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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 99 86
Rank change year-on-year +17 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing SaaS 49 38 57
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.42% 1.63% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.88% 4.15% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 45
10th Percentile £405 £450 £410
25th Percentile £441 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +11.11% -4.66%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £710 £731
London median daily rate £500 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% -1.54%
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 £28.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +23.21% -49.09% -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 833 915 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.07% 39.35% 40.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 600 789
10th Percentile £325 £386 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile £18.87 - -
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £38.88 - £38.00
90th Percentile £41.94 £69.50 £53.75
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £36.57
% change year-on-year -16.51% -13.85% +19.89%

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 26 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 26 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 +14 49 £525 -12.50% 301
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 1 (2.04%) CICS
1 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) PaaS
3 9 (18.37%) IaaS
4 7 (14.29%) AWS
5 4 (8.16%) GCP
6 3 (6.12%) iPaaS
6 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.12%) OCI
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.08%) Boomi
7 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub
7 2 (4.08%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (4.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Mixpanel
1 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (4.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) JMeter
3 1 (2.04%) LoadRunner
General
1 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Finance
3 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Marketing
4 4 (8.16%) Legal
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Retail
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Military
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (12.24%) Architect
2 4 (8.16%) Analyst
2 4 (8.16%) Senior
2 4 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
3 3 (6.12%) Consultant
3 3 (6.12%) Conversion Specialist
4 2 (4.08%) Business IT Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Developer
4 2 (4.08%) Environment Manager
4 2 (4.08%) IT Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Security Manager
4 2 (4.08%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (2.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (2.04%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.08%) CSS
2 2 (4.08%) HTML
2 2 (4.08%) Kafka
2 2 (4.08%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (4.08%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) JWT
3 1 (2.04%) LAMP
3 1 (2.04%) Laravel
3 1 (2.04%) MACH
3 1 (2.04%) Node.js
3 1 (2.04%) OAuth
3 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.04%) RESTful
3 1 (2.04%) SOAP
3 1 (2.04%) Spring
3 1 (2.04%) Symfony
3 1 (2.04%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Windows
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) AIX
4 1 (2.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.49%) Roadmaps
2 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (20.41%) Analytics
4 7 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 6 (12.24%) ERP
5 6 (12.24%) Migration
6 5 (10.20%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (10.20%) Agile
6 5 (10.20%) AI
6 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.20%) CRM
6 5 (10.20%) DevOps
6 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (10.20%) User Experience
7 4 (8.16%) Change Control
7 4 (8.16%) Cloud Security
7 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.29%) SQL
2 6 (12.24%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.08%) Go
4 2 (4.08%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) Bicep
5 1 (2.04%) COBOL
5 1 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.04%) PHP
5 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.04%) ProC
5 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
1 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.08%) CISSP
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.08%) MCITP
4 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.04%) CCSP
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.04%) OSCP
4 1 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.16%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.08%) GRC
3 2 (4.08%) NCSC
3 2 (4.08%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) SLA
3 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.04%) PMO
4 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) Argo
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.08%) SCOM
4 1 (2.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Salesforce
2 8 (16.33%) Google
2 8 (16.33%) Oracle
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.12%) Amplitude
4 3 (6.12%) Hotjar
4 3 (6.12%) Optimizely
5 2 (4.08%) HP
5 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe
6 1 (2.04%) Ariba
6 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.04%) DocuSign
6 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.04%) Marketo
6 1 (2.04%) NetApp
6 1 (2.04%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.04%) Workday