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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 98 100
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 -9
Contract jobs citing SaaS 56 38 53
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.99% 1.62% 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.43% 4.06% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 41
10th Percentile £448 £439 £425
25th Percentile £488 £497 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £585
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +6.84% -2.50%
75th Percentile £788 £695 £650
90th Percentile £838 £836 £775
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 754 937 1,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.32% 39.87% 40.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 620 867
10th Percentile £329 £393 £325
25th Percentile £434 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £526 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.32% -1.79% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 8
10th Percentile £18.63 £29.40 £15.58
25th Percentile £24.50 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £55.60 £49.38 £40.69
90th Percentile £67.89 £75.25 £49.88
London median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -17.81% -20.99% +15.71%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +29 56 £638 +7.37% 535
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 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) PaaS
3 11 (19.64%) IaaS
4 10 (17.86%) AWS
5 7 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.93%) GCP
6 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.36%) iPaaS
7 3 (5.36%) OCI
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.57%) Boomi
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.57%) Collibra
8 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) NAS
2 1 (1.79%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Power BI
2 5 (8.93%) Data Mining
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.36%) Mixpanel
5 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
1 3 (5.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (1.79%) JMeter
2 1 (1.79%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.79%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (1.79%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.79%) Finance
3 11 (19.64%) Banking
4 10 (17.86%) Marketing
5 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
7 4 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 4 (7.14%) Legal
8 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.57%) Military
8 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.79%) Back Office
9 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.79%) International Banking
9 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Architect
2 8 (14.29%) Senior
2 8 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (10.71%) Consultant
4 5 (8.93%) Risk Consultant
4 5 (8.93%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (5.36%) Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Conversion Specialist
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%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Environment Manager
6 2 (3.57%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) IT Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Lead
6 2 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Technical Business 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
3 1 (1.79%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.79%) ADO
3 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.79%) MACH
3 1 (1.79%) Middleware
3 1 (1.79%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.93%) Market Risk
3 3 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) CSOC
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.57%) Replication
4 2 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) PKI
5 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
5 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 13 (23.21%) Agile
2 12 (21.43%) Analytics
2 12 (21.43%) Migration
2 12 (21.43%) Roadmaps
2 12 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (14.29%) ERP
5 7 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (12.50%) SDLC
6 6 (10.71%) Scrum
7 5 (8.93%) Change Management
7 5 (8.93%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.93%) DevOps
7 5 (8.93%) E-Commerce
7 5 (8.93%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (8.93%) Service Delivery
7 5 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (8.93%) Stress Testing
7 5 (8.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) SQL
2 4 (7.14%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) Bicep
4 2 (3.57%) Go
4 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.79%) Bash
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) COBOL
5 1 (1.79%) Groovy
5 1 (1.79%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.36%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.57%) MCITP
4 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.93%) Basel II
2 5 (8.93%) GDPR
3 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.57%) QA
4 2 (3.57%) SLA
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.79%) GAAP
5 1 (1.79%) GRC
5 1 (1.79%) IFRS
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.79%) NCSC
5 1 (1.79%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.14%) Terraform
3 2 (3.57%) Argo
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.57%) SCOM
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
4 1 (1.79%) Istio
4 1 (1.79%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Oracle
2 7 (12.50%) Google
2 7 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.36%) Amplitude
4 3 (5.36%) Hotjar
4 3 (5.36%) Optimizely
4 3 (5.36%) SAP
5 2 (3.57%) HP
5 2 (3.57%) Informatica
5 2 (3.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (1.79%) Ariba
6 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.79%) Concur
6 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.79%) Marketo
6 1 (1.79%) NetApp
6 1 (1.79%) Workday
6 1 (1.79%) Xactly