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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 86 103
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +5
Contract jobs citing SaaS 47 38 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.84% 1.78% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.59% 5.23% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 39
10th Percentile £403 £288 £446
25th Percentile £475 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £551
90th Percentile £668 £690 £605
UK median daily rate £532 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +0.29% -3.64% -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 619 726 962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.36% 34.07% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 505 708
10th Percentile £311 £219 £250
25th Percentile £408 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £589 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 11
10th Percentile £16.21 £16.08 £17.72
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £26.63
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £25.06 £22.28 £66.50
90th Percentile £27.05 £33.05 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.37 £37.00
% change year-on-year +31.02% -42.24% +65.18%

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 31 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 31 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
Glasgow -2 22 £509 +19.65% 39
Edinburgh +9 21 £525 - 28
Aberdeen +1 1 £750 +114.29% 4
Lanarkshire - 1 £525 - 3
Perthshire - 1 £725 -
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 (4.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) PaaS
2 16 (34.04%) Azure
3 12 (25.53%) AWS
3 12 (25.53%) IaaS
4 8 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (14.89%) Serverless
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon S3
6 6 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (10.64%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (10.64%) OpenShift
8 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (8.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (8.51%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (8.51%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 4 (8.51%) Route 53
9 3 (6.38%) GitHub
9 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) Firewall
1 2 (4.26%) Network Security
1 2 (4.26%) SSL
2 1 (2.13%) FTP
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) Internet
2 1 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.13%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) JIRA
2 8 (17.02%) Git
3 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.51%) Postman
5 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.38%) Cypress.io
5 3 (6.38%) Selenium
5 3 (6.38%) Subversion
5 3 (6.38%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.38%) WebDriver
6 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.26%) GitLab
6 2 (4.26%) IntelliJ
6 2 (4.26%) PyCharm
6 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
6 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (2.13%) TestComplete
7 1 (2.13%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (40.43%) Finance
2 13 (27.66%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Developer
2 10 (21.28%) Architect
2 10 (21.28%) Python Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Business Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Designer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior
7 3 (6.38%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Programme Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 2 (4.26%) Service Designer
8 2 (4.26%) Solutions Designer
9 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) AWS CDK
2 4 (8.51%) React
3 3 (6.38%) .NET
4 2 (4.26%) Web Services
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.13%) JWT
5 1 (2.13%) Loki
5 1 (2.13%) Middleware
5 1 (2.13%) OAuth
5 1 (2.13%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.13%) OpenID
5 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.13%) REST
5 1 (2.13%) SAML
5 1 (2.13%) Spring
5 1 (2.13%) Spring Batch
5 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Public Cloud
2 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.38%) Client/Server
4 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.26%) PKI
5 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.13%) CMDB
6 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.13%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) Agile
2 13 (27.66%) SDLC
3 12 (25.53%) CI/CD
4 11 (23.40%) Deployment Automation
4 11 (23.40%) DevOps
5 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
6 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (19.15%) Waterfall
7 6 (12.77%) Kanban
7 6 (12.77%) Scrum
7 6 (12.77%) Software Delivery
8 5 (10.64%) Containerisation
8 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
8 5 (10.64%) Migration
8 5 (10.64%) Roadmaps
8 5 (10.64%) TOGAF
9 4 (8.51%) Information Security
9 4 (8.51%) Microservices
9 4 (8.51%) User Experience
9 4 (8.51%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Python
2 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (14.89%) SQL
3 6 (12.77%) Bash
3 6 (12.77%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) C++
5 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.38%) VBA
5 3 (6.38%) VBScript
6 2 (4.26%) Groovy
6 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) ISEB
1 4 (8.51%) ISTQB
1 4 (8.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (6.38%) Degree
3 2 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.26%) CISM
3 2 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) CRISC
3 2 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.13%) CCSP
4 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.13%) OCP
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.38%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.64%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Grafana
4 1 (2.13%) Kibana
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) Autodesk
4 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.13%) Imperva
5 1 (2.13%) Okta
5 1 (2.13%) Talend
5 1 (2.13%) VMware