SaaS Contracts in Gloucestershire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 36 57 50
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing SaaS 5 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.82% 0.23% 2.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.59% 0.63% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 12
10th Percentile £308 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.79%
75th Percentile £500 - £413
90th Percentile £680 - £563
South West median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +7.26%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 109 160 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.78% 37.30% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 115 148
10th Percentile £230 £300 £400
25th Percentile £409 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £706 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile - £17.42 -
25th Percentile £31.50 £19.72 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £21.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -71.23% +398.63%
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.25 £78.00
90th Percentile - £55.30 -
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Gloucestershire

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Gloucestershire

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Gloucestershire

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Gloucester +4 5 £425 - 26
SaaS
South West

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft