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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 35 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +11
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 127 161 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.41% 6.71% 5.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.35% 13.02% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 99 118 156
10th Percentile £51,000 £42,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £75,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -21.05% +15.15%
75th Percentile £105,000 £110,938 £107,500
90th Percentile £124,000 £119,375 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - -21.05% +15.15%

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 1,028 1,237 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 35.66% 51.58% 51.01%
Number of salaries quoted 799 883 1,444
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £77,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% - -

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 1 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the City of London

SaaS
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the City of London region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £140,000 -
SaaS
Central 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 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (13.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.51%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.13%) AWS
2 26 (20.47%) Azure
3 19 (14.96%) GCP
4 14 (11.02%) PaaS
5 11 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.09%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.09%) Serverless
7 6 (4.72%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.94%) Figma
9 4 (3.15%) Lucidchart
9 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.57%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.57%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.57%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.57%) IaaS
11 2 (1.57%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) DHCP
1 1 (0.79%) DNS
1 1 (0.79%) Firewall
1 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.72%) MySQL
2 5 (3.94%) Power BI
3 3 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (2.36%) SQLite
4 2 (1.57%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Balsamiq
2 3 (2.36%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) JIRA
3 1 (0.79%) Postman
General
1 44 (34.65%) Finance
2 30 (23.62%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.54%) Marketing
4 14 (11.02%) Advertising
5 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.51%) Legal
6 7 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.36%) Retail
8 2 (1.57%) Brand Awareness
8 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (27.56%) Senior
2 14 (11.02%) Accountant
2 14 (11.02%) Management Accountant
3 11 (8.66%) Developer
3 11 (8.66%) Lead
4 9 (7.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 8 (6.30%) Architect
5 8 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (6.30%) Java Engineer
5 8 (6.30%) Senior Developer
5 8 (6.30%) Senior Java Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Financial Controller
6 7 (5.51%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Analyst
7 6 (4.72%) Product Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.94%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (3.94%) IT Manager
8 5 (3.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.90%) React
2 15 (11.81%) Node.js
3 11 (8.66%) .NET
4 8 (6.30%) Spring
4 8 (6.30%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.72%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.15%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (3.15%) Next.js
7 2 (1.57%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.57%) Django
7 2 (1.57%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.57%) Flask
7 2 (1.57%) Kafka
7 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.57%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.79%) HTML
8 1 (0.79%) OAuth
8 1 (0.79%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.51%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.15%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.57%) ASIC
4 2 (1.57%) Derivative
4 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.57%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.79%) DTCC
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.79%) PKI
5 1 (0.79%) PropTech
5 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Windows
2 4 (3.15%) Linux
3 3 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (22.05%) AI
2 24 (18.90%) Budgeting
3 23 (18.11%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 21 (16.54%) B2B
5 19 (14.96%) Financial Analysis
5 19 (14.96%) Fintech
5 19 (14.96%) Mentoring
6 17 (13.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (12.60%) DevOps
8 15 (11.81%) Process Improvement
9 14 (11.02%) Cost Control
10 13 (10.24%) Event-Driven
10 13 (10.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (9.45%) Agile
11 12 (9.45%) Coaching
11 12 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (9.45%) Machine Learning
11 12 (9.45%) Roadmaps
12 11 (8.66%) CI/CD
13 10 (7.87%) Insurtech
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.90%) TypeScript
2 15 (11.81%) C#
3 14 (11.02%) Python
4 10 (7.87%) Java
4 10 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.30%) Kotlin
6 7 (5.51%) SQL
7 6 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.94%) PHP
9 2 (1.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (20.47%) ACCA
1 26 (20.47%) CIMA
2 4 (3.15%) Degree
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.79%) CFA
4 1 (0.79%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.51%) GAAP
2 7 (5.51%) IFRS
3 3 (2.36%) NIST
3 3 (2.36%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.57%) COBIT
4 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.57%) EMIR
4 2 (1.57%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) MiFID
4 2 (1.57%) QA
4 2 (1.57%) SOC 1
5 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.72%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.36%) Docker
2 3 (2.36%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (10.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.15%) SAP
2 4 (3.15%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.36%) Google
3 3 (2.36%) Oracle
3 3 (2.36%) VMware
4 2 (1.57%) Apple
4 2 (1.57%) iManage
4 2 (1.57%) Intapp
4 2 (1.57%) Sage
4 2 (1.57%) Workday
4 2 (1.57%) Xero
5 1 (0.79%) Ariba
5 1 (0.79%) BT
5 1 (0.79%) Okta
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.79%) Snow