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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 54 45
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +30
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 91 138 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.67% 5.01% 5.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.05% 9.93% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 87 87 152
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £48,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £122,500 £91,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £143,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £72,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +37.93% -19.44% +9.09%

All Cloud 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 755 1,390 1,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 47.01% 50.45% 50.54%
Number of salaries quoted 622 955 1,422
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,275
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,006 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £111,250 £114,750
Central London median annual salary £75,500 £73,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.42% - -2.67%

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 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the City of London region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £140,000 -
SaaS
Central 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 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (41.76%) AWS
2 15 (16.48%) GCP
3 11 (12.09%) Azure
4 10 (10.99%) PaaS
5 5 (5.49%) Serverless
6 4 (4.40%) IaaS
7 3 (3.30%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.30%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.20%) Figma
8 2 (2.20%) Miro
8 2 (2.20%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
1 1 (1.10%) IP Telephony
1 1 (1.10%) LAN
1 1 (1.10%) Network Security
1 1 (1.10%) PBX
1 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.10%) VoIP
1 1 (1.10%) WAN
1 1 (1.10%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) Data Hub
1 1 (1.10%) Metadata
1 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.10%) Power BI
1 1 (1.10%) SQL CLR
1 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.10%) GitLab
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 33 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Finance
3 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.99%) Marketing
5 5 (5.49%) Advertising
6 4 (4.40%) Legal
7 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) Back Office
8 1 (1.10%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Senior
2 16 (17.58%) Lead
3 11 (12.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Product Manager
4 8 (8.79%) Java Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Senior Java Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Product Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Accountant
7 5 (5.49%) Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Consultant
7 5 (5.49%) Management Accountant
7 5 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Designer
8 4 (4.40%) IT Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Product Designer
9 3 (3.30%) Engineering Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Graduate Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.57%) React
2 13 (14.29%) Node.js
3 12 (13.19%) Next.js
4 11 (12.09%) Spring
4 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.20%) .NET
6 1 (1.10%) Django
6 1 (1.10%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.10%) Flask
6 1 (1.10%) Kafka
6 1 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.10%) RESTful
6 1 (1.10%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) PropTech
4 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.10%) Clustering
5 1 (1.10%) Cybercrime
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.10%) Shadow IT
5 1 (1.10%) Social Media
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.10%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (32.97%) AI
2 27 (29.67%) Roadmaps
3 25 (27.47%) Agile
4 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (20.88%) Mentoring
6 18 (19.78%) B2B
7 17 (18.68%) User Experience
8 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 14 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 14 (15.38%) Product Management
9 13 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
10 12 (13.19%) Fintech
10 12 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (13.19%) Insurtech
10 12 (13.19%) Product Requirements
10 12 (13.19%) Translating Business Requirements
10 12 (13.19%) User Stories
11 10 (10.99%) Coaching
11 10 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.99%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.67%) TypeScript
2 11 (12.09%) Java
3 8 (8.79%) Kotlin
4 7 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (2.20%) C#
6 1 (1.10%) Bash
6 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.10%) SQL
6 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) ACCA
2 5 (5.49%) CIMA
3 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.20%) GDPR
2 2 (2.20%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Terminal Server
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.10%) Citrix
4 1 (1.10%) Google
4 1 (1.10%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.10%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.10%) VMware