SaaS Contracts in England

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 131 118
Rank change year-on-year -13 -13 +11
Contract jobs citing SaaS 600 991 1,690
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.64% 2.01% 2.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.14% 5.51% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 717 1,277
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £448 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 8
10th Percentile £23.09 £17.28 -
25th Percentile £25.31 £28.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £72.10 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +55.90% +131.25%
75th Percentile £31.75 £82.37 £67.88
90th Percentile £43.44 £85.23 £82.64
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £72.10 £40.00
% change year-on-year -63.94% +80.26% +185.71%

All Cloud Skills
England

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,669 17,979 27,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.92% 36.55% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,417 13,172 20,060
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 304 350
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -
75th Percentile £33.25 £65.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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 -7 337 £525 -8.70% 525
North of England -14 77 £500 -9.09% 199
South East -44 71 £538 +2.38% 187
South West +32 54 £650 +18.18% 94
North West +12 52 £500 -4.76% 136
Midlands +8 42 £488 -7.14% 110
West Midlands -6 26 £510 -2.86% 75
Yorkshire -14 23 £538 -7.05% 50
East Midlands +29 16 £445 -16.24% 35
East of England -5 7 £450 -33.33% 26
North East +11 2 £531 -21.30% 14
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 19 (3.17%) Confluence
2 9 (1.50%) CMS
3 8 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.50%) WordPress
7 2 (0.33%) Apache
7 2 (0.33%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
7 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.17%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.67%) Workfront
3 3 (0.50%) Maximo
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle FAH
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.50%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.33%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Shopify
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle AGIS
Cloud Services
1 196 (32.67%) PaaS
2 171 (28.50%) IaaS
3 163 (27.17%) Azure
4 136 (22.67%) AWS
5 54 (9.00%) Cloud Computing
6 39 (6.50%) Serverless
7 36 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 24 (4.00%) GCP
9 20 (3.33%) Google Workspace
10 17 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.50%) Power Platform
12 14 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.67%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.50%) Nutanix
14 9 (1.50%) OCI
15 8 (1.33%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.33%) Firewall
2 36 (6.00%) LAN
3 34 (5.67%) WAN
4 28 (4.67%) DNS
5 18 (3.00%) VoIP
6 14 (2.33%) DHCP
7 13 (2.17%) PBX
8 12 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.83%) NAS
10 10 (1.67%) Network Security
10 10 (1.67%) SAN
10 10 (1.67%) VPN
11 9 (1.50%) Kerberos
12 8 (1.33%) VLAN
13 7 (1.17%) IPsec
14 6 (1.00%) HTTP
14 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.83%) HTTPS
15 5 (0.83%) Internet
16 4 (0.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 14 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.67%) MySQL
6 9 (1.50%) Power BI
7 8 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.17%) DB2
9 5 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.67%) Big Data
10 4 (0.67%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.67%) GIS
10 4 (0.67%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.50%) OLAP
11 3 (0.50%) OLTP
11 3 (0.50%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 33 (5.50%) JIRA
2 22 (3.67%) Git
3 18 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 10 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 9 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.83%) webpack
8 4 (0.67%) GitLab
8 4 (0.67%) Selenium
9 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.33%) gulp
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.33%) Postman
10 2 (0.33%) Snyk
10 2 (0.33%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.17%) Maven
11 1 (0.17%) MSI
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 120 (20.00%) Finance
2 116 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 63 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 41 (6.83%) Marketing
5 37 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (6.00%) Legal
7 32 (5.33%) Banking
8 23 (3.83%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.17%) Retail
11 7 (1.17%) Digital Economy
11 7 (1.17%) Games
12 5 (0.83%) Law
12 5 (0.83%) Police
13 4 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.67%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.67%) Local Government
14 3 (0.50%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 172 (28.67%) Architect
2 64 (10.67%) Solutions Architect
3 63 (10.50%) Developer
4 59 (9.83%) Senior
5 55 (9.17%) Analyst
6 44 (7.33%) Project Manager
7 38 (6.33%) Business Analyst
8 35 (5.83%) Security Architect
9 34 (5.67%) Cloud Architect
9 34 (5.67%) Lead
10 31 (5.17%) Network Architect
11 21 (3.50%) Consultant
12 20 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) Senior Architect
13 19 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
14 18 (3.00%) IT Manager
15 17 (2.83%) Senior Security Architect
16 14 (2.33%) Enterprise Architect
17 13 (2.17%) Senior Manager
17 13 (2.17%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.00%) REST
2 25 (4.17%) .NET
3 24 (4.00%) Node.js
3 24 (4.00%) React
4 18 (3.00%) Middleware
5 16 (2.67%) CSS
5 16 (2.67%) HTML
6 14 (2.33%) LDAP
6 14 (2.33%) SAML
6 14 (2.33%) SOAP
7 13 (2.17%) OpenID
8 10 (1.67%) JSON
8 10 (1.67%) OAuth
9 9 (1.50%) Web Services
9 9 (1.50%) XML
10 7 (1.17%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.17%) HTML5
10 7 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (1.17%) Swagger
11 6 (1.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.17%) Data Centre
2 24 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 21 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.17%) Video Conferencing
6 17 (2.83%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.67%) IoT
7 16 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.33%) Clustering
9 14 (2.33%) Virtual Team
10 13 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 12 (2.00%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.50%) Blackberry
12 9 (1.50%) Replication
13 8 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.17%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.50%) Windows
2 37 (6.17%) Linux
3 15 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.67%) Solaris
7 8 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (1.00%) Android
8 6 (1.00%) Unix
9 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (25.50%) Agile
2 78 (13.00%) Migration
3 70 (11.67%) DevOps
4 60 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 59 (9.83%) Roadmaps
6 57 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (9.50%) Project Management
7 52 (8.67%) ERP
8 49 (8.17%) Information Security
9 48 (8.00%) Cloud Security
9 48 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (7.50%) Decision-Making
11 44 (7.33%) Security Architecture
12 43 (7.17%) Business Strategy
13 42 (7.00%) Microservices
14 40 (6.67%) CI/CD
14 40 (6.67%) Waterfall
15 39 (6.50%) Scrum
15 39 (6.50%) Zero Trust
16 37 (6.17%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 47 (7.83%) SQL
2 43 (7.17%) Python
3 35 (5.83%) PowerShell
4 20 (3.33%) Java
5 19 (3.17%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.83%) C#
7 15 (2.50%) Bash
8 14 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.67%) Ruby
10 9 (1.50%) C
11 8 (1.33%) Swift
12 7 (1.17%) PHP
13 6 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.83%) Go
15 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.50%) Rust
17 2 (0.33%) Bicep
18 1 (0.17%) C++
18 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 81 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.33%) Degree
3 44 (7.33%) DV Cleared
4 39 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.50%) PMP
6 17 (2.83%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.33%) APMP
8 12 (2.00%) CISSP
9 10 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.33%) CISM
11 8 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.17%) HND
12 7 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.00%) CCNP
14 5 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.67%) GIAC
16 3 (0.50%) CCIE
16 3 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.33%) QA
2 22 (3.67%) GDPR
2 22 (3.67%) NIST
3 10 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.33%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.83%) PMO
6 5 (0.83%) SLA
7 4 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) COPPA
10 1 (0.17%) COREP
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.17%) ISAE 3402
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 44 (7.33%) Active Directory
2 30 (5.00%) Docker
3 22 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.67%) Firmware
5 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (7.83%) Terraform
2 32 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.83%) Ansible
3 17 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (1.33%) Netcool
5 8 (1.33%) Tivoli
5 8 (1.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (0.83%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.50%) SCCM
8 2 (0.33%) Grafana
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.17%) Puppet
9 1 (0.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 138 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 80 (13.33%) Oracle
3 43 (7.17%) Google
4 36 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 32 (5.33%) Cisco
6 29 (4.83%) ServiceNow
7 28 (4.67%) SAP
8 25 (4.17%) VMware
9 20 (3.33%) IBM
10 18 (3.00%) Okta
11 17 (2.83%) HP
12 12 (2.00%) CyberArk
12 12 (2.00%) Splunk
13 11 (1.83%) Avaya
13 11 (1.83%) Dell
13 11 (1.83%) Juniper
13 11 (1.83%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.83%) Workday
14 9 (1.50%) Ericsson
14 9 (1.50%) Nokia