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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 87 109
Rank change year-on-year +6 +22 +10
Contract jobs citing SaaS 34 50 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.89% 2.13% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.12% 6.39% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 55
10th Percentile £201 £250 £433
25th Percentile £320 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -12.04% -1.82%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £600
90th Percentile £537 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.09% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.25
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
75th Percentile - - £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +7.14% +21.74%

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 556 782 1,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.91% 33.30% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 533 883
10th Percentile £200 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £568
90th Percentile £588 £638 £639
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 21
10th Percentile £16.69 £14.07 -
25th Percentile £18.42 £15.44 £13.16
Median hourly rate £21.14 £17.72 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% - -71.87%
75th Percentile £24.18 £25.11 £20.43
90th Percentile - £29.54 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% +42.22% +6.89%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +12 23 £438 +1.74% 12
Glasgow -8 9 £368 -30.00% 13
North Lanarkshire - 1 £343 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Sketch
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) PaaS
3 6 (17.65%) Serverless
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (14.71%) Figma
4 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (8.82%) Route 53
7 2 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (8.82%) InfluxDB
2 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
2 7 (20.59%) Git
2 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.88%) GitLab
4 2 (5.88%) Selenium
4 2 (5.88%) Subversion
4 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.88%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.94%) Storybook
General
1 10 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Senior
2 7 (20.59%) Senior Manager
3 5 (14.71%) Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Designer
3 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 4 (11.76%) UX Designer
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Product Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Product Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) UI Designer
6 2 (5.88%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) .NET
1 5 (14.71%) AWS CDK
2 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (5.88%) React
3 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) Web Services
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.94%) CSS
4 1 (2.94%) Loki
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (14.71%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.88%) Android
3 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Agile
2 9 (26.47%) User Experience
3 8 (23.53%) DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) UX Design
4 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 7 (20.59%) Kanban
4 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
5 5 (14.71%) Change Management
5 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (14.71%) Project Management
5 5 (14.71%) Software Delivery
6 4 (11.76%) Line Management
6 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (11.76%) Scrum
6 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
6 4 (11.76%) User Stories
7 3 (8.82%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (8.82%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) Bash
2 5 (14.71%) C#
2 5 (14.71%) Groovy
3 3 (8.82%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) C++
4 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.88%) VBA
4 2 (5.88%) VBScript
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) CCENT
1 1 (2.94%) CCNA
1 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
1 1 (2.94%) ISEB
1 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (2.94%) MCSA
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.94%) OCP
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.82%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Ansible
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.82%) Grafana
2 3 (8.82%) Kibana
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Adobe
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle
2 3 (8.82%) Xamarin
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco
3 2 (5.88%) Imperva
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat