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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 98 107
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 +13
Contract jobs citing SaaS 129 73 83
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.92% 2.06% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.14% 7.04% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 47 63
10th Percentile £221 £204 £375
25th Percentile £400 £208 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £564 £638
90th Percentile £600 £625 £723
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 1
10th Percentile £22.41 - -
25th Percentile £30.38 £14.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £15.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +383.87% -3.13% -73.77%
75th Percentile £83.25 £24.88 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £33.56 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.30 £26.75
% change year-on-year +99.62% -1.68% -66.56%

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 1,806 1,037 1,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.92% 29.19% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 675 820
10th Percentile £263 £209 £299
25th Percentile £413 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £625
90th Percentile £682 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 48 30
10th Percentile £17.75 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.50 £17.98
Median hourly rate £64.24 £18.82 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +241.34% -40.72% +14.09%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.42 £53.56
90th Percentile £104.00 £48.55 £61.11
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year +34.62% -3.60% -18.27%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -31 63 £500 -6.98% 70
Berkshire -28 43 £500 -6.98% 40
Hampshire -12 26 £463 -15.91% 30
Oxfordshire -12 14 £200 - 14
Surrey -28 12 £310 +49.40% 20
Middlesex - 12 £198 - 3
West Sussex - 7 £594 - 8
Buckinghamshire -37 6 £543 -5.65% 16
Kent +1 4 £525 +10.53% 19
Sussex - 4 - - 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 4 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.78%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (5.43%) NEC Housing
1 7 (5.43%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.88%) Remedy AR System
2 5 (3.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.55%) iTrent
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.11%) Azure
2 19 (14.73%) Entra ID
3 16 (12.40%) AWS
4 13 (10.08%) OCI
5 8 (6.20%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (6.20%) GitHub
5 8 (6.20%) IaaS
5 8 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.20%) PaaS
6 7 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (5.43%) Datadog
7 6 (4.65%) GCP
8 5 (3.88%) iPaaS
9 4 (3.10%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.33%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (2.33%) Serverless
11 2 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.65%) Network Security
2 4 (3.10%) Firewall
3 3 (2.33%) DNS
4 2 (1.55%) Broadband
5 1 (0.78%) LAN
5 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.88%) MySQL
2 4 (3.10%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (3.10%) Power BI
3 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.55%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.55%) Vitess
5 1 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Git
2 3 (2.33%) Android Studio
2 3 (2.33%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (2.33%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.33%) Xcode
3 2 (1.55%) JIRA
4 1 (0.78%) RStudio
General
1 40 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.28%) Finance
3 21 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.65%) Law
5 6 (4.65%) Marketing
6 5 (3.88%) Automotive
6 5 (3.88%) Legal
7 4 (3.10%) Local Government
7 4 (3.10%) Military
8 3 (2.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.78%) Billing
10 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (23.26%) Architect
2 15 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (7.75%) Analyst
3 10 (7.75%) Project Manager
4 9 (6.98%) Developer
4 9 (6.98%) Lead
4 9 (6.98%) Support Engineer
4 9 (6.98%) Technical Engineer
4 9 (6.98%) Technical Support
4 9 (6.98%) Technical Support Engineer
5 8 (6.20%) Oracle Architect
5 8 (6.20%) Senior
6 7 (5.43%) IAM Specialist
6 7 (5.43%) Service Owner
7 6 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.65%) Security Architect
8 5 (3.88%) Oracle Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.10%) Systems Developer
9 4 (3.10%) Systems Support Engineer
9 4 (3.10%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (6.20%) OAuth
2 8 (6.20%) OAuth2
2 8 (6.20%) OpenID
2 8 (6.20%) SAML
2 8 (6.20%) Web Services
3 7 (5.43%) AngularJS
3 7 (5.43%) LDAP
3 7 (5.43%) SailPoint
4 6 (4.65%) REST
5 5 (3.88%) React
5 5 (3.88%) SOAP
6 4 (3.10%) ADO
6 4 (3.10%) NestJS
7 3 (2.33%) Ajax
7 3 (2.33%) CSS
7 3 (2.33%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.33%) Middleware
7 3 (2.33%) Terraform
8 2 (1.55%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.63%) Onboarding
2 14 (10.85%) CMDB
3 10 (7.75%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.75%) Management Information System
4 9 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (6.20%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.10%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.33%) Replication
10 2 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.55%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.55%) Social Media
10 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Linux
2 7 (5.43%) Unix
3 5 (3.88%) Windows
4 3 (2.33%) Android
5 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.71%) ITSM
2 24 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (17.05%) Agile
3 22 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (16.28%) DevOps
4 21 (16.28%) ITIL
4 21 (16.28%) Migration
5 20 (15.50%) ERP
5 20 (15.50%) RBAC
6 19 (14.73%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (13.18%) Decision-Making
9 16 (12.40%) Enterprise Architecture
10 15 (11.63%) AI
10 15 (11.63%) Computer Science
11 14 (10.85%) Data Modelling
11 14 (10.85%) Roadmaps
12 13 (10.08%) Data Protection
13 12 (9.30%) CI/CD
13 12 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.18%) Python
2 14 (10.85%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.20%) JavaScript
3 8 (6.20%) SQL
4 7 (5.43%) Bash
5 4 (3.10%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.33%) Java
6 3 (2.33%) Perl
7 2 (1.55%) Bicep
8 1 (0.78%) C#
8 1 (0.78%) R
8 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.05%) Degree
4 8 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.20%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (5.43%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.33%) CCSP
8 3 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.78%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) CISM
9 1 (0.78%) GIAC
9 1 (0.78%) GSEC
9 1 (0.78%) MCSE
9 1 (0.78%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 18 (13.95%) NIST
2 13 (10.08%) Data Quality
3 11 (8.53%) QA
4 10 (7.75%) NCSC
5 9 (6.98%) GDPR
6 4 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (3.10%) GRC
7 3 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.55%) IASME
8 2 (1.55%) ISO 31000
8 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.55%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.43%) IAG
3 1 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (8.53%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.20%) Ansible
3 7 (5.43%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.55%) CASB
4 2 (1.55%) Grafana
4 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (20.16%) Oracle
3 11 (8.53%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.20%) SAP
5 7 (5.43%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.43%) NEC
5 7 (5.43%) Nexthink
6 5 (3.88%) BMC
6 5 (3.88%) Google
6 5 (3.88%) Remedy
7 4 (3.10%) Splunk
8 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.55%) Workday
9 1 (0.78%) Ariba
9 1 (0.78%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.78%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.78%) Databricks
9 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.78%) Tenable
9 1 (0.78%) VMware