SaaS Contract Job Trends in the South East

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -48 +14 +3
Contract jobs citing SaaS 96 91 130
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.69% 3.05% 2.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.02% 10.02% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 57 54
10th Percentile £204 £284 £387
25th Percentile £381 £409 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £534
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.92% -2.95%
75th Percentile £648 £625 £588
90th Percentile £670 £675 £700
England median daily rate £502 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £29.25 £38.64 £20.45
25th Percentile £33.84 £53.10 £27.13
Median hourly rate £37.00 £77.19 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.07% +100.49% +144.44%
75th Percentile £96.25 £86.35 £50.13
90th Percentile £101.65 £91.84 £56.95
England median hourly rate £54.00 £77.19 £26.00
% change year-on-year -30.04% +196.88% -62.86%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,596 908 1,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.13% 30.44% 25.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 627 951
10th Percentile £287 £281 £250
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £608
90th Percentile £678 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 28 55
10th Percentile £14.56 £16.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.31 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.88 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +70.37% +20.09% +0.93%
75th Percentile £81.00 £46.30 £59.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.15 £61.60
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +69.81% +27.59% -24.47%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

SaaS job vacancy trend in the South East

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SaaS

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

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 16 April 2026. 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 -34 63 £575 +1.32% 90
Berkshire -25 45 £633 +26.50% 61
Hampshire -21 14 £525 -8.70% 34
Surrey -14 13 £264 -34.06% 33
Oxfordshire - 11 £200 - 14
Buckinghamshire -34 7 £525 -8.70% 17
Kent -6 3 - - 9
Middlesex - 2 - - 1
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.13%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.08%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.08%) iTrent
3 2 (2.08%) NEC Housing
3 2 (2.08%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.04%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.04%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.08%) Azure
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.58%) AWS
3 14 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.58%) Power Platform
4 11 (11.46%) IaaS
4 11 (11.46%) PaaS
5 9 (9.38%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
7 3 (3.13%) GCP
7 3 (3.13%) OCI
7 3 (3.13%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.04%) AtomSphere
9 1 (1.04%) Boomi
9 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.04%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) Firewall
2 5 (5.21%) IPsec
2 5 (5.21%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.17%) MQTT
3 4 (4.17%) Wireless
4 3 (3.13%) BGP
4 3 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (3.13%) VXLAN
5 2 (2.08%) DNS
5 2 (2.08%) NX-OS
6 1 (1.04%) IPv6
6 1 (1.04%) MPLS
6 1 (1.04%) OSPF
6 1 (1.04%) SNMP
6 1 (1.04%) SSL
6 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.04%) VoIP
6 1 (1.04%) VPN
6 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.46%) Power BI
2 10 (10.42%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (9.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 8 (8.33%) MySQL
5 6 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Android Studio
1 6 (6.25%) Browser DevTools
1 6 (6.25%) Eclipse
1 6 (6.25%) JIRA
1 6 (6.25%) Xcode
2 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.46%) Finance
3 8 (8.33%) Marketing
4 6 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Retail
7 3 (3.13%) Law
8 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.04%) Billing
9 1 (1.04%) Local Government
9 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (18.75%) Architect
2 10 (10.42%) Project Manager
3 9 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (8.33%) Senior
5 7 (7.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 7 (7.29%) Integration Manager
5 7 (7.29%) Lead
5 7 (7.29%) Security Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.25%) Security Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Service Transition Leader
6 6 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Technical Support
6 6 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) UX Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Oracle Project Manager
7 4 (4.17%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) GraphQL
1 8 (8.33%) React
2 7 (7.29%) Ajax
3 6 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.25%) CSS
4 4 (4.17%) ADO
5 3 (3.13%) .NET
5 3 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (2.08%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.08%) REST
6 2 (2.08%) XML
7 1 (1.04%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.04%) Node.js
7 1 (1.04%) OAuth
7 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.04%) SAML
7 1 (1.04%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.21%) Operational Technology
3 5 (5.21%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.13%) CMDB
5 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.13%) PKI
5 3 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.08%) Replication
6 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.04%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.04%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.54%) Linux
1 13 (13.54%) Windows
2 6 (6.25%) Android
2 6 (6.25%) Unix
3 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.04%) CentOS
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.04%) VMS
4 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.08%) DevOps
2 16 (16.67%) Agile
2 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (14.58%) ITSM
4 13 (13.54%) ITIL
4 13 (13.54%) PRINCE2
4 13 (13.54%) Roadmaps
5 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (12.50%) ERP
5 12 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 11 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (10.42%) Knowledge Transfer
7 10 (10.42%) Migration
7 10 (10.42%) Service Management
7 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (9.38%) Cyber Resilience
8 9 (9.38%) Decision-Making
8 9 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (9.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.42%) Python
2 9 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 8 (8.33%) Java
4 7 (7.29%) Perl
5 5 (5.21%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.17%) C#
7 2 (2.08%) Bash
7 2 (2.08%) Bicep
7 2 (2.08%) SQL
8 1 (1.04%) Groovy
8 1 (1.04%) PHP
8 1 (1.04%) Tcl
8 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) Degree
3 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) CISSP
4 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.13%) CIPD
5 3 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.04%) CCDA
7 1 (1.04%) CCDP
7 1 (1.04%) CCIE
7 1 (1.04%) CCIP
7 1 (1.04%) CCNA
7 1 (1.04%) CCNP
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) NCSC
2 8 (8.33%) NIST
3 6 (6.25%) NIST 800
4 4 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (3.13%) GDPR
6 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.08%) IASME
6 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.08%) QA
7 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) vCloud
3 2 (2.08%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Terraform
2 3 (3.13%) Ansible
3 2 (2.08%) Grafana
3 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.08%) SCCM
4 1 (1.04%) CASB
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.04%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 26 (27.08%) Oracle
2 22 (22.92%) Microsoft
3 14 (14.58%) ServiceNow
4 8 (8.33%) SAP
5 7 (7.29%) Splunk
6 5 (5.21%) VMware
7 4 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.17%) Tenable
8 3 (3.13%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.13%) Cisco
8 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.08%) NEC
9 2 (2.08%) Virgin Media
9 2 (2.08%) Workday
9 2 (2.08%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.04%) Arista
10 1 (1.04%) Meraki
10 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto