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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 111 106
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing SaaS 287 528 1,114
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.95% 2.20% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.33% 5.58% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 372 877
10th Percentile £385 £406 £400
25th Percentile £433 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.35% +5.99%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £673
90th Percentile £686 £750 £740
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% -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 5,389 9,455 18,257
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.63% 39.47% 41.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,894 7,043 13,681
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 135 152
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.06
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £52.31 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.00
% change year-on-year -45.64% +79.77% +0.64%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 12 (4.18%) Confluence
2 5 (1.74%) CMS
2 5 (1.74%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 4 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.05%) WordPress
5 2 (0.70%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.35%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.35%) Mule
Applications
1 17 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.44%) Trello
5 4 (1.39%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.70%) Sketch
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Workfront
2 4 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.35%) Relativity
5 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.35%) Shopify
5 1 (0.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 93 (32.40%) Azure
2 86 (29.97%) PaaS
3 79 (27.53%) AWS
4 66 (23.00%) IaaS
5 19 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (6.27%) GCP
7 17 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (5.23%) Google Workspace
9 13 (4.53%) GitHub
9 13 (4.53%) Miro
10 11 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.79%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.79%) Serverless
13 7 (2.44%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.44%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.74%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.74%) OCI
14 5 (1.74%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.14%) Firewall
2 8 (2.79%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.09%) DNS
3 6 (2.09%) NAS
4 5 (1.74%) DHCP
4 5 (1.74%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.74%) SAN
4 5 (1.74%) SSH
4 5 (1.74%) VLAN
5 4 (1.39%) Network Security
6 3 (1.05%) VPN
7 2 (0.70%) BGP
7 2 (0.70%) IPsec
7 2 (0.70%) OSPF
8 1 (0.35%) FTP
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) NaaS
8 1 (0.35%) VoIP
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.48%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.79%) MySQL
5 7 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.09%) Power BI
7 5 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.39%) GIS
9 3 (1.05%) Big Data
9 3 (1.05%) DB2
9 3 (1.05%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.05%) QlikView
9 3 (1.05%) Tableau
9 3 (1.05%) Tableau Server
10 2 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.35%) Redis
11 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.32%) JIRA
2 11 (3.83%) Git
3 10 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.48%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.44%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.39%) GitLab
5 4 (1.39%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.05%) Selenium
6 3 (1.05%) webpack
7 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.70%) Snyk
8 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.35%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.35%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.35%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.35%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (18.12%) Finance
2 47 (16.38%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.67%) Legal
3 22 (7.67%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.57%) Marketing
5 15 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.83%) Banking
8 10 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.74%) Police
11 5 (1.74%) Retail
12 4 (1.39%) Back Office
13 3 (1.05%) French Language
13 3 (1.05%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.70%) Aviation
14 2 (0.70%) German Language
14 2 (0.70%) Law
14 2 (0.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (15.33%) Architect
2 36 (12.54%) Developer
3 31 (10.80%) Senior
4 27 (9.41%) Analyst
5 25 (8.71%) Consultant
6 21 (7.32%) Business Analyst
7 19 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (6.27%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.18%) Lead
11 9 (3.14%) Product Manager
12 8 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) Business IT Analyst
12 8 (2.79%) Integration Developer
12 8 (2.79%) IT Analyst
12 8 (2.79%) IT Business Analyst
12 8 (2.79%) Security Architect
12 8 (2.79%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.92%) React
2 15 (5.23%) .NET
3 12 (4.18%) ARM Templates
4 10 (3.48%) Azure Blueprints
5 9 (3.14%) REST
6 8 (2.79%) Node.js
7 7 (2.44%) CSS
7 7 (2.44%) LDAP
7 7 (2.44%) Middleware
8 6 (2.09%) HTML
8 6 (2.09%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (2.09%) SOAP
9 5 (1.74%) OpenID
9 5 (1.74%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.74%) Web Services
10 4 (1.39%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.39%) RESTful
10 4 (1.39%) SAML
11 3 (1.05%) HTML5
11 3 (1.05%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.62%) Management Information System
2 16 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (4.53%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.18%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.83%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.14%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.44%) Clustering
9 7 (2.44%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.74%) NHS
11 5 (1.74%) Replication
11 5 (1.74%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.39%) IoT
12 4 (1.39%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.15%) Windows
2 19 (6.62%) Linux
3 7 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.44%) Solaris
4 6 (2.09%) Android
4 6 (2.09%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.74%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (1.74%) Unix
6 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (31.71%) Agile
2 57 (19.86%) DevOps
3 48 (16.72%) Project Management
4 37 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
6 33 (11.50%) Migration
7 28 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (9.41%) Roadmaps
8 27 (9.41%) Scrum
8 27 (9.41%) Test Automation
9 24 (8.36%) ERP
10 20 (6.97%) Analytics
10 20 (6.97%) User Experience
10 20 (6.97%) Waterfall
11 18 (6.27%) Computer Science
11 18 (6.27%) Containerisation
12 17 (5.92%) CRM
12 17 (5.92%) Customer Requirements
12 17 (5.92%) Mentoring
12 17 (5.92%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.32%) SQL
2 19 (6.62%) Python
3 15 (5.23%) Java
4 13 (4.53%) PowerShell
5 10 (3.48%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.14%) C#
6 9 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.79%) Bash
8 7 (2.44%) Ruby
9 3 (1.05%) C
9 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.70%) ABAP
10 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.70%) C++
10 2 (0.70%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) VBA
11 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (15.68%) Degree
2 41 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 36 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.23%) PMP
5 14 (4.88%) APMP
5 14 (4.88%) PMI Certification
6 12 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.09%) CISSP
8 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.74%) CTC Cleared
8 5 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.39%) CISM
10 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.05%) ISEB
10 3 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.70%) CRISC
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.70%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.57%) QA
2 10 (3.48%) GDPR
2 10 (3.48%) NCSC
3 9 (3.14%) NIST
4 6 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.70%) GRC
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) COPPA
7 1 (0.35%) GLBA
7 1 (0.35%) GxP
7 1 (0.35%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (7.67%) Docker
2 16 (5.57%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (9.76%) Terraform
2 24 (8.36%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.32%) Ansible
4 6 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.74%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (1.74%) Netcool
5 5 (1.74%) Tivoli
5 5 (1.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.70%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.70%) Packer
8 1 (0.35%) CASB
8 1 (0.35%) Grafana
8 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 52 (18.12%) Oracle
3 27 (9.41%) Salesforce
4 20 (6.97%) Google
5 18 (6.27%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.88%) Splunk
7 11 (3.83%) Dynatrace
7 11 (3.83%) SAP
8 10 (3.48%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.44%) Adobe
9 7 (2.44%) Dell
9 7 (2.44%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.44%) VMware
10 6 (2.09%) Cisco
10 6 (2.09%) Cloudera
10 6 (2.09%) HP
11 5 (1.74%) EMC
11 5 (1.74%) IBM
11 5 (1.74%) Isilon
11 5 (1.74%) Serena