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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 32 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 -9
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 189 147 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.48% 7.57% 4.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.94% 15.19% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 158 115 118
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,450 £51,175
25th Percentile £57,500 £67,625 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -8.33% +11.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £128,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +11.80%

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 1,265 968 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.96% 49.87% 50.94%
Number of salaries quoted 934 774 1,342
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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 8 June 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 8 (4.23%) Apache
1 8 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (8.47%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (17.46%) Azure
2 28 (14.81%) AWS
3 18 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (7.41%) PaaS
5 13 (6.88%) Serverless
6 11 (5.82%) Entra ID
7 9 (4.76%) Figma
7 9 (4.76%) GCP
8 8 (4.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (4.23%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.65%) Lucidchart
11 4 (2.12%) IaaS
11 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.12%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.06%) dbt
13 2 (1.06%) GitHub
13 2 (1.06%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) DHCP
1 2 (1.06%) DNS
1 2 (1.06%) VPN
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) Network Security
2 1 (0.53%) SMS
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.99%) MySQL
2 12 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.23%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.23%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.59%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.53%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.53%) Metadata
6 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Balsamiq
2 3 (1.59%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.06%) JIRA
3 2 (1.06%) Postman
General
1 77 (40.74%) Finance
2 28 (14.81%) Marketing
2 28 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.05%) Advertising
5 8 (4.23%) Legal
6 6 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.12%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.12%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.59%) Law
8 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.59%) Retail
9 2 (1.06%) Banking
9 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.06%) German Language
10 1 (0.53%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (0.53%) French Language
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 29 (15.34%) Senior
2 24 (12.70%) Developer
3 21 (11.11%) Lead
4 18 (9.52%) Accountant
4 18 (9.52%) Management Accountant
5 16 (8.47%) Analyst
5 16 (8.47%) Financial Controller
6 14 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (6.88%) Architect
7 13 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (6.35%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.82%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.82%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.29%) Financial Analyst
10 10 (5.29%) SaaS Analyst
10 10 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (4.76%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.99%) React
2 16 (8.47%) .NET
3 9 (4.76%) Kafka
4 6 (3.17%) .NET Core
5 5 (2.65%) CSS
5 5 (2.65%) HTML
5 5 (2.65%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (2.12%) Vue
7 3 (1.59%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.59%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.59%) Laravel
8 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.06%) Next.js
8 2 (1.06%) Node.js
8 2 (1.06%) Pandas
8 2 (1.06%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (0.53%) Keras
9 1 (0.53%) Seaborn
9 1 (0.53%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.47%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.23%) PropTech
4 6 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.59%) Derivative
7 3 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.06%) Equities
8 2 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.53%) ASIC
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.53%) DTCC
9 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.53%) OTC Derivatives
9 1 (0.53%) PKI
9 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.53%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.82%) Windows
2 10 (5.29%) Linux
3 8 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (22.22%) Budgeting
2 41 (21.69%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 34 (17.99%) AI
4 30 (15.87%) Process Improvement
5 28 (14.81%) Financial Analysis
5 28 (14.81%) Fintech
6 23 (12.17%) DevOps
7 20 (10.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (10.05%) Cost Control
9 18 (9.52%) Agile
9 18 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (9.52%) User Experience
10 17 (8.99%) B2B
10 17 (8.99%) Collaborative Culture
10 17 (8.99%) Commercial Awareness
11 15 (7.94%) Software Engineering
12 14 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (6.88%) ITIL
14 12 (6.35%) Analytics
14 12 (6.35%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.81%) Python
2 20 (10.58%) C#
3 15 (7.94%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.35%) SQL
5 10 (5.29%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.17%) PHP
8 5 (2.65%) Bash
9 2 (1.06%) Java
9 2 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (25.93%) ACCA
1 49 (25.93%) CIMA
2 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 4 (2.12%) Degree
4 3 (1.59%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.53%) CFA
6 1 (0.53%) CISA
6 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.52%) GAAP
1 18 (9.52%) IFRS
2 9 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.70%) QA
4 5 (2.65%) GDPR
5 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.59%) NIST
5 3 (1.59%) SLA
6 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.06%) COBIT
6 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.06%) SOC 1
6 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.53%) EMIR
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.53%) MiFID
7 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.17%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.12%) Docker
5 3 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (8.99%) Terraform
2 10 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.23%) VMware
3 5 (2.65%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.59%) Google
4 3 (1.59%) Oracle
4 3 (1.59%) SAP
5 2 (1.06%) Apple
5 2 (1.06%) BT
5 2 (1.06%) Databricks
5 2 (1.06%) iManage
5 2 (1.06%) Intapp
5 2 (1.06%) Sage
5 2 (1.06%) Xero
6 1 (0.53%) Informatica
6 1 (0.53%) Okta
6 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.53%) Snow
6 1 (0.53%) Workday