SaaS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 138 129
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 +10
Contract jobs citing SaaS 288 456 617
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.40% 1.94% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.45% 5.83% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 338 454
10th Percentile £406 £400 £375
25th Percentile £446 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £644
90th Percentile £675 £732 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 3
10th Percentile - £14.90 £52.15
25th Percentile £25.50 £17.75 £59.13
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -53.64% +97.39%
75th Percentile £26.50 £81.99 £84.24
90th Percentile - £95.95 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £72.10 £40.00
% change year-on-year -63.94% +80.26% +185.71%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,280 7,819 9,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.73% 33.27% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 5,787 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £368 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 227 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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
North of England -4 81 £500 -9.09% 191
South East -48 67 £538 +2.38% 170
South West +34 55 £650 +18.18% 88
North West +13 54 £494 -5.95% 131
Midlands +7 43 £500 -6.98% 113
Scotland +29 40 £525 - 52
West Midlands -3 26 £510 -7.27% 85
Yorkshire -4 25 £525 -6.67% 52
East Midlands +25 17 £445 -16.24% 28
East of England -9 6 £450 -33.33% 25
Wales +16 2 £419 -4.29% 13
North East +14 2 £531 -21.30% 9
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 4 (1.39%) Confluence
2 2 (0.69%) ColdFusion
2 2 (0.69%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.35%) CMS
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.69%) Sketch
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.04%) Maximo
2 3 (1.04%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.04%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.69%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.35%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 106 (36.81%) PaaS
2 86 (29.86%) IaaS
3 78 (27.08%) Azure
4 55 (19.10%) AWS
5 35 (12.15%) Cloud Computing
6 22 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (4.17%) Google Workspace
8 10 (3.47%) OCI
9 9 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.13%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.43%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.74%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.74%) GCP
14 4 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.39%) Miro
14 4 (1.39%) Serverless
15 3 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (1.04%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.76%) WAN
2 29 (10.07%) LAN
3 14 (4.86%) VoIP
4 13 (4.51%) PBX
5 9 (3.13%) Network Security
5 9 (3.13%) VPN
6 6 (2.08%) DNS
7 4 (1.39%) IPsec
8 3 (1.04%) Firewall
9 2 (0.69%) BGP
9 2 (0.69%) OSPF
9 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.69%) Wireless
10 1 (0.35%) DHCP
10 1 (0.35%) Internet
10 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.35%) MPLS
10 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.43%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.39%) DB2
4 4 (1.39%) GIS
4 4 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.04%) Power BI
6 2 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.69%) MySQL
6 2 (0.69%) QlikView
6 2 (0.69%) Sisense
7 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.21%) JIRA
2 9 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (1.74%) Git
3 5 (1.74%) Selenium
4 4 (1.39%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.69%) Subversion
6 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) MSI
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.35%) Travis CI
General
1 64 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 45 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.89%) Finance
4 29 (10.07%) Legal
5 18 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.78%) Retail
8 7 (2.43%) Banking
8 7 (2.43%) Digital Economy
8 7 (2.43%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.43%) Marketing
9 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Back Office
12 2 (0.69%) Electronics
12 2 (0.69%) Games
12 2 (0.69%) Law
13 1 (0.35%) Billing
13 1 (0.35%) Military
13 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 84 (29.17%) Architect
2 43 (14.93%) Developer
3 34 (11.81%) Solutions Architect
4 27 (9.38%) Network Architect
5 26 (9.03%) Project Manager
6 25 (8.68%) Analyst
7 16 (5.56%) Senior
8 15 (5.21%) Business Analyst
9 14 (4.86%) IT Manager
10 13 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.17%) Lead
12 10 (3.47%) Service Manager
13 9 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (2.78%) ERP Manager
14 8 (2.78%) ERP Project Manager
14 8 (2.78%) IT Services Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.78%) IT Services Manager
14 8 (2.78%) Procurement Officer
14 8 (2.78%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.60%) .NET
2 14 (4.86%) REST
3 11 (3.82%) React
4 9 (3.13%) Middleware
4 9 (3.13%) Web Services
5 7 (2.43%) SOAP
6 5 (1.74%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.74%) CSS
6 5 (1.74%) HTML
6 5 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.39%) JSON
8 3 (1.04%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.04%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.04%) Flask
8 3 (1.04%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (1.04%) Node.js
8 3 (1.04%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (1.04%) Visualforce
8 3 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.42%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.21%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (3.47%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.13%) Blackberry
4 9 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.39%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.69%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.69%) IVR
10 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.56%) Windows
2 15 (5.21%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.43%) Android
4 6 (2.08%) Linux
5 4 (1.39%) Unix
5 4 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (26.74%) Agile
2 43 (14.93%) Migration
3 40 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (12.50%) Zero Trust
5 34 (11.81%) Open Source
5 34 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 31 (10.76%) DevOps
7 31 (10.76%) ERP
7 31 (10.76%) Roadmaps
8 30 (10.42%) Network Management
9 29 (10.07%) Business Strategy
10 27 (9.38%) Project Management
11 25 (8.68%) Service Management
12 22 (7.64%) Decision-Making
13 21 (7.29%) Service Delivery
14 20 (6.94%) Business Analysis
14 20 (6.94%) Information Security
14 20 (6.94%) ITIL
14 20 (6.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.64%) SQL
2 14 (4.86%) Java
3 12 (4.17%) C#
3 12 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 11 (3.82%) PowerShell
5 10 (3.47%) Python
6 8 (2.78%) PHP
6 8 (2.78%) Swift
6 8 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.08%) Ruby
8 4 (1.39%) C
9 3 (1.04%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.69%) C++
10 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.69%) VBA
10 2 (0.69%) VBScript
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 56 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.89%) DV Cleared
3 32 (11.11%) Degree
4 20 (6.94%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.86%) PMP
6 12 (4.17%) PMI Certification
7 10 (3.47%) APMP
8 8 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (2.43%) HND
10 5 (1.74%) CISSP
11 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.39%) ISEB
11 4 (1.39%) ISTQB
12 3 (1.04%) CCNP
12 3 (1.04%) CISM
12 3 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.47%) QA
2 6 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) GxP
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.13%) Docker
4 6 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.78%) Terraform
4 7 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.69%) SCCM
6 1 (0.35%) Ansible
6 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 74 (25.69%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.93%) Oracle
3 27 (9.38%) Google
4 16 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.86%) Cisco
6 12 (4.17%) VMware
7 11 (3.82%) Juniper
7 11 (3.82%) Okta
7 11 (3.82%) SAP
8 9 (3.13%) Avaya
8 9 (3.13%) Ericsson
8 9 (3.13%) IBM
8 9 (3.13%) Nokia
8 9 (3.13%) Ribbon
9 8 (2.78%) Sage
9 8 (2.78%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.43%) Citrix
10 7 (2.43%) Guidewire
11 6 (2.08%) HP
12 5 (1.74%) Workday