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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 54 45
Rank change year-on-year +38 -9 +10
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 167 66 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.24% 4.46% 4.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.85% 11.91% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 140 41 90
10th Percentile £39,850 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £82,500 £90,938
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,750
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 646 554 958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.01% 37.43% 40.75%
Number of salaries quoted 434 410 843
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £31,641
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -3.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £53,844 £51,000
% change year-on-year +2.15% +5.58% -7.27%

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 17 March 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 4 (2.40%) Apache
1 4 (2.40%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.37%) Azure
2 10 (5.99%) AWS
3 9 (5.39%) GitHub
4 8 (4.79%) Figma
4 8 (4.79%) GitHub Copilot
4 8 (4.79%) PaaS
5 7 (4.19%) dbt
6 3 (1.80%) Datadog
6 3 (1.80%) Firebase
6 3 (1.80%) IaaS
7 2 (1.20%) Asana
7 2 (1.20%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (0.60%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.19%) MySQL
3 4 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (4.79%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
2 3 (1.80%) Git
2 3 (1.80%) JIRA
2 3 (1.80%) JMeter
2 3 (1.80%) Locust
3 2 (1.20%) Selenium
4 1 (0.60%) Postman
General
1 19 (11.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.18%) Legal
3 12 (7.19%) Law
4 8 (4.79%) German Language
5 7 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.59%) Finance
7 4 (2.40%) Marketing
7 4 (2.40%) Retail
8 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (20.36%) Senior
2 20 (11.98%) Account Executive
3 17 (10.18%) Developer
4 16 (9.58%) Designer
5 14 (8.38%) Account Manager
5 14 (8.38%) Lead
6 12 (7.19%) Senior Manager
7 11 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Infrastructure Support
7 11 (6.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Support Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Sales Manager
9 8 (4.79%) .NET Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Graphic Designer
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Account Executive
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Account Manager
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Designer
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Graphic Designer
9 8 (4.79%) UX Designer
9 8 (4.79%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) .NET
2 8 (4.79%) Blazor
2 8 (4.79%) Material Design
2 8 (4.79%) WebAssembly
3 4 (2.40%) LAMP
3 4 (2.40%) React
4 3 (1.80%) CSS
4 3 (1.80%) Gherkin
4 3 (1.80%) HTML
4 3 (1.80%) Laravel
4 3 (1.80%) Next.js
4 3 (1.80%) Node.js
4 3 (1.80%) React Native
4 3 (1.80%) Vue
5 1 (0.60%) gRPC
5 1 (0.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.18%) PropTech
2 13 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.59%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.39%) Windows
1 9 (5.39%) Windows Server
2 4 (2.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (13.77%) CRM
2 19 (11.38%) Mentoring
3 18 (10.78%) Analytics
4 17 (10.18%) Project Management
5 15 (8.98%) B2B
5 15 (8.98%) CI/CD
5 15 (8.98%) Front End Development
5 15 (8.98%) User Experience
5 15 (8.98%) UX Design
6 14 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (7.78%) AI
7 13 (7.78%) DevOps
7 13 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (7.19%) Service Delivery
9 10 (5.99%) Business Development
9 10 (5.99%) Data Integration
9 10 (5.99%) Test Automation
10 9 (5.39%) Agile
10 9 (5.39%) Cloud Operations
10 9 (5.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.18%) SQL
2 13 (7.78%) C#
3 7 (4.19%) Java
3 7 (4.19%) JavaScript
3 7 (4.19%) PHP
3 7 (4.19%) Python
4 1 (0.60%) Go
4 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (5.39%) Degree
2 3 (1.80%) ACCA
2 3 (1.80%) CIMA
2 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (1.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.20%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) Accessibility
1 11 (6.59%) WCAG
2 6 (3.59%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.59%) Terraform
2 5 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.80%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (4.79%) Xamarin
2 7 (4.19%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.40%) Oracle
3 4 (2.40%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.20%) Databricks
5 2 (1.20%) Google