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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 83 106
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 -11
Contract jobs citing SaaS 60 41 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.09% 1.79% 1.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.80% 4.41% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 32 43
10th Percentile £417 £414 £477
25th Percentile £484 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £538 £612
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -12.17% +3.73%
75th Percentile £838 £695 £688
90th Percentile - £859 £825
London median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.07% -0.50% -6.78%

All Cloud 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 769 930 1,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.62% 40.66% 41.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 627 952
10th Percentile £332 £393 £325
25th Percentile £425 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £753 £763 £788
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.56 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £79.48 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.50
% change year-on-year +1.34% -24.47% +15.71%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 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
City of London +26 57 £638 +21.43% 232
Southwark - 1 £725 -
City of Westminster - 1 £450 - 5
SaaS
London

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) CICS
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) NetSuite
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) IaaS
2 11 (18.33%) Power Platform
3 10 (16.67%) AWS
3 10 (16.67%) PaaS
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.67%) GCP
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.00%) iPaaS
6 3 (5.00%) OCI
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) Boomi
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.33%) Collibra
7 2 (3.33%) GitHub
7 2 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) NAS
2 1 (1.67%) SSH
2 1 (1.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Power BI
2 7 (11.67%) Data Mining
3 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.00%) Mixpanel
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
1 3 (5.00%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (1.67%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.67%) Finance
3 14 (23.33%) Banking
4 10 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 10 (16.67%) Marketing
5 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 5 (8.33%) Legal
8 3 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.33%) Military
9 2 (3.33%) Retail
9 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.67%) Back Office
10 1 (1.67%) Billing
10 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.67%) International Banking
10 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Architect
2 11 (18.33%) Senior
3 8 (13.33%) Consultant
4 7 (11.67%) Risk Consultant
4 7 (11.67%) Senior Consultant
4 7 (11.67%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Conversion Specialist
5 3 (5.00%) IT Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Lead
5 3 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) Chief Technology Officer
6 2 (3.33%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Data Migration Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Migration Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Project Leader
6 2 (3.33%) SaaS Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (3.33%) CSS
1 2 (3.33%) HTML
1 2 (3.33%) Kafka
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.67%) ADO
2 1 (1.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.67%) Jest
2 1 (1.67%) MACH
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.67%) Middleware
2 1 (1.67%) Node.js
2 1 (1.67%) React
2 1 (1.67%) REST
2 1 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (11.67%) Market Risk
3 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) CSOC
5 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.33%) Replication
5 2 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.67%) PKI
6 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) AIX
3 1 (1.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Agile
2 15 (25.00%) Analytics
3 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (18.33%) Roadmaps
4 10 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (16.67%) Migration
4 10 (16.67%) SDLC
5 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (13.33%) Scrum
7 7 (11.67%) Scenario Testing
7 7 (11.67%) Service Delivery
7 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.67%) Stress Testing
8 6 (10.00%) Change Management
8 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.00%) ERP
8 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (8.33%) Data Governance
9 5 (8.33%) DevOps
9 5 (8.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) SQL
2 6 (10.00%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) Bicep
3 3 (5.00%) Go
3 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) Bash
5 1 (1.67%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) COBOL
5 1 (1.67%) Groovy
5 1 (1.67%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.67%) Rust
5 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.00%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.33%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Basel II
2 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (8.33%) GDPR
4 3 (5.00%) SOC 2
5 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.33%) IFRS
5 2 (3.33%) SLA
6 1 (1.67%) GAAP
6 1 (1.67%) GRC
6 1 (1.67%) QA
6 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (3.33%) Argo
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.33%) SCOM
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Istio
3 1 (1.67%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 7 (11.67%) Oracle
3 6 (10.00%) Google
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.00%) Amplitude
5 3 (5.00%) Hotjar
5 3 (5.00%) Optimizely
5 3 (5.00%) SAP
6 2 (3.33%) HP
6 2 (3.33%) Informatica
6 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco
7 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.67%) IBM
7 1 (1.67%) Marketo
7 1 (1.67%) NetApp
7 1 (1.67%) Workday
7 1 (1.67%) Xactly