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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 40 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 -14
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 149 105 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.95% 6.23% 4.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.97% 13.13% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 131 92 82
10th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £126,250 £94,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £151,750 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £98,750 £68,750
% change year-on-year -24.05% +43.64% -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 933 800 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.01% 47.45% 50.79%
Number of salaries quoted 704 664 1,017
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,375 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

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 22 September 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 6 (4.03%) Apache
1 6 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.68%) Notion
3 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.67%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (7.38%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.09%) Azure
2 18 (12.08%) AWS
3 8 (5.37%) PaaS
3 8 (5.37%) Serverless
4 6 (4.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 6 (4.03%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.36%) Figma
5 5 (3.36%) Slack
6 4 (2.68%) GCP
6 4 (2.68%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.68%) Twilio
7 3 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.01%) IaaS
7 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.01%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.34%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) DNS
1 2 (1.34%) Network Security
2 1 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.67%) DHCP
2 1 (0.67%) DKIM
2 1 (0.67%) DMARC
2 1 (0.67%) SMS
2 1 (0.67%) VPN
2 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.37%) MySQL
2 8 (5.37%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.34%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.34%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.67%) Metadata
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.67%) Balsamiq
2 1 (0.67%) Git
General
1 48 (32.21%) Finance
2 24 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.77%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.74%) Marketing
5 9 (6.04%) Advertising
6 6 (4.03%) Law
7 5 (3.36%) Legal
7 5 (3.36%) Legal Technology
8 4 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.68%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.68%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.34%) Banking
10 2 (1.34%) German Language
10 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) French Language
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (20.81%) Lead
2 14 (9.40%) Data Engineer
3 13 (8.72%) Analyst
4 12 (8.05%) Lead Data Engineer
5 11 (7.38%) Financial Controller
5 11 (7.38%) Senior
6 10 (6.71%) Python Engineer
7 8 (5.37%) Accountant
7 8 (5.37%) Developer
7 8 (5.37%) Management Accountant
8 7 (4.70%) Architect
8 7 (4.70%) Head of AI
8 7 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Database Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Python Data Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.36%) Consultant
10 5 (3.36%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.05%) Terraform
2 8 (5.37%) React
3 6 (4.03%) Kafka
3 6 (4.03%) NestJS
4 5 (3.36%) .NET
4 5 (3.36%) REST
5 4 (2.68%) Next.js
6 3 (2.01%) CSS
6 3 (2.01%) HTML
7 2 (1.34%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.34%) Laravel
7 2 (1.34%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.34%) Pandas
7 2 (1.34%) Vue
8 1 (0.67%) Django
8 1 (0.67%) Keras
8 1 (0.67%) Plotly
8 1 (0.67%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.67%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.38%) Cloud Native
1 11 (7.38%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.36%) PropTech
4 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.34%) Derivative
6 2 (1.34%) Equities
6 2 (1.34%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.67%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.67%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.70%) Windows
2 5 (3.36%) Linux
3 3 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (24.83%) AI
2 26 (17.45%) Budgeting
2 26 (17.45%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 23 (15.44%) Observability
4 22 (14.77%) Fintech
4 22 (14.77%) Process Improvement
5 21 (14.09%) Data Ingestion
6 20 (13.42%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (11.41%) B2B
8 16 (10.74%) DevOps
9 13 (8.72%) Software Engineering
9 13 (8.72%) Workflow
10 12 (8.05%) Agile
10 12 (8.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (7.38%) Financial Analysis
11 11 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (7.38%) Microservices
12 10 (6.71%) Analytics
12 10 (6.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.78%) Python
2 13 (8.72%) SQL
3 10 (6.71%) TypeScript
4 9 (6.04%) C#
5 5 (3.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.34%) Bash
7 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (19.46%) ACCA
1 29 (19.46%) CIMA
2 6 (4.03%) Degree
3 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.01%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.67%) CISA
5 1 (0.67%) ISACA
5 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.75%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.72%) GAAP
2 13 (8.72%) IFRS
3 6 (4.03%) GDPR
4 4 (2.68%) QA
5 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) ITGC
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.67%) SLA
6 1 (0.67%) SOC 1
6 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (2.01%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.36%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.68%) HubSpot
3 4 (2.68%) Oracle
4 3 (2.01%) Databricks
4 3 (2.01%) VMware
5 1 (0.67%) Cisco
5 1 (0.67%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.67%) Informatica
5 1 (0.67%) Meraki