SaaS Contracts in the South East

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 80 116 83
Rank change year-on-year +36 -33 +24
Contract jobs citing SaaS 82 90 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.72% 1.62% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.00% 6.55% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 53 121
10th Percentile £268 £389 £410
25th Percentile £407 £429 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £618 £588 £675
90th Percentile £675 £648 £813
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £38.64 £20.45 £13.95
25th Percentile £53.10 £27.13 £15.38
Median hourly rate £77.19 £38.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.49% +108.11% -63.00%
75th Percentile £86.35 £50.13 £62.25
90th Percentile £91.84 £56.95 £88.05
England median hourly rate £77.19 £26.00 £76.71
% change year-on-year +196.88% -66.10% +65.85%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the South East 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
Thames Valley +39 51 £575 +6.98% 100
Berkshire +20 36 £500 -5.66% 58
Buckinghamshire +27 15 £602 +6.00% 24
Surrey +13 13 £400 -27.27% 52
Hampshire +26 10 £575 -6.50% 59
West Sussex +15 5 £350 -41.67% 3
Kent +7 2 £475 +18.75% 10
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.44%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (2.44%) Camunda
1 2 (2.44%) Confluence
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.22%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.00%) Azure
2 20 (24.39%) PaaS
3 14 (17.07%) IaaS
4 13 (15.85%) AWS
5 11 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (9.76%) Entra ID
8 7 (8.54%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.10%) OCI
9 5 (6.10%) Serverless
10 4 (4.88%) Azure Stack
10 4 (4.88%) GCP
11 3 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.66%) GitHub
11 3 (3.66%) Tricentis Tosca
12 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.76%) VSAN
2 5 (6.10%) HTTP
3 3 (3.66%) Network Security
4 2 (2.44%) Firewall
4 2 (2.44%) MQTT
4 2 (2.44%) NGFW
4 2 (2.44%) SSL
4 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.22%) VPN
5 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.44%) MySQL
3 2 (2.44%) Power BI
3 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Cypress.io
1 5 (6.10%) Git
1 5 (6.10%) JIRA
2 4 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (3.66%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.44%) Balsamiq
4 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.44%) Moq
4 2 (2.44%) Selenium
4 2 (2.44%) Terragrunt
4 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.22%) JMeter
5 1 (1.22%) Mocha
5 1 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.88%) Billing
4 4 (4.88%) Dutch Language
4 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.66%) Finance
5 3 (3.66%) Retail
6 2 (2.44%) Automotive
6 2 (2.44%) Banking
6 2 (2.44%) Marketing
6 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.22%) Back Office
7 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) German Language
7 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) Architect
2 24 (29.27%) Senior
3 12 (14.63%) Developer
4 10 (12.20%) Technical Architect
5 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Senior Architect
5 8 (9.76%) Senior Technical Architect
6 7 (8.54%) Analyst
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Lead
8 3 (3.66%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.66%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (3.66%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.41%) XML
2 10 (12.20%) .NET
3 9 (10.98%) AngularJS
3 9 (10.98%) CSS
3 9 (10.98%) HTML
4 8 (9.76%) REST
5 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (6.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (6.10%) SAML
5 5 (6.10%) Web Services
6 4 (4.88%) RESTful
6 4 (4.88%) YAML
7 3 (3.66%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.66%) Ajax
7 3 (3.66%) SOAP
7 3 (3.66%) WCF
8 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.44%) HTML5
8 2 (2.44%) JSON
8 2 (2.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (10.98%) PKI
2 9 (10.98%) Product Ownership
3 8 (9.76%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.88%) IoT
5 3 (3.66%) CMDB
5 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.44%) Infotainment
6 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.44%) Wiki
7 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.22%) NHS
7 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.07%) Windows
2 9 (10.98%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.76%) Linux
4 7 (8.54%) CentOS
4 7 (8.54%) Ubuntu
4 7 (8.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.80%) Agile
2 21 (25.61%) CI/CD
3 18 (21.95%) DevSecOps
4 15 (18.29%) ITIL
5 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.85%) DevOps
6 13 (15.85%) TOGAF
7 12 (14.63%) Microservices
8 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (12.20%) Containerisation
9 10 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (12.20%) Scrum
10 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (10.98%) Migration
10 9 (10.98%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.98%) Use Case
11 8 (9.76%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (9.76%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.76%) Zachman Framework
12 7 (8.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.51%) PowerShell
1 16 (19.51%) SQL
2 13 (15.85%) C#
3 9 (10.98%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.76%) Python
5 6 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.88%) Java
6 4 (4.88%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.44%) Bash
7 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.22%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.41%) Degree
4 9 (10.98%) DV Cleared
5 8 (9.76%) MCSE
5 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (9.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.44%) CISM
6 2 (2.44%) CISSP
7 1 (1.22%) APMP
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.22%) ISEB
7 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (12.20%) NCSC
2 8 (9.76%) NIST
3 3 (3.66%) QA
4 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.22%) GDPR
5 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.22%) PMO
5 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (23.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.76%) VMware NSX
4 7 (8.54%) vSphere
5 2 (2.44%) Docker
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (17.07%) Terraform
2 9 (10.98%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.76%) Ansible
4 7 (8.54%) Nessus
4 7 (8.54%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (24.39%) VMware
3 10 (12.20%) Cisco
4 9 (10.98%) Oracle
5 8 (9.76%) Palo Alto
6 7 (8.54%) Red Hat
7 6 (7.32%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.66%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.66%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.66%) SAP
9 1 (1.22%) Databricks
9 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.22%) Google
9 1 (1.22%) IBM
9 1 (1.22%) Infor
9 1 (1.22%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.22%) Splunk