SaaS Job Trends in the City of London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 179 155 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.32% 7.68% 4.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.13% 15.44% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 143 123 122
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £67,625 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -13.51% +14.91%
75th Percentile £96,250 £117,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £143,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +11.80%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,267 1,004 1,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.60% 49.73% 51.90%
Number of salaries quoted 943 822 1,374
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in the City of London

SaaS
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (3.91%) Apache
1 7 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (6.70%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (19.55%) Azure
2 25 (13.97%) AWS
3 16 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (8.94%) PaaS
4 13 (7.26%) Serverless
5 11 (6.15%) Power Platform
6 9 (5.03%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.03%) Figma
7 8 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.47%) GCP
8 7 (3.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (2.79%) Lucidchart
10 4 (2.23%) IaaS
11 3 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.68%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.12%) GitHub
12 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.12%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) DHCP
1 1 (0.56%) DNS
1 1 (0.56%) Firewall
1 1 (0.56%) SMS
1 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.50%) MySQL
2 11 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.91%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.91%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.23%) Power BI
5 3 (1.68%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.12%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.12%) SQLite
7 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Balsamiq
2 2 (1.12%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.12%) Git
2 2 (1.12%) JIRA
2 2 (1.12%) Postman
General
1 69 (38.55%) Finance
2 26 (14.53%) Marketing
2 26 (14.53%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.50%) Advertising
5 9 (5.03%) Legal
6 8 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.79%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.23%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.68%) Law
9 3 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.68%) Retail
10 2 (1.12%) Banking
10 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.12%) German Language
10 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.56%) French Language
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 29 (16.20%) Senior
2 20 (11.17%) Lead
3 19 (10.61%) Developer
4 17 (9.50%) Accountant
4 17 (9.50%) Management Accountant
5 14 (7.82%) Analyst
5 14 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Architect
7 12 (6.70%) Financial Controller
7 12 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.70%) Python Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.59%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) Financial Analyst
9 10 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) SaaS Analyst
10 9 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.03%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.06%) React
2 16 (8.94%) .NET
3 8 (4.47%) Kafka
4 7 (3.91%) .NET Core
5 5 (2.79%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (2.23%) CSS
6 4 (2.23%) HTML
7 3 (1.68%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.68%) Laravel
7 3 (1.68%) Vue
8 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.12%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.12%) Next.js
8 2 (1.12%) Node.js
8 2 (1.12%) Pandas
8 2 (1.12%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (0.56%) Django
9 1 (0.56%) OAuth
9 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.70%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.91%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.35%) PropTech
4 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.23%) Derivative
6 3 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.12%) ASIC
7 2 (1.12%) Equities
7 2 (1.12%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.12%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.56%) DTCC
8 1 (0.56%) PKI
8 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.03%) Linux
1 9 (5.03%) Windows
2 7 (3.91%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (19.55%) AI
2 34 (18.99%) Budgeting
3 32 (17.88%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 27 (15.08%) DevOps
4 27 (15.08%) Financial Analysis
5 25 (13.97%) Fintech
6 23 (12.85%) Process Improvement
7 21 (11.73%) Agile
7 21 (11.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (10.61%) B2B
9 18 (10.06%) Cost Control
10 17 (9.50%) Commercial Awareness
11 16 (8.94%) Collaborative Culture
11 16 (8.94%) User Experience
12 15 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (7.26%) ITIL
13 13 (7.26%) Software Engineering
14 12 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (6.70%) Machine Learning
14 12 (6.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.64%) Python
2 20 (11.17%) C#
3 16 (8.94%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.70%) SQL
4 12 (6.70%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.47%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.35%) PHP
7 5 (2.79%) Bash
8 2 (1.12%) Java
8 2 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (22.35%) ACCA
1 40 (22.35%) CIMA
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 4 (2.23%) Degree
4 3 (1.68%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.56%) CFA
6 1 (0.56%) CISA
6 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.82%) GAAP
1 14 (7.82%) IFRS
2 8 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.91%) QA
4 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.68%) GDPR
5 3 (1.68%) NIST
5 3 (1.68%) SLA
6 2 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.12%) COBIT
6 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.12%) EMIR
6 2 (1.12%) MiFID
6 2 (1.12%) SOC 1
6 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.35%) Hyper-V
2 6 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.23%) Docker
4 3 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.82%) Terraform
2 10 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.91%) VMware
3 5 (2.79%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.23%) SAP
5 3 (1.68%) Google
5 3 (1.68%) Oracle
6 2 (1.12%) Apple
6 2 (1.12%) BT
6 2 (1.12%) iManage
6 2 (1.12%) Intapp
6 2 (1.12%) Sage
6 2 (1.12%) Workday
6 2 (1.12%) Xero
7 1 (0.56%) Ariba
7 1 (0.56%) Okta
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Snow