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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 29 39
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 156 156 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.47% 7.44% 5.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.52% 14.89% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 124 125 150
10th Percentile £44,675 £46,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.67% +16.46%
75th Percentile £98,750 £117,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £106,750 £126,250 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -13.89% +10.43%

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 1,154 1,048 1,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.07% 49.98% 53.02%
Number of salaries quoted 868 845 1,447
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,313 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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 8 April 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 3 (1.92%) Apache
1 3 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.41%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.59%) Azure
2 27 (17.31%) AWS
3 16 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.97%) PaaS
5 12 (7.69%) GCP
6 10 (6.41%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.77%) Entra ID
8 8 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.49%) Figma
9 7 (4.49%) Serverless
10 5 (3.21%) Lucidchart
11 3 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.92%) IaaS
12 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.28%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.28%) Tessian
13 1 (0.64%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
13 1 (0.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) DHCP
1 1 (0.64%) DNS
1 1 (0.64%) Firewall
1 1 (0.64%) SMS
1 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.33%) MySQL
2 8 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.21%) Power BI
4 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.92%) MariaDB
4 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.92%) SQLite
5 2 (1.28%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Balsamiq
2 3 (1.92%) Git
3 2 (1.28%) JIRA
3 2 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 60 (38.46%) Finance
2 28 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.38%) Marketing
4 17 (10.90%) Advertising
5 14 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.13%) Legal
6 8 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.56%) Retail
8 3 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.28%) Brand Awareness
9 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.64%) Banking
10 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (20.51%) Senior
2 19 (12.18%) Developer
3 17 (10.90%) Accountant
3 17 (10.90%) Management Accountant
4 15 (9.62%) Lead
5 12 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (7.05%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Financial Controller
8 9 (5.77%) Analyst
8 9 (5.77%) Architect
8 9 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (5.77%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (4.49%) IT Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) IT Support
9 7 (4.49%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) SaaS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.46%) React
2 15 (9.62%) .NET
3 9 (5.77%) Node.js
4 7 (4.49%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.21%) Kafka
5 5 (3.21%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (1.92%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.92%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.92%) Laravel
6 3 (1.92%) Next.js
6 3 (1.92%) Spring
6 3 (1.92%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.28%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.28%) CSS
7 2 (1.28%) Django
7 2 (1.28%) Flask
7 2 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.28%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (1.28%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.41%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.49%) PropTech
5 5 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.92%) Derivative
6 3 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.28%) ASIC
7 2 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.28%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.64%) DTCC
8 1 (0.64%) Equities
8 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.64%) PKI
8 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.64%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.77%) Windows
2 7 (4.49%) Linux
2 7 (4.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (20.51%) AI
2 31 (19.87%) Budgeting
3 29 (18.59%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 24 (15.38%) Financial Analysis
5 22 (14.10%) Fintech
6 21 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (12.18%) Process Improvement
8 18 (11.54%) Cost Control
9 17 (10.90%) Agile
10 16 (10.26%) DevOps
11 15 (9.62%) B2B
12 14 (8.97%) Commercial Awareness
13 13 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (7.69%) Mentoring
15 11 (7.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (7.05%) User Experience
16 10 (6.41%) Collaborative Culture
16 10 (6.41%) ITIL
16 10 (6.41%) Machine Learning
17 9 (5.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.10%) Python
2 19 (12.18%) C#
3 18 (11.54%) TypeScript
4 14 (8.97%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.41%) SQL
6 9 (5.77%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.85%) PHP
8 5 (3.21%) Java
9 3 (1.92%) Bash
9 3 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (21.79%) ACCA
1 34 (21.79%) CIMA
2 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 4 (2.56%) Degree
4 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.64%) CFA
5 1 (0.64%) CISA
5 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.05%) GAAP
1 11 (7.05%) IFRS
2 7 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.49%) QA
3 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.92%) NIST
4 3 (1.92%) SLA
5 2 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.28%) COBIT
5 2 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.28%) EMIR
5 2 (1.28%) MiFID
5 2 (1.28%) SOC 1
5 2 (1.28%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.64%) GDPR
6 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 6 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.92%) Docker
3 3 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.49%) VMware
3 4 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.56%) SAP
4 3 (1.92%) Google
4 3 (1.92%) Oracle
5 2 (1.28%) Apple
5 2 (1.28%) BT
5 2 (1.28%) iManage
5 2 (1.28%) Intapp
5 2 (1.28%) Sage
5 2 (1.28%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.28%) Workday
5 2 (1.28%) Xero
6 1 (0.64%) Ariba
6 1 (0.64%) Okta
6 1 (0.64%) Snow