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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 62 100
Rank change year-on-year -7 +38 -6
Contract jobs citing SaaS 42 17 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.90% 1.81% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.70% 6.42% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 6
10th Percentile - £396 £431
25th Percentile £413 £408 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -37.93%
75th Percentile £538 £672 £478
90th Percentile £648 £782 £497
England median daily rate £509 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -4.95% -2.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
75th Percentile £18.90 - -
90th Percentile £21.43 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £77.19 £26.00
% change year-on-year -31.99% +196.88% -66.10%

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 433 265 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.56% 28.28% 14.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 161 167
10th Percentile £211 £200 £214
25th Percentile £400 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £672 £675 £662
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 37 65
10th Percentile £14.13 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.67 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.36 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +13.48% +15.46% -14.21%
75th Percentile £42.58 £21.92 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £37.46 £60.95
England median hourly rate £46.40 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +81.96% +22.77% -35.70%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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
Bedfordshire - 14 £425 - 4
Hertfordshire -24 11 £563 +2.27% 28
Cambridgeshire +14 7 £509 - 18
Norfolk -23 4 £638 +41.67% 3
Essex - 4 £450 - 7
Suffolk -5 2 £350 -40.48% 5
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 2 (4.76%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) AWS
2 7 (16.67%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) PaaS
3 4 (9.52%) IaaS
3 4 (9.52%) OCI
4 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (7.14%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) Boomi
5 2 (4.76%) Google Workspace
5 2 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.38%) Hudson
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) JMeter
3 1 (2.38%) Selenium
3 1 (2.38%) Serenity BDD
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 5 (11.90%) Aviation
5 4 (9.52%) Law
5 4 (9.52%) Local Government
6 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Marketing
7 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Retail
8 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Analyst
2 6 (14.29%) Consultant
3 5 (11.90%) Applications Support
3 5 (11.90%) Applications Support Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) SaaS Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Support Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Excel Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Salesforce Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Analytics Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Data Entry Assistant
5 3 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Support Assistant
6 2 (4.76%) Data Migration Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) REST
1 3 (7.14%) SOAP
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) FMCG
2 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.52%) Web Conferencing
3 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.14%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.76%) Educational Technology
4 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Robotics
5 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Android
2 3 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 3 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Migration
2 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (19.05%) Analytics
4 7 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 6 (14.29%) B2B
5 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (14.29%) Validation
6 5 (11.90%) Data Management
6 5 (11.90%) Ticket Management
7 4 (9.52%) ERP
7 4 (9.52%) Event-Driven
7 4 (9.52%) Information Security
7 4 (9.52%) Project Delivery
7 4 (9.52%) Service Delivery
7 4 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (7.14%) API Design
8 3 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 3 (7.14%) Data Deduplication
8 3 (7.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (7.14%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) VBA
2 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (2.38%) Java
4 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.38%) PMP
4 1 (2.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Oracle
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.67%) Salesforce
4 5 (11.90%) IBM
5 4 (9.52%) MuleSoft
6 3 (7.14%) Atlassian
6 3 (7.14%) SAP
7 2 (4.76%) Civica
7 2 (4.76%) Google
7 2 (4.76%) Orchard
7 2 (4.76%) Pega
7 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.76%) VMware
8 1 (2.38%) Ariba
8 1 (2.38%) Forcepoint
8 1 (2.38%) Informatica
8 1 (2.38%) Workday