SaaS Contracts in Central London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 90 94
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing SaaS 49 43 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.36% 1.67% 2.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 4.34% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 67
10th Percentile £439 £413 £358
25th Percentile £494 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -5.65% -7.63%
75th Percentile £679 £638 £744
90th Percentile £737 £756 £839
London median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - -3.02%

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 872 991 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.02% 38.50% 35.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 709 1,014
10th Percentile £375 £340 £325
25th Percentile £463 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 15
10th Percentile £23.64 £13.60 £16.83
25th Percentile £27.97 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% -45.71% +145.61%
75th Percentile £38.44 £23.75 £86.02
90th Percentile £90.38 £49.95 £88.30
London median hourly rate £29.07 £30.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -4.69% -10.29% +2.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Central London

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Central London over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Central London

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in Central London

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 6 March 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 +12 43 £625 +16.28% 37
City of Westminster - 5 £550 - 1
West End of London -5 4 £550 -12.00% 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 3 (6.12%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle iProcurement
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.08%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) PaaS
3 5 (10.20%) AWS
3 5 (10.20%) IaaS
3 5 (10.20%) OCI
4 4 (8.16%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.12%) GCP
5 3 (6.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub
6 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Serverless
7 1 (2.04%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.04%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.04%) Power BI
5 1 (2.04%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.04%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) Serena SBM
2 1 (2.04%) Subversion
2 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (42.86%) Finance
2 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Back Office
4 4 (8.16%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.08%) Automotive
6 2 (4.08%) Military
6 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.04%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) Architect
2 6 (12.24%) Analyst
2 6 (12.24%) Consultant
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle Consultant
3 5 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Lead
4 4 (8.16%) Product Owner
5 3 (6.12%) Applications Support
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Oracle Financials Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) Oracle Financials Technical Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) Security Specialist
6 2 (4.08%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
1 2 (4.08%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (4.08%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (4.08%) Visualforce
2 1 (2.04%) LDAP
2 1 (2.04%) REST
2 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.04%) Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) CSOC
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.16%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Agile
2 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (18.37%) Analytics
4 8 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (16.33%) Migration
4 8 (16.33%) User Experience
5 6 (12.24%) Change Management
5 6 (12.24%) Project Management
5 6 (12.24%) User Research
6 5 (10.20%) Data Management
6 5 (10.20%) DevOps
6 5 (10.20%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
6 5 (10.20%) Roadmaps
6 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.16%) CRM
7 4 (8.16%) ERP
7 4 (8.16%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (8.16%) Scrum
7 4 (8.16%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) Apex Code
3 2 (4.08%) Bicep
3 2 (4.08%) Python
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) C#
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) Perl
4 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.04%) Ruby
4 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) CISM
2 2 (4.08%) CISSP
2 2 (4.08%) CRISC
2 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) GxP
3 1 (2.04%) PMO
3 1 (2.04%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Terraform
2 1 (2.04%) Control-M
2 1 (2.04%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.04%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (2.04%) QRadar
2 1 (2.04%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.12%) SAP
4 2 (4.08%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) BMC
5 1 (2.04%) Concur
5 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.04%) EMC
5 1 (2.04%) Foundry
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Okta
5 1 (2.04%) Qualys
5 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.04%) Serena
5 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.04%) Sybase
5 1 (2.04%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Zscaler