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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 46 58
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 -14
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 144 95 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.29% 5.73% 4.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.84% 11.92% 9.20%
Number of salaries quoted 127 89 80
10th Percentile £55,250 £56,250 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £99,375 £126,250 £94,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £152,500 £110,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £100,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -25.00% +45.45% -23.61%

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 855 797 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.43% 48.10% 50.23%
Number of salaries quoted 658 666 958
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,495 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,180
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.49% +0.94%

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 October 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 9 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.17%) Apache
2 6 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.78%) Notion
3 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.69%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (7.64%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.28%) AWS
2 20 (13.89%) Azure
3 8 (5.56%) Serverless
4 7 (4.86%) PaaS
5 6 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 5 (3.47%) dbt
6 5 (3.47%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.47%) GCP
6 5 (3.47%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.47%) Slack
7 4 (2.78%) Figma
7 4 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.78%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.78%) Twilio
8 3 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.08%) IaaS
8 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) DNS
1 2 (1.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.69%) DHCP
2 1 (0.69%) DKIM
2 1 (0.69%) DMARC
2 1 (0.69%) SMS
2 1 (0.69%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.86%) MySQL
4 6 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.08%) OLTP
6 3 (2.08%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.08%) Power BI
6 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.08%) SSDT
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.69%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Eclipse
1 4 (2.78%) Git
2 3 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 49 (34.03%) Finance
2 27 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (15.28%) Social Skills
4 16 (11.11%) Marketing
5 9 (6.25%) Advertising
6 6 (4.17%) Law
7 5 (3.47%) Legal
8 4 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.78%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.78%) Legal Technology
9 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.39%) Banking
10 2 (1.39%) German Language
10 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.69%) Billing
11 1 (0.69%) French Language
11 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (20.83%) Lead
2 14 (9.72%) Data Engineer
2 14 (9.72%) Senior
3 13 (9.03%) Analyst
4 12 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
5 11 (7.64%) Financial Controller
6 10 (6.94%) Developer
6 10 (6.94%) Python Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) Accountant
7 8 (5.56%) Management Accountant
8 7 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Architect
9 6 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Database Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Python Data Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Head of AI
10 5 (3.47%) Lead DevOps
10 5 (3.47%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.33%) Terraform
2 7 (4.86%) React
3 6 (4.17%) Kafka
3 6 (4.17%) NestJS
4 5 (3.47%) REST
5 4 (2.78%) .NET
5 4 (2.78%) Next.js
6 3 (2.08%) CSS
6 3 (2.08%) HTML
7 2 (1.39%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.39%) Pandas
7 2 (1.39%) Vue
8 1 (0.69%) Django
8 1 (0.69%) Keras
8 1 (0.69%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (0.69%) Node.js
8 1 (0.69%) Plotly
8 1 (0.69%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.69%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.64%) Cloud Native
1 11 (7.64%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.08%) PropTech
6 2 (1.39%) Derivative
6 2 (1.39%) Equities
6 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.69%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.69%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.69%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) Shadow IT
7 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.17%) Windows
2 4 (2.78%) Linux
3 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.69%) AI
2 26 (18.06%) Budgeting
2 26 (18.06%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 25 (17.36%) Fintech
4 23 (15.97%) Data Pipeline
4 23 (15.97%) Observability
5 22 (15.28%) Process Improvement
6 21 (14.58%) Data Ingestion
7 17 (11.81%) B2B
8 15 (10.42%) DevOps
9 13 (9.03%) Agile
9 13 (9.03%) Analytics
9 13 (9.03%) Software Engineering
9 13 (9.03%) Workflow
10 11 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (7.64%) Data Architecture
10 11 (7.64%) Financial Analysis
10 11 (7.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (7.64%) Microservices
11 10 (6.94%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.75%) Python
2 15 (10.42%) SQL
3 11 (7.64%) C#
4 10 (6.94%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.08%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.39%) Bash
7 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (20.14%) ACCA
1 29 (20.14%) CIMA
2 6 (4.17%) Degree
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.69%) CISA
5 1 (0.69%) ISACA
5 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.03%) GAAP
2 13 (9.03%) IFRS
3 6 (4.17%) GDPR
4 3 (2.08%) QA
5 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) ITGC
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) SLA
6 1 (0.69%) SOC 1
6 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.39%) Docker
1 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.08%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 13 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.17%) Databricks
3 4 (2.78%) HubSpot
3 4 (2.78%) Oracle
4 3 (2.08%) RedGate
4 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.39%) VMware
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco
6 1 (0.69%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.69%) Informatica
6 1 (0.69%) Meraki