SaaS Contracts in London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 140 128
Rank change year-on-year +49 -12 -21
Contract jobs citing SaaS 406 320 522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.97% 1.88% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.94% 4.64% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 210 380
10th Percentile £325 £357 £386
25th Percentile £438 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -5.83% -5.51%
75th Percentile £738 £638 £688
90th Percentile £838 £780 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 5
10th Percentile - £22.22 £41.95
25th Percentile £24.77 £24.80 £66.25
Median hourly rate £28.90 £26.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -67.50% +128.57%
75th Percentile £41.06 £32.81 £82.50
90th Percentile £56.93 £47.25 £82.80
England median hourly rate £15.50 £26.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -40.38% -67.50% +72.97%

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 5,853 6,894 9,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.89% 40.49% 39.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,996 5,047 7,347
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 59 72
10th Percentile £22.55 £19.56 £19.04
25th Percentile £24.83 £22.08 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.97 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.79% -52.05% +32.35%
75th Percentile £46.56 £39.75 £80.00
90th Percentile £67.31 £66.20 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £34.90
% change year-on-year +15.63% -37.67% +60.23%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in London

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in London

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in London

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in London.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in London

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in London over the 6 months to 20 July 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 20 July 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 +20 68 £647 +17.55% 177
East London +21 10 £585 +8.33% 17
South London +1 6 £503 +32.30% 17
West London -2 4 £550 +4.76% 20
North London -4 2 £550 +12.82% 2
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 21 (5.17%) Confluence
2 11 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.23%) CMS
6 4 (0.99%) nginx
7 3 (0.74%) SAS
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) JBoss
8 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (3.94%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.99%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.49%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.49%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.49%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 119 (29.31%) Azure
2 93 (22.91%) AWS
3 76 (18.72%) PaaS
4 67 (16.50%) IaaS
5 47 (11.58%) GCP
6 35 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 27 (6.65%) Entra ID
9 23 (5.67%) Amazon S3
9 23 (5.67%) GitHub
10 22 (5.42%) OCI
11 21 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
12 19 (4.68%) Serverless
13 13 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (2.22%) OneDrive
15 8 (1.97%) Slack
16 7 (1.72%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.17%) Firewall
2 15 (3.69%) VPN
3 5 (1.23%) DNS
3 5 (1.23%) WAN
4 3 (0.74%) BGP
4 3 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (0.74%) SAN
4 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.74%) VLAN
4 3 (0.74%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.49%) IPsec
5 2 (0.49%) LAN
5 2 (0.49%) Multicast
5 2 (0.49%) NGFW
5 2 (0.49%) OSPF
5 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.25%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.25%) Broadband
6 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.40%) Power BI
2 13 (3.20%) Data Lake
2 13 (3.20%) Oracle ODI
2 13 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.96%) Data Mining
3 12 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (1.97%) Tableau
7 6 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.23%) Metadata
9 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.74%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.49%) Looker
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.25%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.25%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (5.42%) JIRA
2 11 (2.71%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.22%) Git
4 5 (1.23%) GitLab
5 4 (0.99%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.74%) Postman
6 3 (0.74%) Selenium
7 2 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.49%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.49%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.25%) ERwin
8 1 (0.25%) Hudson
8 1 (0.25%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.25%) MSI
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.25%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.25%) TestNG
General
1 157 (38.67%) Finance
2 118 (29.06%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.84%) Marketing
4 40 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (8.13%) Banking
6 30 (7.39%) Public Sector
7 24 (5.91%) Legal
8 21 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.96%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.72%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.72%) Retail
12 6 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.23%) Military
13 5 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.99%) Back Office
14 4 (0.99%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 106 (26.11%) Architect
2 48 (11.82%) Senior
3 38 (9.36%) Analyst
4 33 (8.13%) Project Manager
5 30 (7.39%) Security Architect
6 28 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 27 (6.65%) Lead
8 20 (4.93%) Consultant
9 18 (4.43%) Azure Architect
10 15 (3.69%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (3.45%) Designer
11 14 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
12 13 (3.20%) Applications Support
12 13 (3.20%) Senior Architect
13 12 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (2.96%) IT Manager
14 11 (2.71%) Senior Manager
15 9 (2.22%) Data Architect
15 9 (2.22%) Integration Engineer
15 9 (2.22%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (2.71%) Swagger
3 10 (2.46%) ARM Templates
3 10 (2.46%) REST
4 9 (2.22%) GraphQL
5 7 (1.72%) Middleware
5 7 (1.72%) OAuth
5 7 (1.72%) React
5 7 (1.72%) Web Services
6 6 (1.48%) XML
7 5 (1.23%) .NET
7 5 (1.23%) Node.js
7 5 (1.23%) RESTful
8 4 (0.99%) ADO
8 4 (0.99%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (0.74%) CSS
9 3 (0.74%) OpenID
9 3 (0.74%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.82%) Onboarding
2 20 (4.93%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.93%) CSOC
2 20 (4.93%) Security Operations Centre
3 16 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.20%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.71%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.46%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.22%) Low-Code
9 9 (2.22%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.72%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.23%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.87%) Windows
2 13 (3.20%) Linux
3 12 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.46%) Android
4 10 (2.46%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.49%) Debian
6 2 (0.49%) Unix
6 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.25%) AIX
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (24.63%) Agile
2 67 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (13.30%) DevOps
3 54 (13.30%) Migration
4 53 (13.05%) Analytics
5 50 (12.32%) Project Management
6 46 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (9.11%) Roadmaps
8 36 (8.87%) Scrum
9 35 (8.62%) CI/CD
10 33 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (7.88%) Cloud Security
11 32 (7.88%) ERP
11 32 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (6.16%) Change Management
13 25 (6.16%) Decision-Making
14 23 (5.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 43 (10.59%) SQL
2 27 (6.65%) PowerShell
3 24 (5.91%) Python
4 18 (4.43%) Bicep
5 15 (3.69%) Java
6 10 (2.46%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.72%) Bash
8 6 (1.48%) Go
9 5 (1.23%) Groovy
9 5 (1.23%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.99%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.74%) Ruby
12 2 (0.49%) C#
12 2 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.49%) Rust
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) C++
13 1 (0.25%) COBOL
13 1 (0.25%) PHP
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.10%) Degree
4 21 (5.17%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.22%) CISSP
7 6 (1.48%) PMP
8 5 (1.23%) ACCA
8 5 (1.23%) CIMA
8 5 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.49%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.65%) GDPR
2 16 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.69%) IFRS
3 15 (3.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (2.96%) QA
5 11 (2.71%) Basel II
6 10 (2.46%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.97%) SLA
8 6 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.48%) GRC
9 5 (1.23%) PMO
10 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.99%) NIST
11 3 (0.74%) Basel III
11 3 (0.74%) GAAP
11 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 2 (0.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.68%) Docker
3 9 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.49%) Firmware
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.49%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 38 (9.36%) Terraform
2 31 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (2.71%) Ansible
6 5 (1.23%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.74%) Puppet
8 2 (0.49%) Control-M
8 2 (0.49%) Grafana
8 2 (0.49%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.49%) Nessus
8 2 (0.49%) SCCM
9 1 (0.25%) Argo
9 1 (0.25%) Istio
9 1 (0.25%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.82%) Oracle
3 23 (5.67%) ServiceNow
4 22 (5.42%) Splunk
5 21 (5.17%) Google
5 21 (5.17%) SAP
6 19 (4.68%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.97%) Databricks
8 7 (1.72%) IBM
8 7 (1.72%) Workday
9 6 (1.48%) Okta
10 5 (1.23%) Informatica
10 5 (1.23%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.23%) VMware
10 5 (1.23%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.99%) Cisco
11 4 (0.99%) Concur
11 4 (0.99%) iManage
11 4 (0.99%) Qualys
12 3 (0.74%) F5