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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 27 21
Rank change year-on-year -44 -6 +34
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 35 92 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.31% 8.26% 11.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.25% 19.09% 24.30%
Number of salaries quoted 18 36 77
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.27% -21.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -23.08% +13.04%

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 483 482 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 45.61% 43.27% 47.67%
Number of salaries quoted 150 211 415
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,231 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% -7.69% +9.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £92,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

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 13 January 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 4 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
3 8 (22.86%) Azure Logic Apps
3 8 (22.86%) Boomi
4 6 (17.14%) AWS
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.43%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (11.43%) Serverless
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Datadog
7 1 (2.86%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.86%) JMeter
3 1 (2.86%) Locust
General
1 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Senior
2 9 (25.71%) Applications Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Applications Support
2 9 (25.71%) Applications Support Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Support Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Informatica Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Sales Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Sales Executive
6 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Lead Product Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Product Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Product Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Risk Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Security Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) REST
1 12 (34.29%) SOAP
2 8 (22.86%) SAML
2 8 (22.86%) Web Services
3 2 (5.71%) React
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.86%) CSS
4 1 (2.86%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) Kafka
4 1 (2.86%) Next.js
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (11.43%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Agile
1 11 (31.43%) DevOps
2 9 (25.71%) Change Management
2 9 (25.71%) ITIL
2 9 (25.71%) Roadmaps
3 8 (22.86%) Asset Management
3 8 (22.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 8 (22.86%) Coaching
3 8 (22.86%) Data Privacy
3 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
4 6 (17.14%) B2B
5 5 (14.29%) BDD
5 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.43%) API Integration
6 4 (11.43%) Data Governance
6 4 (11.43%) Data Integration
6 4 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Python
3 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) GDPR
2 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) GRC
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (11.43%) Control-M
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) RSA Archer
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) ServiceNow
2 8 (22.86%) MuleSoft
2 8 (22.86%) Workday
3 4 (11.43%) Informatica
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle