SaaS Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 56
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 +2
Contract jobs citing SaaS 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.56% 1.98% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% 4.90% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £514 £308 -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - -
75th Percentile £534 £500 -
90th Percentile £536 £680 -
South West median daily rate £550 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +18.18%

All Cloud Computing 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 115 102 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.83% 40.32% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 79 117
10th Percentile £182 £216 £355
25th Percentile £227 £313 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £606 £653 £638
90th Percentile £628 £775 £706
South West median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £32.13 £31.50 £17.93
25th Percentile £38.75 £32.42 -
Median hourly rate £49.36 £36.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% +71.43% -73.08%
75th Percentile £53.30 £52.38 £33.00
90th Percentile £62.36 £68.75 £55.20
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £35.00
% change year-on-year +204.72% -46.09% -36.36%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

SaaS job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SaaS

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 2 June 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 3 £525 - 3
Gloucester -8 2 £525 +23.53% 3
SaaS
South West

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Financial Controller
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (40.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Revenue Recognition
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Impact Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ACCA
1 2 (40.00%) CIMA
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Sage
1 2 (40.00%) Xero