SaaS Job Trends in Bristol

Software as a Service (SaaS)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 51 63
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 54 58 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 2.60% 4.19% 4.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.88% 11.62% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 50 38 55
10th Percentile £36,375 £47,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -0.82% +41.15%
75th Percentile £84,063 £82,188 £90,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,125 £100,064
South West median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +20.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 340 499 786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 16.38% 36.03% 44.26%
Number of salaries quoted 272 316 688
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,875 £48,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,813 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,625 £89,375 £91,934
South West median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SaaS job vacancy trend in Bristol

SaaS
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Bristol

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (7.41%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) AWS
2 8 (14.81%) Azure
3 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (9.26%) IaaS
5 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) GitHub
5 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.41%) PaaS
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
6 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.85%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.85%) Logz.io
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) VoIP
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) MySQL
1 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.85%) Looker
4 1 (1.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Legal
3 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.81%) Finance
5 6 (11.11%) Law
6 3 (5.56%) Back Office
6 3 (5.56%) Billing
7 2 (3.70%) Social Housing
7 2 (3.70%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.85%) Marketing
8 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Senior
2 8 (14.81%) Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) PHP Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Account Manager
4 6 (11.11%) Support Specialist
5 5 (9.26%) IT Support
5 5 (9.26%) IT Support Specialist
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Account Manager
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Manager
5 5 (9.26%) Support Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Technical Support
5 5 (9.26%) Technical Support Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Designer
7 3 (5.56%) Graphic Designer
8 2 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) .NET
1 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.85%) CSS
1 1 (1.85%) HTML
1 1 (1.85%) Hugging Face
1 1 (1.85%) NumPy
1 1 (1.85%) Pandas
1 1 (1.85%) REST
1 1 (1.85%) scikit-learn
1 1 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Educational Technology
1 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.70%) e-Learning
3 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.70%) IoT
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Smart Home
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
1 5 (9.26%) Windows
1 5 (9.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) Agile
2 8 (14.81%) Fintech
2 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (9.26%) Customer Service
3 5 (9.26%) DevOps
3 5 (9.26%) Scrum
3 5 (9.26%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (7.41%) Cost Management
4 4 (7.41%) Incident Management
4 4 (7.41%) Incident Response
4 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (7.41%) Runbook
4 4 (7.41%) User Stories
5 3 (5.56%) Budgeting
5 3 (5.56%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 3 (5.56%) CI/CD
5 3 (5.56%) Cloud Security
5 3 (5.56%) Planning and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) PHP
2 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.41%) Python
4 3 (5.56%) Bash
4 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.85%) SQL
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) CCNA
2 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (1.85%) CISSP
3 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) SLA
2 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.85%) NCSC
4 1 (1.85%) NIST
4 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.85%) QA
4 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
1 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Cisco
3 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.85%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) Talend
4 1 (1.85%) Zoho