SaaS Contract Job Trends in East London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -
Contract jobs citing SaaS 4 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in East London 4.12% 0.89% 7.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.76% 2.22% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 18
10th Percentile £518 - £540
25th Percentile £619 - £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £540 £720
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £698 - £775
90th Percentile £738 - -
London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 34 45 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 35.05% 40.18% 46.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 111
10th Percentile £200 £400 £250
25th Percentile £438 £434 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £540 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £609
90th Percentile £688 £638 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
London median hourly rate £26.40 £31.00 £35.63
% change year-on-year -14.84% -12.99% +34.85%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

SaaS job vacancy trend in East London

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing SaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing SaaS

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in East London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in East London

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets 0 4 £675 +25.00%
SaaS
London

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 (25.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) SAP ERP
1 3 (75.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
1 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) ERP Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) SAP Architect
2 2 (50.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) JSP
1 1 (25.00%) OSGi
1 1 (25.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Business Case
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) ERP
2 3 (75.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) Zachman Framework
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) UX Design
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) Concur
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe
3 1 (25.00%) Ariba
3 1 (25.00%) Marketo