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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 106 98
Rank change year-on-year +30 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing SaaS 98 71 114
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.71% 1.66% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.44% 5.90% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 50 71
10th Percentile - £374 £280
25th Percentile £204 £500 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £572 £638 £549
90th Percentile £625 £695 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile - - £88.25
25th Percentile £14.75 - £90.50
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £96.00
75th Percentile £27.75 - £101.50
90th Percentile £39.08 - £103.75
England median hourly rate £25.00 £31.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -58.33% +0.87%

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 1,161 1,204 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.06% 28.09% 28.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 818 1,112
10th Percentile £204 £263 £206
25th Percentile £356 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +4.79%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £654 £663 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 23 49
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.66 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.88 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.72% +57.41% +28.57%
75th Percentile £27.50 £60.83 £51.58
90th Percentile £40.65 £64.73 £72.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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 October 2025.

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 October 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 16 October 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 +21 61 £538 -0.92% 383
Berkshire +30 48 £538 -4.87% 333
Surrey +20 26 £208 -61.40% 65
Hampshire +11 14 £550 -6.38% 42
Buckinghamshire +1 8 £475 -7.32% 29
Oxfordshire - 5 £550 - 25
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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.06%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) IIS
4 1 (1.02%) SAS
4 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (6.12%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (6.12%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (1.02%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.02%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.45%) Azure
2 15 (15.31%) Sauce Labs
3 12 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.14%) AWS
5 7 (7.14%) OCI
5 7 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.12%) IaaS
6 6 (6.12%) PaaS
7 5 (5.10%) Miro
8 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.06%) GCP
9 2 (2.04%) Figma
9 2 (2.04%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.04%) Slack
10 1 (1.02%) dbt
10 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.02%) Serverless
10 1 (1.02%) Smartsheet
10 1 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.31%) Wireless
2 5 (5.10%) HTTP
3 2 (2.04%) DNS
3 2 (2.04%) VPN
3 2 (2.04%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.39%) Relational Database
2 16 (16.33%) MySQL
3 7 (7.14%) Power BI
4 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.06%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.02%) Power Query
6 1 (1.02%) Sisense
6 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (18.37%) Browser DevTools
2 15 (15.31%) Android Studio
2 15 (15.31%) Eclipse
2 15 (15.31%) Xcode
3 4 (4.08%) JIRA
4 2 (2.04%) Fiddler
4 2 (2.04%) UI Automator
5 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.02%) Git
5 1 (1.02%) GitLab
5 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.41%) Finance
3 15 (15.31%) Telecoms
4 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.14%) French Language
6 4 (4.08%) Billing
7 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Retail
8 2 (2.04%) Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Military
8 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.04%) Publishing
9 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.02%) Law
9 1 (1.02%) Local Government
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (20.41%) Support Engineer
2 19 (19.39%) Technical Engineer
2 19 (19.39%) Technical Support
2 19 (19.39%) Technical Support Engineer
3 16 (16.33%) UX Engineer
4 15 (15.31%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 10 (10.20%) Analyst
5 10 (10.20%) Architect
6 7 (7.14%) Customer Service Advisor
7 6 (6.12%) Data Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) HR Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) HR Data Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Consultant
9 4 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.08%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.08%) SIEM Architect
10 3 (3.06%) Developer
10 3 (3.06%) IT Support
10 3 (3.06%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.37%) Ajax
1 18 (18.37%) AngularJS
1 18 (18.37%) CSS
1 18 (18.37%) React
2 16 (16.33%) GraphQL
3 4 (4.08%) JSON
3 4 (4.08%) REST
3 4 (4.08%) SOAP
3 4 (4.08%) XML
4 3 (3.06%) ADO
4 3 (3.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (2.04%) HTML
5 2 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.04%) OAuth
5 2 (2.04%) Semantic HTML
5 2 (2.04%) Vue
6 1 (1.02%) .NET
6 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.02%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.08%) CSOC
3 4 (4.08%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.06%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Blog
5 2 (2.04%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.04%) Podcast
5 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.04%) Social Media
6 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.02%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.43%) Windows
2 16 (16.33%) Linux
2 16 (16.33%) Unix
3 15 (15.31%) Android
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.47%) ERP
2 20 (20.41%) User Experience
3 19 (19.39%) Agile
3 19 (19.39%) CRM
4 17 (17.35%) DevOps
5 16 (16.33%) Mobile Application Development
6 15 (15.31%) OO
7 12 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (8.16%) Customer Service
9 8 (8.16%) Scrum
9 8 (8.16%) Waterfall
10 7 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (7.14%) ITIL
10 7 (7.14%) Migration
10 7 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (6.12%) Capacity Management
11 6 (6.12%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.39%) JavaScript
2 18 (18.37%) Java
3 16 (16.33%) Perl
3 16 (16.33%) Python
4 9 (9.18%) SQL
5 3 (3.06%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.02%) C#
6 1 (1.02%) Groovy
6 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.12%) Degree
2 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) ACCA
3 3 (3.06%) CIMA
4 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.02%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) CISM
5 1 (1.02%) CISSP
5 1 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.02%) PMP
5 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) SLA
2 6 (6.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) WCAG
4 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) NIST
4 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (2.04%) HP ALM
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (38.78%) Oracle
2 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
3 19 (19.39%) ServiceNow
3 19 (19.39%) Splunk
4 17 (17.35%) Salesforce
5 10 (10.20%) SAP
6 4 (4.08%) IFS
7 3 (3.06%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.06%) Workday
8 2 (2.04%) Apple
8 2 (2.04%) Dell
8 2 (2.04%) Google
8 2 (2.04%) HP
8 2 (2.04%) Okta
8 2 (2.04%) Qualys
8 2 (2.04%) YouTube
9 1 (1.02%) Citrix
9 1 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (1.02%) VMware