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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 56 58
Rank change year-on-year +35 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 142 78 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.82% 4.37% 3.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.61% 11.98% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 120 39 52
10th Percentile £38,500 £34,450 £40,125
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,125 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,500 £94,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 577 651 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.76% 36.49% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 400 380 663
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,625 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.55%

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 27 January 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 7 (4.93%) Apache
2 6 (4.23%) IIS
3 4 (2.82%) CMS
3 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (2.11%) Trello
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Maximo
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.31%) Azure
2 19 (13.38%) AWS
3 11 (7.75%) GitHub
4 9 (6.34%) Figma
5 8 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (3.52%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.11%) Firebase
8 3 (2.11%) PaaS
9 2 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.41%) Asana
9 2 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.41%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.41%) IaaS
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.41%) OCI
9 2 (1.41%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.41%) Serverless
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.34%) MySQL
3 6 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.52%) Power BI
5 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (6.34%) JIRA
2 8 (5.63%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.82%) Selenium
4 3 (2.11%) Git
5 2 (1.41%) Postman
6 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.70%) JMeter
6 1 (0.70%) Locust
General
1 22 (15.49%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.45%) Legal
3 11 (7.75%) Law
4 8 (5.63%) German Language
5 5 (3.52%) Finance
6 3 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.70%) Local Government
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (16.20%) Developer
2 21 (14.79%) Senior
3 14 (9.86%) Lead
4 11 (7.75%) Account Executive
4 11 (7.75%) Account Manager
4 11 (7.75%) Applications Support
4 11 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (7.75%) Infrastructure Support
4 11 (7.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 11 (7.75%) Support Engineer
5 8 (5.63%) .NET Developer
5 8 (5.63%) Designer
5 8 (5.63%) Sales Representative
5 8 (5.63%) Senior Account Executive
5 8 (5.63%) UX Designer
5 8 (5.63%) Xamarin Developer
6 7 (4.93%) Blazor Developer
6 7 (4.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 7 (4.93%) UX Developer
7 6 (4.23%) Head of Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.49%) .NET
2 9 (6.34%) Blazor
2 9 (6.34%) React
3 8 (5.63%) Material Design
3 8 (5.63%) WebAssembly
4 6 (4.23%) LAMP
5 4 (2.82%) CSS
5 4 (2.82%) HTML
6 3 (2.11%) Laravel
6 3 (2.11%) Next.js
6 3 (2.11%) Node.js
6 3 (2.11%) React Native
6 3 (2.11%) Vue
7 2 (1.41%) gRPC
8 1 (0.70%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.70%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.70%) Jest
8 1 (0.70%) JSP
8 1 (0.70%) Kafka
8 1 (0.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.38%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.75%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.63%) PropTech
4 6 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.34%) Windows
1 9 (6.34%) Windows Server
2 6 (4.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (20.42%) Mentoring
2 24 (16.90%) CRM
3 22 (15.49%) User Experience
4 20 (14.08%) CI/CD
5 18 (12.68%) DevOps
6 17 (11.97%) Agile
6 17 (11.97%) AI
6 17 (11.97%) UX Design
7 16 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (11.27%) Service Delivery
8 15 (10.56%) Front End Development
8 15 (10.56%) Project Management
9 14 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (9.15%) B2B
11 12 (8.45%) Software Engineering
12 11 (7.75%) Coaching
12 11 (7.75%) Migration
13 10 (7.04%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.79%) SQL
2 19 (13.38%) C#
3 10 (7.04%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.34%) PHP
5 3 (2.11%) Python
6 2 (1.41%) Go
6 2 (1.41%) Java
7 1 (0.70%) Bicep
7 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.86%) Degree
2 5 (3.52%) PMI Certification
2 5 (3.52%) PMP
3 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (1.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) QA
2 9 (6.34%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.34%) WCAG
3 6 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.52%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.82%) Terraform
2 1 (0.70%) Grafana
2 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.63%) Oracle
2 8 (5.63%) Xamarin
3 6 (4.23%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.41%) Databricks
4 2 (1.41%) Google
5 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow