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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 101 102
Rank change year-on-year +38 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing SaaS 71 36 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.43% 1.50% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.21% 3.62% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 29 52
10th Percentile £472 £395 £413
25th Percentile £509 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.18% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £819 £675 £769
90th Percentile £838 £833 £911
London median daily rate £575 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% -2.54%

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 865 994 1,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.85% 41.54% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 700 1,026
10th Percentile £362 £363 £270
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £660 £657 £695
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £24.30 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.31 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -48.57% +26.51%
75th Percentile £56.75 £44.44 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.25 £71.38 -
London median hourly rate £29.54 £26.97 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.51% -53.10% +35.29%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +35 64 £659 +14.61% 149
City of Westminster - 5 £550 - 6
West End of London +2 2 £588 +9.81% 10
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 (2.82%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.41%) CICS
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.82%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle iProcurement
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Payroll
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (2.82%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Azure
2 12 (16.90%) AWS
2 12 (16.90%) IaaS
2 12 (16.90%) PaaS
3 11 (15.49%) Power Platform
4 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.04%) OCI
5 5 (7.04%) Serverless
6 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.63%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.63%) GCP
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.23%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (4.23%) GitHub
7 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.82%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.82%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) NAS
1 1 (1.41%) SSH
1 1 (1.41%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) Power BI
2 7 (9.86%) Data Mining
3 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.41%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (1.41%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (42.25%) Finance
2 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.13%) Banking
4 11 (15.49%) Investment Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Back Office
7 3 (4.23%) Marketing
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.82%) Billing
8 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Legal
8 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Military
9 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Architect
2 11 (15.49%) Consultant
2 11 (15.49%) Senior
3 9 (12.68%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (9.86%) Risk Consultant
4 7 (9.86%) Senior Consultant
5 6 (8.45%) Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Lead
6 5 (7.04%) Azure Architect
6 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 5 (7.04%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.63%) IT Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Product Owner
8 3 (4.23%) Applications Support
8 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Principal Software Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.23%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.82%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (2.82%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.82%) Jest
3 2 (2.82%) Node.js
3 2 (2.82%) React
4 1 (1.41%) .NET
4 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.41%) ADO
4 1 (1.41%) MACH
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.86%) Market Risk
3 6 (8.45%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.63%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.63%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.82%) CSOC
7 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.82%) PKI
7 2 (2.82%) Reinsurance
7 2 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.41%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.23%) Linux
4 1 (1.41%) AIX
4 1 (1.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.39%) Agile
2 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (22.54%) Analytics
3 16 (22.54%) Migration
4 15 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (14.08%) SDLC
5 10 (14.08%) Service Delivery
6 9 (12.68%) Change Management
7 8 (11.27%) DevOps
7 8 (11.27%) Scrum
7 8 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (9.86%) Project Management
8 7 (9.86%) Scenario Testing
8 7 (9.86%) Stress Testing
9 6 (8.45%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (7.04%) B2B
10 5 (7.04%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.35%) SQL
2 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.04%) Python
4 4 (5.63%) Bicep
5 2 (2.82%) Go
5 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.82%) Rust
5 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.41%) Bash
6 1 (1.41%) C#
6 1 (1.41%) COBOL
6 1 (1.41%) Groovy
6 1 (1.41%) Java
6 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.82%) Degree
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) Basel II
2 5 (7.04%) GDPR
3 3 (4.23%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.82%) IFRS
4 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.41%) GAAP
5 1 (1.41%) GRC
5 1 (1.41%) GxP
5 1 (1.41%) PMO
5 1 (1.41%) QA
5 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Terraform
2 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.41%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) Istio
3 1 (1.41%) Nessus
3 1 (1.41%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.08%) Oracle
3 5 (7.04%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.23%) SAP
5 2 (2.82%) Google
5 2 (2.82%) Informatica
5 2 (2.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco
6 1 (1.41%) Concur
6 1 (1.41%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) NetApp
6 1 (1.41%) Qualys
6 1 (1.41%) Tenable
6 1 (1.41%) Tripwire