SaaS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 96 83
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 -14
Contract jobs citing SaaS 37 54 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.40% 1.89% 2.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.03% 6.34% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 81
10th Percentile £425 £416 £294
25th Percentile £463 £474 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £511 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% -12.98% +2.17%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £650
90th Percentile £640 £760 £656
South East median daily rate £530 £508 £595
% change year-on-year +4.43% -14.71% +3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £20.45 - -
25th Percentile £27.13 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £13.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +196.15% -74.00% -
75th Percentile £50.13 - £52.50
90th Percentile £56.95 - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £18.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.11% -63.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 735 852 1,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.83% 29.75% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 617 869
10th Percentile £282 £313 £192
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.15 £14.51
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £26.58 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.21% +26.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.83 £58.50 £39.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +30.95% -2.44%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in the Thames Valley

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Berkshire -11 27 £530 -11.67% 34
Buckinghamshire +22 7 £560 +16.53% 26
Oxfordshire +1 3 £465 +3.33% 24
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) PaaS
2 13 (35.14%) IaaS
3 11 (29.73%) AWS
4 9 (24.32%) Azure
5 5 (13.51%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (10.81%) Azure API Management
6 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.41%) Google Workspace
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.70%) Cloud Run
9 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.70%) GCP
9 1 (2.70%) Google App Engine
9 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (2.70%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) VPN
2 3 (8.11%) Network Security
3 2 (5.41%) DNS
3 2 (5.41%) Firewall
3 2 (5.41%) LAN
3 2 (5.41%) WAN
3 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) Metadata
2 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Legal
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (13.51%) Architect
1 5 (13.51%) Developer
2 4 (10.81%) Lead
2 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Procurement Officer
3 3 (8.11%) Ruby Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Senior Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Product Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Supplier Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) .NET
1 3 (8.11%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (8.11%) Web Services
2 1 (2.70%) Flask
2 1 (2.70%) gRPC
2 1 (2.70%) J2EE
2 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (2.70%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) IVR
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Life Science
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Agile
2 11 (29.73%) Migration
3 8 (21.62%) DevSecOps
4 6 (16.22%) API Management
4 6 (16.22%) Cloud Security
4 6 (16.22%) DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) Microservices
4 6 (16.22%) Network Architecture
5 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (13.51%) High Availability
5 5 (13.51%) Information Security
5 5 (13.51%) ITSM
5 5 (13.51%) Security Architecture
5 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.81%) Affinity Analysis
6 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (10.81%) Key Management
6 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Ruby
2 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.81%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) C#
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) PHP
4 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
1 6 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.41%) SCCM
4 1 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
1 8 (21.62%) VMware
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 2 (5.41%) Citrix
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) HP
3 2 (5.41%) Meraki
3 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) Workday