SaaS Contracts in Glasgow

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 57 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing SaaS 20 13 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.70% 1.61% 2.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.33% 4.38% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 16
10th Percentile £475 £213 £461
25th Percentile £488 £293 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.65% -15.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £463 £541
90th Percentile £738 £558 £551
Scotland median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 273 297 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 36.79% 36.71% 34.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 216 216
10th Percentile £313 £206 £363
25th Percentile £400 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £510 £593
90th Percentile £589 £588 £673
Scotland median daily rate £474 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +4.93% -4.95% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - £51.25 £18.25
Median hourly rate £15.09 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.26% +50.00% +59.09%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £59.83
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +24.82% -71.92% +82.11%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Glasgow

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Glasgow

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Glasgow

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) PaaS
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) IaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) FTP
1 1 (5.00%) Internet
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) PyCharm
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (5.00%) Mockito
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (5.00%) TestComplete
3 1 (5.00%) Toad
3 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (65.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
1 9 (45.00%) Python Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Designer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.00%) JWT
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth
1 1 (5.00%) OpenID
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) SDLC
2 10 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Information Security
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
7 2 (10.00%) Backlog Management
7 2 (10.00%) Data Mapping
7 2 (10.00%) Data Security
7 2 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
7 2 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
7 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (10.00%) Six Sigma
7 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (10.00%) CISM
1 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (10.00%) CRISC
2 1 (5.00%) CCSP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) ISEB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.00%) Autodesk
3 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) Okta
4 1 (5.00%) Talend