SaaS Contract Job Trends in Wales

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SaaS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 46 51
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing SaaS 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.87% 0.51% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.94% 1.74% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £313 £525 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -8.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £388 £575 £619
90th Percentile £418 - £630
UK median daily rate £514 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.07% -3.64% -4.68%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 102 115 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 29.74% 29.41% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 77 111
10th Percentile £190 £161 £183
25th Percentile £302 £220 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £565
90th Percentile £638 £621 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile £15.90 £22.24 -
25th Percentile £16.44 £25.15 £16.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +50.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £21.50 £33.64 £23.75
90th Percentile £23.48 £35.82 £25.10
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.75% -14.29% +62.79%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Wales

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SaaS

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SaaS

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
North Wales - 2 £325 - 2
South Wales +8 1 £425 -22.73% 9
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) OVHcloud
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) React Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior React Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) React Native
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform