SaaS Contracts in Scotland

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 116 111
Rank change year-on-year +30 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing SaaS 41 55 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.89% 1.99% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 5.50% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 41 43
10th Percentile £299 £446 £413
25th Percentile £413 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £638
90th Percentile £695 £625 £698
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 729 1,000 1,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.63% 36.19% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 739 779
10th Percentile £230 £250 £305
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 18
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.25 £19.09
25th Percentile £16.23 £45.00 £20.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -56.93%
75th Percentile £18.54 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £31.27 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +33 24 £525 -4.55% 31
Glasgow +7 14 £425 -15.00% 9
Aberdeen - 1 £350 - 4
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:

Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) OCI
3 6 (14.63%) PaaS
4 5 (12.20%) Figma
5 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) IaaS
6 3 (7.32%) AWS
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.44%) Akamai
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) IPsec
1 3 (7.32%) VPN
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Selenium
2 2 (4.88%) Subversion
2 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
2 2 (4.88%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (41.46%) Public Sector
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Legal
5 3 (7.32%) Back Office
5 3 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Architect
2 6 (14.63%) Designer
3 5 (12.20%) Procurement Officer
3 5 (12.20%) UX Designer
4 4 (9.76%) Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Administrator
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Administrator
5 3 (7.32%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) PHP Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) .NET
1 4 (9.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (7.32%) React
2 3 (7.32%) REST
2 3 (7.32%) SOAP
3 2 (4.88%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.88%) RESTful
3 2 (4.88%) Web Services
4 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Android
1 4 (9.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (24.39%) Migration
3 8 (19.51%) ERP
3 8 (19.51%) User Experience
4 7 (17.07%) Agile
4 7 (17.07%) Analytics
4 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.07%) UX Design
5 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
6 5 (12.20%) Data Migration
6 5 (12.20%) DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) Performance Management
6 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (12.20%) User Stories
7 4 (9.76%) Containerisation
7 4 (9.76%) Project Management
7 4 (9.76%) Visualisation
7 4 (9.76%) Waterfall
8 3 (7.32%) API Management
8 3 (7.32%) Change Advisory Board
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) Java
2 4 (9.76%) C#
3 3 (7.32%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) C++
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) PHP
4 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.88%) VBA
4 2 (4.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
1 4 (9.76%) ISEB
1 4 (9.76%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Oracle
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Okta
3 2 (4.88%) Adobe
3 2 (4.88%) Databricks
3 2 (4.88%) Informatica
3 2 (4.88%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.44%) Cognos