470
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% -10.64% -6.00%
75th Percentile £579 £552 £588
90th Percentile £688 £636 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 29
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £16.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.11% -18.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £46.18 £21.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £26.55 £71.71
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 - 3 £600 - 3
Hertfordshire 0 2 £419 -6.94% 20
Cambridgeshire -5 2 £450 +25.00% 18
Bedfordshire -8 2 £700 - 20
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 (11.11%) 1Password
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) IaaS
1 3 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Figma
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) PowerCenter
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Transformation Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
4 1 (11.11%) SOAR
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) User Research
4 1 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (11.11%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Informatica
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Netskope
3 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce