Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 63 51
Rank change year-on-year -13 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 3,407 5,037 9,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.48% 4.81% 6.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.68% 11.16% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,636 3,296 5,669
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% +9.05%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 -8 2,864 £65,000 -3.70% 1,110
UK excluding London -14 2,149 £55,000 -8.33% 649
Work from Home -7 1,705 £65,000 -3.70% 632
London -1 1,004 £80,000 - 492
North of England +29 564 £55,000 -8.33% 173
South East -57 482 £55,710 -7.15% 166
Midlands +39 394 £57,500 -4.17% 105
North West +27 331 £55,250 -7.18% 121
West Midlands +53 284 £60,000 - 72
South West -2 252 £57,500 +15.00% 90
Scotland -54 252 £55,000 -15.38% 58
Yorkshire +21 180 £55,000 -8.33% 43
East of England -19 114 £60,000 -4.00% 34
East Midlands +3 107 £52,500 - 32
Wales +24 65 £52,500 -8.70% 19
North East +16 53 £55,000 +2.33% 11
Northern Ireland +8 28 £75,000 +25.00% 15

SaaS
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:

Application Platforms
1 63 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 63 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 33 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 24 (0.70%) Confluence
4 20 (0.59%) IIS
5 18 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.50%) CMS
7 15 (0.44%) WordPress
8 10 (0.29%) Umbraco
9 8 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.21%) Apache
11 6 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.18%) IBM Notes
11 6 (0.18%) NServiceBus
11 6 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
12 5 (0.15%) nginx
13 3 (0.088%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.088%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.088%) SAS
14 2 (0.059%) Kinematics
Applications
1 58 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.12%) Notion
6 4 (0.12%) Sketch
7 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.059%) InVision
7 2 (0.059%) SPSS
8 1 (0.029%) 1Password
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 14 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 13 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 13 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
7 12 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
9 9 (0.26%) Elite 3E
10 7 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
13 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
13 4 (0.12%) Sage X3
13 4 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (30.44%) Azure
2 879 (25.80%) AWS
3 441 (12.94%) PaaS
4 384 (11.27%) IaaS
5 311 (9.13%) GCP
5 311 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
6 131 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 94 (2.76%) Power Platform
8 83 (2.44%) Serverless
9 82 (2.41%) GitHub
10 77 (2.26%) Amazon S3
11 72 (2.11%) Entra ID
12 56 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
13 45 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
14 41 (1.20%) OCI
15 40 (1.17%) OpenShift
16 38 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
17 32 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (0.94%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.87%) Firewall
2 82 (2.41%) DNS
3 81 (2.38%) WAN
4 63 (1.85%) VPN
5 61 (1.79%) LAN
6 55 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
7 54 (1.58%) DHCP
8 49 (1.44%) TCP/IP
9 45 (1.32%) HTTP
10 42 (1.23%) Network Security
11 38 (1.12%) Internet
12 37 (1.09%) SAN
13 34 (1.00%) VoIP
14 26 (0.76%) SD-WAN
14 26 (0.76%) VLAN
15 22 (0.65%) SSL
16 18 (0.53%) NAS
17 17 (0.50%) MPLS
17 17 (0.50%) Unified Communications
18 16 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (6.69%) SQL Server
2 155 (4.55%) MySQL
3 80 (2.35%) Big Data
4 77 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 75 (2.20%) NoSQL
6 71 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 62 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
8 56 (1.64%) Power BI
9 53 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
10 51 (1.50%) MongoDB
11 37 (1.09%) Redis
12 35 (1.03%) Data Lake
13 33 (0.97%) GIS
14 31 (0.91%) Hadoop
15 30 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
15 30 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
16 27 (0.79%) Tableau
17 23 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
17 23 (0.68%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 198 (5.81%) Git
2 107 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 106 (3.11%) JIRA
4 94 (2.76%) Selenium
5 73 (2.14%) Postman
6 57 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 40 (1.17%) Cypress.io
8 35 (1.03%) GitLab
9 19 (0.56%) JMeter
9 19 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 18 (0.53%) JUnit
11 17 (0.50%) SoapUI
12 14 (0.41%) REST Assured
13 13 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.38%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.35%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.35%) webpack
15 11 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
15 11 (0.32%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1,022 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 587 (17.23%) Finance
3 250 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (7.07%) Marketing
5 239 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 186 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
7 165 (4.84%) Law
8 156 (4.58%) Retail
9 141 (4.14%) Legal
10 84 (2.47%) Banking
11 74 (2.17%) Public Sector
12 71 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
13 70 (2.05%) Telecoms
14 66 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 53 (1.56%) Automotive
16 46 (1.35%) Games
17 34 (1.00%) German Language
18 33 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
19 32 (0.94%) Health Technology
19 32 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 710 (20.84%) Senior
2 582 (17.08%) Developer
3 424 (12.44%) Architect
4 309 (9.07%) Lead
5 222 (6.52%) Analyst
6 192 (5.64%) Senior Developer
7 178 (5.22%) Software Engineer
8 166 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
9 158 (4.64%) Consultant
10 151 (4.43%) Senior Manager
11 127 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 122 (3.58%) Cloud Architect
13 115 (3.38%) Service Manager
14 114 (3.35%) PHP Developer
15 112 (3.29%) Full Stack Developer
16 111 (3.26%) Project Manager
17 108 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
18 101 (2.96%) Service Delivery Manager
19 95 (2.79%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
19 95 (2.79%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (8.81%) .NET
2 251 (7.37%) React
3 189 (5.55%) Laravel
4 182 (5.34%) HTML
5 178 (5.22%) CSS
6 145 (4.26%) REST
7 129 (3.79%) Vue
8 122 (3.58%) AngularJS
9 121 (3.55%) Node.js
10 114 (3.35%) Web Services
11 111 (3.26%) RESTful
12 99 (2.91%) .NET Core
12 99 (2.91%) JSON
13 71 (2.08%) XML
14 68 (2.00%) GraphQL
15 63 (1.85%) SOAP
16 56 (1.64%) Kafka
17 54 (1.58%) jQuery
18 50 (1.47%) Symfony
19 47 (1.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 147 (4.31%) Public Cloud
2 124 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 121 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
4 115 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
5 100 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 96 (2.82%) Cloud Native
7 95 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 89 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 87 (2.55%) Data Structures
9 87 (2.55%) Mobile App
10 84 (2.47%) PKI
11 63 (1.85%) Data Centre
12 54 (1.58%) Algorithms
13 46 (1.35%) Client/Server
14 37 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 32 (0.94%) Blockchain
16 31 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
17 27 (0.79%) Driving Licence
17 27 (0.79%) Social Media
18 26 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 302 (8.86%) Windows
2 174 (5.11%) Linux
3 101 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 68 (2.00%) Unix
5 49 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.06%) Android
6 36 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 32 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 29 (0.85%) Windows 10
9 27 (0.79%) Mac OS
10 26 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (0.65%) Ubuntu
12 20 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
13 14 (0.41%) CentOS
13 14 (0.41%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.21%) Solaris
14 7 (0.21%) VMS
15 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.12%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (22.01%) Agile
2 541 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
3 519 (15.23%) DevOps
4 408 (11.98%) Software Engineering
5 361 (10.60%) Project Management
6 352 (10.33%) Roadmaps
7 328 (9.63%) Mentoring
8 305 (8.95%) CI/CD
9 275 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
10 266 (7.81%) Microservices
11 234 (6.87%) Migration
12 224 (6.57%) Test Automation
13 206 (6.05%) Full Stack Development
14 195 (5.72%) User Experience
15 193 (5.66%) Computer Science
16 190 (5.58%) Actionable Insight
17 185 (5.43%) Scrum
18 184 (5.40%) Analytics
18 184 (5.40%) Artificial Intelligence
19 183 (5.37%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 464 (13.62%) JavaScript
2 423 (12.42%) SQL
3 334 (9.80%) Python
4 324 (9.51%) C#
5 272 (7.98%) Java
6 233 (6.84%) PHP
7 183 (5.37%) PowerShell
8 171 (5.02%) TypeScript
9 92 (2.70%) Bash
10 60 (1.76%) Go
11 53 (1.56%) C++
12 43 (1.26%) Ruby
13 30 (0.88%) C
14 26 (0.76%) Scala
15 23 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.44%) Bicep
18 13 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.38%) Swift
19 11 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 450 (13.21%) Degree
2 180 (5.28%) Security Cleared
3 117 (3.43%) SC Cleared
4 113 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 48 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 47 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.23%) CISSP
9 34 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 29 (0.85%) CISM
10 29 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 24 (0.70%) MBA
14 23 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.41%) GCIA
16 14 (0.41%) GCIH
16 14 (0.41%) GREM
17 13 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (7.75%) QA
2 162 (4.75%) SLA
3 65 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (1.17%) GDPR
5 35 (1.03%) NIST
6 30 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 28 (0.82%) PMO
8 27 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 27 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 21 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
10 19 (0.56%) NCSC
11 16 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.41%) COBIT
12 14 (0.41%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.29%) WCAG
15 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.21%) SEPA
17 6 (0.18%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 282 (8.28%) Docker
2 155 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 111 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 76 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 46 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.38%) vSphere
8 3 (0.088%) Firmware
8 3 (0.088%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.059%) KVM
9 2 (0.059%) QEMU
9 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.059%) Xen
10 1 (0.029%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.029%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.029%) RACF
10 1 (0.029%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 291 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 151 (4.43%) Terraform
3 89 (2.61%) Ansible
4 54 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (1.44%) Puppet
6 17 (0.50%) vCenter Server
7 14 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.32%) CASB
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
11 8 (0.23%) HP UCMDB
12 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.18%) NetCrunch
12 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.15%) QRadar
13 5 (0.15%) SCCM
14 4 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.12%) Grafana
15 3 (0.088%) Consul
Vendors
1 718 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 215 (6.31%) Google
3 165 (4.84%) Dell
4 140 (4.11%) VMware
5 136 (3.99%) ServiceNow
6 122 (3.58%) Oracle
7 82 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 59 (1.73%) SAP
9 57 (1.67%) Cisco
10 45 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 36 (1.06%) Adobe
12 32 (0.94%) HP
13 28 (0.82%) Apple
14 27 (0.79%) Remedy
15 24 (0.70%) iManage
15 24 (0.70%) Meraki
16 22 (0.65%) IBM
16 22 (0.65%) Palo Alto
17 20 (0.59%) BMC
17 20 (0.59%) Sitecore