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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 77 123
Rank change year-on-year -34 +46 -37
Contract jobs citing SaaS 94 70 72
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.60% 2.36% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.75% 7.89% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 47 60
10th Percentile £204 £293 £384
25th Percentile £352 £404 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.32% +1.67%
75th Percentile £648 £594 £600
90th Percentile £670 £660 £639
England median daily rate £525 £538 £539
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.23% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £28.88 £38.64 £20.45
25th Percentile £40.81 £53.10 £27.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £77.19 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.99% +100.49% +108.11%
75th Percentile £97.50 £86.35 £50.13
90th Percentile £102.20 £91.84 £56.95
England median hourly rate £53.00 £77.19 £26.00
% change year-on-year -31.34% +196.88% -63.94%

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 1,636 887 1,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.77% 29.90% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 600 904
10th Percentile £281 £263 £250
25th Percentile £401 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £660 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 33 51
10th Percentile £15.96 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.27 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £48.75 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +68.10% +24.92% +0.28%
75th Percentile £82.25 £47.50 £54.75
90th Percentile £101.01 £74.75 £61.60
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -39 60 £588 +17.38% 110
Berkshire -25 39 £634 +22.17% 71
Oxfordshire - 14 £200 - 16
Surrey -12 13 £208 -48.13% 37
Hampshire -17 13 £550 -3.08% 38
Buckinghamshire -40 7 £525 +4.90% 26
Sussex - 4 - -
Middlesex - 3 £198 - 3
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 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.13%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.19%) SAP ERP
2 3 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.13%) iTrent
3 2 (2.13%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.66%) Azure
2 16 (17.02%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.89%) Power Platform
4 13 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (12.77%) Entra ID
6 11 (11.70%) AWS
7 10 (10.64%) IaaS
7 10 (10.64%) PaaS
8 6 (6.38%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (3.19%) OCI
9 3 (3.19%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.13%) GCP
10 2 (2.13%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (1.06%) Akamai
11 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.06%) Google Ads
11 1 (1.06%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) IPsec
1 5 (5.32%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.26%) Firewall
2 4 (4.26%) MQTT
3 3 (3.19%) BGP
3 3 (3.19%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (3.19%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (3.19%) VXLAN
4 2 (2.13%) DNS
4 2 (2.13%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.06%) IPv6
5 1 (1.06%) MPLS
5 1 (1.06%) OSPF
5 1 (1.06%) SNMP
5 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.06%) VLAN
5 1 (1.06%) VoIP
5 1 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (1.06%) WAN
5 1 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.70%) Power BI
2 10 (10.64%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (9.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 8 (8.51%) MySQL
5 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.13%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.13%) Vitess
7 1 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Android Studio
1 6 (6.38%) Browser DevTools
1 6 (6.38%) Eclipse
1 6 (6.38%) JIRA
1 6 (6.38%) Xcode
2 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Finance
3 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Marketing
5 5 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Law
6 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.26%) Retail
7 2 (2.13%) Automotive
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.06%) Local Government
8 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (15.96%) Architect
2 12 (12.77%) Support Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) Technical Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) Technical Support
2 12 (12.77%) Technical Support Engineer
3 10 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (8.51%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.45%) Integration Manager
5 7 (7.45%) Senior
6 6 (6.38%) Analyst
6 6 (6.38%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.38%) UX Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Developer
7 5 (5.32%) Lead
7 5 (5.32%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Security Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Service Transition Leader
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) React
2 7 (7.45%) GraphQL
3 6 (6.38%) Ajax
3 6 (6.38%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.38%) CSS
4 4 (4.26%) ADO
5 3 (3.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (2.13%) .NET
6 2 (2.13%) LDAP
6 2 (2.13%) Middleware
6 2 (2.13%) OAuth
6 2 (2.13%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.13%) OpenID
6 2 (2.13%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.13%) SAML
6 2 (2.13%) Web Services
7 1 (1.06%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.06%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.06%) Node.js
7 1 (1.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.15%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.38%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.38%) Operational Technology
3 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.19%) PKI
6 2 (2.13%) CMDB
6 2 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.13%) Replication
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Linux
2 15 (15.96%) Windows
3 10 (10.64%) Unix
4 6 (6.38%) Android
5 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.06%) CentOS
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.06%) VMS
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.34%) DevOps
2 16 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (15.96%) ITSM
4 13 (13.83%) ITIL
4 13 (13.83%) PRINCE2
5 12 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (12.77%) ERP
5 12 (12.77%) Roadmaps
5 12 (12.77%) Waterfall
6 11 (11.70%) Agile
6 11 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (10.64%) Workflow
8 9 (9.57%) Computer Science
8 9 (9.57%) Migration
8 9 (9.57%) Service Management
8 9 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (9.57%) Zero Trust
9 8 (8.51%) Customer Service
9 8 (8.51%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.70%) Python
2 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.38%) Java
3 6 (6.38%) Perl
3 6 (6.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.13%) Bicep
4 2 (2.13%) C#
4 2 (2.13%) SQL
5 1 (1.06%) Bash
5 1 (1.06%) Tcl
5 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.77%) Degree
4 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.19%) CISSP
6 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.13%) CISM
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.06%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.06%) GIAC
8 1 (1.06%) SANS
8 1 (1.06%) SSCP
8 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) NCSC
2 10 (10.64%) NIST
3 6 (6.38%) NIST 800
4 5 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.13%) IASME
6 2 (2.13%) ISO 31000
6 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.13%) QA
7 1 (1.06%) GDPR
7 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.13%) vCloud
3 2 (2.13%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) Ansible
1 3 (3.19%) Terraform
2 2 (2.13%) Grafana
2 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.06%) CASB
3 1 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (1.06%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 25 (26.60%) Oracle
2 23 (24.47%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.57%) SAP
4 8 (8.51%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.45%) Splunk
6 5 (5.32%) VMware
7 4 (4.26%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.19%) Cisco
8 3 (3.19%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.13%) NEC
9 2 (2.13%) Tenable
9 2 (2.13%) Virgin Media
9 2 (2.13%) Workday
9 2 (2.13%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.06%) Arista
10 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.06%) Meraki
10 1 (1.06%) Palo Alto