SaaS Contracts in Edinburgh

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 46 85
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 +6
Contract jobs citing SaaS 28 26 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.48% 3.19% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.00% 8.55% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 23
10th Percentile £381 £463 £465
25th Percentile £409 £494 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.26%
75th Percentile £600 £654 £613
90th Percentile £604 £778 £650
Scotland median daily rate £525 £594 £525
% change year-on-year -11.58% +13.10% -8.70%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) PaaS
2 9 (32.14%) IaaS
3 7 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (14.29%) Serverless
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Figma
5 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
5 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.57%) SSL
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) JIRA
2 5 (17.86%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
3 3 (10.71%) Cypress.io
3 3 (10.71%) Postman
3 3 (10.71%) Selenium
3 3 (10.71%) Subversion
3 3 (10.71%) TeamCity
3 3 (10.71%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Games
5 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Designer
3 4 (14.29%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 3 (10.71%) QA Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.71%) UI Designer
4 3 (10.71%) UI/UX Designer
4 3 (10.71%) UX Designer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Developer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Programme Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
1 3 (10.71%) AWS CDK
2 2 (7.14%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Client/Server
2 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Agile
2 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 6 (21.43%) User Experience
5 5 (17.86%) DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Kanban
5 5 (17.86%) Scrum
6 4 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.29%) Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Service Design
6 4 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 4 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 4 (14.29%) UX Design
7 3 (10.71%) Architecture Roadmap
7 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
7 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
7 3 (10.71%) User Research
7 3 (10.71%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
2 4 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) C#
3 3 (10.71%) C++
3 3 (10.71%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) VBA
3 3 (10.71%) VBScript
4 2 (7.14%) Groovy
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) ISEB
1 3 (10.71%) ISTQB
1 3 (10.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.57%) OCP
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Kibana
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) VMware