SaaS Contract Job Trends in England

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SaaS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 144 130
Rank change year-on-year +45 -14 -12
Contract jobs citing SaaS 718 568 865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.58% 1.72% 2.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.90% 5.00% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 386 642
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £729 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -3.98% -2.95% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 16
10th Percentile - £20.80 £43.13
25th Percentile £14.75 £24.18 £64.06
Median hourly rate £26.30 £28.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% -64.38% +7.60%
75th Percentile £30.04 £33.75 £88.92
90th Percentile £45.97 £47.75 £93.75
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £28.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -7.72% -64.38% +29.19%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,409 11,350 15,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.41% 34.41% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,037 7,778 11,296
10th Percentile £308 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 182 303
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.16 £14.69
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.96 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.73 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% -6.87% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.14 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.67 £70.00 £79.10
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.10% -14.29% +62.79%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in England

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in England over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in England

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SaaS

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in England over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in England

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +43 421 £528 -3.21% 987
North of England +7 98 £475 -5.00% 326
South East +14 79 £525 -6.25% 703
North West +14 75 £475 - 204
Midlands +9 64 £552 +10.40% 170
West Midlands 0 46 £577 +9.86% 101
South West +13 20 £475 -20.83% 90
East Midlands +5 18 £425 -4.49% 64
Yorkshire -14 16 £442 -11.60% 96
East of England -6 10 £513 +26.15% 94
North East +2 7 £450 -30.77% 30
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 29 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.76%) Confluence
3 13 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.70%) CMS
5 5 (0.70%) SAS
6 4 (0.56%) nginx
6 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) CICS
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) Trello
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.14%) 1Password
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.14%) InDesign
7 1 (0.14%) Notion
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.14%) Revit
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (2.79%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.39%) Oracle Assets
3 10 (1.39%) Oracle EBS R12
3 10 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.56%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.42%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.42%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.28%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle CRM
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.28%) SAP PLM
7 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 195 (27.16%) Azure
2 138 (19.22%) AWS
3 119 (16.57%) PaaS
4 92 (12.81%) IaaS
5 72 (10.03%) GCP
6 60 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (6.69%) Power Platform
8 44 (6.13%) Entra ID
9 36 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (5.01%) GitHub
10 32 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (4.18%) Amazon S3
12 28 (3.90%) Google Workspace
13 25 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (3.34%) Serverless
15 23 (3.20%) OCI
16 21 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
17 18 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (2.23%) OpenShift
19 12 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.34%) DNS
2 23 (3.20%) Firewall
3 13 (1.81%) VPN
4 10 (1.39%) Internet
4 10 (1.39%) SAN
4 10 (1.39%) Wireless
5 9 (1.25%) SMTP
6 7 (0.97%) DKIM
6 7 (0.97%) DMARC
6 7 (0.97%) FTP
6 7 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.97%) VoIP
7 6 (0.84%) HTTP
7 6 (0.84%) PBX
8 5 (0.70%) VLAN
9 4 (0.56%) WAN
9 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.42%) BGP
10 3 (0.42%) DHCP
10 3 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.85%) Power BI
2 32 (4.46%) Relational Database
3 20 (2.79%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.65%) MySQL
5 14 (1.95%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.95%) Data Mining
6 13 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.53%) Tableau
9 9 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.25%) Metadata
10 8 (1.11%) Oracle ODI
10 8 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.97%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.70%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.70%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.70%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (5.15%) JIRA
2 23 (3.20%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.51%) Git
4 14 (1.95%) Browser DevTools
4 14 (1.95%) Eclipse
5 10 (1.39%) Android Studio
5 10 (1.39%) Xcode
6 9 (1.25%) Postman
7 7 (0.97%) Selenium
8 6 (0.84%) Gradle
9 5 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.56%) Maven
10 4 (0.56%) SonarLint
11 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.42%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.42%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.42%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 230 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 179 (24.93%) Finance
3 81 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.22%) Marketing
4 59 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.43%) Banking
6 32 (4.46%) Telecoms
7 28 (3.90%) Legal
8 27 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.37%) Retail
10 16 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.95%) Military
12 11 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.53%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.25%) Billing
14 9 (1.25%) French Language
15 7 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 139 (19.36%) Architect
2 70 (9.75%) Senior
3 54 (7.52%) Analyst
4 51 (7.10%) Lead
5 41 (5.71%) Project Manager
6 37 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
7 36 (5.01%) Consultant
8 33 (4.60%) Security Architect
9 26 (3.62%) Business Analyst
10 25 (3.48%) Developer
11 23 (3.20%) Designer
12 20 (2.79%) Azure Architect
12 20 (2.79%) Support Engineer
13 18 (2.51%) Enterprise Architect
13 18 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (2.23%) Administrator
15 15 (2.09%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (2.09%) Technical Support
16 14 (1.95%) Technical Engineer
16 14 (1.95%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.74%) GraphQL
2 31 (4.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 27 (3.76%) CSS
3 27 (3.76%) OAuth
4 26 (3.62%) Node.js
5 24 (3.34%) AngularJS
6 23 (3.20%) REST
7 21 (2.92%) React
7 21 (2.92%) SAML
8 18 (2.51%) OpenID
9 17 (2.37%) HTML
10 16 (2.23%) JSON
10 16 (2.23%) Web Services
11 14 (1.95%) Ajax
12 13 (1.81%) .NET
12 13 (1.81%) Middleware
12 13 (1.81%) Playwright
12 13 (1.81%) RESTful
13 12 (1.67%) Swagger
14 10 (1.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.47%) Onboarding
2 52 (7.24%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (3.90%) CSOC
5 28 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (3.34%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.06%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.51%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
11 11 (1.53%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.25%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
13 8 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (8.77%) Windows
2 51 (7.10%) Linux
3 20 (2.79%) Android
4 16 (2.23%) Unix
5 14 (1.95%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Debian
8 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (23.54%) Agile
2 116 (16.16%) DevOps
3 103 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (12.95%) Migration
5 92 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (10.45%) CI/CD
7 74 (10.31%) Roadmaps
8 71 (9.89%) Analytics
9 69 (9.61%) User Experience
10 65 (9.05%) ERP
11 63 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
12 57 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 54 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
14 53 (7.38%) Scrum
15 52 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (6.55%) CRM
17 46 (6.41%) Project Management
18 45 (6.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 44 (6.13%) Containerisation
20 41 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 70 (9.75%) Python
2 69 (9.61%) SQL
3 43 (5.99%) Java
4 39 (5.43%) PowerShell
5 37 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.20%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.65%) Bicep
8 13 (1.81%) PHP
9 11 (1.53%) Perl
10 10 (1.39%) Bash
11 9 (1.25%) C#
12 7 (0.97%) Go
12 7 (0.97%) Groovy
13 6 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.42%) Ruby
14 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.28%) Scala
16 1 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 120 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 71 (9.89%) Degree
4 25 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.81%) ACCA
6 13 (1.81%) CIMA
7 12 (1.67%) CISSP
8 10 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.25%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.11%) PMP
11 7 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.84%) CCNP
12 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.01%) GDPR
2 35 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 23 (3.20%) QA
5 21 (2.92%) IFRS
6 20 (2.79%) SLA
7 14 (1.95%) NIST
7 14 (1.95%) SOC 2
8 12 (1.67%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.67%) Data Quality
9 11 (1.53%) Basel II
10 5 (0.70%) GRC
10 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.70%) PMO
10 5 (0.70%) WCAG
11 4 (0.56%) GAAP
12 3 (0.42%) Basel III
12 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (6.55%) Active Directory
1 47 (6.55%) Docker
2 27 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.84%) Dovecot
3 6 (0.84%) Postfix
4 3 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 66 (9.19%) Kubernetes
2 57 (7.94%) Terraform
3 35 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.81%) Ansible
5 13 (1.81%) Grafana
6 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.56%) Puppet
6 4 (0.56%) SCCM
7 3 (0.42%) Argo
8 2 (0.28%) Control-M
8 2 (0.28%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.28%) SCOM
9 1 (0.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.14%) Nessus
9 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.14%) QRadar
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 127 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 98 (13.65%) Oracle
3 54 (7.52%) Google
3 54 (7.52%) Salesforce
4 48 (6.69%) ServiceNow
5 47 (6.55%) Splunk
6 43 (5.99%) SAP
7 32 (4.46%) VMware
8 19 (2.65%) Workday
9 18 (2.51%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.81%) Broadcom
10 13 (1.81%) Cisco
11 12 (1.67%) AppDynamics
11 12 (1.67%) F5
12 10 (1.39%) IBM
13 8 (1.11%) Avaya
13 8 (1.11%) HP
13 8 (1.11%) Informatica
13 8 (1.11%) Juniper
13 8 (1.11%) Red Hat