SaaS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 92 87
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing SaaS 49 38 53
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.38% 1.77% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.81% 4.37% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 42
10th Percentile £413 £450 £429
25th Percentile £463 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.45% -2.39%
75th Percentile £713 £679 £649
90th Percentile £740 £695 £736
London median daily rate £500 £555 £569
% change year-on-year -9.91% -2.42% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.62 - -
Median hourly rate £40.78 - -
75th Percentile £41.94 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £60.54 £37.75
% change year-on-year -38.06% +60.37% -47.93%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 844 869 994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.07% 40.51% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 568 730
10th Percentile £343 £371 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 12
10th Percentile £18.83 £26.75 -
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £27.31
90th Percentile £42.50 - £47.68
London median hourly rate £27.61 £30.80 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.36% -5.25% +25.75%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

SaaS job vacancy trend in Central London

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Central London over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Central London

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SaaS

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 22 January 2026. 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
City of London +9 49 £525 -7.69% 157
Southwark - 1 £725 -
SaaS
London

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) PaaS
3 7 (14.29%) IaaS
4 5 (10.20%) AWS
5 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.12%) Google Workspace
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.12%) OCI
5 3 (6.12%) Slack
6 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.08%) Boomi
6 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.08%) GCP
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub
6 2 (4.08%) iPaaS
6 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Mixpanel
2 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (4.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) JMeter
3 1 (2.04%) LoadRunner
General
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Finance
3 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.41%) Marketing
4 4 (8.16%) Legal
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Retail
6 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Military
6 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (14.29%) Analyst
2 4 (8.16%) Architect
2 4 (8.16%) Business Analyst
2 4 (8.16%) Senior
2 4 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.12%) Consultant
3 3 (6.12%) Conversion Specialist
3 3 (6.12%) Lead
4 2 (4.08%) Business IT Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Developer
4 2 (4.08%) Environment Manager
4 2 (4.08%) IT Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Senior User Researcher
4 2 (4.08%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.08%) CSS
2 2 (4.08%) HTML
2 2 (4.08%) Kafka
2 2 (4.08%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (4.08%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) JWT
3 1 (2.04%) LAMP
3 1 (2.04%) Laravel
3 1 (2.04%) Node.js
3 1 (2.04%) OAuth
3 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.04%) RESTful
3 1 (2.04%) SOAP
3 1 (2.04%) Spring
3 1 (2.04%) Symfony
3 1 (2.04%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.16%) Equities
2 4 (8.16%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Derivative
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) Analytics
2 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (20.41%) Roadmaps
4 7 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 7 (14.29%) Migration
4 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (12.24%) AI
5 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (12.24%) ERP
6 5 (10.20%) Agile
6 5 (10.20%) CRM
6 5 (10.20%) Process Improvement
6 5 (10.20%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (10.20%) User Experience
6 5 (10.20%) Validation
7 4 (8.16%) Asset Management
7 4 (8.16%) Change Control
7 4 (8.16%) Data Governance
7 4 (8.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.33%) SQL
2 6 (12.24%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.08%) Go
4 2 (4.08%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.04%) PHP
5 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.04%) ProC
5 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.08%) CISSP
3 2 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (4.08%) MCITP
4 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) CCSP
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.04%) OSCP
4 1 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.08%) GRC
3 2 (4.08%) IFRS
3 2 (4.08%) NCSC
3 2 (4.08%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) SLA
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.04%) PMO
4 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.08%) Argo
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.08%) SCOM
4 1 (2.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Salesforce
2 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.33%) Google
3 8 (16.33%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) Amplitude
4 3 (6.12%) Hotjar
4 3 (6.12%) Optimizely
4 3 (6.12%) SimCorp
5 2 (4.08%) HP
5 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.08%) Vermilion
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe
6 1 (2.04%) Ariba
6 1 (2.04%) Charles River
6 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.04%) Marketo
6 1 (2.04%) Rapid7