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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 39 61
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 -17
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 180 119 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.21% 6.63% 4.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.95% 13.87% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 160 97 86
10th Percentile £50,875 £57,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £96,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +20.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,875 £126,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £146,000 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +23.33% -3.23%

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 1,062 858 1,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.76% 47.80% 50.80%
Number of salaries quoted 791 700 1,081
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £106,250
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 25 August 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 (4.44%) Apache
1 8 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.22%) Notion
3 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (7.78%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.78%) Azure
2 21 (11.67%) AWS
3 11 (6.11%) PaaS
4 9 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 8 (4.44%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.44%) Serverless
6 7 (3.89%) Figma
7 5 (2.78%) Slack
8 4 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.22%) GCP
8 4 (2.22%) IaaS
8 4 (2.22%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.22%) Twilio
9 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.67%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.11%) dbt
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.11%) OCI
10 2 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) DNS
1 2 (1.11%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DKIM
2 1 (0.56%) DMARC
2 1 (0.56%) SMS
2 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.56%) VPN
2 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.67%) MySQL
3 10 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.67%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.11%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.11%) Postman
3 1 (0.56%) Balsamiq
General
1 60 (33.33%) Finance
2 26 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 20 (11.11%) Marketing
5 12 (6.67%) Advertising
6 6 (3.33%) Legal
6 6 (3.33%) Legal Technology
7 5 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.22%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.22%) Law
8 4 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.11%) German Language
9 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Banking
10 1 (0.56%) French Language
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 38 (21.11%) Lead
2 18 (10.00%) Senior
3 17 (9.44%) Data Engineer
4 16 (8.89%) Analyst
4 16 (8.89%) Developer
5 15 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
6 14 (7.78%) Financial Controller
6 14 (7.78%) Python Engineer
7 11 (6.11%) Accountant
7 11 (6.11%) Management Accountant
8 9 (5.00%) Architect
9 8 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.44%) Python Data Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) Head of AI
10 7 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.33%) Database Engineer
11 6 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.67%) Terraform
2 10 (5.56%) .NET
3 9 (5.00%) React
4 8 (4.44%) Kafka
5 6 (3.33%) NestJS
6 5 (2.78%) CSS
6 5 (2.78%) HTML
7 4 (2.22%) REST
7 4 (2.22%) Vue
8 3 (1.67%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.67%) Laravel
9 2 (1.11%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.11%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.11%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (1.11%) Next.js
9 2 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.11%) Pandas
9 2 (1.11%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (0.56%) Keras
10 1 (0.56%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.78%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.44%) PropTech
4 7 (3.89%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.11%) Derivative
7 2 (1.11%) Equities
7 2 (1.11%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.00%) Windows
2 7 (3.89%) Linux
3 5 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (23.89%) AI
2 33 (18.33%) Budgeting
3 32 (17.78%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 26 (14.44%) Fintech
5 25 (13.89%) Process Improvement
6 24 (13.33%) Observability
7 23 (12.78%) Data Ingestion
8 22 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (10.56%) B2B
10 17 (9.44%) Financial Analysis
10 17 (9.44%) Software Engineering
11 16 (8.89%) DevOps
11 16 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (8.33%) Agile
13 14 (7.78%) Commercial Awareness
14 13 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (7.22%) Microservices
14 13 (7.22%) Workflow
15 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.67%) Python
2 14 (7.78%) C#
2 14 (7.78%) SQL
3 11 (6.11%) TypeScript
4 9 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.22%) Bash
5 4 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.11%) PHP
6 2 (1.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (21.11%) ACCA
1 38 (21.11%) CIMA
2 4 (2.22%) Degree
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) CISA
5 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) ISACA
5 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.89%) GAAP
2 16 (8.89%) IFRS
3 7 (3.89%) QA
4 6 (3.33%) GDPR
5 4 (2.22%) SLA
6 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) ITGC
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
7 1 (0.56%) SOC 1
7 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.11%) Docker
4 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.33%) VMware
3 5 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.22%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.67%) Databricks
5 3 (1.67%) Oracle
6 2 (1.11%) BT
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco
7 1 (0.56%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) Meraki