SaaS Contracts in the East of England

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 84 91
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SaaS 15 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.18% 0.89% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.13% 5.30% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 16
10th Percentile £420 - £406
25th Percentile £450 £340 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £393 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.02% -34.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £656 £450 £669
90th Percentile £700 £659 £903
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.69
25th Percentile - - £65.49
Median hourly rate - - £74.72
75th Percentile - - £82.71
90th Percentile - - £86.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £25.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +5.20% -68.75% +7.60%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 363 264 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.67% 16.74% 25.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 156 334
10th Percentile £213 £213 £188
25th Percentile £410 £300 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -6.67% -7.22%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £673 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 39 31
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £16.30 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.55% -25.91% +41.94%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £64.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £21.46 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.58 £25.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +2.30% -24.24% +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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +12 5 £550 +22.22% 26
Norfolk - 5 £450 - 4
Cambridgeshire 0 2 £450 +25.00% 43
Bedfordshire -4 2 £700 - 16
Suffolk - 1 £425 - 1
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 (6.67%) 1Password
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) IaaS
3 3 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Figma
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Lead
1 4 (26.67%) Technical Leader
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Chief Technology Officer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Transformation Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Software Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (13.33%) Alpine.js
3 2 (13.33%) Laravel
3 2 (13.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.67%) EPoS
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) ETL
3 3 (20.00%) Microservices
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
4 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) ITSM
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) CASB
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Informatica
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Netskope
3 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Spotify