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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 37 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 149 148 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.76% 6.83% 6.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.71% 13.55% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 116 118 160
10th Percentile £50,625 £42,500 £56,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £74,375
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 £122,500 £119,375 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 1,087 1,092 1,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.75% 50.42% 51.87%
Number of salaries quoted 832 845 1,428
10th Percentile £41,250 £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 £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 18 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 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.67%) Apache
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.71%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (24.83%) AWS
2 27 (18.12%) Azure
3 19 (12.75%) GCP
4 14 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (9.40%) PaaS
5 9 (6.04%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.37%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.37%) Serverless
7 7 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.70%) Figma
8 4 (2.68%) Lucidchart
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.34%) IaaS
10 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.34%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.34%) Tessian
11 1 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) DHCP
1 1 (0.67%) DNS
1 1 (0.67%) Firewall
1 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.37%) MySQL
2 5 (3.36%) Power BI
3 3 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (2.01%) SQLite
4 2 (1.34%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Balsamiq
2 3 (2.01%) Git
3 2 (1.34%) JIRA
3 2 (1.34%) Postman
General
1 57 (38.26%) Finance
2 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.11%) Marketing
4 17 (11.41%) Advertising
5 11 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.70%) Legal
6 7 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Retail
8 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (0.67%) Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (25.50%) Senior
2 17 (11.41%) Accountant
2 17 (11.41%) Management Accountant
3 14 (9.40%) Developer
4 13 (8.72%) Lead
5 11 (7.38%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (6.71%) Financial Controller
7 9 (6.04%) Analyst
7 9 (6.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.37%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) SaaS Analyst
10 6 (4.03%) Architect
10 6 (4.03%) IT Support
10 6 (4.03%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Java Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.45%) React
2 15 (10.07%) Node.js
3 12 (8.05%) .NET
4 7 (4.70%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.03%) Spring
5 6 (4.03%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.68%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (2.68%) Next.js
7 3 (2.01%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.01%) Kafka
8 2 (1.34%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.34%) Django
8 2 (1.34%) Flask
8 2 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.34%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (1.34%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.67%) OAuth
9 1 (0.67%) PySpark
9 1 (0.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.07%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.71%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.01%) PropTech
6 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.34%) ASIC
6 2 (1.34%) Derivative
6 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.34%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.67%) DTCC
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.67%) PKI
7 1 (0.67%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.37%) Windows
2 6 (4.03%) Linux
2 6 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.81%) AI
2 30 (20.13%) Budgeting
3 29 (19.46%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 24 (16.11%) Financial Analysis
5 23 (15.44%) Fintech
6 19 (12.75%) B2B
7 18 (12.08%) Process Improvement
8 17 (11.41%) Cost Control
8 17 (11.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (11.41%) Mentoring
9 14 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (9.40%) DevOps
10 13 (8.72%) Agile
11 12 (8.05%) Coaching
11 12 (8.05%) Commercial Awareness
11 12 (8.05%) Event-Driven
11 12 (8.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (7.38%) ITIL
12 11 (7.38%) Machine Learning
12 11 (7.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.11%) TypeScript
2 20 (13.42%) Python
3 16 (10.74%) C#
4 13 (8.72%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.37%) Java
5 8 (5.37%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.37%) SQL
6 6 (4.03%) Kotlin
6 6 (4.03%) PHP
7 3 (2.01%) Bash
8 2 (1.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (22.82%) ACCA
1 34 (22.82%) CIMA
2 4 (2.68%) Degree
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.67%) CFA
4 1 (0.67%) CISA
4 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.71%) GAAP
1 10 (6.71%) IFRS
2 8 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.36%) QA
4 3 (2.01%) NIST
4 3 (2.01%) SLA
4 3 (2.01%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.34%) COBIT
5 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.34%) EMIR
5 2 (1.34%) GDPR
5 2 (1.34%) MiFID
5 2 (1.34%) SOC 1
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.36%) Hyper-V
2 5 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.01%) Docker
3 3 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.03%) VMware
3 4 (2.68%) SAP
3 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.01%) Google
4 3 (2.01%) Oracle
5 2 (1.34%) Apple
5 2 (1.34%) BT
5 2 (1.34%) iManage
5 2 (1.34%) Intapp
5 2 (1.34%) Sage
5 2 (1.34%) Workday
5 2 (1.34%) Xero
6 1 (0.67%) Ariba
6 1 (0.67%) Okta
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) Snow