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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 35 38
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 152 151 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.74% 6.99% 6.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.66% 13.88% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 119 121 159
10th Percentile £49,500 £42,500 £56,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -21.05% +15.15%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £123,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £93,750
% change year-on-year -6.67% -20.00% +13.64%

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 1,113 1,088 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.71% 50.39% 52.06%
Number of salaries quoted 846 853 1,428
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,425
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,625 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 March 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 2 (1.32%) Apache
1 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.58%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (23.03%) AWS
2 28 (18.42%) Azure
3 17 (11.18%) GCP
4 15 (9.87%) PaaS
5 14 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.92%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 8 (5.26%) Serverless
8 7 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.61%) Figma
9 4 (2.63%) Lucidchart
10 3 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.97%) IaaS
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.32%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.32%) Tessian
12 1 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.66%) Oracle Service Cloud
12 1 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) DHCP
1 1 (0.66%) DNS
1 1 (0.66%) Firewall
1 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.58%) MySQL
2 5 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.29%) Power BI
3 3 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.97%) SQLite
4 2 (1.32%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.66%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Balsamiq
2 3 (1.97%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) JIRA
3 2 (1.32%) Postman
General
1 58 (38.16%) Finance
2 32 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.79%) Marketing
4 17 (11.18%) Advertising
5 12 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.61%) Legal
6 7 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.63%) Retail
8 3 (1.97%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Brand Awareness
9 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.66%) Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (23.68%) Senior
2 17 (11.18%) Accountant
2 17 (11.18%) Developer
2 17 (11.18%) Management Accountant
3 15 (9.87%) Lead
4 11 (7.24%) Senior Developer
5 10 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (6.58%) Financial Controller
5 10 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (5.92%) Analyst
6 9 (5.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) Architect
7 8 (5.26%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.61%) Financial Analyst
8 7 (4.61%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (4.61%) SaaS Analyst
9 6 (3.95%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) IT Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) IT Support
9 6 (3.95%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.79%) React
2 14 (9.21%) .NET
3 13 (8.55%) Node.js
4 7 (4.61%) .NET Core
5 6 (3.95%) Spring
5 6 (3.95%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.63%) Kafka
6 4 (2.63%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (1.97%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.97%) Next.js
8 2 (1.32%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.32%) Django
8 2 (1.32%) Flask
8 2 (1.32%) HTML
8 2 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.32%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (1.32%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (1.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.21%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.58%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.92%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.63%) PropTech
4 4 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.97%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.32%) ASIC
6 2 (1.32%) Derivative
6 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.32%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.66%) DTCC
7 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.66%) PKI
7 1 (0.66%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.26%) Windows
2 6 (3.95%) Linux
2 6 (3.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (21.05%) AI
2 31 (20.39%) Budgeting
3 29 (19.08%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 24 (15.79%) Financial Analysis
5 23 (15.13%) Fintech
6 19 (12.50%) B2B
6 19 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (11.84%) Cost Control
7 18 (11.84%) Process Improvement
8 16 (10.53%) Mentoring
9 15 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (9.87%) DevOps
10 14 (9.21%) Agile
11 12 (7.89%) Commercial Awareness
11 12 (7.89%) Event-Driven
11 12 (7.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (7.24%) Coaching
12 11 (7.24%) ITIL
12 11 (7.24%) Machine Learning
12 11 (7.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.47%) TypeScript
2 21 (13.82%) Python
3 18 (11.84%) C#
4 13 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.26%) Java
5 8 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.26%) SQL
6 6 (3.95%) Kotlin
6 6 (3.95%) PHP
7 3 (1.97%) Bash
8 2 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (22.37%) ACCA
1 34 (22.37%) CIMA
2 5 (3.29%) Degree
3 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.66%) CFA
5 1 (0.66%) CISA
5 1 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.58%) GAAP
1 10 (6.58%) IFRS
2 8 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.29%) QA
4 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.97%) NIST
4 3 (1.97%) SLA
4 3 (1.97%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.32%) COBIT
5 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.32%) EMIR
5 2 (1.32%) GDPR
5 2 (1.32%) MiFID
5 2 (1.32%) SOC 1
6 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.29%) Hyper-V
2 5 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.97%) Docker
3 3 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.95%) VMware
3 4 (2.63%) SAP
3 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.97%) Google
4 3 (1.97%) Oracle
5 2 (1.32%) Apple
5 2 (1.32%) BT
5 2 (1.32%) iManage
5 2 (1.32%) Intapp
5 2 (1.32%) Sage
5 2 (1.32%) Workday
5 2 (1.32%) Xero
6 1 (0.66%) Ariba
6 1 (0.66%) Okta
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) Snow