SaaS Contracts in the South West

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 99 128
Rank change year-on-year +29 +29 -12
Contract jobs citing SaaS 41 58 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.44% 1.81% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.35% 7.11% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 47 30
10th Percentile £358 £420 -
25th Percentile £413 £575 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +7.26%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £614
90th Percentile £705 - £726
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.42
Median hourly rate - - £76.71
75th Percentile - - £81.99
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.19 £26.00 £76.71
% change year-on-year +196.88% -66.10% +65.85%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 491 816 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.26% 25.51% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 616 1,019
10th Percentile £235 £205 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%
75th Percentile £34.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.13 £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the South West

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the South West

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the South West

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the South West

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bristol +14 18 £525 -12.50% 75
Wiltshire +6 6 £604 -7.15% 31
Dorset - 6 £425 - 39
Gloucestershire +21 5 £425 - 81
Somerset +5 3 £500 +21.21% 43
Devon +14 1 £500 -16.67% 58
Cornwall - 1 £350 - 1
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (24.39%) SharePoint
2 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.88%) Confluence
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (2.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) PaaS
2 14 (34.15%) Azure
3 9 (21.95%) Entra ID
3 9 (21.95%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (14.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 6 (14.63%) OneDrive
5 4 (9.76%) IaaS
6 3 (7.32%) AWS
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.88%) Datadog
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.88%) Serverless
8 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.44%) GCP
8 1 (2.44%) OCI
8 1 (2.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.83%) PBX
1 11 (26.83%) VoIP
2 6 (14.63%) Skype
3 2 (4.88%) 4G
3 2 (4.88%) 5G
4 1 (2.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) MLflow
General
1 12 (29.27%) Telecoms
2 10 (24.39%) Finance
3 6 (14.63%) Legal
4 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Aviation
6 1 (2.44%) Electronics
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 4 (9.76%) Project Manager
3 3 (7.32%) Architect
3 3 (7.32%) IT Manager
3 3 (7.32%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) SaaS Project Manager
3 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 2 (4.88%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Software Integration Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (2.44%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (2.44%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.44%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) .NET
2 2 (4.88%) Node.js
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.44%) XML
3 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Blackberry
1 10 (24.39%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Migration
2 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (26.83%) Commercial Awareness
3 11 (26.83%) Roadmaps
3 11 (26.83%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (24.39%) Agile
4 10 (24.39%) Customer Requirements
4 10 (24.39%) Impact Assessments
4 10 (24.39%) Service Design
5 9 (21.95%) Thought Leadership
5 9 (21.95%) Validation
6 8 (19.51%) Cost Reduction
6 8 (19.51%) Product Roadmap
7 7 (17.07%) B2B
7 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
8 6 (14.63%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (14.63%) E-Discovery
9 4 (9.76%) Data Migration
9 4 (9.76%) Software Engineering
10 3 (7.32%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.76%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) Perl
5 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 17 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (29.27%) DV Cleared
4 10 (24.39%) CCNP
4 10 (24.39%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (24.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.88%) Degree
6 1 (2.44%) MCITP
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) NCSC
1 1 (2.44%) PMO
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.32%) PingFederate
2 3 (7.32%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (7.32%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Cisco
1 11 (26.83%) Ericsson
1 11 (26.83%) F5
1 11 (26.83%) Juniper
1 11 (26.83%) Nokia
1 11 (26.83%) Palo Alto
2 10 (24.39%) Avaya
2 10 (24.39%) Ribbon
2 10 (24.39%) VMware
3 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle
4 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.44%) ESRI
5 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.44%) SAP