SaaS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 51 90 80
Rank change year-on-year +39 -10 +13
Contract jobs citing SaaS 51 55 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.38% 2.05% 2.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.98% 7.28% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 56
10th Percentile £273 £425 £419
25th Percentile £478 £458 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £638
90th Percentile £645 £622 £724
South East median daily rate £543 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.93% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £38.64 £20.45 -
25th Percentile £53.10 £27.13 -
Median hourly rate £77.19 £38.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.49% +196.15% -74.00%
75th Percentile £86.35 £50.13 -
90th Percentile £91.84 £56.95 -
South East median hourly rate £77.19 £38.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +100.49% +108.11% -63.00%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +20 36 £500 -5.66% 106
Buckinghamshire +27 15 £602 +6.00% 71
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (3.92%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (3.92%) Camunda
1 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.96%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 19 (37.25%) PaaS
3 14 (27.45%) IaaS
4 11 (21.57%) AWS
5 6 (11.76%) Entra ID
6 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (9.80%) Serverless
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.88%) GCP
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub
7 3 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Stack
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) VSAN
2 5 (9.80%) HTTP
3 2 (3.92%) MQTT
3 2 (3.92%) Network Security
3 2 (3.92%) NGFW
3 2 (3.92%) SSL
3 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.92%) MySQL
2 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Billing
3 4 (7.84%) Dutch Language
3 4 (7.84%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.92%) Automotive
4 2 (3.92%) Banking
4 2 (3.92%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Marketing
4 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Retail
5 1 (1.96%) Back Office
5 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) German Language
5 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (50.98%) Architect
2 11 (21.57%) Senior
3 10 (19.61%) Technical Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Technical Architect
5 7 (13.73%) Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Telecoms Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Applications Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Security Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Applications Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) .NET
1 6 (11.76%) REST
2 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
2 5 (9.80%) SAML
2 5 (9.80%) XML
3 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.88%) Ajax
3 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (5.88%) CSS
3 3 (5.88%) HTML
3 3 (5.88%) SOAP
3 3 (5.88%) Web Services
4 2 (3.92%) Kafka
4 2 (3.92%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.92%) OAuth
4 2 (3.92%) OpenID
4 2 (3.92%) OpenJDK
4 2 (3.92%) PostGIS
4 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (17.65%) PKI
3 4 (7.84%) IoT
4 3 (5.88%) CMDB
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.92%) Infotainment
5 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 13 (25.49%) ITIL
2 13 (25.49%) TOGAF
3 12 (23.53%) Agile
3 12 (23.53%) Microservices
4 11 (21.57%) DevSecOps
5 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 9 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (17.65%) Use Case
7 8 (15.69%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (15.69%) Migration
7 8 (15.69%) Zachman Framework
8 7 (13.73%) IT Strategy
8 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.76%) DevOps
9 6 (11.76%) RBAC
10 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
10 5 (9.80%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) SQL
2 5 (9.80%) C#
3 4 (7.84%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.88%) Python
5 2 (3.92%) Bash
6 1 (1.96%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.69%) MCSE
3 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (15.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.84%) Degree
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.92%) CISM
6 2 (3.92%) CISSP
7 1 (1.96%) ISEB
7 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (19.61%) NCSC
2 8 (15.69%) NIST
3 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (15.69%) VMware NSX
3 7 (13.73%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Terraform
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) VMware
2 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
3 9 (17.65%) Cisco
4 8 (15.69%) Palo Alto
5 4 (7.84%) Oracle
5 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.88%) CyberArk
6 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.88%) SAP
7 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.96%) IBM
7 1 (1.96%) Infor
7 1 (1.96%) Splunk