SaaS Contracts in the South East

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 86 105
Rank change year-on-year -17 +19 0
Contract jobs citing SaaS 100 156 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.81% 2.68% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.24% 9.14% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 121 131
10th Percentile £387 £410 £356
25th Percentile £429 £480 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -6.38% +8.29%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £649 £813 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £20.45 £13.95 -
25th Percentile £27.13 £15.38 £47.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £18.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.11% -63.00% -
75th Percentile £50.13 £62.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £56.95 £88.05 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £76.71 £50.00
% change year-on-year -66.10% +53.41% +150.00%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 1,706 2,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.01% 29.27% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,250 1,797
10th Percentile £250 £252 £204
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £601
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
Thames Valley 0 64 £538 +2.38% 81
Berkshire +4 56 £530 -9.79% 37
Surrey +6 17 £550 +14.58% 40
Hampshire -25 12 £615 +4.24% 33
Buckinghamshire +13 4 £568 +18.23% 22
Oxfordshire -3 4 £458 +1.67% 22
Kent 0 3 £400 -20.00% 7
West Sussex +4 2 £600 -2.04%
East Sussex 0 1 £675 -20.59% 5
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 (2.00%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (51.00%) PaaS
2 48 (48.00%) IaaS
3 12 (12.00%) AWS
3 12 (12.00%) Azure
4 7 (7.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.00%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.00%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.00%) Stripe
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.00%) Cloud Run
9 1 (1.00%) GCP
9 1 (1.00%) Google App Engine
9 1 (1.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 39 (39.00%) 5G
1 39 (39.00%) Broadband
2 5 (5.00%) VPN
3 3 (3.00%) DNS
4 2 (2.00%) Firewall
4 2 (2.00%) LAN
4 2 (2.00%) Network Security
4 2 (2.00%) WAN
4 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.00%) MPLS
5 1 (1.00%) PBX
5 1 (1.00%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.00%) GIS
3 2 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.00%) Power BI
4 1 (1.00%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 39 (39.00%) Law
1 39 (39.00%) Organisational Skills
2 11 (11.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.00%) Finance
4 6 (6.00%) Legal
5 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.00%) Retail
7 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (40.00%) Security Specialist
2 39 (39.00%) Penetration Tester
2 39 (39.00%) Security Penetration Tester
2 39 (39.00%) Security Tester
2 39 (39.00%) Tester
2 39 (39.00%) Testing Specialist
3 14 (14.00%) Developer
4 11 (11.00%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.00%) Integration Developer
6 5 (5.00%) Analyst
7 4 (4.00%) Consultant
7 4 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Lead
7 4 (4.00%) Senior
7 4 (4.00%) Web Developer
8 3 (3.00%) ERP Project Manager
8 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 3 (3.00%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (41.00%) Web Services
2 4 (4.00%) .NET
2 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.00%) REST
3 3 (3.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (2.00%) CSS
4 2 (2.00%) Flask
4 2 (2.00%) OpenLayers
4 2 (2.00%) PostGIS
4 2 (2.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (1.00%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.00%) gRPC
5 1 (1.00%) HTML5
5 1 (1.00%) JSON
5 1 (1.00%) OAuth
5 1 (1.00%) OpenID
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 40 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.00%) Life Science
3 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.00%) Linux
4 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (49.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 43 (43.00%) Cybersecurity
3 41 (41.00%) Penetration Testing
4 40 (40.00%) Application Security
4 40 (40.00%) Security Testing
5 39 (39.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 39 (39.00%) OWASP
6 23 (23.00%) Agile
7 9 (9.00%) DevOps
7 9 (9.00%) Project Management
8 8 (8.00%) ERP
8 8 (8.00%) Migration
8 8 (8.00%) Waterfall
9 7 (7.00%) Batch Processing
9 7 (7.00%) Scrum
10 6 (6.00%) Performance Management
11 5 (5.00%) Cloud Security
11 5 (5.00%) Full Stack Development
11 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (5.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.00%) Ruby
3 4 (4.00%) Python
4 3 (3.00%) C#
4 3 (3.00%) SQL
5 2 (2.00%) Java
5 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.00%) PHP
5 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (39.00%) CREST Certified
1 39 (39.00%) GIAC
1 39 (39.00%) GPEN
1 39 (39.00%) OSCP
1 39 (39.00%) SANS
1 39 (39.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) Degree
3 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.00%) PMP
4 1 (1.00%) APMP
4 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 39 (39.00%) GDPR
2 39 (39.00%) NCSC
3 3 (3.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.00%) SCCM
3 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 39 (39.00%) Virgin Media
2 17 (17.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.00%) Oracle
4 7 (7.00%) Guidewire
5 6 (6.00%) Citrix
5 6 (6.00%) HP
5 6 (6.00%) VMware
6 3 (3.00%) Google
6 3 (3.00%) Sage
7 2 (2.00%) Cisco
7 2 (2.00%) Meraki
8 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.00%) SAP
8 1 (1.00%) Workday