SaaS Contracts in Berkshire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 79 83
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -28
Contract jobs citing SaaS 27 33 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.40% 1.86% 2.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.04% 6.32% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 46
10th Percentile £425 £444 £188
25th Percentile £453 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £491
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +22.14% -14.57%
75th Percentile £611 £689 £629
90th Percentile £635 £799 £656
South East median daily rate £530 £509 £595
% change year-on-year +4.18% -14.50% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £13.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +369.23% -74.00% -
75th Percentile £61.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £18.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.11% -63.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 536 522 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.82% 29.39% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 377 490
10th Percentile £331 £363 £188
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £615 £643 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 11
10th Percentile £20.49 £17.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £23.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.21% +3.56% +6.89%
75th Percentile £61.53 £75.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £26.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +25.00% -4.55%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Berkshire

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Berkshire

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Berkshire

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in Berkshire

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Reading -19 16 £534 -11.04% 16
Wokingham - 5 £600 - 4
Slough +12 2 - - 2
Bracknell -7 1 - - 3
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) PaaS
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) IaaS
3 7 (25.93%) Azure
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (14.81%) Azure API Management
5 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (3.70%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Network Security
1 3 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Legal
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 4 (14.81%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Lead
2 4 (14.81%) Project Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Procurement Officer
3 3 (11.11%) Ruby Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Integration Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Product Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) .NET
1 3 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (3.70%) J2EE
2 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.70%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) IVR
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Life Science
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Agile
2 9 (33.33%) Migration
3 8 (29.63%) DevSecOps
4 6 (22.22%) API Management
4 6 (22.22%) DevOps
4 6 (22.22%) Network Architecture
5 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
5 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (18.52%) High Availability
5 5 (18.52%) ITSM
5 5 (18.52%) Microservices
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.81%) Affinity Analysis
6 4 (14.81%) Data Protection
6 4 (14.81%) Security Architecture
6 4 (14.81%) Waterfall
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (11.11%) Performance Management
7 3 (11.11%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Ruby
2 3 (11.11%) C#
2 3 (11.11%) Java
2 3 (11.11%) PHP
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) Citrix
3 2 (7.41%) HP
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce