SaaS Contracts in England

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 145 130
Rank change year-on-year +41 -15 -16
Contract jobs citing SaaS 669 623 921
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.56% 1.67% 1.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.81% 5.12% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 422 654
10th Percentile £313 £363 £400
25th Percentile £411 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -6.46% -4.06%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 13
10th Percentile - £23.09 £19.35
25th Percentile £14.75 £25.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.14 £26.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -61.48% +45.95%
75th Percentile £74.77 £31.75 £82.50
90th Percentile £95.60 £35.94 £88.15
UK median hourly rate £32.14 £26.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +23.60% -61.48% +67.70%

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 9,828 12,164 17,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 32.54% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,627 8,683 12,603
10th Percentile £311 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 330 288
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.11 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%
75th Percentile £39.06 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in England

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in England

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in England.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in England

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +44 389 £575 +9.52% 6,561
North of England +6 92 £475 -5.00% 1,626
South East +39 73 £531 -3.41% 1,773
North West +12 67 £475 -5.00% 975
Midlands +20 44 £450 - 1,025
South West +10 32 £500 -23.08% 640
West Midlands +11 24 £544 +11.49% 571
East of England +36 20 £450 - 763
East Midlands +6 20 £418 -6.18% 453
Yorkshire -7 17 £442 -15.81% 560
North East +7 8 £505 -5.04% 93
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 33 (4.93%) Confluence
2 30 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 23 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.90%) SAS
6 4 (0.60%) CMS
6 4 (0.60%) nginx
6 4 (0.60%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.45%) Camunda
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.30%) Trello
5 1 (0.15%) 1Password
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.15%) InDesign
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Notion
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.09%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.79%) Oracle Assets
3 10 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
3 10 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.90%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.45%) Sprinklr
10 2 (0.30%) Actimize
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payroll
10 2 (0.30%) SAP PLM
10 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 203 (30.34%) Azure
2 150 (22.42%) AWS
3 124 (18.54%) PaaS
4 98 (14.65%) IaaS
5 70 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
6 68 (10.16%) GCP
7 58 (8.67%) Entra ID
8 37 (5.53%) GitHub
8 37 (5.53%) Power Platform
9 36 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (5.23%) Serverless
11 30 (4.48%) OCI
12 26 (3.89%) Amazon S3
12 26 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (3.44%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (3.29%) Google Workspace
16 21 (3.14%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (2.99%) Azure AKS
18 18 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.44%) Firewall
2 15 (2.24%) VPN
3 12 (1.79%) VoIP
4 11 (1.64%) PBX
5 10 (1.49%) DNS
6 8 (1.20%) HTTP
6 8 (1.20%) SAN
7 5 (0.75%) WAN
8 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.60%) VLAN
9 3 (0.45%) BGP
9 3 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.45%) Skype
9 3 (0.45%) SMTP
9 3 (0.45%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.30%) 4G
10 2 (0.30%) 5G
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) NGFW
10 2 (0.30%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.78%) Power BI
2 20 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.69%) Data Lake
4 17 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.79%) Data Mining
7 12 (1.79%) Oracle ODI
7 12 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (1.49%) Tableau
9 8 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.05%) Metadata
10 7 (1.05%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.45%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.45%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 43 (6.43%) JIRA
2 18 (2.69%) Git
3 16 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.20%) Postman
5 7 (1.05%) GitLab
6 6 (0.90%) Selenium
7 5 (0.75%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.60%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.45%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.30%) Moq
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.30%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.30%) UI Automator
10 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 206 (30.79%) Finance
2 193 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 75 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.03%) Marketing
6 43 (6.43%) Banking
7 34 (5.08%) Legal
8 33 (4.93%) Telecoms
9 27 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.09%) Retail
12 13 (1.94%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.79%) Military
14 11 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.20%) French Language
16 8 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.90%) Law
18 6 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (19.73%) Architect
2 76 (11.36%) Senior
3 67 (10.01%) Analyst
4 57 (8.52%) Lead
5 51 (7.62%) Project Manager
6 34 (5.08%) Security Architect
6 34 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
7 32 (4.78%) Consultant
7 32 (4.78%) Developer
8 27 (4.04%) Business Analyst
9 21 (3.14%) Azure Architect
10 20 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
11 18 (2.69%) IT Manager
12 17 (2.54%) Designer
12 17 (2.54%) Support Engineer
13 15 (2.24%) Product Owner
13 15 (2.24%) Senior Manager
14 14 (2.09%) Applications Support
14 14 (2.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (2.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.33%) .NET
2 24 (3.59%) REST
3 23 (3.44%) CSS
4 21 (3.14%) AngularJS
4 21 (3.14%) OAuth
5 20 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (2.84%) Node.js
7 18 (2.69%) SAML
8 17 (2.54%) HTML
9 16 (2.39%) Web Services
10 15 (2.24%) XML
11 14 (2.09%) ARM Templates
11 14 (2.09%) JSON
11 14 (2.09%) OpenID
11 14 (2.09%) React
12 13 (1.94%) Middleware
12 13 (1.94%) Swagger
13 11 (1.64%) GraphQL
13 11 (1.64%) RESTful
14 8 (1.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.42%) Onboarding
2 38 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (5.38%) Cloud Native
4 31 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.59%) CSOC
5 24 (3.59%) Security Operations Centre
6 20 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.69%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.09%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
11 11 (1.64%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
12 10 (1.49%) Blackberry
12 10 (1.49%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.22%) Windows
2 28 (4.19%) Linux
3 19 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.64%) Android
5 10 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.20%) Unix
7 7 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.30%) Debian
8 2 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (26.91%) Agile
2 121 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (14.50%) Migration
4 95 (14.20%) DevOps
5 85 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 68 (10.16%) CI/CD
7 66 (9.87%) Analytics
7 66 (9.87%) Project Management
8 65 (9.72%) Roadmaps
9 61 (9.12%) Scrum
10 59 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (8.22%) ERP
11 55 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 53 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
13 46 (6.88%) User Experience
14 45 (6.73%) Business Intelligence
15 44 (6.58%) ITIL
16 41 (6.13%) CRM
17 39 (5.83%) Project Delivery
18 38 (5.68%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 92 (13.75%) SQL
2 54 (8.07%) Python
3 48 (7.17%) PowerShell
4 33 (4.93%) JavaScript
5 26 (3.89%) Java
6 20 (2.99%) C#
7 18 (2.69%) Bicep
8 12 (1.79%) Bash
8 12 (1.79%) PHP
9 10 (1.49%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.20%) Go
11 7 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.90%) Groovy
13 4 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.60%) Ruby
14 3 (0.45%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.45%) Perl
14 3 (0.45%) R
15 2 (0.30%) Rust
15 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 117 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 106 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 69 (10.31%) Degree
4 23 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.24%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.49%) CCNP
8 10 (1.49%) CISSP
8 10 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.05%) PMP
10 7 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.90%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.75%) CISM
13 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.60%) OCP
13 4 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.19%) GDPR
2 19 (2.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 18 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.69%) QA
4 16 (2.39%) SLA
5 12 (1.79%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.64%) Basel II
7 10 (1.49%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.35%) IFRS
9 8 (1.20%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.05%) NIST
10 7 (1.05%) PMO
11 6 (0.90%) GRC
12 5 (0.75%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.60%) NCSC
14 3 (0.45%) Basel III
14 3 (0.45%) GAAP
14 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 54 (8.07%) Active Directory
2 29 (4.33%) Docker
3 18 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.30%) Firmware
6 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (9.42%) Terraform
2 55 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 30 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.39%) Ansible
6 9 (1.35%) Grafana
7 5 (0.75%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.45%) Puppet
9 2 (0.30%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.30%) Control-M
9 2 (0.30%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.30%) Nessus
9 2 (0.30%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.30%) SCCM
10 1 (0.15%) Netcool
10 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 131 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 82 (12.26%) Oracle
3 39 (5.83%) Google
3 39 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 35 (5.23%) Splunk
5 31 (4.63%) SAP
6 29 (4.33%) Salesforce
7 23 (3.44%) VMware
8 17 (2.54%) Cisco
8 17 (2.54%) F5
9 16 (2.39%) Palo Alto
10 13 (1.94%) Juniper
11 12 (1.79%) Avaya
11 12 (1.79%) IBM
12 11 (1.64%) Ericsson
12 11 (1.64%) Nokia
13 10 (1.49%) Ribbon
14 8 (1.20%) Alibaba
14 8 (1.20%) CyberArk
14 8 (1.20%) Informatica