SaaS Contracts in Edinburgh

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 64 93
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 -5
Contract jobs citing SaaS 23 24 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.07% 2.44% 2.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.30% 6.06% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 27
10th Percentile £219 £406 £413
25th Percentile £386 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £430 £528
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -18.48% -8.26%
75th Percentile £530 £538 £581
90th Percentile £542 £569 £598
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £540
% change year-on-year -10.53% -12.04% -1.82%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 277 396 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.93% 40.24% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 268 461
10th Percentile £188 £263 £381
25th Percentile £380 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £482
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -2.49% +4.22%
75th Percentile £518 £538 £545
90th Percentile £574 £591 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 10
10th Percentile £16.69 - £15.31
25th Percentile £19.28 - £16.19
Median hourly rate £23.09 £17.72 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +30.30% - -
75th Percentile £24.18 - £19.77
90th Percentile - - £20.74
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £17.72
% change year-on-year +24.15% - -71.87%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) PaaS
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
2 5 (21.74%) Serverless
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
3 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (17.39%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (17.39%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 4 (17.39%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (13.04%) Figma
4 3 (13.04%) Route 53
5 2 (8.70%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (13.04%) InfluxDB
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) JIRA
2 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) Artifactory
3 4 (17.39%) Git
4 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.70%) GitLab
4 2 (8.70%) Selenium
4 2 (8.70%) Subversion
4 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
4 2 (8.70%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Manager
3 5 (21.74%) Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Designer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Product Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Product Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Automation Test Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Test Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) UI Designer
5 2 (8.70%) UI/UX Designer
5 2 (8.70%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) AWS CDK
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.35%) Loki
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) Kanban
2 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
3 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Project Management
3 5 (21.74%) Software Delivery
4 4 (17.39%) Change Management
4 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Scrum
4 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) Observability
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
5 3 (13.04%) UX Design
6 2 (8.70%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Bash
1 5 (21.74%) Groovy
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) C#
2 2 (8.70%) C++
2 2 (8.70%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
2 2 (8.70%) VBA
2 2 (8.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) ISEB
1 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
1 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (4.35%) OCP
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.70%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Ansible
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Grafana
2 3 (13.04%) Kibana
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Imperva
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat