SaaS Jobs in Scotland

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 45 58
Rank change year-on-year -52 +13 -3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 252 274 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.74% 5.79% 4.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.58% 16.28% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 148 126 201
10th Percentile £34,700 £43,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,328 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,938 1,683 2,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.62% 35.57% 34.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 956 1,299
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,785 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,688 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,307 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Scotland.

Salary trend for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +23 150 £55,000 -21.43% 29
Glasgow -140 51 £60,000 +4.35% 15
Aberdeen +4 23 £38,500 -9.41% 3
Fife - 8 - - 1
Dundee -8 6 £45,000 -7.46% 1
South Lanarkshire - 3 £105,000 -
Perthshire - 2 £35,000 -
Aberdeenshire +6 1 £100,000 +100.00% 1
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 9
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 24 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (39.68%) AWS
2 66 (26.19%) Azure
3 57 (22.62%) GCP
4 30 (11.90%) Amazon S3
5 26 (10.32%) Miro
6 23 (9.13%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (9.13%) Google Docs
6 23 (9.13%) Lucidchart
6 23 (9.13%) Slack
7 22 (8.73%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (7.94%) IaaS
9 19 (7.54%) PaaS
10 7 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.78%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.78%) Serverless
11 6 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.98%) GitHub
13 4 (1.59%) IBM Cloud
13 4 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.37%) Firewall
2 9 (3.57%) LAN
2 9 (3.57%) WAN
3 3 (1.19%) DHCP
3 3 (1.19%) DNS
3 3 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.19%) Wireless
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (11.51%) Big Data
3 24 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 23 (9.13%) Redis
4 23 (9.13%) Scylla
5 11 (4.37%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.17%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.78%) MySQL
9 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.59%) GIS
10 4 (1.59%) Power BI
10 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Git
2 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.59%) Maven
2 4 (1.59%) Selenium
3 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.40%) JUnit
General
1 84 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (11.90%) Finance
4 24 (9.52%) Marketing
5 16 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.56%) Legal
6 14 (5.56%) Military
7 13 (5.16%) Banking
8 10 (3.97%) Retail
9 9 (3.57%) Games
10 8 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.17%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 53 (21.03%) Software Engineer
2 46 (18.25%) Developer
3 44 (17.46%) Senior
4 33 (13.10%) Principal Engineer
5 32 (12.70%) Principal Software Engineer
6 28 (11.11%) Architect
7 26 (10.32%) Analyst
8 20 (7.94%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (6.35%) Cloud Architect
10 14 (5.56%) Software Developer
10 14 (5.56%) Support Analyst
10 14 (5.56%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 13 (5.16%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.97%) Senior Software Developer
12 10 (3.97%) Software Tester
12 10 (3.97%) Tester
13 9 (3.57%) Lead
13 9 (3.57%) PHP Developer
14 8 (3.17%) Senior Windows Engineer
14 8 (3.17%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.87%) Kafka
2 23 (9.13%) .NET
2 23 (9.13%) GraphQL
3 16 (6.35%) AngularJS
3 16 (6.35%) RESTful
4 14 (5.56%) React
5 12 (4.76%) Laravel
6 10 (3.97%) .NET Core
6 10 (3.97%) REST
7 9 (3.57%) CSS
7 9 (3.57%) HTML
7 9 (3.57%) Spring
7 9 (3.57%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (2.38%) .NET Framework
9 6 (2.38%) Web Services
10 5 (1.98%) JSON
11 4 (1.59%) OpenID
11 4 (1.59%) Vue
11 4 (1.59%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.71%) Data Structures
2 23 (9.13%) Algorithms
3 14 (5.56%) PKI
3 14 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.16%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.97%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.57%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.78%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.98%) Robotics
10 5 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.98%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (1.59%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.19%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.10%) Windows
2 27 (10.71%) Linux
3 20 (7.94%) Unix
4 14 (5.56%) Mac OS X
5 8 (3.17%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.59%) Android
7 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.76%) Agile
2 64 (25.40%) Software Engineering
3 60 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (18.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 47 (18.65%) Threat Intelligence
5 42 (16.67%) DevOps
5 42 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (15.08%) User Experience
7 34 (13.49%) Data Science
8 32 (12.70%) Actionable Insight
9 31 (12.30%) Computer Security
9 31 (12.30%) Migration
10 29 (11.51%) Microservices
10 29 (11.51%) Test Automation
11 28 (11.11%) High Availability
11 28 (11.11%) Project Management
12 24 (9.52%) Incident Response
13 23 (9.13%) UX Research
14 22 (8.73%) Customer Service
14 22 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (21.03%) Java
2 46 (18.25%) Python
3 38 (15.08%) C#
4 33 (13.10%) Go
5 30 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 26 (10.32%) TypeScript
7 25 (9.92%) Bash
8 24 (9.52%) Scala
9 23 (9.13%) SQL
10 14 (5.56%) C++
10 14 (5.56%) PHP
11 7 (2.78%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.59%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.59%) Swift
13 3 (1.19%) Ruby
13 3 (1.19%) Rust
14 1 (0.40%) R
14 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (14.29%) Degree
2 18 (7.14%) CISM
2 18 (7.14%) CISSP
3 14 (5.56%) GCIA
3 14 (5.56%) GCIH
3 14 (5.56%) GREM
4 10 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.94%) QA
2 7 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.78%) NIST
3 6 (2.38%) GDPR
4 5 (1.98%) SEPA
5 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 18 (7.14%) Docker
2 6 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (16.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.19%) Autotask
3 2 (0.79%) Ansible
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.79%) Puppet
3 2 (0.79%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) CASB
4 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 46 (18.25%) Dell
2 43 (17.06%) Google
3 38 (15.08%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.59%) IBM
4 4 (1.59%) Oracle
5 3 (1.19%) Apple
5 3 (1.19%) Facebook
5 3 (1.19%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.40%) Aruba
6 1 (0.40%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.40%) CA
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco
6 1 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.40%) EMC
6 1 (0.40%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.40%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.40%) Sun
6 1 (0.40%) Trustwave
6 1 (0.40%) VMware