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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 57 42
Rank change year-on-year +42 -15 +4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 196 45 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.50% 3.94% 4.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.00% 10.00% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 177 34 110
10th Percentile £42,300 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year - -12.73% +5.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,438 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £94,500 £107,750
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 784 450 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.01% 39.40% 37.71%
Number of salaries quoted 526 350 936
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £91,250
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £52,387 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.53% -0.22% -1.41%

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 24 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 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (4.59%) Figma
2 8 (4.08%) Azure
2 8 (4.08%) GitHub
2 8 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
2 8 (4.08%) PaaS
3 7 (3.57%) AWS
3 7 (3.57%) dbt
4 6 (3.06%) Meta Ads
4 6 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.53%) IaaS
6 2 (1.02%) Datadog
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.51%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 8 (4.08%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.02%) JMeter
2 2 (1.02%) Locust
3 1 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 23 (11.73%) Marketing
2 17 (8.67%) Legal
3 14 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.12%) Law
5 9 (4.59%) Retail
6 8 (4.08%) Finance
6 8 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.53%) German Language
10 2 (1.02%) Back Office
10 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.51%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.51%) Portuguese Language
11 1 (0.51%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (12.76%) Senior
2 24 (12.24%) Account Executive
3 22 (11.22%) Developer
4 17 (8.67%) Designer
4 17 (8.67%) Marketing Manager
5 14 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 14 (7.14%) Lead
5 14 (7.14%) Xamarin Developer
6 12 (6.12%) Account Manager
6 12 (6.12%) Senior Manager
7 9 (4.59%) Business Development Manager
7 9 (4.59%) Business Manager
7 9 (4.59%) Development Manager
7 9 (4.59%) Graphic Designer
7 9 (4.59%) Sales Manager
7 9 (4.59%) Senior Designer
7 9 (4.59%) Senior Graphic Designer
8 8 (4.08%) Senior Account Manager
8 8 (4.08%) UX Designer
9 7 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.73%) .NET
2 8 (4.08%) Blazor
2 8 (4.08%) Material Design
2 8 (4.08%) WebAssembly
3 2 (1.02%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.51%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.51%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.51%) React
4 1 (0.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.73%) PropTech
2 14 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.53%) iSeries
5 3 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.55%) Windows
1 5 (2.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (12.24%) Lead Generation
2 21 (10.71%) Logistics
3 19 (9.69%) B2B
3 19 (9.69%) Business Development
3 19 (9.69%) CRM
4 18 (9.18%) Project Management
5 15 (7.65%) Analytics
5 15 (7.65%) Front End Development
5 15 (7.65%) User Experience
5 15 (7.65%) UX Design
6 13 (6.63%) E-Commerce
7 12 (6.12%) AI
7 12 (6.12%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (5.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (4.59%) Agile
9 9 (4.59%) User Stories
10 8 (4.08%) Data Integration
10 8 (4.08%) Decision-Making
10 8 (4.08%) Interaction Design
10 8 (4.08%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.61%) Python
2 10 (5.10%) C#
3 9 (4.59%) SQL
4 7 (3.57%) Java
5 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (1.53%) ACCA
1 3 (1.53%) CIMA
1 3 (1.53%) Degree
2 2 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.10%) Accessibility
1 10 (5.10%) WCAG
2 3 (1.53%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.55%) Terraform
2 2 (1.02%) Grafana
2 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (7.14%) Xamarin
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.53%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.51%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.51%) Google
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle