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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 29 38
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 +5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 160 160 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.49% 7.61% 5.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.72% 15.18% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 127 128 148
10th Percentile £45,350 £46,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,750 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -16.00% +16.46%
75th Percentile £98,125 £117,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £106,000 £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 1,166 1,054 1,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.73% 50.12% 53.15%
Number of salaries quoted 878 847 1,448
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £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 11 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 4 (2.50%) Apache
1 4 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (13.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (6.88%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.50%) Azure
2 26 (16.25%) AWS
3 16 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.75%) PaaS
5 11 (6.88%) GCP
6 10 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.63%) Entra ID
8 8 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.38%) Figma
9 7 (4.38%) Serverless
10 5 (3.13%) Lucidchart
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.88%) IaaS
13 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.25%) Mimecast
13 2 (1.25%) Tessian
14 1 (0.63%) Google Gemini
14 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
14 1 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) DHCP
1 1 (0.63%) DNS
1 1 (0.63%) Firewall
1 1 (0.63%) SMS
1 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.75%) MySQL
2 8 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.13%) Power BI
4 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.88%) MariaDB
5 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.88%) SQLite
6 2 (1.25%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Balsamiq
2 3 (1.88%) Git
3 2 (1.25%) JIRA
3 2 (1.25%) Postman
General
1 63 (39.38%) Finance
2 27 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.00%) Marketing
4 18 (11.25%) Advertising
5 14 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.00%) Legal
6 8 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.88%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.88%) Retail
8 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.63%) German Language
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (19.38%) Senior
2 18 (11.25%) Accountant
2 18 (11.25%) Developer
2 18 (11.25%) Management Accountant
3 15 (9.38%) Lead
4 11 (6.88%) Financial Controller
4 11 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (6.88%) Senior Developer
5 10 (6.25%) Analyst
5 10 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Architect
6 9 (5.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Support Engineer
7 8 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 8 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
7 8 (5.00%) SaaS Analyst
8 7 (4.38%) IT Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) IT Support
8 7 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.13%) React
2 15 (9.38%) .NET
3 8 (5.00%) Node.js
4 7 (4.38%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.13%) Kafka
5 5 (3.13%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (1.88%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.88%) Laravel
6 3 (1.88%) Spring
6 3 (1.88%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.25%) CSS
7 2 (1.25%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.25%) HTML
7 2 (1.25%) Next.js
7 2 (1.25%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (1.25%) Vue
8 1 (0.63%) Django
8 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.88%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.38%) PropTech
5 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.88%) Derivative
6 3 (1.88%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.25%) ASIC
7 2 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.25%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.63%) DTCC
8 1 (0.63%) Equities
8 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.63%) PKI
8 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.63%) Windows
2 7 (4.38%) Linux
2 7 (4.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.25%) AI
2 33 (20.63%) Budgeting
3 31 (19.38%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 26 (16.25%) Financial Analysis
5 23 (14.38%) Fintech
6 20 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 19 (11.88%) Cost Control
8 17 (10.63%) Agile
8 17 (10.63%) B2B
9 16 (10.00%) DevOps
10 15 (9.38%) Commercial Awareness
11 13 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (6.88%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (6.88%) Mentoring
12 11 (6.88%) User Experience
13 10 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
13 10 (6.25%) ITIL
14 9 (5.63%) Analytics
14 9 (5.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.75%) Python
2 19 (11.88%) C#
3 17 (10.63%) TypeScript
4 13 (8.13%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.25%) SQL
6 9 (5.63%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.75%) PHP
8 5 (3.13%) Java
9 3 (1.88%) Bash
9 3 (1.88%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (23.13%) ACCA
1 37 (23.13%) CIMA
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 4 (2.50%) Degree
4 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.63%) CFA
5 1 (0.63%) CISA
5 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) GAAP
1 12 (7.50%) IFRS
2 7 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.38%) QA
3 5 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.88%) NIST
4 3 (1.88%) SLA
5 2 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.25%) COBIT
5 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.25%) EMIR
5 2 (1.25%) MiFID
5 2 (1.25%) SOC 1
5 2 (1.25%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.75%) Hyper-V
2 6 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.25%) Docker
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.38%) VMware
3 4 (2.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.50%) SAP
4 3 (1.88%) Google
4 3 (1.88%) Oracle
5 2 (1.25%) Apple
5 2 (1.25%) BT
5 2 (1.25%) iManage
5 2 (1.25%) Intapp
5 2 (1.25%) Sage
5 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.25%) Workday
5 2 (1.25%) Xero
6 1 (0.63%) Ariba
6 1 (0.63%) Okta
6 1 (0.63%) Snow