SaaS Job Trends in Birmingham

Software as a Service (SaaS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 40 51
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 -5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 88 106 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.42% 4.79% 4.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.95% 14.29% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 65 61 59
10th Percentile £38,500 £34,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £85,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +0.83%

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

SaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 420 742 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 35.41% 33.53% 42.59%
Number of salaries quoted 342 447 471
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £30,680
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.56%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SaaS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SaaS
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Birmingham

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (10.23%) IIS
2 7 (7.95%) Apache
2 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.55%) CMS
3 4 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.45%) Azure
2 15 (17.05%) AWS
3 8 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 8 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.95%) GitHub
5 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.27%) GCP
7 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.27%) OCI
7 2 (2.27%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.27%) PaaS
7 2 (2.27%) Serverless
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.14%) Firebase
8 1 (1.14%) IaaS
8 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DNS
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
1 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.14%) VPN
1 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.23%) MySQL
3 8 (9.09%) Power BI
4 5 (5.68%) Data Hub
4 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.68%) SQL CLR
5 3 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.27%) Metadata
6 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) JIRA
2 5 (5.68%) Selenium
3 2 (2.27%) Git
3 2 (2.27%) Postman
4 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 20 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.23%) Finance
3 6 (6.82%) Back Office
4 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Law
6 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.41%) Marketing
6 3 (3.41%) Retail
7 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Local Government
7 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (22.73%) Developer
2 15 (17.05%) Lead
3 11 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 9 (10.23%) Software Developer
5 8 (9.09%) Senior
6 7 (7.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Applications Specialist
7 6 (6.82%) Applications Support Specialist
7 6 (6.82%) Blazor Developer
7 6 (6.82%) QA Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Support Specialist
8 5 (5.68%) Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Head of Support
8 5 (5.68%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Developer
8 5 (5.68%) QA Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) SaaS Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Support Technician
9 4 (4.55%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.18%) .NET
2 8 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 8 (9.09%) Entity Framework
3 6 (6.82%) LAMP
3 6 (6.82%) React
4 5 (5.68%) Blazor
5 4 (4.55%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.41%) Dapper ORM
6 3 (3.41%) RESTful
7 2 (2.27%) CSS
7 2 (2.27%) gRPC
7 2 (2.27%) HTML
8 1 (1.14%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.14%) Jest
8 1 (1.14%) JSP
8 1 (1.14%) Next.js
8 1 (1.14%) Node.js
8 1 (1.14%) Spring
8 1 (1.14%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.68%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.27%) NHS
7 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.73%) Agile
2 18 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (20.45%) Mentoring
3 16 (18.18%) CRM
3 16 (18.18%) DevOps
4 15 (17.05%) AI
4 15 (17.05%) CI/CD
4 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.91%) Clean Code
5 14 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 11 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (12.50%) User Experience
6 11 (12.50%) Workflow
7 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (11.36%) Test Automation
8 9 (10.23%) Coaching
8 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.00%) C#
2 18 (20.45%) SQL
3 8 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.95%) PHP
5 6 (6.82%) Bicep
5 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.41%) Python
6 3 (3.41%) VB
6 3 (3.41%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.27%) Go
7 2 (2.27%) Java
7 2 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.14%) C
8 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.95%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) PMI Certification
2 5 (5.68%) PMP
3 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 6 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.68%) SLA
4 1 (1.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) Docker
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) Terraform
2 2 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) Oracle
3 6 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.68%) VMware
5 1 (1.14%) Databricks
5 1 (1.14%) Meraki