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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 90 89
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing SaaS 56 42 58
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.87% 1.75% 2.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.94% 4.45% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 47
10th Percentile £409 £450 £425
25th Percentile £470 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £585
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +6.84% -2.50%
75th Percentile £738 £695 £650
90th Percentile £819 £816 £775
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.51%
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 £34.50 £29.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.97% -47.27% -24.14%

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 807 944 1,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.36% 39.42% 41.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 617 844
10th Percentile £343 £388 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £20.85 £31.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £34.44
90th Percentile £62.93 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.47% -7.28% +23.77%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +23 56 £525 -16.00% 55
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) PaaS
3 11 (19.64%) IaaS
4 9 (16.07%) AWS
5 6 (10.71%) GCP
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.14%) OCI
7 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.36%) iPaaS
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.57%) Boomi
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub
8 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) NAS
2 1 (1.79%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Mixpanel
1 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.79%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
1 3 (5.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) JMeter
2 1 (1.79%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.79%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (1.79%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 10 (17.86%) Marketing
4 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Banking
6 5 (8.93%) Legal
7 4 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.36%) Investment Banking
8 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (5.36%) Retail
9 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.57%) Military
9 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.79%) Back Office
10 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Architect
2 7 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (8.93%) Senior
4 4 (7.14%) Consultant
5 3 (5.36%) Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Conversion Specialist
5 3 (5.36%) Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Category Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Chief Technology Officer
6 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (3.57%) IT Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) IT Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Lead
6 2 (3.57%) Security Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Service Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.57%) CSS
2 2 (3.57%) HTML
2 2 (3.57%) Kafka
2 2 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) JWT
3 1 (1.79%) LAMP
3 1 (1.79%) Laravel
3 1 (1.79%) MACH
3 1 (1.79%) Node.js
3 1 (1.79%) OAuth
3 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.79%) RESTful
3 1 (1.79%) SOAP
3 1 (1.79%) Spring
3 1 (1.79%) Symfony
3 1 (1.79%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.57%) Replication
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.79%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.79%) PKI
4 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
1 3 (5.36%) Windows
2 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.79%) AIX
3 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (23.21%) Roadmaps
3 10 (17.86%) Agile
3 10 (17.86%) Analytics
3 10 (17.86%) Migration
4 7 (12.50%) ERP
4 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
5 6 (10.71%) DevOps
5 6 (10.71%) E-Commerce
5 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (8.93%) AI
6 5 (8.93%) Change Management
6 5 (8.93%) Cloud Security
6 5 (8.93%) CRM
6 5 (8.93%) TOGAF
6 5 (8.93%) User Experience
7 4 (7.14%) Containerisation
7 4 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.29%) SQL
2 6 (10.71%) Python
3 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.36%) Java
5 2 (3.57%) Bicep
5 2 (3.57%) Go
6 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.79%) COBOL
6 1 (1.79%) Groovy
6 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.79%) PHP
6 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.79%) ProC
6 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.57%) CISSP
3 2 (3.57%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.57%) MCITP
4 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.79%) CCSP
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.79%) OSCP
4 1 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.71%) GDPR
3 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.57%) GRC
4 2 (3.57%) NCSC
4 2 (3.57%) NIST
4 2 (3.57%) SLA
5 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.79%) Basel II
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.79%) PMO
5 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
1 5 (8.93%) Terraform
2 2 (3.57%) Argo
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.57%) SCOM
3 1 (1.79%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Salesforce
2 10 (17.86%) Oracle
3 8 (14.29%) Google
3 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.36%) Amplitude
4 3 (5.36%) Hotjar
4 3 (5.36%) Optimizely
5 2 (3.57%) HP
5 2 (3.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) SAP
5 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.79%) Adobe
6 1 (1.79%) Ariba
6 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.79%) Informatica
6 1 (1.79%) Marketo
6 1 (1.79%) NetApp
6 1 (1.79%) Okta
6 1 (1.79%) Rapid7