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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 30 39
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +2
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 160 160 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.39% 7.59% 5.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.63% 15.07% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 125 127 143
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £68,125 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -15.79% +18.01%
75th Percentile £97,500 £117,500 £104,375
90th Percentile £104,000 £134,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -13.51% +13.50%

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 1,174 1,062 1,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.20% 50.40% 52.87%
Number of salaries quoted 875 852 1,450
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,650 £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 17 April 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 5 (3.13%) Apache
1 5 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (13.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (6.88%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.75%) Azure
2 23 (14.38%) AWS
3 16 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (9.38%) PaaS
5 10 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 9 (5.63%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.63%) GCP
7 8 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.38%) Figma
8 7 (4.38%) Serverless
9 5 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (3.13%) Lucidchart
10 4 (2.50%) IaaS
11 3 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.25%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.25%) Tessian
13 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 1 (0.63%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) DHCP
1 1 (0.63%) DNS
1 1 (0.63%) Firewall
1 1 (0.63%) SMS
1 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.38%) MySQL
2 9 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.13%) Power BI
3 5 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.88%) MariaDB
4 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.88%) SQLite
5 2 (1.25%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Balsamiq
2 3 (1.88%) Git
3 2 (1.25%) JIRA
3 2 (1.25%) Postman
General
1 63 (39.38%) Finance
2 25 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.38%) Marketing
4 18 (11.25%) Advertising
5 14 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.38%) Legal
8 4 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Retail
10 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.63%) German Language
11 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (18.13%) Senior
2 18 (11.25%) Accountant
2 18 (11.25%) Developer
2 18 (11.25%) Management Accountant
3 16 (10.00%) Lead
4 11 (6.88%) Analyst
4 11 (6.88%) Financial Controller
4 11 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (6.88%) Senior Developer
5 10 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Architect
6 9 (5.63%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Financial Analyst
6 9 (5.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) SaaS Analyst
6 9 (5.63%) Support Engineer
7 8 (5.00%) Python Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) IT Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) IT Support
8 7 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.88%) React
2 15 (9.38%) .NET
3 7 (4.38%) .NET Core
4 6 (3.75%) Kafka
4 6 (3.75%) Node.js
5 5 (3.13%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (1.88%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.88%) Laravel
7 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.25%) CSS
7 2 (1.25%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.25%) HTML
7 2 (1.25%) Next.js
7 2 (1.25%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (1.25%) Spring
7 2 (1.25%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.25%) Vue
8 1 (0.63%) Flask
8 1 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.88%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.38%) PropTech
4 6 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.88%) Derivative
6 3 (1.88%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.25%) ASIC
7 2 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.25%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.63%) DTCC
8 1 (0.63%) Equities
8 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.63%) PKI
8 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.63%) Windows
2 7 (4.38%) Linux
2 7 (4.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.63%) AI
1 33 (20.63%) Budgeting
2 31 (19.38%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 27 (16.88%) Financial Analysis
4 23 (14.38%) Fintech
5 20 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 19 (11.88%) Cost Control
7 17 (10.63%) Agile
7 17 (10.63%) DevOps
8 16 (10.00%) B2B
8 16 (10.00%) Commercial Awareness
9 12 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (6.88%) Collaborative Culture
10 11 (6.88%) User Experience
11 10 (6.25%) Analytics
11 10 (6.25%) ITIL
12 9 (5.63%) Machine Learning
12 9 (5.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.38%) Python
2 19 (11.88%) C#
3 15 (9.38%) TypeScript
4 13 (8.13%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.25%) SQL
6 9 (5.63%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.75%) PHP
8 4 (2.50%) Java
9 3 (1.88%) Bash
10 2 (1.25%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (23.75%) ACCA
1 38 (23.75%) CIMA
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (1.88%) Degree
4 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.63%) CFA
5 1 (0.63%) CISA
5 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) GAAP
1 12 (7.50%) IFRS
2 7 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.38%) QA
3 6 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.88%) NIST
4 3 (1.88%) SLA
5 2 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.25%) COBIT
5 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.25%) EMIR
5 2 (1.25%) MiFID
5 2 (1.25%) SOC 1
5 2 (1.25%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.75%) Hyper-V
2 6 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.25%) Docker
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.38%) Terraform
3 6 (3.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.38%) VMware
3 5 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.50%) SAP
5 3 (1.88%) Google
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle
6 2 (1.25%) Apple
6 2 (1.25%) BT
6 2 (1.25%) iManage
6 2 (1.25%) Intapp
6 2 (1.25%) Sage
6 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.25%) Workday
6 2 (1.25%) Xero
7 1 (0.63%) Ariba
7 1 (0.63%) Okta
7 1 (0.63%) Snow