SaaS Developer
UK

The median SaaS Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 856 946 1101
Rank change year-on-year +90 +155 -241
Permanent jobs requiring a SaaS Developer 29 40 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.038% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.042% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 26 35 116
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,150 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +86.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £73,438 £100,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £106,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +33.33% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,044 95,188 149,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,821 59,863 85,291
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

SaaS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SaaS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS Developer in the UK

SaaS Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SaaS Developer in the UK

SaaS Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS Developer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SaaS Developer in the UK

SaaS Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +99 24 £55,000 -21.43% 14
UK excluding London +5 19 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Work from Home +70 15 £51,500 -10.43% 12
North of England +37 12 £60,000 +41.18% 2
North West +11 7 £52,500 +16.67% 2
London +116 6 £51,500 -42.78% 7
South East +7 3 £55,000 -37.14% 1
North East -2 3 £72,500 +70.59%
Yorkshire +90 2 £56,250 +40.63%
East of England +14 2 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £75,000 -

SaaS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, SaaS Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring SaaS Developer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) SaaS
2 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
3 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
4 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
4 9 (31.03%) Mentoring
5 8 (27.59%) PHP
6 7 (24.14%) CSS
6 7 (24.14%) Agile
7 6 (20.69%) Web Development
7 6 (20.69%) SQL
7 6 (20.69%) .NET
7 6 (20.69%) C#
7 6 (20.69%) Laravel
7 6 (20.69%) SDLC
8 5 (17.24%) Design Patterns
8 5 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (17.24%) React
8 5 (17.24%) Vue
8 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
8 5 (17.24%) Java
8 5 (17.24%) MySQL
8 5 (17.24%) Client/Server
8 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.79%) Symfony
9 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
10 3 (10.34%) ERP
10 3 (10.34%) OOP
10 3 (10.34%) QA
10 3 (10.34%) Spring

SaaS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) SaaS
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Figma
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) MySQL
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Automotive
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) CSS
2 6 (20.69%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) Laravel
3 5 (17.24%) React
3 5 (17.24%) Vue
4 4 (13.79%) Symfony
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
5 3 (10.34%) Spring
6 2 (6.90%) CSS3
6 2 (6.90%) EJB
6 2 (6.90%) HTML
6 2 (6.90%) JavaBeans
6 2 (6.90%) Node.js
6 2 (6.90%) Redux
6 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.90%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (3.45%) JSON
7 1 (3.45%) Next.js
7 1 (3.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Client/Server
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) e-Health
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Mentoring
1 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
2 7 (24.14%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) SDLC
3 6 (20.69%) Web Development
4 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (17.24%) Design Patterns
4 5 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.34%) ERP
6 3 (10.34%) Front End Development
6 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
6 3 (10.34%) OOP
6 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.34%) TDD
6 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
6 3 (10.34%) User Experience
6 3 (10.34%) UX Design
7 2 (6.90%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
2 8 (27.59%) PHP
3 6 (20.69%) C#
3 6 (20.69%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) Java
4 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.34%) Ruby
6 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Google