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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 62 73
Rank change year-on-year -36 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing SaaS 103 103 143
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.11% 3.26% 2.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.79% 9.90% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 65 46
10th Percentile £204 £328 £384
25th Percentile £355 £463 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +15.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £646 £628 £550
90th Percentile £670 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £22.50 £38.64 £63.13
25th Percentile £35.00 £53.10 £67.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £77.19 £74.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.07% +3.26% +68.93%
75th Percentile £95.00 £86.35 £83.06
90th Percentile £101.10 £91.84 £87.38
England median hourly rate £38.97 £68.60 £30.50
% change year-on-year -43.19% +124.90% -56.43%

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 1,516 1,040 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.01% 32.94% 27.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 705 993
10th Percentile £255 £267 £213
25th Percentile £386 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.30% -4.57%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £620
90th Percentile £675 £663 £680
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 19 50
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.20 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.37 £19.24 £20.49
Median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -3.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £59.95
90th Percentile £92.90 £75.84 £62.70
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.15% -14.16%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -24 64 £600 +6.67% 67
Berkshire -23 45 £635 +19.81% 36
Surrey +3 20 £208 -48.13% 37
Hampshire -33 15 £525 -8.70% 35
Oxfordshire - 11 £550 - 14
Buckinghamshire -26 8 £481 -16.30% 17
Kent -5 3 - - 4
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 (6.80%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.91%) Confluence
3 3 (2.91%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.97%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (6.80%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.94%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.94%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.97%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.97%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.21%) Azure
2 18 (17.48%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (13.59%) Power Platform
5 13 (12.62%) AWS
5 13 (12.62%) Sauce Labs
6 10 (9.71%) IaaS
6 10 (9.71%) PaaS
7 7 (6.80%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.88%) OCI
9 3 (2.91%) GCP
9 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.91%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.94%) AtomSphere
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.94%) Boomi
11 1 (0.97%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.97%) Miro
11 1 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) Wireless
2 5 (4.85%) IPsec
2 5 (4.85%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.88%) Firewall
3 4 (3.88%) MQTT
4 3 (2.91%) BGP
4 3 (2.91%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (2.91%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.94%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.94%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.97%) HTTP
6 1 (0.97%) MPLS
6 1 (0.97%) Network Security
6 1 (0.97%) OSPF
6 1 (0.97%) SNMP
6 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.97%) VLAN
6 1 (0.97%) VoIP
6 1 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.53%) Relational Database
2 13 (12.62%) MySQL
3 11 (10.68%) Power BI
4 9 (8.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (5.83%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Android Studio
1 13 (12.62%) Browser DevTools
1 13 (12.62%) Eclipse
1 13 (12.62%) Xcode
2 5 (4.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.97%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.50%) Finance
3 9 (8.74%) Marketing
4 6 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Billing
7 3 (2.91%) Law
7 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.91%) Publishing
7 3 (2.91%) Retail
8 2 (1.94%) Banking
8 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Local Government
9 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (13.59%) Support Engineer
1 14 (13.59%) Technical Engineer
1 14 (13.59%) Technical Support
1 14 (13.59%) Technical Support Engineer
2 13 (12.62%) Architect
2 13 (12.62%) UX Engineer
3 10 (9.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 9 (8.74%) Project Manager
4 9 (8.74%) Senior
5 8 (7.77%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.80%) Analyst
6 7 (6.80%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 7 (6.80%) Integration Manager
6 7 (6.80%) Lead
6 7 (6.80%) Security Architect
7 6 (5.83%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.83%) Security Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.83%) Service Transition Leader
8 4 (3.88%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.88%) Oracle Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.56%) GraphQL
2 14 (13.59%) Ajax
3 13 (12.62%) AngularJS
3 13 (12.62%) CSS
3 13 (12.62%) React
4 7 (6.80%) ADO
5 6 (5.83%) REST
6 5 (4.85%) SOAP
7 3 (2.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 3 (2.91%) XML
8 2 (1.94%) JSON
8 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.94%) OAuth
9 1 (0.97%) .NET
9 1 (0.97%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.97%) Node.js
9 1 (0.97%) OpenID
9 1 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Mobile App
2 9 (8.74%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.85%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.91%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.91%) PKI
4 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.91%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.94%) Blog
5 2 (1.94%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.94%) Podcast
5 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.94%) Social Media
6 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.39%) Windows
2 17 (16.50%) Linux
3 13 (12.62%) Android
3 13 (12.62%) Unix
4 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.97%) CentOS
5 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.21%) DevOps
2 20 (19.42%) Agile
3 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (14.56%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (14.56%) User Experience
4 15 (14.56%) Waterfall
5 13 (12.62%) ERP
5 13 (12.62%) Mobile Application Development
5 13 (12.62%) OO
5 13 (12.62%) PRINCE2
6 12 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (10.68%) ITIL
7 11 (10.68%) Roadmaps
7 11 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.74%) Cyber Resilience
9 9 (8.74%) ITSM
10 8 (7.77%) Migration
10 8 (7.77%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.50%) Python
2 16 (15.53%) Java
2 16 (15.53%) JavaScript
3 14 (13.59%) Perl
4 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.85%) SQL
6 4 (3.88%) C#
7 3 (2.91%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.94%) Bash
8 2 (1.94%) Groovy
8 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.97%) PHP
9 1 (0.97%) Tcl
9 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (11.65%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.85%) Degree
4 4 (3.88%) CISSP
4 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.91%) ACCA
5 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.91%) CIMA
5 3 (2.91%) CIPD
5 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.97%) CCDA
7 1 (0.97%) CCIE
7 1 (0.97%) CCIP
7 1 (0.97%) CCNA
7 1 (0.97%) CCNP
7 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) NIST
2 5 (4.85%) NCSC
3 4 (3.88%) NIST 800
4 3 (2.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.91%) GDPR
5 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.94%) QA
6 1 (0.97%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (11.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.94%) vCloud
3 2 (1.94%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.94%) Ansible
1 2 (1.94%) SCCM
1 2 (1.94%) Terraform
2 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.97%) CASB
2 1 (0.97%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (0.97%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 32 (31.07%) Oracle
2 28 (27.18%) Microsoft
3 17 (16.50%) ServiceNow
4 14 (13.59%) Splunk
5 7 (6.80%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.88%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (3.88%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.88%) SAP
6 4 (3.88%) Tenable
6 4 (3.88%) VMware
7 3 (2.91%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.91%) Cisco
7 3 (2.91%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.94%) NEC
8 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.94%) Virgin Media
8 2 (1.94%) YouTube
8 2 (1.94%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.97%) Arista
9 1 (0.97%) Okta