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 24 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 97 102
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing SaaS 33 45 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.75% 1.87% 2.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.53% 5.64% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 57
10th Percentile £363 £250 £446
25th Percentile £413 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £533 £538 £600
90th Percentile £576 £620 £700
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -3.64% -5.17% +5.45%
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 £28.50 £75.00 £74.35
% change year-on-year -62.00% +0.87% +73.92%

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 597 798 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.67% 33.24% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 562 892
10th Percentile £208 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.71% +8.50%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £563
90th Percentile £600 £626 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -3.16% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 18
10th Percentile £16.69 £14.07 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.42 £15.44 £15.68
Median hourly rate £21.14 £17.72 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% - -71.87%
75th Percentile £24.18 £25.11 £20.86
90th Percentile - £29.54 £29.73
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% +59.09% +2.33%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +16 24 £506 +12.50% 16
Glasgow -2 8 £425 -15.00% 23
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 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Sketch
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) PaaS
2 7 (21.21%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) Figma
3 6 (18.18%) Serverless
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) OpenShift
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.12%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (12.12%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 4 (12.12%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (12.12%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (9.09%) IaaS
6 3 (9.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (9.09%) InfluxDB
2 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) JIRA
2 7 (21.21%) Git
2 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.06%) GitLab
4 2 (6.06%) Selenium
4 2 (6.06%) Subversion
4 2 (6.06%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.06%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.03%) Storybook
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
3 7 (21.21%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Senior
2 7 (21.21%) Designer
3 6 (18.18%) Senior Manager
3 6 (18.18%) UX Designer
4 5 (15.15%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Developer
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Product Manager
6 3 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Product Manager
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (6.06%) Applications Developer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Mobile Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) .NET
1 5 (15.15%) AWS CDK
2 3 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 2 (6.06%) Middleware
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.06%) React
3 2 (6.06%) RESTful
3 2 (6.06%) Web Services
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) Loki
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (15.15%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Android
1 3 (9.09%) Apple iOS
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Agile
2 11 (33.33%) User Experience
3 10 (30.30%) UX Design
4 8 (24.24%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.21%) Kanban
5 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
6 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 5 (15.15%) Project Management
7 5 (15.15%) Scrum
7 5 (15.15%) Software Delivery
7 5 (15.15%) User Stories
8 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (9.09%) Observability
9 3 (9.09%) Prototyping
9 3 (9.09%) Visualisation
9 3 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Bash
2 5 (15.15%) C#
2 5 (15.15%) Groovy
3 3 (9.09%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) C++
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.06%) VBA
4 2 (6.06%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) ISEB
1 3 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (3.03%) OCP
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Ansible
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Grafana
2 3 (9.09%) Kibana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) Adobe
2 3 (9.09%) Xamarin
3 2 (6.06%) Imperva
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat