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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 78 65
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +40
Contract jobs citing SaaS 107 89 161
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.46% 2.57% 3.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.94% 8.11% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 53 58
10th Percentile - £350 £305
25th Percentile £204 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £545
90th Percentile £670 £705 £611
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile £15.53 - £63.13
25th Percentile £22.50 - £67.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £74.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -61.20% -0.99%
75th Percentile £54.24 - £83.06
90th Percentile £99.50 - £87.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £29.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.31% -61.33% +3.45%

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 1,348 1,097 1,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.98% 31.72% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 747 947
10th Percentile £219 £263 £206
25th Percentile £363 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £630 £623
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 16 31
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.75 £18.95
25th Percentile £15.00 £19.10 £19.87
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.75 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% -11.05% +53.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.25 £61.69
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £79.78
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.46 £22.75
% change year-on-year -2.62% +25.08% +0.79%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +1 63 £600 +0.84% 366
Berkshire +10 50 £633 +6.30% 232
Surrey +10 27 £208 -60.48% 95
Hampshire -16 15 £375 -34.78% 89
Buckinghamshire -10 7 £519 -12.67% 77
Oxfordshire - 6 £550 - 59
Kent 0 3 - - 71
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 9 (8.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 3 (2.80%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.93%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.93%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.10%) Azure
2 21 (19.63%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (17.76%) Sauce Labs
4 17 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (14.02%) Power Platform
6 13 (12.15%) AWS
7 8 (7.48%) IaaS
7 8 (7.48%) PaaS
8 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.80%) GCP
8 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.80%) Miro
8 3 (2.80%) OCI
8 3 (2.80%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.87%) AtomSphere
9 2 (1.87%) Boomi
9 2 (1.87%) GitHub
9 2 (1.87%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.87%) Slack
10 1 (0.93%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.95%) Wireless
2 3 (2.80%) Firewall
3 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) HTTP
4 1 (0.93%) IPsec
4 1 (0.93%) MQTT
4 1 (0.93%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.93%) SSL
4 1 (0.93%) VLAN
4 1 (0.93%) VPN
4 1 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.50%) Relational Database
2 20 (18.69%) MySQL
3 12 (11.21%) Power BI
4 9 (8.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (5.61%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (2.80%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Browser DevTools
2 19 (17.76%) Android Studio
2 19 (17.76%) Eclipse
2 19 (17.76%) Xcode
3 6 (5.61%) JIRA
4 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.93%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.93%) Git
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 47 (43.93%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.35%) Finance
3 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.61%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (3.74%) Billing
5 3 (2.80%) Law
5 3 (2.80%) Marketing
5 3 (2.80%) Publishing
5 3 (2.80%) Retail
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Military
6 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.93%) French Language
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (20.56%) Support Engineer
2 21 (19.63%) Technical Engineer
2 21 (19.63%) Technical Support
2 21 (19.63%) Technical Support Engineer
3 20 (18.69%) UX Engineer
4 16 (14.95%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 13 (12.15%) Architect
6 9 (8.41%) Analyst
7 8 (7.48%) Project Manager
8 7 (6.54%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (6.54%) Integration Manager
8 7 (6.54%) Lead
9 6 (5.61%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.61%) Senior
9 6 (5.61%) Service Transition Leader
10 5 (4.67%) HR Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) HR Data Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) Oracle Project Manager
11 4 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 4 (3.74%) SIEM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.56%) GraphQL
2 21 (19.63%) Ajax
3 20 (18.69%) AngularJS
3 20 (18.69%) CSS
3 20 (18.69%) React
4 6 (5.61%) REST
5 5 (4.67%) SOAP
6 4 (3.74%) ADO
6 4 (3.74%) XML
7 3 (2.80%) JSON
7 3 (2.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.87%) OAuth
9 1 (0.93%) .NET
9 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.93%) Node.js
9 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.93%) OpenID
9 1 (0.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.69%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.74%) CSOC
5 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.80%) PKI
6 2 (1.87%) Blog
6 2 (1.87%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.87%) Podcast
6 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.87%) Social Media
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.36%) Windows
2 22 (20.56%) Linux
3 20 (18.69%) Unix
4 19 (17.76%) Android
5 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.17%) DevOps
2 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (21.50%) User Experience
3 22 (20.56%) Agile
4 20 (18.69%) Mobile Application Development
5 19 (17.76%) OO
6 16 (14.95%) Waterfall
7 15 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (12.15%) ERP
8 13 (12.15%) PRINCE2
9 12 (11.21%) ITIL
9 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (8.41%) ITSM
12 9 (8.41%) Security Operations
13 8 (7.48%) Contingency Planning
13 8 (7.48%) E-business
13 8 (7.48%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.43%) Java
2 23 (21.50%) JavaScript
2 23 (21.50%) Python
3 21 (19.63%) Perl
4 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.74%) C#
5 4 (3.74%) SQL
6 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.87%) Bash
7 2 (1.87%) Groovy
7 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.93%) PHP
8 1 (0.93%) Tcl
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) Degree
4 4 (3.74%) CISSP
5 3 (2.80%) ACCA
5 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.80%) CIMA
5 3 (2.80%) CIPD
5 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.93%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.93%) CISM
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) NIST
2 3 (2.80%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.93%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.87%) SCCM
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 40 (37.38%) Oracle
2 30 (28.04%) Microsoft
3 24 (22.43%) ServiceNow
3 24 (22.43%) Splunk
4 9 (8.41%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.67%) SAP
6 4 (3.74%) Tenable
7 3 (2.80%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.80%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.80%) Okta
8 2 (1.87%) Apple
8 2 (1.87%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.87%) Dell
8 2 (1.87%) Google
8 2 (1.87%) Qualys
8 2 (1.87%) Workday
8 2 (1.87%) YouTube
9 1 (0.93%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud