SaaS Jobs in the South East

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -61 +8 +5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 488 985 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.90% 6.77% 6.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.45% 18.34% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 394 718 937
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,175 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £63,749 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,162 5,371 8,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.71% 36.90% 42.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 3,729 5,683
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,938 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the South East.

Salary trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley -58 159 £54,500 -12.80% 78
Hampshire -29 154 £57,500 +4.55% 35
Surrey -32 99 £55,000 -29.03% 33
Berkshire -40 77 £52,500 -12.50% 29
Oxfordshire -33 52 £52,500 -25.00% 24
Buckinghamshire -30 30 £57,500 +5.99% 25
East Sussex -30 29 £75,000 +39.53% 4
West Sussex +5 18 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Kent -36 15 £42,500 -34.62% 6
Isle of Wight - 4 £42,500 -
Middlesex - 3 £100,000 -
Home Counties +14 2 £90,000 -
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.02%) Kinematics
4 4 (0.82%) Confluence
5 2 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 18 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.41%) Notion
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.20%) InVision
5 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 131 (26.84%) Azure
2 111 (22.75%) AWS
3 43 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (7.58%) PaaS
5 27 (5.53%) IaaS
6 24 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (3.89%) GCP
8 18 (3.69%) GitHub
9 8 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.43%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.43%) Cloudflare
10 7 (1.43%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.43%) Serverless
11 6 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.23%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.23%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.23%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.94%) Firewall
2 19 (3.89%) VPN
3 15 (3.07%) Network Security
4 13 (2.66%) VoIP
5 11 (2.25%) LAN
5 11 (2.25%) WAN
6 10 (2.05%) VLAN
7 9 (1.84%) Internet
8 8 (1.64%) SAN
9 6 (1.23%) RFID
9 6 (1.23%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.82%) DNS
10 4 (0.82%) HTTP
11 3 (0.61%) 5G
11 3 (0.61%) Broadband
11 3 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.41%) DHCP
12 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.20%) DECT
13 1 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.89%) MySQL
3 10 (2.05%) MariaDB
4 7 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.43%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.02%) Big Data
6 5 (1.02%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.02%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.82%) Redis
7 4 (0.82%) Tableau
8 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.61%) GIS
9 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 53 (10.86%) Git
2 39 (7.99%) Selenium
3 24 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.92%) JIRA
4 16 (3.28%) JUnit
5 11 (2.25%) JMeter
6 8 (1.64%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.64%) Postman
7 7 (1.43%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (1.23%) Newman
8 6 (1.23%) Serenity BDD
9 5 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (1.02%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.82%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.82%) MSBuild
10 4 (0.82%) NUnit
10 4 (0.82%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 155 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 56 (11.48%) Finance
3 48 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (6.15%) Marketing
5 29 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
8 13 (2.66%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.25%) Legal
9 11 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.05%) Law
11 9 (1.84%) Automotive
11 9 (1.84%) Local Government
12 8 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.64%) Retail
13 7 (1.43%) Aviation
14 6 (1.23%) Advertising
14 6 (1.23%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 106 (21.72%) Developer
2 84 (17.21%) Senior
3 47 (9.63%) Analyst
4 42 (8.61%) Architect
4 42 (8.61%) Senior Developer
5 40 (8.20%) Lead
6 30 (6.15%) Software Engineer
7 28 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (5.53%) PHP Developer
9 22 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (4.51%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (4.30%) C++ Software Engineer
11 20 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 19 (3.89%) Project Manager
13 18 (3.69%) Software Developer
14 14 (2.87%) Java Developer
14 14 (2.87%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 14 (2.87%) Senior Java Developer
14 14 (2.87%) Senior Manager
15 13 (2.66%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (13.32%) .NET
2 43 (8.81%) React
3 38 (7.79%) HTML
4 36 (7.38%) CSS
5 34 (6.97%) Laravel
6 28 (5.74%) RESTful
6 28 (5.74%) Vue
7 27 (5.53%) Web Services
8 26 (5.33%) JSON
9 23 (4.71%) jQuery
9 23 (4.71%) XML
10 22 (4.51%) AngularJS
11 19 (3.89%) REST
11 19 (3.89%) SOAP
12 16 (3.28%) OAuth
13 15 (3.07%) .NET Core
14 14 (2.87%) Hibernate
14 14 (2.87%) Spring
15 11 (2.25%) ASP.NET
16 10 (2.05%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.99%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (4.51%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.30%) Satnav
5 14 (2.87%) IoT
5 14 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.66%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.25%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.84%) BYOD
10 8 (1.64%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.43%) PKI
12 6 (1.23%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.23%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.02%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.50%) Windows
2 40 (8.20%) Windows Server
3 17 (3.48%) Linux
4 13 (2.66%) Unix
5 8 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.02%) CentOS
9 4 (0.82%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (27.25%) Agile
2 121 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
3 107 (21.93%) DevOps
4 83 (17.01%) Test Automation
5 64 (13.11%) Software Engineering
6 63 (12.91%) CI/CD
7 52 (10.66%) User Experience
8 47 (9.63%) Scrum
9 46 (9.43%) Project Management
9 46 (9.43%) Roadmaps
10 43 (8.81%) Computer Science
11 41 (8.40%) SDLC
12 36 (7.38%) E-Commerce
13 35 (7.17%) Code Quality
14 34 (6.97%) Analytics
14 34 (6.97%) Full Stack Development
15 32 (6.56%) ITIL
15 32 (6.56%) Microservices
15 32 (6.56%) OOP
15 32 (6.56%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (17.01%) JavaScript
2 75 (15.37%) C#
3 71 (14.55%) SQL
4 59 (12.09%) Java
5 42 (8.61%) PHP
6 35 (7.17%) PowerShell
7 30 (6.15%) C
8 27 (5.53%) Python
9 26 (5.33%) C++
10 7 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.23%) Bicep
11 6 (1.23%) Go
12 5 (1.02%) Bash
12 5 (1.02%) Ruby
12 5 (1.02%) XAML
13 4 (0.82%) Groovy
13 4 (0.82%) R
14 3 (0.61%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.41%) Tcl
15 2 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 98 (20.08%) Degree
2 38 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 31 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.51%) ISTQB
5 17 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.46%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.25%) MBA
8 8 (1.64%) ISEB
9 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 4 (0.82%) CSPO
10 4 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.61%) CCNA
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) MCSE
12 1 (0.20%) Project+ Certification
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (15.57%) QA
2 21 (4.30%) Software Quality Assurance
3 19 (3.89%) SLA
4 10 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.23%) COBIT
6 6 (1.23%) NIST
7 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (11.07%) Docker
2 29 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.28%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.05%) vSphere
6 5 (1.02%) Firmware
7 3 (0.61%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.41%) KVM
8 2 (0.41%) QEMU
8 2 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.33%) Terraform
3 5 (1.02%) Ansible
3 5 (1.02%) Puppet
4 4 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (0.82%) NetCrunch
5 3 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.61%) Nessus
5 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.61%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.41%) Nagios
7 1 (0.20%) Grafana
7 1 (0.20%) Graphite
7 1 (0.20%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.20%) systemd
7 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 89 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.12%) VMware
3 17 (3.48%) Google
4 12 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.25%) Oracle
6 10 (2.05%) Adobe
6 10 (2.05%) Cisco
7 7 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 7 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.23%) Apple
8 6 (1.23%) ForgeRock
8 6 (1.23%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.23%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.02%) Commvault
9 5 (1.02%) Dell
9 5 (1.02%) EMC
9 5 (1.02%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.02%) Splunk
10 4 (0.82%) Meraki
10 4 (0.82%) Nimble Storage