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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 32 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -14
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 192 145 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.48% 7.48% 4.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.05% 14.86% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 164 116 111
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £64,688 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £81,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -9.72% +16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £133,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £71,121 £78,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% -12.50% +16.13%

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 1,276 976 1,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.76% 50.36% 49.83%
Number of salaries quoted 948 785 1,307
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,188 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% +1.72%

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 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 (4.17%) Apache
1 8 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Notion
2 1 (0.52%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 19 (9.90%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.67%) Azure
2 23 (11.98%) AWS
3 17 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.77%) PaaS
5 11 (5.73%) Entra ID
5 11 (5.73%) Serverless
6 9 (4.69%) GCP
7 8 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (4.17%) Figma
8 6 (3.13%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.08%) IaaS
10 4 (2.08%) Lucidchart
10 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.08%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.04%) dbt
12 2 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.04%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.04%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) DHCP
1 2 (1.04%) DNS
1 2 (1.04%) VPN
2 1 (0.52%) Firewall
2 1 (0.52%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) SMS
2 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.81%) MySQL
2 12 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.69%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.56%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.52%) Metadata
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Balsamiq
1 4 (2.08%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.04%) JIRA
2 2 (1.04%) Postman
General
1 82 (42.71%) Finance
2 30 (15.63%) Marketing
3 28 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.06%) Social Skills
5 21 (10.94%) Advertising
6 8 (4.17%) Legal
7 6 (3.13%) Legal Technology
8 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.08%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.56%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.56%) Law
10 2 (1.04%) German Language
10 2 (1.04%) Retail
11 1 (0.52%) Banking
11 1 (0.52%) French Language
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 24 (12.50%) Lead
2 23 (11.98%) Senior
3 20 (10.42%) Accountant
3 20 (10.42%) Developer
3 20 (10.42%) Management Accountant
4 19 (9.90%) Financial Controller
5 17 (8.85%) Analyst
6 13 (6.77%) Python Engineer
7 12 (6.25%) Architect
7 12 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Financial Analyst
9 10 (5.21%) Lead Data Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) SaaS Analyst
10 9 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.69%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Python Data Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.29%) .NET
1 14 (7.29%) React
2 8 (4.17%) Kafka
3 5 (2.60%) CSS
3 5 (2.60%) HTML
4 4 (2.08%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.08%) Model Context Protocol
4 4 (2.08%) Vue
5 3 (1.56%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.56%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.56%) Laravel
6 2 (1.04%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.04%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.04%) Pandas
6 2 (1.04%) REST
6 2 (1.04%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.52%) Keras
7 1 (0.52%) NestJS
7 1 (0.52%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.52%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.90%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.17%) PropTech
4 5 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.04%) Derivative
7 2 (1.04%) Equities
7 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.52%) PKI
8 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.73%) Windows
2 9 (4.69%) Linux
3 8 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.52%) Budgeting
2 48 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 34 (17.71%) Process Improvement
4 32 (16.67%) AI
5 31 (16.15%) Fintech
6 30 (15.63%) Financial Analysis
7 21 (10.94%) Cost Control
8 20 (10.42%) DevOps
9 17 (8.85%) Agile
9 17 (8.85%) Commercial Awareness
9 17 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (8.85%) User Experience
10 16 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (7.81%) Software Engineering
12 14 (7.29%) B2B
13 13 (6.77%) ITIL
14 12 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
15 11 (5.73%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 27 (14.06%) Python
2 16 (8.33%) C#
3 14 (7.29%) SQL
4 13 (6.77%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.65%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.60%) PHP
7 4 (2.08%) Bash
8 2 (1.04%) Ruby
9 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (29.17%) ACCA
1 56 (29.17%) CIMA
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (1.56%) Degree
3 3 (1.56%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.52%) CISA
5 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.94%) GAAP
1 21 (10.94%) IFRS
2 10 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.13%) GDPR
3 6 (3.13%) QA
4 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.56%) NIST
4 3 (1.56%) SLA
5 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.04%) COBIT
5 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.04%) SOC 1
5 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.04%) Docker
5 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (7.81%) Terraform
2 10 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.17%) VMware
3 5 (2.60%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.08%) Oracle
5 3 (1.56%) Databricks
5 3 (1.56%) Google
5 3 (1.56%) SAP
6 2 (1.04%) Apple
6 2 (1.04%) BT
6 2 (1.04%) iManage
6 2 (1.04%) Intapp
6 2 (1.04%) Litera
6 2 (1.04%) Sage
6 2 (1.04%) Xero
7 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.52%) Informatica
7 1 (0.52%) Okta
7 1 (0.52%) Workday