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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 103 82
Rank change year-on-year +45 -21 +8
Contract jobs citing SaaS 48 37 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.23% 1.40% 2.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.66% 5.14% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 52
10th Percentile £273 £425 £414
25th Percentile £466 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £642
90th Percentile £640 £638 £748
South East median daily rate £501 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.88% +2.38% -9.68%
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 497 720 847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.47% 27.26% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 505 614
10th Percentile £300 £275 £315
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £683 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £17.15
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £20.75
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +59.89% +26.57%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £23.22 £23.08
% change year-on-year +20.61% +0.61% +8.46%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +31 37 £519 -2.81% 69
Buckinghamshire +23 11 £501 -11.81% 27
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 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (4.17%) Camunda
1 2 (4.17%) Confluence
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.08%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.08%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (43.75%) Azure
2 13 (27.08%) PaaS
3 11 (22.92%) AWS
4 8 (16.67%) IaaS
5 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.42%) Serverless
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.25%) GitHub
6 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure API Management
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Stack
7 2 (4.17%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (4.17%) MQTT
2 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.17%) VSAN
3 1 (2.08%) DNS
3 1 (2.08%) Network Security
3 1 (2.08%) NGFW
3 1 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.17%) MySQL
3 2 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.08%) Power Query
4 1 (2.08%) Sisense
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) Terragrunt
2 2 (4.17%) UI Automator
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.33%) Billing
3 4 (8.33%) Dutch Language
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Automotive
5 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Marketing
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) French Language
6 1 (2.08%) German Language
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Architect
2 7 (14.58%) Analyst
3 6 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Telecoms Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Automation Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Data Migration Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Migration Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Sales Representative
7 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.17%) UI/UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) .NET
1 7 (14.58%) AngularJS
1 7 (14.58%) XML
2 6 (12.50%) REST
3 5 (10.42%) Ajax
3 5 (10.42%) CSS
3 5 (10.42%) HTML
4 4 (8.33%) .NET Framework
4 4 (8.33%) SAML
5 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (6.25%) SOAP
5 3 (6.25%) Web Services
6 2 (4.17%) Kafka
6 2 (4.17%) OAuth
6 2 (4.17%) OpenID
6 2 (4.17%) OpenJDK
6 2 (4.17%) PostGIS
6 2 (4.17%) React
6 2 (4.17%) Semantic HTML
6 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) IoT
3 3 (6.25%) CMDB
3 3 (6.25%) PKI
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.17%) Infotainment
4 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Agile
2 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 7 (14.58%) ITIL
3 7 (14.58%) Migration
3 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (12.50%) DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 5 (10.42%) DevSecOps
5 5 (10.42%) Microservices
5 5 (10.42%) RBAC
5 5 (10.42%) Roadmaps
5 5 (10.42%) Telematics
6 4 (8.33%) B2B
6 4 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.33%) Customer Retention
6 4 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (8.33%) Scrum
6 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) SQL
2 5 (10.42%) C#
2 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.33%) Java
3 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.25%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) MCSE
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.08%) CISM
5 1 (2.08%) CISSP
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) ISEB
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (8.33%) NCSC
2 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
2 2 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.17%) SLA
2 2 (4.17%) WCAG
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) VMware
3 5 (10.42%) Salesforce
4 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.25%) Cisco
5 3 (6.25%) CyberArk
5 3 (6.25%) SAP
6 2 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.08%) IBM
7 1 (2.08%) Infor
7 1 (2.08%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (2.08%) Splunk