SaaS Contracts in Scotland

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 66 85 107
Rank change year-on-year +19 +22 +3
Contract jobs citing SaaS 52 44 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.20% 1.98% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.06% 5.96% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 22 45
10th Percentile £393 £334 £468
25th Percentile £463 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +13.10% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £575
90th Percentile £653 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +7 28 £525 -4.55% 26
Glasgow +11 20 £535 -3.82% 22
Aberdeen +1 1 £750 +114.29% 1
Perthshire 0 1 £725 +7.41%
Lanarkshire - 1 £525 - 7
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) PaaS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
3 12 (23.08%) AWS
3 12 (23.08%) IaaS
4 7 (13.46%) Serverless
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 6 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (9.62%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (9.62%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (7.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 4 (7.69%) Route 53
8 3 (5.77%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (5.77%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) DNS
1 2 (3.85%) Firewall
1 2 (3.85%) Network Security
1 2 (3.85%) SSL
2 1 (1.92%) FTP
2 1 (1.92%) HTTP
2 1 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
2 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) JIRA
2 6 (11.54%) Git
3 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.69%) Postman
5 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.77%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.77%) Selenium
5 3 (5.77%) Subversion
5 3 (5.77%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.77%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.85%) GitLab
7 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.92%) Mockito
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.92%) Toad
General
1 23 (44.23%) Finance
2 13 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Games
6 3 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Architect
1 14 (26.92%) Developer
2 10 (19.23%) Python Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Business Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Designer
3 7 (13.46%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Developer
5 3 (5.77%) QA Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) UI Designer
5 3 (5.77%) UI/UX Designer
5 3 (5.77%) UX Designer
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Architect
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (3.85%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) AWS CDK
2 4 (7.69%) React
3 3 (5.77%) .NET
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Camel
4 1 (1.92%) JWT
4 1 (1.92%) Loki
4 1 (1.92%) Middleware
4 1 (1.92%) OAuth
4 1 (1.92%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.92%) OpenID
4 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) SAML
4 1 (1.92%) Spring
4 1 (1.92%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 10 (19.23%) Public Cloud
3 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.77%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.85%) PKI
5 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.92%) CMDB
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 14 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 12 (23.08%) SDLC
4 10 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
4 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (17.31%) DevOps
5 9 (17.31%) Waterfall
6 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
7 6 (11.54%) Kanban
7 6 (11.54%) Scrum
7 6 (11.54%) Software Delivery
7 6 (11.54%) User Experience
8 5 (9.62%) Containerisation
8 5 (9.62%) Mentoring
8 5 (9.62%) Migration
8 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
8 5 (9.62%) TOGAF
9 4 (7.69%) Information Security
9 4 (7.69%) UX Design
9 4 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) Python
2 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.54%) Bash
3 6 (11.54%) SQL
4 4 (7.69%) Java
5 3 (5.77%) C#
5 3 (5.77%) C++
5 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.77%) VBA
5 3 (5.77%) VBScript
6 2 (3.85%) Groovy
6 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) ISEB
1 3 (5.77%) ISTQB
1 3 (5.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.85%) CISM
2 2 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.85%) CRISC
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) CCSP
3 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.92%) OCP
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) GDPR
2 3 (5.77%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Grafana
3 1 (1.92%) Kibana
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 3 (5.77%) Autodesk
4 2 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.92%) Imperva
5 1 (1.92%) Okta
5 1 (1.92%) Talend
5 1 (1.92%) VMware