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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 47 55
Rank change year-on-year +30 +8 +6
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 132 91 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.63% 4.86% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.68% 13.34% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 108 51 38
10th Percentile £38,500 £33,250 £43,875
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,446 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
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 582 682 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.62% 36.39% 41.78%
Number of salaries quoted 411 398 465
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £30,680
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £69,550
90th Percentile £86,253 £83,750 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.26%

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 2 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 (5.30%) Apache
2 6 (4.55%) IIS
3 4 (3.03%) CMS
3 4 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Trello
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) Maximo
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.94%) Azure
2 20 (15.15%) AWS
3 9 (6.82%) GitHub
4 7 (5.30%) Figma
5 6 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.27%) Firebase
8 3 (2.27%) PaaS
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.52%) Asana
9 2 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.52%) GCP
9 2 (1.52%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.52%) OCI
9 2 (1.52%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.52%) Serverless
10 1 (0.76%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.58%) MySQL
3 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.79%) Power BI
5 4 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (6.82%) JIRA
2 6 (4.55%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.79%) Selenium
4 3 (2.27%) Git
5 2 (1.52%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.76%) JMeter
6 1 (0.76%) Locust
General
1 21 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.06%) German Language
3 7 (5.30%) Law
3 7 (5.30%) Legal
4 5 (3.79%) Finance
5 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.27%) Marketing
5 3 (2.27%) Retail
6 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.76%) Local Government
7 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (16.67%) Developer
2 17 (12.88%) Senior
3 16 (12.12%) Lead
4 11 (8.33%) Account Executive
4 11 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 11 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 11 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 11 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 8 (6.06%) Sales Representative
5 8 (6.06%) Senior Account Executive
6 7 (5.30%) Blazor Developer
6 7 (5.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 7 (5.30%) Lead Developer
6 7 (5.30%) QA Engineer
6 7 (5.30%) UX Developer
7 6 (4.55%) .NET Developer
7 6 (4.55%) Account Manager
7 6 (4.55%) Applications Specialist
7 6 (4.55%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.64%) .NET
2 9 (6.82%) React
3 7 (5.30%) Blazor
4 6 (4.55%) LAMP
4 6 (4.55%) Material Design
4 6 (4.55%) WebAssembly
5 4 (3.03%) CSS
5 4 (3.03%) HTML
6 3 (2.27%) Laravel
6 3 (2.27%) Next.js
6 3 (2.27%) Node.js
6 3 (2.27%) React Native
6 3 (2.27%) Vue
7 2 (1.52%) gRPC
7 2 (1.52%) RESTful
8 1 (0.76%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.76%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.76%) JSP
8 1 (0.76%) Kafka
8 1 (0.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.82%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.55%) PropTech
4 5 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.82%) Windows
1 9 (6.82%) Windows Server
2 6 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (24.24%) Mentoring
2 21 (15.91%) CRM
3 19 (14.39%) CI/CD
4 18 (13.64%) DevOps
4 18 (13.64%) User Experience
5 17 (12.88%) Agile
5 17 (12.88%) AI
5 17 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (11.36%) Service Delivery
7 15 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (9.85%) B2B
8 13 (9.85%) Project Management
8 13 (9.85%) UX Design
9 12 (9.09%) Coaching
9 12 (9.09%) Software Engineering
10 11 (8.33%) Front End Development
10 11 (8.33%) Migration
11 10 (7.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.91%) SQL
2 18 (13.64%) C#
3 10 (7.58%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.82%) PHP
5 4 (3.03%) Python
6 2 (1.52%) Go
6 2 (1.52%) Java
7 1 (0.76%) Bicep
7 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.85%) Degree
2 5 (3.79%) PMI Certification
2 5 (3.79%) PMP
3 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (1.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.52%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.33%) QA
2 7 (5.30%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.30%) WCAG
3 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (0.76%) Grafana
2 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.06%) Oracle
3 6 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.55%) Xamarin
4 2 (1.52%) Databricks
4 2 (1.52%) Google