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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 54 44
Rank change year-on-year +38 -10 -1
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 191 51 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.40% 4.24% 4.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.68% 10.56% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 173 40 108
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - -9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £107,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -0.83%

All Cloud Computing 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 774 483 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.92% 40.18% 37.95%
Number of salaries quoted 519 382 930
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £41,394
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £91,250
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £52,387 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.53% -0.22% -2.78%

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 19 May 2026.

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 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (4.71%) Azure
2 8 (4.19%) Figma
2 8 (4.19%) GitHub
2 8 (4.19%) GitHub Copilot
2 8 (4.19%) PaaS
3 7 (3.66%) AWS
3 7 (3.66%) dbt
4 6 (3.14%) Meta Ads
4 6 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.57%) IaaS
6 2 (1.05%) Asana
6 2 (1.05%) Datadog
6 2 (1.05%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.52%) OCI
7 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (4.19%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.05%) JMeter
2 2 (1.05%) Locust
3 1 (0.52%) JIRA
General
1 19 (9.95%) Marketing
2 17 (8.90%) Legal
3 12 (6.28%) Law
4 11 (5.76%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.19%) Retail
6 7 (3.66%) Finance
6 7 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.57%) German Language
10 2 (1.05%) Back Office
10 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.52%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.52%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.52%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.52%) Portuguese Language
11 1 (0.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (13.61%) Senior
2 23 (12.04%) Account Executive
3 22 (11.52%) Developer
4 17 (8.90%) Designer
5 15 (7.85%) Marketing Manager
6 14 (7.33%) .NET Developer
6 14 (7.33%) Xamarin Developer
7 13 (6.81%) Account Manager
7 13 (6.81%) Lead
8 12 (6.28%) Senior Manager
9 9 (4.71%) Graphic Designer
9 9 (4.71%) Sales Manager
9 9 (4.71%) Senior Designer
9 9 (4.71%) Senior Graphic Designer
10 8 (4.19%) Business Development Manager
10 8 (4.19%) Business Manager
10 8 (4.19%) Development Manager
10 8 (4.19%) Senior Account Manager
10 8 (4.19%) UX Designer
11 7 (3.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.52%) .NET
2 8 (4.19%) Blazor
2 8 (4.19%) Material Design
2 8 (4.19%) WebAssembly
3 2 (1.05%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.04%) PropTech
2 14 (7.33%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.57%) iSeries
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.62%) Windows
1 5 (2.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (11.52%) B2B
1 22 (11.52%) Project Management
2 21 (10.99%) Lead Generation
2 21 (10.99%) Logistics
3 19 (9.95%) CRM
4 17 (8.90%) Business Development
5 15 (7.85%) Analytics
5 15 (7.85%) Front End Development
5 15 (7.85%) User Experience
5 15 (7.85%) UX Design
6 12 (6.28%) AI
6 12 (6.28%) E-Commerce
7 11 (5.76%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (5.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (4.71%) Data Integration
10 8 (4.19%) Decision-Making
10 8 (4.19%) Interaction Design
10 8 (4.19%) Responsive Web Design
10 8 (4.19%) User Stories
10 8 (4.19%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.76%) Python
2 9 (4.71%) C#
2 9 (4.71%) SQL
3 7 (3.66%) Java
4 3 (1.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (1.57%) ACCA
1 3 (1.57%) CIMA
1 3 (1.57%) Degree
2 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.24%) Accessibility
1 10 (5.24%) WCAG
2 2 (1.05%) QA
3 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.62%) Terraform
2 2 (1.05%) Grafana
2 2 (1.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (7.33%) Xamarin
2 6 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.57%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.05%) Google
5 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.52%) Databricks
6 1 (0.52%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle