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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 124 82
Rank change year-on-year +45 -42 +34
Contract jobs citing SaaS 74 69 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.46% 1.25% 2.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.23% 5.25% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 57 114
10th Percentile £303 £398 £400
25th Percentile £409 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +2.38% -9.68%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £648
90th Percentile £675 £643 £800
England median daily rate £538 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -0.91% -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 £72.10
% change year-on-year +196.88% -63.94% +55.90%

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 899 1,314 1,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.93% 23.87% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 902 1,242
10th Percentile £281 £251 £253
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -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 31 51 56
10th Percentile - £16.25 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.22
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.22 £23.08
Median % change year-on-year +20.61% +0.61% +8.46%
75th Percentile £47.15 £54.75 £65.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +45 48 £501 -6.88% 113
Berkshire +31 37 £519 -2.81% 69
Buckinghamshire +23 11 £501 -11.81% 27
Surrey +7 11 £400 -27.27% 63
Hampshire +33 8 £575 -6.50% 63
West Sussex +13 4 £350 -41.67% 4
Kent +5 2 £475 +18.75% 9
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 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.70%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.70%) Camunda
2 2 (2.70%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (2.70%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.65%) Azure
2 14 (18.92%) PaaS
3 11 (14.86%) AWS
4 9 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (12.16%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (10.81%) IaaS
6 7 (9.46%) Entra ID
7 5 (6.76%) OCI
7 5 (6.76%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.76%) Serverless
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Stack
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.05%) GitHub
9 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.05%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (2.70%) Figma
10 2 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.81%) HTTP
2 2 (2.70%) MQTT
2 2 (2.70%) Network Security
2 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.70%) VSAN
3 1 (1.35%) DNS
3 1 (1.35%) Firewall
3 1 (1.35%) NGFW
3 1 (1.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (5.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.05%) Power BI
3 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.70%) MySQL
4 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.35%) Power Query
5 1 (1.35%) Sisense
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) Cypress.io
2 4 (5.41%) JIRA
2 4 (5.41%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (2.70%) Balsamiq
3 2 (2.70%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.70%) Moq
3 2 (2.70%) Selenium
3 2 (2.70%) SpecFlow
3 2 (2.70%) Terragrunt
3 2 (2.70%) UI Automator
3 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.41%) Billing
4 4 (5.41%) Dutch Language
4 4 (5.41%) Finance
4 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.70%) Automotive
5 2 (2.70%) Banking
5 2 (2.70%) Marketing
5 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.35%) Back Office
6 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) French Language
6 1 (1.35%) German Language
6 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Architect
2 16 (21.62%) Senior
3 14 (18.92%) Developer
4 7 (9.46%) Analyst
4 7 (9.46%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (5.41%) ServiceNow Architect
7 4 (5.41%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.05%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) Lead
8 3 (4.05%) Product Owner
8 3 (4.05%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (4.05%) Technical Support
8 3 (4.05%) Telecoms Architect
9 2 (2.70%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.70%) Senior Technical Architect
9 2 (2.70%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.57%) XML
2 11 (14.86%) .NET
2 11 (14.86%) AngularJS
2 11 (14.86%) CSS
2 11 (14.86%) HTML
3 8 (10.81%) REST
4 5 (6.76%) Ajax
4 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (6.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (6.76%) Web Services
5 4 (5.41%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.41%) JSON
5 4 (5.41%) React
5 4 (5.41%) RESTful
5 4 (5.41%) SAML
5 4 (5.41%) Vue
5 4 (5.41%) YAML
6 3 (4.05%) SOAP
6 3 (4.05%) WCF
7 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.76%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) IoT
5 3 (4.05%) CMDB
5 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.05%) PKI
6 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.70%) Infotainment
6 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.70%) Wiki
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.35%) NHS
7 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.86%) Windows
2 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 6 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.76%) CentOS
3 5 (6.76%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) Agile
2 14 (18.92%) CI/CD
3 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (14.86%) DevOps
5 10 (13.51%) DevSecOps
5 10 (13.51%) Scrum
6 9 (12.16%) ITIL
6 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
6 9 (12.16%) User Experience
7 8 (10.81%) Analytics
7 8 (10.81%) ERP
7 8 (10.81%) Migration
8 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (9.46%) Roadmaps
8 7 (9.46%) Test Automation
9 6 (8.11%) Design Patterns
9 6 (8.11%) Insurtech
9 6 (8.11%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (8.11%) Sprint Retrospective
9 6 (8.11%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.32%) SQL
2 12 (16.22%) PowerShell
3 11 (14.86%) C#
4 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.46%) Python
6 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.41%) Java
7 4 (5.41%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.70%) Bash
8 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.35%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.35%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.86%) Degree
4 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.70%) MCSE
5 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.35%) APMP
6 1 (1.35%) CISM
6 1 (1.35%) CISSP
6 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.35%) ISEB
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (5.41%) NCSC
2 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.70%) NIST
2 2 (2.70%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.70%) SLA
2 2 (2.70%) WCAG
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.35%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.76%) vSphere
4 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (14.86%) Terraform
2 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.76%) Ansible
3 5 (6.76%) Nessus
3 5 (6.76%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 19 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.86%) Oracle
2 11 (14.86%) VMware
3 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.76%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.76%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.05%) Cisco
5 3 (4.05%) CyberArk
5 3 (4.05%) SAP
6 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.35%) Databricks
7 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.35%) Google
7 1 (1.35%) IBM
7 1 (1.35%) Infor
7 1 (1.35%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.35%) Splunk