SaaS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 106 102
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing SaaS 245 307 604
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.50% 2.03% 2.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.27% 5.61% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 197 427
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £445 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £638 £666
90th Percentile £838 £730 £775
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.32% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 3
10th Percentile - - £27.60
25th Percentile £89.68 £25.50 £30.38
Median hourly rate £93.08 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +258.00% -25.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £96.49 £29.41 £58.75
90th Percentile - £45.94 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £77.19 £26.00 £72.10
% change year-on-year +196.88% -63.94% +80.26%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

SaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,906 5,470 10,096
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.83% 36.10% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 3,932 7,416
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 87 129
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.82 £21.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -51.85% +87.83%
75th Percentile £71.25 £46.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £66.25 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

SaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SaaS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SaaS.

SaaS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SaaS over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

SaaS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SaaS.

SaaS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 20 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 18 (7.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.27%) Confluence
4 3 (1.22%) SAS
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.82%) Camunda
6 1 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Notion
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.63%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.63%) Primavera
2 4 (1.63%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.41%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 114 (46.53%) Azure
2 83 (33.88%) PaaS
3 75 (30.61%) AWS
4 66 (26.94%) IaaS
5 34 (13.88%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (13.06%) GCP
7 31 (12.65%) Entra ID
8 25 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (7.76%) Serverless
10 18 (7.35%) Power Platform
11 13 (5.31%) OCI
12 11 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.49%) GitHub
13 8 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.27%) AWS Fargate
13 8 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.86%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.39%) DNS
1 23 (9.39%) Firewall
1 23 (9.39%) HTTP
2 22 (8.98%) DHCP
3 21 (8.57%) TCP/IP
4 19 (7.76%) BGP
4 19 (7.76%) HTTPS
4 19 (7.76%) OSPF
5 5 (2.04%) SSL
6 4 (1.63%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.22%) IPsec
7 3 (1.22%) Skype
7 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.82%) Internet
8 2 (0.82%) NAS
8 2 (0.82%) Network Security
8 2 (0.82%) VPN
8 2 (0.82%) VSAN
9 1 (0.41%) FTP
9 1 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.49%) MongoDB
1 11 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.27%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (3.27%) Power BI
4 7 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.86%) Data Mining
4 7 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (1.63%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.82%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (5.71%) JIRA
2 12 (4.90%) Git
2 12 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.49%) GitLab
4 4 (1.63%) Postman
5 3 (1.22%) Maven
5 3 (1.22%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.82%) Selenium
6 2 (0.82%) Subversion
6 2 (0.82%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.82%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.41%) MSI
7 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.41%) Toad
7 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (22.45%) Finance
2 45 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.49%) Banking
6 7 (2.86%) Legal
7 6 (2.45%) Marketing
7 6 (2.45%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.04%) Retail
9 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Back Office
10 3 (1.22%) Billing
10 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.22%) Military
11 2 (0.82%) French Language
12 1 (0.41%) German Language
12 1 (0.41%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 70 (28.57%) Architect
2 28 (11.43%) Senior
2 28 (11.43%) Technical Architect
3 27 (11.02%) Developer
4 25 (10.20%) Cloud Architect
5 22 (8.98%) Analyst
6 18 (7.35%) Cloud Native Architect
7 17 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (6.12%) AWS Architect
8 15 (6.12%) Security Architect
9 12 (4.90%) Project Manager
10 11 (4.49%) Consultant
11 10 (4.08%) Applications Support
11 10 (4.08%) Lead
11 10 (4.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 9 (3.67%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.67%) IT Manager
12 9 (3.67%) Network Security Architect
12 9 (3.67%) Security Technical Architect
12 9 (3.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.16%) CSS
2 17 (6.94%) .NET
3 15 (6.12%) HTML
4 13 (5.31%) REST
5 10 (4.08%) Node.js
5 10 (4.08%) React
5 10 (4.08%) Web Services
6 9 (3.67%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.86%) OAuth
7 7 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (2.86%) SAML
7 7 (2.86%) XML
8 6 (2.45%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.04%) Alpine.js
9 5 (2.04%) Laravel
9 5 (2.04%) OpenID
9 5 (2.04%) Spring
9 5 (2.04%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (1.63%) Kafka
10 4 (1.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.90%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.49%) Low-Code
5 10 (4.08%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.04%) PKI
8 5 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.63%) CMDB
9 4 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.22%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.22%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.98%) Windows
2 12 (4.90%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.86%) Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Android
4 4 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) CentOS
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Solaris
5 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.35%) Agile
2 39 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (13.06%) CI/CD
3 32 (13.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (12.65%) DevOps
5 30 (12.24%) Migration
6 28 (11.43%) Analytics
7 27 (11.02%) Roadmaps
8 25 (10.20%) Test Automation
9 23 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (8.98%) Microservices
11 21 (8.57%) Project Management
12 19 (7.76%) Scrum
12 19 (7.76%) Sprint Planning
13 18 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (6.94%) Decision-Making
15 16 (6.53%) ITIL
16 15 (6.12%) CRM
16 15 (6.12%) Data Modelling
16 15 (6.12%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.41%) SQL
2 25 (10.20%) JavaScript
3 23 (9.39%) PowerShell
4 21 (8.57%) Bicep
5 17 (6.94%) Java
6 16 (6.53%) Python
7 7 (2.86%) C#
8 6 (2.45%) PHP
8 6 (2.45%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.04%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.22%) Bash
10 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.22%) VBA
11 2 (0.82%) C
11 2 (0.82%) C++
11 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.82%) VBScript
12 1 (0.41%) Go
12 1 (0.41%) Groovy
12 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.53%) Degree
4 12 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.63%) OCP
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.22%) ISEB
9 3 (1.22%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.22%) MCSE
9 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.08%) GDPR
2 6 (2.45%) QA
3 5 (2.04%) Basel II
3 5 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.63%) NCSC
4 4 (1.63%) SLA
4 4 (1.63%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.22%) PMO
6 2 (0.82%) Basel III
6 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.82%) NIST
6 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (11.84%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.86%) Docker
3 6 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.22%) RACF
4 3 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (14.69%) Terraform
2 16 (6.53%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (4.49%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.67%) Ansible
6 4 (1.63%) Packer
7 2 (0.82%) Grafana
7 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.82%) SCCM
8 1 (0.41%) Consul
8 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.41%) Netcool
8 1 (0.41%) SCOM
8 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 62 (25.31%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.02%) Oracle
3 22 (8.98%) Cisco
4 21 (8.57%) Palo Alto
5 19 (7.76%) Fortinet
6 18 (7.35%) CheckPoint
7 9 (3.67%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.67%) SAP
7 9 (3.67%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.27%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.86%) OutSystems
9 7 (2.86%) VMware
10 5 (2.04%) Databricks
11 3 (1.22%) Autodesk
11 3 (1.22%) Google
11 3 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.82%) Concur
12 2 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.82%) IBM
12 2 (0.82%) Splunk