SaaS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 125 140 132
Rank change year-on-year +15 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing SaaS 263 324 482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.06% 1.56% 2.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.44% 5.95% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 195 356
10th Percentile £345 £406 £403
25th Percentile £411 £448 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +0.92%
75th Percentile £600 £652 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 4
10th Percentile £38.64 - £14.43
25th Percentile £53.10 £25.50 £16.56
Median hourly rate £77.19 £26.00 £47.60
Median % change year-on-year +196.88% -45.38% -36.95%
75th Percentile £86.35 £26.50 £87.80
90th Percentile £91.84 - £98.27
UK median hourly rate £77.19 £26.00 £76.71
% change year-on-year +196.88% -66.10% +91.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the UK excluding London 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
South East +36 82 £543 +0.93% 600
Scotland +19 52 £525 -11.58% 69
South West +29 41 £500 -23.08% 136
North of England -20 41 £450 -10.00% 438
Midlands +13 37 £525 +3.96% 205
North West -4 32 £450 -7.60% 291
West Midlands +13 27 £538 +5.39% 110
East of England +40 18 £450 - 102
East Midlands +2 10 £438 -1.69% 78
Wales +4 5 £688 +64.18% 15
Yorkshire -14 5 £400 -23.81% 123
North East +2 4 £534 +0.52% 26
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 28
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 22 (8.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.80%) Confluence
4 2 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.76%) Camunda
4 2 (0.76%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.76%) Trello
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Primavera
2 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.38%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (37.64%) Azure
2 70 (26.62%) PaaS
3 47 (17.87%) AWS
4 43 (16.35%) IaaS
5 33 (12.55%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (10.65%) Entra ID
7 21 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (6.84%) Serverless
9 12 (4.56%) OpenShift
10 10 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.80%) OneDrive
11 9 (3.42%) GCP
12 8 (3.04%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.04%) GitHub
12 8 (3.04%) OCI
13 7 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.66%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (2.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.18%) PBX
1 11 (4.18%) VoIP
2 8 (3.04%) VSAN
3 6 (2.28%) HTTP
3 6 (2.28%) Skype
4 5 (1.90%) Firewall
4 5 (1.90%) Network Security
4 5 (1.90%) SSL
5 4 (1.52%) DNS
5 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.76%) 4G
6 2 (0.76%) 5G
6 2 (0.76%) DHCP
6 2 (0.76%) MQTT
6 2 (0.76%) NGFW
6 2 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.76%) VPN
7 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.66%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (2.28%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.76%) MySQL
7 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.76%) Power BI
7 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (10.65%) JIRA
2 17 (6.46%) Git
3 11 (4.18%) Cypress.io
4 8 (3.04%) Selenium
5 7 (2.66%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.66%) Postman
6 4 (1.52%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.14%) JMeter
7 3 (1.14%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.14%) Subversion
7 3 (1.14%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.14%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.76%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.76%) GitLab
8 2 (0.76%) Moq
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.76%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.76%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (22.05%) Finance
2 53 (20.15%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.08%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.04%) Legal
7 7 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.28%) Marketing
9 5 (1.90%) Retail
10 4 (1.52%) Banking
10 4 (1.52%) Billing
10 4 (1.52%) Dutch Language
10 4 (1.52%) Games
11 3 (1.14%) Automotive
11 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.76%) Law
12 2 (0.76%) Military
12 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (18.63%) Architect
2 44 (16.73%) Senior
3 34 (12.93%) Developer
4 24 (9.13%) Analyst
5 18 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (6.08%) Business Analyst
6 16 (6.08%) Lead
7 15 (5.70%) Project Manager
8 14 (5.32%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 12 (4.56%) Python Developer
10 11 (4.18%) Senior Architect
11 10 (3.80%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.42%) Designer
12 9 (3.42%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.04%) IT Manager
13 8 (3.04%) IT Project Manager
13 8 (3.04%) Senior Technical Architect
14 7 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.22%) .NET
2 15 (5.70%) CSS
3 12 (4.56%) XML
4 10 (3.80%) AngularJS
4 10 (3.80%) HTML
4 10 (3.80%) REST
5 8 (3.04%) React
5 8 (3.04%) Web Services
6 6 (2.28%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (2.28%) SAML
7 5 (1.90%) Alpine.js
7 5 (1.90%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (1.90%) Laravel
7 5 (1.90%) Node.js
7 5 (1.90%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (1.90%) YAML
8 4 (1.52%) RESTful
9 3 (1.14%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 18 (6.84%) Public Cloud
3 14 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.18%) PKI
5 10 (3.80%) Blackberry
5 10 (3.80%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.04%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.28%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.90%) IoT
9 5 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.52%) CMDB
10 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.14%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.22%) Windows
2 14 (5.32%) Linux
3 10 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.04%) CentOS
4 8 (3.04%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.76%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.60%) Agile
2 55 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (19.77%) CI/CD
4 51 (19.39%) Migration
5 35 (13.31%) ITIL
6 34 (12.93%) DevOps
7 32 (12.17%) Roadmaps
8 30 (11.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (11.03%) Microservices
10 22 (8.37%) Scrum
10 22 (8.37%) Test Automation
11 20 (7.60%) Containerisation
11 20 (7.60%) DevSecOps
12 19 (7.22%) Software Engineering
12 19 (7.22%) TOGAF
12 19 (7.22%) User Experience
13 18 (6.84%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (6.46%) B2B
14 17 (6.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (6.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.07%) SQL
2 33 (12.55%) Python
3 31 (11.79%) PowerShell
4 21 (7.98%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.46%) C#
6 12 (4.56%) Java
7 11 (4.18%) Bash
8 8 (3.04%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.66%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.28%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.90%) PHP
12 3 (1.14%) C++
12 3 (1.14%) Perl
12 3 (1.14%) R
12 3 (1.14%) VBA
12 3 (1.14%) VBScript
13 2 (0.76%) Groovy
13 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 50 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.98%) DV Cleared
4 19 (7.22%) Degree
5 18 (6.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.80%) CCNP
8 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.04%) MCSE
10 7 (2.66%) CISM
11 4 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.52%) CRISC
11 4 (1.52%) ISEB
11 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (1.14%) CISSP
12 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.94%) QA
2 12 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (4.18%) NCSC
4 8 (3.04%) NIST
5 7 (2.66%) GDPR
6 5 (1.90%) PMO
6 5 (1.90%) SLA
7 3 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (11.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.04%) VMware NSX
4 7 (2.66%) vSphere
5 6 (2.28%) Docker
6 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (7.60%) Terraform
2 19 (7.22%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.18%) Ansible
5 9 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.66%) Nessus
6 7 (2.66%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.14%) Grafana
9 3 (1.14%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.76%) BMC PATROL
11 1 (0.38%) Kibana
11 1 (0.38%) Puppet
11 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.79%) VMware
3 21 (7.98%) Cisco
4 19 (7.22%) Oracle
4 19 (7.22%) Palo Alto
5 11 (4.18%) Ericsson
5 11 (4.18%) F5
5 11 (4.18%) Juniper
5 11 (4.18%) Nokia
6 10 (3.80%) Avaya
6 10 (3.80%) Ribbon
7 9 (3.42%) Salesforce
8 8 (3.04%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.04%) SAP
9 7 (2.66%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.28%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.14%) Autodesk
11 3 (1.14%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.14%) Google
11 3 (1.14%) Splunk