SaaS Job Trends in the East Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 38 87
Rank change year-on-year -15 +49 -2
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 102 107 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.05% 4.84% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.72% 16.46% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 94 78 29
10th Percentile £26,000 £34,700 £31,200
25th Percentile £29,000 £47,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.58% +14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £78,438 £72,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.38% -3.70% -3.57%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 802 650 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 31.88% 29.41% 38.24%
Number of salaries quoted 508 382 654
10th Percentile £25,875 £28,733 £30,188
25th Percentile £29,000 £33,000 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

SaaS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SaaS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the East Midlands

SaaS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire 0 46 £65,000 +8.33% 56
Lincolnshire +19 39 £30,000 - 51
Leicestershire +4 8 £45,000 +32.35% 46
Derbyshire -13 6 £90,000 +56.52% 68
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.98%) CMS
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.65%) Azure
2 11 (10.78%) AWS
3 8 (7.84%) PaaS
4 6 (5.88%) iPaaS
4 6 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.92%) OCI
6 3 (2.94%) GCP
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 37 (36.27%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (5.88%) DHCP
2 6 (5.88%) DNS
2 6 (5.88%) Firewall
2 6 (5.88%) SAN
2 6 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.88%) VLAN
3 2 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.94%) Big Data
2 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.98%) Looker
4 1 (0.98%) Metadata
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Git
General
1 59 (57.84%) Social Skills
2 44 (43.14%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (38.24%) Retail
4 12 (11.76%) Law
4 12 (11.76%) Marketing
5 9 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (8.82%) Games
6 4 (3.92%) Finance
7 3 (2.94%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.96%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Billing
9 1 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (36.27%) 2nd Line Support
2 27 (26.47%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 15 (14.71%) Architect
4 14 (13.73%) Analyst
5 13 (12.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 13 (12.75%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 13 (12.75%) ERP Analyst
5 13 (12.75%) ERP Support
5 13 (12.75%) SaaS Analyst
5 13 (12.75%) Software Analyst
5 13 (12.75%) Software Support Analyst
5 13 (12.75%) Support Analyst
6 10 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support Technician
6 10 (9.80%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Support Technician
7 7 (6.86%) IT Manager
7 7 (6.86%) Lead
7 7 (6.86%) Oracle Architect
7 7 (6.86%) Sales Manager
8 6 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.84%) .NET
2 7 (6.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (3.92%) React
3 4 (3.92%) REST
4 3 (2.94%) Node.js
4 3 (2.94%) PySpark
5 2 (1.96%) CSS
5 2 (1.96%) Deno
5 2 (1.96%) HTML
5 2 (1.96%) Laravel
5 2 (1.96%) Middleware
5 2 (1.96%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.96%) SOAP
5 2 (1.96%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (1.96%) Vue
5 2 (1.96%) Yii
6 1 (0.98%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 46 (45.10%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.88%) Clustering
2 6 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.96%) NHS
6 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Windows
1 6 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.96%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (44.12%) Mentoring
2 44 (43.14%) ERP
2 44 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (40.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (40.20%) E-Commerce
4 39 (38.24%) CRM
4 39 (38.24%) Data Privacy
5 38 (37.25%) Logistics
6 37 (36.27%) Analytical Thinking
6 37 (36.27%) Customer Service
6 37 (36.27%) Root Cause Analysis
7 21 (20.59%) Software Engineering
8 11 (10.78%) Agile
9 10 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (8.82%) Roadmaps
11 8 (7.84%) Customer Engagement
11 8 (7.84%) Customer Retention
11 8 (7.84%) Microservices
11 8 (7.84%) Risk Management
12 7 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (53.92%) SQL
2 47 (46.08%) C#
3 4 (3.92%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.92%) Python
4 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.96%) PHP
5 2 (1.96%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (34.31%) QA
2 8 (7.84%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.98%) HL7
4 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.98%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 6 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.98%) Ansible
2 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.82%) Oracle
2 8 (7.84%) Salesforce
3 7 (6.86%) Databricks
3 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.88%) Veeam