SaaS Contracts in Edinburgh

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 79 88
Rank change year-on-year +25 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing SaaS 22 23 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.54% 1.95% 2.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.01% 4.99% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 30
10th Percentile £450 £420 £424
25th Percentile £484 £471 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £714 £600 £638
90th Percentile £780 £650 £704
Scotland median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.57% -4.55% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 314 461 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.30% 39.17% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 356 460
10th Percentile £216 £209 £363
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £526 £575
90th Percentile £663 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £453 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -4.63% -2.86% +8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £15.80 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £17.91
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -31.85% -
75th Percentile £17.50 - £40.75
90th Percentile £20.84 - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
% change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -55.10%

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 May 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) OCI
2 6 (27.27%) PaaS
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) IaaS
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Akamai
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) IPsec
1 3 (13.64%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
1 2 (9.09%) Selenium
1 2 (9.09%) Subversion
1 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
1 2 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (68.18%) Public Sector
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Back Office
4 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Test Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Test Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (13.64%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) SOAP
3 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Migration
2 7 (31.82%) ERP
2 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (27.27%) Analytics
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Data Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) API Management
6 3 (13.64%) Change Advisory Board
6 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
6 3 (13.64%) Data Security
6 3 (13.64%) DevOps
6 3 (13.64%) RBAC
6 3 (13.64%) Service Management
6 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Storage Management
6 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) C#
2 2 (9.09%) C++
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) VBA
2 2 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) ISEB
1 4 (18.18%) ISTQB
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Okta
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Informatica
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft