SaaS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 74 96
Rank change year-on-year -43 +22 +28
Contract jobs citing SaaS 20 47 62
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.69% 2.74% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.65% 8.48% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 32 51
10th Percentile £310 £367 £413
25th Percentile £400 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -19.23% +30.00%
75th Percentile £488 £641 £675
90th Percentile £535 £731 £681
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.61 £77.19 £26.00
% change year-on-year -47.39% +196.88% -47.21%

All Cloud Computing 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 755 554 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.22% 32.34% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 406 638
10th Percentile £227 £228 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 11 26
10th Percentile £18.95 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £52.61 £18.32 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.98% +82.76% -72.82%
75th Percentile £58.75 £28.99 £17.47
90th Percentile £59.75 £68.75 £35.20
England median hourly rate £38.54 £26.81 £21.19
% change year-on-year +43.74% +26.56% -15.26%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

SaaS job vacancy trend in the South West

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the South West over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the South West

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SaaS

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 8 March 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
Bristol -17 9 £400 -27.27% 27
Somerset -5 7 £425 -10.53% 14
Devon - 2 - - 16
Gloucestershire -10 1 - - 12
Wiltshire -26 1 - - 3
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) GitHub
1 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) ShareGate
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Power BI
2 3 (15.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Looker
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (10.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Local Government
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Applications Support
1 4 (20.00%) Senior
1 4 (20.00%) Senior Applications Support
1 4 (20.00%) Support Officer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Financial Controller
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) ERP Support
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) LDAP
1 3 (15.00%) OAuth
1 3 (15.00%) OpenID
1 3 (15.00%) SAML
2 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Change Management
1 6 (30.00%) Migration
2 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Accounts Receivable
3 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) ERP
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (15.00%) Due Diligence
4 3 (15.00%) Information Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Remediation Plan
4 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Runbook
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) ACCA
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) GAAP
2 3 (15.00%) IFRS
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (15.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow