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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 39 64
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 -13
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 171 112 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.27% 6.46% 4.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.03% 13.48% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 150 93 81
10th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £98,750 £126,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £151,000 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £76,500 £93,750 £71,250
% change year-on-year -18.40% +31.58% -9.52%

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 1,004 831 1,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.96% 47.90% 50.69%
Number of salaries quoted 749 681 1,031
10th Percentile £48,768 £40,532 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

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 8 September 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 (4.68%) Apache
1 8 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.34%) Notion
3 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (7.60%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.45%) Azure
2 19 (11.11%) AWS
3 11 (6.43%) PaaS
4 8 (4.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 8 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.68%) Serverless
5 7 (4.09%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.51%) Figma
7 5 (2.92%) Slack
8 4 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.34%) GCP
8 4 (2.34%) IaaS
8 4 (2.34%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.34%) Twilio
9 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.75%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.17%) dbt
10 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.17%) OCI
10 2 (1.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) DNS
1 2 (1.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.58%) DHCP
2 1 (0.58%) DKIM
2 1 (0.58%) DMARC
2 1 (0.58%) SMS
2 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.58%) VPN
2 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.43%) MySQL
3 10 (5.85%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (4.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.75%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.17%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.58%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.58%) Balsamiq
2 1 (0.58%) Git
General
1 58 (33.92%) Finance
2 26 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.45%) Social Skills
4 18 (10.53%) Marketing
5 11 (6.43%) Advertising
6 5 (2.92%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.92%) Law
6 5 (2.92%) Legal
6 5 (2.92%) Legal Technology
7 4 (2.34%) General Ledger
7 4 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.34%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.17%) German Language
8 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Banking
9 1 (0.58%) French Language
9 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (22.22%) Lead
2 17 (9.94%) Data Engineer
3 15 (8.77%) Analyst
3 15 (8.77%) Lead Data Engineer
3 15 (8.77%) Senior
4 13 (7.60%) Developer
4 13 (7.60%) Financial Controller
4 13 (7.60%) Python Engineer
5 10 (5.85%) Accountant
5 10 (5.85%) Management Accountant
6 9 (5.26%) Architect
7 8 (4.68%) Python Data Engineer
8 7 (4.09%) Head of AI
8 7 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.09%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (3.51%) Database Engineer
9 6 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.02%) Terraform
2 10 (5.85%) React
3 8 (4.68%) Kafka
4 7 (4.09%) .NET
5 6 (3.51%) NestJS
6 5 (2.92%) REST
7 4 (2.34%) CSS
7 4 (2.34%) HTML
7 4 (2.34%) Next.js
8 3 (1.75%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.75%) Laravel
8 3 (1.75%) Vue
9 2 (1.17%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.17%) Pandas
9 2 (1.17%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (0.58%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (0.58%) Keras
10 1 (0.58%) Plotly
10 1 (0.58%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.60%) Management Information System
2 12 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.68%) PropTech
4 5 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.17%) Derivative
6 2 (1.17%) Equities
6 2 (1.17%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.58%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.58%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.58%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.68%) Windows
2 6 (3.51%) Linux
3 4 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.15%) AI
2 31 (18.13%) Budgeting
3 30 (17.54%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 25 (14.62%) Observability
5 24 (14.04%) Fintech
5 24 (14.04%) Process Improvement
6 23 (13.45%) Data Ingestion
7 22 (12.87%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (10.53%) B2B
9 17 (9.94%) DevOps
9 17 (9.94%) Software Engineering
10 15 (8.77%) Agile
10 15 (8.77%) Financial Analysis
10 15 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (7.60%) Workflow
12 12 (7.02%) Analytics
12 12 (7.02%) Commercial Awareness
12 12 (7.02%) Microservices
12 12 (7.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.37%) Python
2 14 (8.19%) SQL
3 11 (6.43%) C#
3 11 (6.43%) TypeScript
4 6 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.17%) Bash
6 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (20.47%) ACCA
1 35 (20.47%) CIMA
2 4 (2.34%) Degree
3 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.75%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.58%) CISA
5 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.58%) ISACA
5 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.77%) GAAP
2 15 (8.77%) IFRS
3 6 (3.51%) GDPR
3 6 (3.51%) QA
4 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.17%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) ITGC
5 1 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) SOC 1
5 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.17%) Docker
3 2 (1.17%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.92%) Salesforce
2 5 (2.92%) VMware
3 4 (2.34%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.75%) Databricks
4 3 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (0.58%) Cisco
5 1 (0.58%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.58%) Informatica
5 1 (0.58%) Meraki