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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 89 119
Rank change year-on-year -26 +30 -21
Contract jobs citing SaaS 100 60 74
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.67% 2.04% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.14% 6.66% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 46 60
10th Percentile £204 £288 £375
25th Percentile £388 £402 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.18%
75th Percentile £589 £584 £600
90th Percentile £654 £600 £654
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £21.35 £78.32 £20.45
25th Percentile £26.63 £80.02 £27.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £84.60 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.94% +119.73% +108.11%
75th Percentile £77.50 £90.92 £50.13
90th Percentile £84.20 £93.67 £56.95
England median hourly rate £54.00 £84.60 £26.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +225.37% -61.48%

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 1,628 901 1,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.22% 30.67% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 605 891
10th Percentile £284 £250 £263
25th Percentile £406 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 37 53
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.40 £17.69
25th Percentile £27.88 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -6.67% +7.80%
75th Percentile £82.25 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £104.00 £74.25 £61.60
England median hourly rate £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -38.94%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -33 58 £525 - 137
Berkshire -28 36 £581 +8.14% 93
Hampshire -12 19 £475 -11.63% 48
Oxfordshire - 15 £200 - 20
Surrey -12 11 £208 -24.55% 45
Buckinghamshire -42 7 £525 +10.53% 27
Sussex - 4 - - 1
West Sussex -17 3 - - 9
Middlesex - 3 £198 - 6
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 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.00%) CMS
4 1 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.00%) iTrent
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.00%) SAP ERP
2 2 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.00%) Azure
2 13 (13.00%) Entra ID
3 11 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (11.00%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.00%) IaaS
4 10 (10.00%) PaaS
5 7 (7.00%) AWS
5 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.00%) OCI
6 5 (5.00%) Sauce Labs
7 4 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.00%) GCP
9 2 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.00%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) IPsec
1 5 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.00%) MQTT
3 3 (3.00%) BGP
3 3 (3.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (3.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (3.00%) Firewall
3 3 (3.00%) VXLAN
4 2 (2.00%) DNS
4 2 (2.00%) Network Security
4 2 (2.00%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.00%) IPv6
5 1 (1.00%) MPLS
5 1 (1.00%) Multicast
5 1 (1.00%) OSPF
5 1 (1.00%) SNMP
5 1 (1.00%) VoIP
5 1 (1.00%) VPN
5 1 (1.00%) WAN
5 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.00%) MySQL
1 7 (7.00%) Oracle Reports
1 7 (7.00%) Power BI
2 5 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (2.00%) Vitess
4 1 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Android Studio
1 5 (5.00%) Browser DevTools
1 5 (5.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (5.00%) Xcode
2 3 (3.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (21.00%) Finance
2 19 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.00%) Marketing
6 6 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.00%) Automotive
8 4 (4.00%) Law
8 4 (4.00%) Retail
9 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Local Government
10 2 (2.00%) Military
11 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Architect
2 15 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 11 (11.00%) Support Engineer
4 11 (11.00%) Technical Engineer
4 11 (11.00%) Technical Support
4 11 (11.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 9 (9.00%) Analyst
6 8 (8.00%) Senior
7 6 (6.00%) Oracle Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Developer
8 5 (5.00%) Integration Manager
8 5 (5.00%) Security Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Security Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Manager
8 5 (5.00%) UX Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Systems Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (7.00%) React
2 6 (6.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (6.00%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.00%) Ajax
3 5 (5.00%) CSS
4 4 (4.00%) ADO
5 3 (3.00%) LDAP
5 3 (3.00%) OAuth
5 3 (3.00%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.00%) OpenID
5 3 (3.00%) SailPoint
5 3 (3.00%) SAML
5 3 (3.00%) Web Services
6 2 (2.00%) .NET
6 2 (2.00%) Middleware
7 1 (1.00%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.00%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.00%) Node.js
7 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 9 (9.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.00%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.00%) CMDB
7 2 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.00%) Replication
7 2 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.00%) Linux
2 13 (13.00%) Windows
3 9 (9.00%) Unix
4 5 (5.00%) Android
5 2 (2.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.00%) CentOS
6 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.00%) DevOps
2 16 (16.00%) Migration
3 14 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (13.00%) ERP
5 12 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (10.00%) Agile
6 10 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 10 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 10 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 10 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 9 (9.00%) Computer Science
7 9 (9.00%) Customer Service
7 9 (9.00%) Decision-Making
7 9 (9.00%) ITSM
7 9 (9.00%) Supplier Management
7 9 (9.00%) Zero Trust
8 8 (8.00%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (8.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.00%) Python
2 7 (7.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.00%) Java
4 5 (5.00%) Perl
5 4 (4.00%) SQL
6 2 (2.00%) Bicep
6 2 (2.00%) C#
6 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.00%) Degree
4 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.00%) CISSP
7 2 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.00%) CISM
7 2 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.00%) GIAC
8 1 (1.00%) SANS
8 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.00%) NCSC
2 11 (11.00%) NIST
3 8 (8.00%) Data Quality
4 7 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (6.00%) NIST 800
6 5 (5.00%) GDPR
7 4 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (4.00%) QA
8 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (2.00%) IASME
8 2 (2.00%) ISO 31000
8 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.00%) PMO
9 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.00%) vCloud
3 2 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.00%) Ansible
1 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (3.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.00%) Grafana
2 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.00%) CASB
3 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 26 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (21.00%) Oracle
3 9 (9.00%) SAP
4 5 (5.00%) NEC
4 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.00%) Splunk
4 5 (5.00%) VMware
5 4 (4.00%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.00%) Cisco
7 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.00%) Virgin Media
7 2 (2.00%) Workday
8 1 (1.00%) Arista
8 1 (1.00%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.00%) Juniper
8 1 (1.00%) Meraki
8 1 (1.00%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.00%) Tenable
8 1 (1.00%) Zscaler