SaaS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 100 103
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing SaaS 296 573 1,086
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.00% 2.32% 2.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.49% 5.88% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 404 853
10th Percentile £390 £407 £405
25th Percentile £441 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +6.73%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £670
90th Percentile £713 £750 £740
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 3
10th Percentile - £28.53 £32.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £32.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -12.50% +196.30%
75th Percentile £29.41 £46.88 -
90th Percentile £45.94 £68.25 -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £67.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -61.48% +68.75% +185.71%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,743 18,197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,220 13,607
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

SaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS.

SaaS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SaaS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

SaaS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS.

SaaS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SaaS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

SaaS hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (4.39%) Confluence
2 5 (1.69%) CMS
2 5 (1.69%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 4 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.01%) WordPress
5 2 (0.68%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.34%) Mule
Applications
1 17 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (5.74%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.36%) Trello
4 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.68%) Sketch
5 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.35%) Workfront
2 3 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.34%) Relativity
4 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Shopify
4 1 (0.34%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 92 (31.08%) Azure
2 89 (30.07%) PaaS
3 75 (25.34%) AWS
4 70 (23.65%) IaaS
5 20 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (6.42%) GCP
7 15 (5.07%) Google Workspace
7 15 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (4.73%) GitHub
9 13 (4.39%) Miro
10 11 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (3.38%) Serverless
12 8 (2.70%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.70%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.36%) Nutanix
14 6 (2.03%) Power Platform
14 6 (2.03%) Rubrik
15 5 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.38%) Firewall
1 10 (3.38%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.70%) NAS
3 7 (2.36%) DNS
3 7 (2.36%) Kerberos
3 7 (2.36%) SAN
4 6 (2.03%) DHCP
4 6 (2.03%) VLAN
5 5 (1.69%) SSH
6 4 (1.35%) Network Security
7 3 (1.01%) VPN
8 2 (0.68%) BGP
8 2 (0.68%) IPsec
8 2 (0.68%) LAN
8 2 (0.68%) OSPF
9 1 (0.34%) FTP
9 1 (0.34%) Internet
9 1 (0.34%) NaaS
9 1 (0.34%) VoIP
9 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.38%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.70%) MySQL
5 7 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.69%) Power BI
7 4 (1.35%) GIS
7 4 (1.35%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.01%) DB2
8 3 (1.01%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.01%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.01%) QlikView
9 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.34%) Redis
10 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.34%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 21 (7.09%) JIRA
2 13 (4.39%) Git
3 10 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.38%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.69%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.35%) GitLab
7 3 (1.01%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.01%) Selenium
7 3 (1.01%) webpack
8 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.68%) Snyk
9 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.34%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.34%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.34%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (18.58%) Finance
2 54 (18.24%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.77%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.43%) Legal
5 17 (5.74%) Marketing
6 15 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.70%) Banking
10 7 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.69%) Police
11 5 (1.69%) Retail
12 4 (1.35%) Back Office
13 3 (1.01%) French Language
13 3 (1.01%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.68%) Aviation
14 2 (0.68%) German Language
14 2 (0.68%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (16.22%) Architect
2 38 (12.84%) Developer
3 36 (12.16%) Senior
4 27 (9.12%) Analyst
5 23 (7.77%) Consultant
6 21 (7.09%) Business Analyst
7 20 (6.76%) Project Manager
7 20 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.73%) Lead
9 13 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.70%) Business IT Analyst
10 8 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (2.70%) Integration Developer
10 8 (2.70%) IT Analyst
10 8 (2.70%) IT Business Analyst
10 8 (2.70%) Security Architect
10 8 (2.70%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.36%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.42%) React
2 15 (5.07%) .NET
3 13 (4.39%) ARM Templates
4 10 (3.38%) Azure Blueprints
4 10 (3.38%) Node.js
4 10 (3.38%) REST
5 9 (3.04%) CSS
5 9 (3.04%) LDAP
6 8 (2.70%) HTML
7 7 (2.36%) Middleware
7 7 (2.36%) SOAP
8 6 (2.03%) OpenID
8 6 (2.03%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.69%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.69%) HTML5
9 5 (1.69%) Web Services
10 4 (1.35%) JSON
10 4 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.35%) RESTful
10 4 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.42%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.74%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.07%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.73%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.39%) Virtual Team
6 12 (4.05%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.04%) Clustering
8 9 (3.04%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.36%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.03%) Replication
11 5 (1.69%) NHS
12 4 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.35%) IoT
12 4 (1.35%) Mainframe
13 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.81%) Windows
2 21 (7.09%) Linux
3 9 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.36%) Solaris
5 6 (2.03%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.69%) Android
6 5 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.69%) Unix
7 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (32.09%) Agile
2 62 (20.95%) DevOps
3 51 (17.23%) Project Management
4 42 (14.19%) Migration
4 42 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (8.78%) Roadmaps
8 25 (8.45%) Scrum
8 25 (8.45%) Test Automation
9 24 (8.11%) ERP
10 21 (7.09%) User Experience
10 21 (7.09%) Waterfall
11 19 (6.42%) Analytics
12 18 (6.08%) Containerisation
13 17 (5.74%) Customer Requirements
13 17 (5.74%) Microservices
14 16 (5.41%) CRM
14 16 (5.41%) Data Migration
14 16 (5.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.76%) Python
1 20 (6.76%) SQL
2 17 (5.74%) Java
3 15 (5.07%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.72%) C#
7 9 (3.04%) Bash
8 7 (2.36%) Ruby
9 3 (1.01%) C
10 2 (0.68%) ABAP
10 2 (0.68%) C++
10 2 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.34%) VBA
11 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.84%) Degree
3 34 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.07%) PMP
5 14 (4.73%) APMP
5 14 (4.73%) PMI Certification
6 12 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.69%) CISSP
7 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.69%) CTC Cleared
7 5 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.35%) CISM
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.01%) ISEB
9 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CRISC
10 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.74%) QA
2 11 (3.72%) GDPR
3 10 (3.38%) NCSC
4 7 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.03%) NIST
6 4 (1.35%) PMO
7 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.68%) GRC
8 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.34%) COPPA
9 1 (0.34%) GLBA
9 1 (0.34%) GxP
9 1 (0.34%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (7.77%) Docker
2 18 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (9.46%) Terraform
2 24 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.43%) Ansible
4 7 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.03%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (2.03%) Netcool
5 6 (2.03%) Tivoli
5 6 (2.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.68%) Packer
8 1 (0.34%) CASB
8 1 (0.34%) Grafana
8 1 (0.34%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (22.97%) Microsoft
2 54 (18.24%) Oracle
3 23 (7.77%) Salesforce
4 20 (6.76%) Google
5 15 (5.07%) Splunk
6 13 (4.39%) SAP
6 13 (4.39%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.05%) CyberArk
8 11 (3.72%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.04%) HP
9 9 (3.04%) VMware
10 8 (2.70%) Cisco
10 8 (2.70%) Dell
11 7 (2.36%) Adobe
11 7 (2.36%) Guidewire
12 6 (2.03%) EMC
12 6 (2.03%) IBM
12 6 (2.03%) Isilon
12 6 (2.03%) Qualys
12 6 (2.03%) Serena