SaaS Contracts in London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 122 111
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 +30
Contract jobs citing SaaS 333 532 995
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.91% 2.04% 2.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.93% 5.25% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 381 772
10th Percentile £400 £409 £413
25th Percentile £448 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -0.86% +10.48%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £770
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 4
10th Percentile £23.09 £41.95 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.25 £80.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.94% +128.57% -26.32%
75th Percentile £34.84 £82.50 £37.19
90th Percentile £43.44 £82.80 £41.13
England median hourly rate £26.00 £67.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -61.48% +58.82% +112.50%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,757 10,139 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.66% 38.97% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 7,439 12,131
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 80 78
10th Percentile £17.32 £19.89 £19.76
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.25 £23.49
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.47 £78.98
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +2.14%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in London

SaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SaaS in London

SaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaaS in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaaS in London

SaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SaaS in London.

Hourly rate trend for SaaS in London

SaaS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SaaS in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SaaS in London

SaaS
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Central London -5 34 £525 -10.64% 37
West London +17 5 £525 +10.53% 21
East London -12 4 £775 +3.33% 132
South London +6 3 £303 -38.42% 3
North London - 3 £425 - 4
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 15 (4.50%) Confluence
2 7 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.50%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.50%) CMS
3 5 (1.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 4 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.90%) WordPress
6 2 (0.60%) Apache
6 2 (0.60%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.30%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) Mule
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 4 (1.20%) Workfront
2 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.60%) Shopify
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.30%) Relativity
4 1 (0.30%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.30%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 92 (27.63%) PaaS
2 87 (26.13%) Azure
3 78 (23.42%) IaaS
4 71 (21.32%) AWS
5 35 (10.51%) Serverless
6 17 (5.11%) GCP
7 15 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (4.50%) Entra ID
7 15 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (3.60%) OCI
10 11 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.00%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.70%) Google Workspace
13 8 (2.40%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (2.10%) GitHub
15 6 (1.80%) Nutanix
15 6 (1.80%) Rubrik
15 6 (1.80%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (11.41%) Firewall
2 21 (6.31%) DNS
3 11 (3.30%) DHCP
4 8 (2.40%) NAS
4 8 (2.40%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.10%) SAN
6 6 (1.80%) IPsec
6 6 (1.80%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.80%) LAN
6 6 (1.80%) VLAN
7 5 (1.50%) HTTP
7 5 (1.50%) HTTPS
7 5 (1.50%) SSH
8 4 (1.20%) SMS
8 4 (1.20%) VoIP
8 4 (1.20%) VPN
8 4 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.90%) Internet
9 3 (0.90%) MPLS
9 3 (0.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.80%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.70%) MySQL
4 7 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.10%) Power BI
4 7 (2.10%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.50%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.20%) Big Data
8 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.90%) OLAP
8 3 (0.90%) OLTP
8 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.60%) Redis
10 1 (0.30%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 20 (6.01%) JIRA
2 19 (5.71%) Git
3 15 (4.50%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.30%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.50%) webpack
7 3 (0.90%) GitLab
8 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.60%) gulp
8 2 (0.60%) Postman
8 2 (0.60%) Selenium
8 2 (0.60%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) JUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.30%) TestNG
9 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 83 (24.92%) Finance
2 73 (21.92%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.61%) Marketing
4 21 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.01%) Banking
6 18 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.00%) Legal
10 9 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.50%) Billing
12 5 (1.50%) Games
12 5 (1.50%) Police
12 5 (1.50%) Retail
13 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.20%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.20%) Local Government
14 3 (0.90%) Back Office
14 3 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 94 (28.23%) Architect
2 47 (14.11%) Senior
3 35 (10.51%) Analyst
4 33 (9.91%) Solutions Architect
5 30 (9.01%) Security Architect
6 26 (7.81%) Cloud Architect
7 24 (7.21%) Business Analyst
8 23 (6.91%) Developer
9 21 (6.31%) Lead
10 20 (6.01%) Project Manager
11 18 (5.41%) Senior Architect
12 17 (5.11%) Senior Security Architect
13 16 (4.80%) Consultant
14 11 (3.30%) Azure Architect
14 11 (3.30%) Enterprise Architect
15 10 (3.00%) Cloud Security Architect
15 10 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
16 9 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
16 9 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.71%) Node.js
2 18 (5.41%) REST
3 13 (3.90%) LDAP
3 13 (3.90%) SAML
4 12 (3.60%) React
5 11 (3.30%) OpenID
6 10 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (2.70%) .NET
7 9 (2.70%) CSS
7 9 (2.70%) SOAP
8 8 (2.40%) HTML
9 7 (2.10%) Middleware
9 7 (2.10%) OAuth
10 6 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.80%) Spring
10 6 (1.80%) Swagger
11 5 (1.50%) Apache Camel
11 5 (1.50%) OpenAPI
11 5 (1.50%) RAML
11 5 (1.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.80%) IoT
2 16 (4.80%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.60%) Clustering
6 12 (3.60%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.10%) Client/Server
8 7 (2.10%) Replication
8 7 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.80%) Augmented Reality
9 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.80%) Virtual Reality
10 5 (1.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.11%) Linux
2 26 (7.81%) Windows
3 9 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.10%) Solaris
6 6 (1.80%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (0.90%) VMS
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.60%) Unix
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (22.22%) Agile
2 43 (12.91%) DevOps
3 41 (12.31%) Migration
4 39 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 37 (11.11%) Security Architecture
6 34 (10.21%) Project Management
7 33 (9.91%) Roadmaps
7 33 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (9.31%) CI/CD
9 30 (9.01%) ERP
10 28 (8.41%) Information Security
11 27 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (7.81%) B2B
13 23 (6.91%) SDLC
14 22 (6.61%) DevSecOps
14 22 (6.61%) Microservices
15 21 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (6.31%) Decision-Making
16 20 (6.01%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 32 (9.61%) Python
2 29 (8.71%) SQL
3 24 (7.21%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.90%) Bash
5 10 (3.00%) Java
5 10 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.40%) C#
7 7 (2.10%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.50%) Go
9 4 (1.20%) C
9 4 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (0.90%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.90%) Ruby
10 3 (0.90%) Rust
11 1 (0.30%) Bicep
11 1 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (12.31%) Degree
2 30 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.10%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.10%) PMP
6 5 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.50%) CISSP
6 5 (1.50%) CTC Cleared
6 5 (1.50%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.20%) APMP
7 4 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.90%) CCIE
8 3 (0.90%) CCNP
8 3 (0.90%) CISM
8 3 (0.90%) CRISC
8 3 (0.90%) GIAC
9 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.31%) NIST
2 20 (6.01%) GDPR
2 20 (6.01%) QA
3 7 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.50%) PMO
4 5 (1.50%) SLA
5 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) GRC
6 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) COPPA
7 1 (0.30%) GLBA
7 1 (0.30%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 30 (9.01%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.80%) Docker
3 8 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (11.41%) Terraform
2 23 (6.91%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.50%) Ansible
4 10 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.80%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (1.80%) Netcool
5 6 (1.80%) Tivoli
5 6 (1.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (1.50%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.20%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.60%) Grafana
10 1 (0.30%) CASB
10 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.30%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.30%) Puppet
10 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 52 (15.62%) Oracle
3 20 (6.01%) Salesforce
3 20 (6.01%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.11%) Google
4 17 (5.11%) SAP
5 16 (4.80%) Cisco
6 11 (3.30%) CyberArk
7 10 (3.00%) Okta
8 9 (2.70%) Dell
8 9 (2.70%) VMware
9 8 (2.40%) HP
9 8 (2.40%) IBM
10 7 (2.10%) Adobe
10 7 (2.10%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.10%) Splunk
11 6 (1.80%) EMC
11 6 (1.80%) Isilon
11 6 (1.80%) Qualys
11 6 (1.80%) Workday