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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 124 103
Rank change year-on-year +39 -21 +1
Contract jobs citing SaaS 73 74 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.26% 1.30% 2.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.28% 5.55% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 59 87
10th Percentile £257 £375 £360
25th Percentile £463 £469 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £736
90th Percentile £630 £658 £813
England median daily rate £525 £525 £561
% change year-on-year - -6.46% -4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile - - £13.95
25th Percentile £14.75 - £15.38
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -13.51% -63.00%
75th Percentile £54.98 - £62.25
90th Percentile £84.51 - £88.05
England median hourly rate £32.14 £26.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +23.60% -61.48% +45.95%

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 1,003 1,334 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.10% 23.35% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 901 1,207
10th Percentile £250 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £657 £675 £714
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 51
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.53 £18.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £39.54 £59.95 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +46 54 £525 -6.25% 129
Berkshire +50 49 £525 -8.70% 69
Surrey +19 12 £650 +18.18% 80
Hampshire +30 6 £550 -10.57% 76
Buckinghamshire +4 5 £475 -15.18% 30
Kent +2 2 £475 +18.75% 18
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 6 (8.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.74%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.74%) Camunda
3 2 (2.74%) Confluence
4 1 (1.37%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (8.22%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (8.22%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.37%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (1.37%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.37%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.73%) Azure
2 11 (15.07%) PaaS
3 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (12.33%) AWS
4 9 (12.33%) IaaS
5 8 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.22%) Entra ID
6 6 (8.22%) Serverless
7 4 (5.48%) Azure Stack
7 4 (5.48%) OCI
7 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.11%) GitHub
8 3 (4.11%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.74%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.74%) Figma
9 2 (2.74%) GCP
9 2 (2.74%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.59%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) Network Security
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (1.37%) Wireless
2 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) Power BI
1 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.37%) MySQL
3 1 (1.37%) Power Query
3 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.37%) Sisense
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) JIRA
2 3 (4.11%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (4.11%) Git
3 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) Moq
3 2 (2.74%) Terragrunt
3 2 (2.74%) UI Automator
3 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.37%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.37%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.37%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.37%) Xcode
General
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Telecoms
3 13 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.44%) Finance
5 5 (6.85%) French Language
6 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.74%) Billing
7 2 (2.74%) Marketing
7 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Banking
8 1 (1.37%) German Language
8 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.37%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Local Government
8 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Architect
2 8 (10.96%) Developer
3 7 (9.59%) Analyst
4 5 (6.85%) Senior
4 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
4 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow Architect
5 4 (5.48%) Consultant
5 4 (5.48%) Customer Service Advisor
5 4 (5.48%) Lead
5 4 (5.48%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
6 3 (4.11%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Technical Support
6 3 (4.11%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Telecoms Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Automation Developer
7 2 (2.74%) Sales Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) .NET
2 10 (13.70%) AngularJS
2 10 (13.70%) CSS
3 9 (12.33%) HTML
4 7 (9.59%) XML
5 6 (8.22%) Ajax
5 6 (8.22%) REST
5 6 (8.22%) Web Services
6 5 (6.85%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (5.48%) .NET Framework
7 4 (5.48%) JSON
8 3 (4.11%) OAuth
8 3 (4.11%) React
8 3 (4.11%) SAML
8 3 (4.11%) SOAP
8 3 (4.11%) WCF
9 2 (2.74%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.74%) OpenJDK
9 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (4.11%) CMDB
2 3 (4.11%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.74%) Wiki
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.37%) IoT
4 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) NHS
4 1 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Android
3 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.77%) Agile
2 16 (21.92%) ERP
3 13 (17.81%) DevOps
4 12 (16.44%) CRM
4 12 (16.44%) Migration
5 11 (15.07%) CI/CD
5 11 (15.07%) Scrum
6 10 (13.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (12.33%) ITIL
8 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (9.59%) Software Engineering
10 6 (8.22%) Capacity Management
10 6 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (8.22%) Data Cleansing
10 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
10 6 (8.22%) User Experience
11 5 (6.85%) Cloud Security
11 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (6.85%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) SQL
2 9 (12.33%) C#
2 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.85%) Java
3 5 (6.85%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.85%) Python
4 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.74%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.37%) Perl
6 1 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Degree
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) CISM
5 1 (1.37%) CISSP
5 1 (1.37%) ISEB
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.37%) PMP
5 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 6 (8.22%) SLA
2 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.74%) NCSC
2 2 (2.74%) WCAG
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) GDPR
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.37%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.22%) Terraform
2 2 (2.74%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) Oracle
2 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.33%) ServiceNow
4 8 (10.96%) Salesforce
5 7 (9.59%) SAP
6 4 (5.48%) IFS
7 3 (4.11%) CyberArk
7 3 (4.11%) VMware
8 2 (2.74%) HP
8 2 (2.74%) Splunk
9 1 (1.37%) Cisco
9 1 (1.37%) Citrix
9 1 (1.37%) Databricks
9 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.37%) Google
9 1 (1.37%) IBM
9 1 (1.37%) Infor
9 1 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (1.37%) Qualys