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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 48 56
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 -10
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 136 93 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.38% 5.75% 4.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.75% 11.92% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 120 88 81
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +37.93% -19.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £126,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,250 £152,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £100,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +48.15% -25.00%

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 812 780 1,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.11% 48.24% 50.04%
Number of salaries quoted 626 654 953
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,747 £44,200
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 £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £79,200 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% +1.35% +2.07%

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 13 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 7 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.94%) Apache
2 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.94%) Notion
3 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.74%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (7.35%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.18%) AWS
2 21 (15.44%) Azure
3 9 (6.62%) Serverless
4 7 (5.15%) PaaS
5 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.41%) GCP
6 5 (3.68%) dbt
6 5 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.68%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.68%) Slack
7 4 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (2.94%) Figma
7 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.94%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.94%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.94%) Twilio
8 3 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.21%) IaaS
8 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) Network Security
2 2 (1.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.74%) DHCP
3 1 (0.74%) DKIM
3 1 (0.74%) DMARC
3 1 (0.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.41%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.94%) MySQL
3 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.21%) OLTP
4 3 (2.21%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.21%) Power BI
4 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.21%) SSDT
5 2 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.74%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Eclipse
1 4 (2.94%) Git
2 3 (2.21%) JIRA
General
1 44 (32.35%) Finance
2 25 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.18%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Marketing
5 8 (5.88%) Advertising
6 7 (5.15%) Law
6 7 (5.15%) Legal
7 5 (3.68%) Legal Technology
8 4 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.21%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.47%) Banking
10 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Billing
11 1 (0.74%) French Language
11 1 (0.74%) German Language
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (21.32%) Lead
2 13 (9.56%) Senior
3 12 (8.82%) Analyst
3 12 (8.82%) Data Engineer
4 10 (7.35%) Financial Controller
4 10 (7.35%) Lead Data Engineer
5 9 (6.62%) Developer
6 8 (5.88%) Architect
6 8 (5.88%) Python Engineer
7 7 (5.15%) Accountant
7 7 (5.15%) Management Accountant
7 7 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Consultant
8 6 (4.41%) Database Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.68%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.56%) Terraform
2 7 (5.15%) React
3 6 (4.41%) NestJS
4 5 (3.68%) REST
5 4 (2.94%) .NET
5 4 (2.94%) Kafka
5 4 (2.94%) Next.js
6 3 (2.21%) CSS
6 3 (2.21%) HTML
7 2 (1.47%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.47%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.47%) Pandas
7 2 (1.47%) Vue
8 1 (0.74%) Django
8 1 (0.74%) Keras
8 1 (0.74%) Node.js
8 1 (0.74%) Plotly
8 1 (0.74%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.74%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.47%) PropTech
7 1 (0.74%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Derivative
7 1 (0.74%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.74%) Equities
7 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.74%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Shadow IT
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Windows
2 4 (2.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) macOS
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.00%) AI
2 25 (18.38%) Fintech
3 24 (17.65%) Budgeting
3 24 (17.65%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 22 (16.18%) Observability
5 21 (15.44%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (14.71%) Process Improvement
7 19 (13.97%) Data Ingestion
8 16 (11.76%) DevOps
9 15 (11.03%) B2B
10 13 (9.56%) Software Engineering
10 13 (9.56%) Workflow
11 12 (8.82%) Agile
11 12 (8.82%) Analytics
12 11 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (8.09%) Data Architecture
12 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (8.09%) Microservices
13 10 (7.35%) Event-Driven
13 10 (7.35%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.12%) Python
2 15 (11.03%) SQL
3 11 (8.09%) C#
4 10 (7.35%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.21%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.47%) Bash
7 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (19.12%) ACCA
1 26 (19.12%) CIMA
2 7 (5.15%) Degree
3 4 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CISA
6 1 (0.74%) ISACA
6 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.74%) PhD
6 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.09%) GAAP
2 11 (8.09%) IFRS
3 6 (4.41%) GDPR
4 3 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.47%) NIST
5 2 (1.47%) QA
6 1 (0.74%) ITGC
6 1 (0.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 1
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.47%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.47%) Docker
1 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 13 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.41%) Databricks
3 4 (2.94%) HubSpot
3 4 (2.94%) Oracle
4 3 (2.21%) RedGate
5 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.47%) VMware
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.74%) Informatica
6 1 (0.74%) Meraki
6 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow