SaaS Job Trends in Edinburgh

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 42 16
Rank change year-on-year +18 -26 +32
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 67 51 142
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.90% 5.68% 10.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.14% 16.29% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 62 32 86
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,875 £36,250
25th Percentile - £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -4.55% -24.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £72,500 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% -4.55% -15.38%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 350 313 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 30.81% 34.86% 45.11%
Number of salaries quoted 177 186 476
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £30,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% +0.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,938 £73,886
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,375
Scotland median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -8.30%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

SaaS
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Edinburgh

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (11.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.46%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (7.46%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (7.46%) Exchange Server 2013
3 4 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.42%) Azure
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.97%) AWS
4 4 (5.97%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.97%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.97%) Serverless
5 3 (4.48%) dbt
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (4.48%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.48%) PaaS
5 3 (4.48%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) DHCP
1 5 (7.46%) DNS
1 5 (7.46%) Firewall
1 5 (7.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Git
General
1 5 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (7.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Legal
2 4 (5.97%) Marketing
3 2 (2.99%) Finance
3 2 (2.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) Account Manager
2 7 (10.45%) Sales Executive
2 7 (10.45%) Senior
3 6 (8.96%) Software Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) IT Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) IT Support
4 5 (7.46%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Junior
4 5 (7.46%) Junior IT Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Junior IT Support
4 5 (7.46%) Junior Support Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Remote Support Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Account Executive
5 4 (5.97%) Developer
5 4 (5.97%) Informatica Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Mobile Developer
5 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.97%) Senior Mobile Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) .NET
1 4 (5.97%) REST
1 4 (5.97%) SOAP
2 3 (4.48%) .NET Framework
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (4.48%) React
3 2 (2.99%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (2.99%) Entity Framework
3 2 (2.99%) Vue
4 1 (1.49%) Next.js
4 1 (1.49%) Spring
4 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Windows
1 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
1 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (5.97%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (10.45%) B2B
2 7 (10.45%) BDD
2 7 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (8.96%) CI/CD
3 6 (8.96%) Software Engineering
4 5 (7.46%) Agile
4 5 (7.46%) Data Governance
4 5 (7.46%) Data Integration
4 5 (7.46%) Server Virtualisation
4 5 (7.46%) Workflow
5 4 (5.97%) API Integration
5 4 (5.97%) CRM
5 4 (5.97%) Data Modelling
5 4 (5.97%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (5.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (5.97%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (5.97%) Logistics
5 4 (5.97%) Mobile Development
5 4 (5.97%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.45%) SQL
2 4 (5.97%) Java
2 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.97%) Python
2 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.49%) C#
4 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Progress Chef
2 4 (5.97%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.46%) Dell
2 5 (7.46%) HP
3 4 (5.97%) Informatica
3 4 (5.97%) Oracle