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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 83 104
Rank change year-on-year -37 +21 -4
Contract jobs citing SaaS 73 141 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.34% 2.52% 2.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.60% 8.40% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 112 132
10th Percentile £384 £400 £328
25th Percentile £445 £457 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -10.64% +5.62%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £639 £800 £799
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
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 £67.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -61.48% +58.82% +112.50%

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 1,304 1,679 2,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.97% 30.05% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 1,227 1,777
10th Percentile £250 £252 £205
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 £631 £613
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 51 50 59
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.21 £13.19
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.65 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +12.35% -2.21%
75th Percentile £54.75 £68.44 £30.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.08 £56.63
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -24 38 £538 +2.38% 97
Berkshire -18 31 £534 -11.04% 43
Surrey +10 22 £550 +20.88% 36
Hampshire -37 5 £615 +2.50% 40
Buckinghamshire +17 4 £568 +18.23% 31
East Sussex +3 3 £625 -26.47% 4
Kent +3 3 £400 -20.00% 5
Oxfordshire +1 3 £465 +3.33% 23
West Sussex +9 1 £700 +21.74% 1
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 (2.74%) Confluence
1 2 (2.74%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.37%) Relativity
2 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.37%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.03%) Azure
2 18 (24.66%) PaaS
3 15 (20.55%) AWS
4 14 (19.18%) IaaS
5 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (8.22%) Entra ID
6 6 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (6.85%) Azure API Management
7 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (4.11%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.74%) Stripe
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.37%) Serverless
10 1 (1.37%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) VPN
2 3 (4.11%) DNS
2 3 (4.11%) Network Security
3 2 (2.74%) Firewall
3 2 (2.74%) LAN
3 2 (2.74%) WAN
3 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.37%) MPLS
4 1 (1.37%) PBX
4 1 (1.37%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.48%) GIS
3 3 (4.11%) Power BI
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.74%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) JIRA
1 5 (6.85%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Finance
3 8 (10.96%) Legal
4 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.11%) Retail
7 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Developer
2 12 (16.44%) Project Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Integration Developer
5 6 (8.22%) Architect
5 6 (8.22%) Lead
6 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Senior
7 4 (5.48%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Consultant
7 4 (5.48%) IT Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Web Developer
8 3 (4.11%) ERP Project Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 3 (4.11%) IT Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Procurement Officer
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) .NET
2 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.11%) REST
3 3 (4.11%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (4.11%) Web Services
4 2 (2.74%) CSS
4 2 (2.74%) Flask
4 2 (2.74%) OpenLayers
4 2 (2.74%) PostGIS
4 2 (2.74%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.74%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.37%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.37%) gRPC
5 1 (1.37%) HTML
5 1 (1.37%) HTML5
5 1 (1.37%) J2EE
5 1 (1.37%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (1.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.74%) IVR
4 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Life Science
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Windows
2 3 (4.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.74%) Linux
4 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) Agile
2 12 (16.44%) Project Management
2 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (15.07%) DevOps
3 11 (15.07%) Migration
4 10 (13.70%) Waterfall
5 8 (10.96%) DevSecOps
5 8 (10.96%) ERP
5 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (10.96%) Scrum
6 7 (9.59%) Batch Processing
6 7 (9.59%) Microservices
7 6 (8.22%) API Management
7 6 (8.22%) Business Analysis
7 6 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (8.22%) Data Protection
7 6 (8.22%) High Availability
7 6 (8.22%) Network Architecture
7 6 (8.22%) Performance Management
7 6 (8.22%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.22%) Ruby
3 5 (6.85%) C#
3 5 (6.85%) Python
3 5 (6.85%) SQL
4 3 (4.11%) Java
4 3 (4.11%) PHP
5 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.85%) Degree
2 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) APMP
4 1 (1.37%) CCNA
4 1 (1.37%) CCSP
4 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.37%) CISSP
4 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.37%) ISSEP
4 1 (1.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) GxP
2 2 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Docker
2 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.48%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.74%) SCCM
5 1 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 20 (27.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.44%) Oracle
3 8 (10.96%) VMware
4 7 (9.59%) Guidewire
5 6 (8.22%) Citrix
5 6 (8.22%) HP
6 3 (4.11%) Google
6 3 (4.11%) Sage
7 2 (2.74%) Cisco
7 2 (2.74%) Meraki
7 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.37%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.37%) SAP
8 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.37%) Splunk
8 1 (1.37%) Workday