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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 -17
Contract jobs citing SaaS 7 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in East London 5.93% 8.33% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.58% 19.51% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £403 £558 -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -28.00%
75th Percentile £672 - -
90th Percentile £675 - -
London median daily rate £538 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -8.12% +11.43% -8.70%

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 48 41 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 40.68% 42.71% 28.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 56
10th Percentile £327 £300 £350
25th Percentile £432 £495 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £585 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.84% +0.47%
75th Percentile £615 - £573
90th Percentile £680 £658 £609
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £25.05 -
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.65 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £26.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.24% - -
75th Percentile £19.56 £27.62 -
90th Percentile - £28.21 -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -8 6 £635 +8.46%
Havering - 1 £550 -
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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP ERP
1 2 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (14.29%) Flink
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Brand Awareness
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Integration Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Architect
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Coordinator
3 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Social Media
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) Zachman Framework
3 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 1
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Ariba
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
2 1 (14.29%) Confluent
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow