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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 85 134
Rank change year-on-year -24 +49 -29
Contract jobs citing SaaS 116 69 73
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.84% 2.21% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.88% 7.09% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 48 59
10th Percentile £204 £298 £375
25th Percentile £400 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% +3.53%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £620
90th Percentile £661 £640 £658
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 1
10th Percentile £21.35 - -
25th Percentile £28.50 £14.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.14 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +117.53% +50.84% -13.51%
75th Percentile £85.63 £66.09 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.35 -
England median hourly rate £52.75 £46.39 £26.00
% change year-on-year +13.72% +78.40% -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 1,687 973 1,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.82% 31.16% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 625 895
10th Percentile £280 £250 £275
25th Percentile £411 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £660 £675
England median daily rate £519 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 48 57
10th Percentile £18.93 £15.10 £17.69
25th Percentile £28.54 £15.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.82 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +218.81% -37.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £106.40 £72.00 £61.60
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -30 69 £525 - 78
Berkshire -34 47 £525 - 54
Hampshire -11 23 £475 -11.63% 21
Oxfordshire - 15 £200 - 14
Surrey -23 10 £310 -52.31% 30
Buckinghamshire -35 7 £525 +10.53% 11
Middlesex - 5 £198 - 2
Sussex - 4 - - 3
West Sussex - 4 £700 - 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 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.72%) CMS
3 1 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (5.17%) NEC Housing
3 3 (2.59%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.72%) iTrent
4 2 (1.72%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.86%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.86%) Azure
2 12 (10.34%) AWS
2 12 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (10.34%) Entra ID
3 11 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.62%) IaaS
4 10 (8.62%) OCI
4 10 (8.62%) PaaS
5 6 (5.17%) GCP
5 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.59%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.72%) Datadog
8 2 (1.72%) GitHub
8 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.72%) Serverless
8 2 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.86%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.17%) Network Security
2 4 (3.45%) IPsec
2 4 (3.45%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.59%) BGP
3 3 (2.59%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (2.59%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (2.59%) Firewall
3 3 (2.59%) MQTT
3 3 (2.59%) VXLAN
4 2 (1.72%) DNS
4 2 (1.72%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.86%) IPv6
5 1 (0.86%) MPLS
5 1 (0.86%) Multicast
5 1 (0.86%) OSPF
5 1 (0.86%) SNMP
5 1 (0.86%) VoIP
5 1 (0.86%) VPN
5 1 (0.86%) WAN
5 1 (0.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.17%) Oracle Reports
1 6 (5.17%) Power BI
2 5 (4.31%) MySQL
3 3 (2.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.72%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.72%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Git
2 3 (2.59%) Android Studio
2 3 (2.59%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (2.59%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.59%) Xcode
3 1 (0.86%) JIRA
3 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.69%) Finance
3 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Marketing
6 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Automotive
8 4 (3.45%) Law
9 3 (2.59%) Retail
10 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Legal
10 2 (1.72%) Local Government
10 2 (1.72%) Military
11 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (21.55%) Architect
2 17 (14.66%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (11.21%) Project Manager
4 9 (7.76%) Analyst
4 9 (7.76%) Senior
4 9 (7.76%) Support Engineer
4 9 (7.76%) Technical Engineer
4 9 (7.76%) Technical Support
4 9 (7.76%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (6.03%) Developer
6 6 (5.17%) Oracle Architect
7 5 (4.31%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.31%) Lead
7 5 (4.31%) Security Architect
7 5 (4.31%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (3.45%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Systems Developer
8 4 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (6.03%) AngularJS
3 6 (5.17%) ADO
4 5 (4.31%) React
5 4 (3.45%) NestJS
6 3 (2.59%) Ajax
6 3 (2.59%) CSS
6 3 (2.59%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.59%) LDAP
6 3 (2.59%) Middleware
6 3 (2.59%) OAuth
6 3 (2.59%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.59%) OpenID
6 3 (2.59%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.59%) SAML
6 3 (2.59%) Web Services
7 2 (1.72%) .NET
8 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.86%) REST
8 1 (0.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.76%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.17%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.31%) CMDB
4 5 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.31%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (3.45%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.72%) Replication
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Linux
2 9 (7.76%) Windows
3 7 (6.03%) Unix
4 3 (2.59%) Android
5 2 (1.72%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.86%) CentOS
6 1 (0.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (18.10%) DevOps
2 19 (16.38%) ERP
2 19 (16.38%) Migration
3 18 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (12.07%) Enterprise Architecture
6 12 (10.34%) Agile
6 12 (10.34%) Decision-Making
6 12 (10.34%) ITSM
6 12 (10.34%) PRINCE2
6 12 (10.34%) RBAC
6 12 (10.34%) Roadmaps
6 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (9.48%) Data Migration
8 10 (8.62%) Computer Science
8 10 (8.62%) Data Protection
8 10 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (8.62%) Waterfall
8 10 (8.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.62%) Python
2 8 (6.90%) JavaScript
2 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.17%) SQL
4 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.59%) Bash
5 3 (2.59%) Java
5 3 (2.59%) Perl
6 2 (1.72%) Bicep
7 1 (0.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.21%) Degree
4 9 (7.76%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.59%) CCSP
8 3 (2.59%) CISSP
8 3 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.86%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.86%) SANS
10 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) NCSC
2 12 (10.34%) NIST
3 10 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (7.76%) Data Quality
4 9 (7.76%) GDPR
5 7 (6.03%) QA
6 5 (4.31%) NIST 800
7 4 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.72%) IASME
8 2 (1.72%) ISO 31000
8 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.72%) IAG
3 2 (1.72%) vCloud
3 2 (1.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.31%) Ansible
3 3 (2.59%) CASB
3 3 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.59%) Terraform
4 2 (1.72%) Grafana
4 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 27 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 25 (21.55%) Oracle
3 9 (7.76%) SAP
4 7 (6.03%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.17%) NEC
6 5 (4.31%) VMware
7 4 (3.45%) Google
7 4 (3.45%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.59%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (2.59%) Cisco
8 3 (2.59%) Splunk
9 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.72%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.72%) Virgin Media
9 2 (1.72%) Workday
10 1 (0.86%) Ariba
10 1 (0.86%) BMC
10 1 (0.86%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.86%) Juniper