SaaS Contracts in Reading

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 75 57
Rank change year-on-year +29 -18 -1
Contract jobs citing SaaS 18 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.99% 1.73% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.18% 5.67% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 24
10th Percentile £236 £425 £502
25th Percentile £400 £472 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £544 £588
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -7.45% +7.80%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £680
90th Percentile - £615 £788
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £534 £600
% change year-on-year +0.70% -11.04% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £33.82 - -
25th Percentile £41.05 - -
Median hourly rate £53.10 - -
75th Percentile £65.14 - -
90th Percentile £72.37 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year +26.54% +369.23% -74.00%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 196 353 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 32.50% 30.62% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 266 259
10th Percentile £320 £375 £413
25th Percentile £455 £489 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.49% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £671 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £31.70 £56.50 £62.20
25th Percentile £35.75 £56.58 £75.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% -26.38% +226.56%
75th Percentile £62.35 £59.95 -
90th Percentile £71.25 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £23.30
% change year-on-year -45.03% +150.21% +7.00%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Reading

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Reading

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Reading over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Reading

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in Reading

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in Reading over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.56%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Stack
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) IaaS
3 2 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) NGFW
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Billing
1 4 (22.22%) Dutch Language
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.56%) Back Office
2 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Architect
1 3 (16.67%) Developer
1 3 (16.67%) Senior
1 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Automation Developer
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Applications Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Developer
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS Architect
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) B2B
1 4 (22.22%) Customer Retention
2 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
2 3 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (16.67%) ERP
2 3 (16.67%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (16.67%) Software Delivery
2 3 (16.67%) Telematics
2 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 2 (11.11%) Data Security
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) IT Governance
3 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Time Management
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) ISEB
4 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
1 3 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 3 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Infor
2 1 (5.56%) Qualys
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) VMware