SaaS Contract Job Trends in London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 133 123
Rank change year-on-year +39 -10 +27
Contract jobs citing SaaS 457 295 391
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.18% 1.95% 2.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.24% 4.73% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 195 276
10th Percentile £322 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile - - £51.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £24.50 £51.88
Median hourly rate £34.50 £28.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.21% -49.09% -24.14%
75th Percentile £41.25 £31.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £47.25 - £86.50
England median hourly rate £32.77 £29.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +13.00% -61.33% +3.45%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,310 6,233 7,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.94% 41.16% 38.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 4,220 5,334
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 42 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -4.28% +19.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.34% +33.12% +3.29%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in London

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in London

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SaaS

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in London

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the London region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Central London +12 50 £525 -16.00% 56
West London +11 30 £500 -11.50% 17
East London +7 4 £675 +25.00% 17
South London -5 3 £482 +26.71% 8
North London +4 2 £700 -1.89% 2
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.72%) Confluence
2 8 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.66%) CMS
5 3 (0.66%) SAS
6 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.44%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.44%) Notion
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.22%) Sketch
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (4.38%) NetSuite
2 12 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.88%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.88%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.44%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.22%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 110 (24.07%) Azure
2 64 (14.00%) PaaS
3 46 (10.07%) AWS
4 42 (9.19%) IaaS
5 25 (5.47%) Entra ID
6 24 (5.25%) GCP
7 19 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (3.94%) OCI
9 16 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.63%) Figma
10 12 (2.63%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (1.97%) GitHub
13 8 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.75%) Serverless
13 8 (1.75%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.53%) Oracle CX
15 6 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (1.31%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.94%) Firewall
2 10 (2.19%) DNS
3 4 (0.88%) DHCP
3 4 (0.88%) IPv4
3 4 (0.88%) VPN
4 3 (0.66%) SMS
5 2 (0.44%) BGP
5 2 (0.44%) DKIM
5 2 (0.44%) DMARC
5 2 (0.44%) Internet
5 2 (0.44%) ISDN
5 2 (0.44%) Network Security
5 2 (0.44%) OpenScape
5 2 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.44%) SSH
5 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.22%) Anycast
6 1 (0.22%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.19%) Oracle ODI
2 10 (2.19%) Power BI
2 10 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.31%) Mixpanel
6 5 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.09%) Tableau
7 4 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.66%) Metadata
8 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.66%) MySQL
8 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.44%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (5.69%) Jenkins
2 23 (5.03%) JIRA
3 6 (1.31%) Git
3 6 (1.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 4 (0.88%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.88%) Selenium
5 3 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.66%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.44%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.44%) Gradle
6 2 (0.44%) JUnit
6 2 (0.44%) Mockito
7 1 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.22%) ERwin
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.22%) MLflow
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 148 (32.39%) Finance
2 123 (26.91%) Social Skills
3 71 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (14.00%) Marketing
5 36 (7.88%) Legal
6 32 (7.00%) Banking
7 27 (5.91%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.19%) Billing
10 10 (2.19%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.75%) General Ledger
12 8 (1.75%) German Language
13 7 (1.53%) Advertising
13 7 (1.53%) Retail
14 5 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 70 (15.32%) Architect
2 60 (13.13%) Senior
3 39 (8.53%) Consultant
4 34 (7.44%) Solutions Architect
5 30 (6.56%) Analyst
6 20 (4.38%) Business Analyst
6 20 (4.38%) Senior Consultant
6 20 (4.38%) Technical Consultant
7 18 (3.94%) Developer
7 18 (3.94%) Technical Specialist
8 17 (3.72%) Data Engineer
9 16 (3.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 16 (3.50%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 16 (3.50%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 16 (3.50%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 15 (3.28%) Designer
10 15 (3.28%) Project Manager
11 14 (3.06%) Lead
12 12 (2.63%) Marketing Manager
12 12 (2.63%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.44%) Node.js
2 33 (7.22%) GraphQL
3 26 (5.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (5.47%) Playwright
5 22 (4.81%) Vitest
6 16 (3.50%) OAuth
7 15 (3.28%) REST
7 15 (3.28%) YAML
8 10 (2.19%) JSON
8 10 (2.19%) Kafka
8 10 (2.19%) Middleware
8 10 (2.19%) SAML
9 9 (1.97%) .NET
9 9 (1.97%) OpenID
10 7 (1.53%) React
10 7 (1.53%) RESTful
11 6 (1.31%) CSS
11 6 (1.31%) HTML
11 6 (1.31%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.66%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (3.06%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.97%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.75%) Replication
8 8 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.31%) Digital Media
9 6 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.31%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.31%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.09%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.28%) Windows
2 11 (2.41%) Linux
2 11 (2.41%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.88%) Unix
4 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.44%) VMS
5 1 (0.22%) AIX
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Solaris
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (22.98%) Agile
2 71 (15.54%) DevOps
3 63 (13.79%) Roadmaps
4 61 (13.35%) Analytics
4 61 (13.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (12.47%) CI/CD
5 57 (12.47%) Migration
6 55 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (9.41%) AI
8 42 (9.19%) ERP
9 40 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 40 (8.75%) User Experience
10 33 (7.22%) Containerisation
10 33 (7.22%) E-Commerce
11 32 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (7.00%) Mentoring
12 31 (6.78%) Decision-Making
12 31 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (6.56%) Coaching
14 29 (6.35%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.60%) SQL
2 39 (8.53%) TypeScript
3 35 (7.66%) Python
4 26 (5.69%) Java
5 20 (4.38%) PowerShell
6 14 (3.06%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.41%) Bicep
8 6 (1.31%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.88%) C#
9 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.66%) Go
11 2 (0.44%) Bash
11 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.44%) Groovy
11 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.44%) PHP
11 2 (0.44%) Ruby
11 2 (0.44%) Scala
12 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.22%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 61 (13.35%) Degree
2 47 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 39 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.35%) ACCA
4 29 (6.35%) CIMA
5 15 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 14 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.41%) CISSP
8 10 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.31%) CBAP
11 5 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.09%) CISM
11 5 (1.09%) CSPO
11 5 (1.09%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.88%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.66%) PMP
14 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.25%) GDPR
2 19 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.94%) QA
4 17 (3.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (3.50%) IFRS
6 11 (2.41%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.97%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.75%) SLA
8 8 (1.75%) SOC 2
9 7 (1.53%) NCSC
10 5 (1.09%) NIST
11 4 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.88%) GRC
12 3 (0.66%) PMO
12 3 (0.66%) WCAG
13 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.44%) GxP
13 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (7.88%) Docker
2 27 (5.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.22%) Firmware
4 1 (0.22%) Postfix
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (8.53%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.25%) Terraform
3 14 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.31%) SCOM
5 5 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.88%) SCCM
7 2 (0.44%) Ansible
7 2 (0.44%) Argo
7 2 (0.44%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.44%) Grafana
7 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.44%) logstash
7 2 (0.44%) QRadar
8 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.50%) Oracle
3 47 (10.28%) Salesforce
4 33 (7.22%) SAP
5 29 (6.35%) Google
6 17 (3.72%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.06%) Workday
8 10 (2.19%) Adobe
9 8 (1.75%) Databricks
9 8 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.53%) Marketo
10 7 (1.53%) Okta
11 6 (1.31%) Amplitude
11 6 (1.31%) Hotjar
11 6 (1.31%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.31%) Optimizely
12 5 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.09%) Zuora
13 4 (0.88%) Anaplan
13 4 (0.88%) Splunk