SaaS Job Trends in England

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 73 63
Rank change year-on-year +31 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 2,481 1,804 1,966
As % of all permanent jobs in England 4.76% 3.63% 4.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.35% 9.94% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,872 1,201 1,553
10th Percentile £32,775 £41,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,144 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -10.71% +0.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% -3.57%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,588 18,149 18,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.66% 36.52% 41.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10,335 10,838 15,894
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,320 £45,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in England

SaaS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in England over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS in England

SaaS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the England region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
London +38 859 £75,000 - 1,150
South East +36 546 £57,500 +4.55% 1,017
North of England +33 429 £60,000 - 917
Midlands +16 358 £52,500 -12.50% 647
West Midlands +34 246 £55,000 -8.33% 344
North West +26 204 £62,500 +2.74% 510
Yorkshire +39 175 £55,000 -4.35% 358
East of England +18 137 £55,000 +10.00% 505
South West +28 120 £50,000 -28.57% 377
East Midlands -13 112 £43,250 -27.92% 271
North East +43 50 £62,500 +13.64% 50
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 58 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.97%) IIS
4 20 (0.81%) Confluence
4 20 (0.81%) WordPress
5 15 (0.60%) Apache
6 10 (0.40%) CMS
7 8 (0.32%) JBoss
7 8 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.24%) nginx
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.040%) Drupal
10 1 (0.040%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.040%) SAS
10 1 (0.040%) Tomcat
Applications
1 50 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.56%) InDesign
5 10 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.20%) Sketch
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.040%) GIMP
10 1 (0.040%) Revit
10 1 (0.040%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 43 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.081%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.081%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.081%) Shopify
8 1 (0.040%) Magento
8 1 (0.040%) Maximo
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 473 (19.06%) Azure
2 366 (14.75%) AWS
3 157 (6.33%) PaaS
4 142 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
5 139 (5.60%) GCP
6 124 (5.00%) IaaS
7 77 (3.10%) Power Platform
8 59 (2.38%) Serverless
9 58 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (2.34%) GitHub
10 51 (2.06%) Entra ID
11 26 (1.05%) Figma
12 25 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
13 23 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
14 21 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (0.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 19 (0.77%) Azure Functions
17 17 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.66%) Firewall
2 60 (2.42%) DNS
3 51 (2.06%) DHCP
4 40 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
5 37 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.45%) VPN
7 28 (1.13%) VLAN
8 24 (0.97%) SAN
9 19 (0.77%) WAN
10 17 (0.69%) LAN
11 15 (0.60%) Network Security
11 15 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.56%) Unified Communications
13 13 (0.52%) HTTP
14 9 (0.36%) VoIP
14 9 (0.36%) Wireless
15 8 (0.32%) PuTTY
15 8 (0.32%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.32%) SSH
16 7 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (4.11%) SQL Server
2 59 (2.38%) MySQL
3 55 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.10%) Power BI
5 38 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 37 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 25 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 24 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (0.73%) MongoDB
11 11 (0.44%) Tableau
12 10 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.40%) Data Mining
12 10 (0.40%) Looker
13 8 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.32%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.32%) Data Vault
13 8 (0.32%) Redis
14 7 (0.28%) Big Data
14 7 (0.28%) GIS
Development Applications
1 58 (2.34%) JIRA
2 26 (1.05%) Git
3 19 (0.77%) TeamCity
4 13 (0.52%) Selenium
5 12 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.44%) Postman
7 6 (0.24%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.24%) JMeter
8 5 (0.20%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (0.20%) Chocolatey
8 5 (0.20%) GitBook
8 5 (0.20%) git-flow
8 5 (0.20%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.16%) GitLab
9 4 (0.16%) Locust
9 4 (0.16%) MSTest
10 3 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 743 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 565 (22.77%) Finance
3 403 (16.24%) Marketing
4 255 (10.28%) Retail
5 223 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 208 (8.38%) Legal
7 175 (7.05%) Law
8 106 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 92 (3.71%) Banking
10 80 (3.22%) Public Sector
11 68 (2.74%) Financial Institution
12 65 (2.62%) Back Office
13 55 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (2.14%) Manufacturing
15 52 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (1.53%) Games
17 36 (1.45%) German Language
18 31 (1.25%) Advertising
19 30 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
20 28 (1.13%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 273 (11.00%) Senior
2 216 (8.71%) Developer
3 205 (8.26%) Lead
4 152 (6.13%) Architect
5 101 (4.07%) Analyst
6 87 (3.51%) Account Manager
7 82 (3.31%) Consultant
7 82 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
8 76 (3.06%) Account Executive
8 76 (3.06%) Sales Representative
9 73 (2.94%) Sales Manager
10 72 (2.90%) Software Engineer
10 72 (2.90%) Support Engineer
11 65 (2.62%) Software Developer
12 58 (2.34%) Technical Support
13 56 (2.26%) Marketing Manager
14 55 (2.22%) .NET Developer
14 55 (2.22%) Development Manager
15 52 (2.10%) Business Manager
16 51 (2.06%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (7.46%) .NET
2 131 (5.28%) React
3 73 (2.94%) REST
4 59 (2.38%) Node.js
5 34 (1.37%) CSS
6 31 (1.25%) HTML
7 30 (1.21%) Middleware
8 29 (1.17%) RESTful
8 29 (1.17%) Spring
9 25 (1.01%) AngularJS
10 23 (0.93%) XML
11 21 (0.85%) Laravel
11 21 (0.85%) Next.js
11 21 (0.85%) SOAP
11 21 (0.85%) Vue
12 20 (0.81%) Spring Boot
13 16 (0.64%) .NET Core
14 15 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
14 15 (0.60%) SAML
15 14 (0.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 261 (10.52%) Onboarding
2 109 (4.39%) Cloud Native
3 95 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 64 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
5 62 (2.50%) Social Media
6 57 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 55 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 45 (1.81%) Educational Technology
9 43 (1.73%) Management Information System
10 39 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 36 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
12 31 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 24 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (0.93%) EPoS
16 22 (0.89%) Robotics
17 21 (0.85%) Security Posture
18 20 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
18 20 (0.81%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 102 (4.11%) Windows
2 71 (2.86%) Linux
3 59 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.25%) Android
5 25 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.48%) Unix
7 11 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.40%) VMS
9 8 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.28%) CentOS
11 6 (0.24%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.040%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
2 398 (16.04%) Agile
3 383 (15.44%) AI
4 322 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 316 (12.74%) Roadmaps
6 288 (11.61%) B2B
7 284 (11.45%) CRM
8 278 (11.21%) Software Engineering
9 274 (11.04%) DevOps
10 258 (10.40%) Mentoring
11 237 (9.55%) Decision-Making
12 213 (8.59%) Analytics
13 207 (8.34%) Business Development
14 195 (7.86%) CI/CD
15 169 (6.81%) ERP
16 167 (6.73%) Customer Experience
17 162 (6.53%) Customer Service
18 156 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
19 141 (5.68%) Microservices
20 139 (5.60%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 293 (11.81%) SQL
2 193 (7.78%) C#
3 153 (6.17%) Python
4 130 (5.24%) JavaScript
5 122 (4.92%) TypeScript
6 102 (4.11%) Java
7 57 (2.30%) PHP
8 51 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 35 (1.41%) Bash
10 20 (0.81%) Kotlin
11 16 (0.64%) Bicep
12 15 (0.60%) Go
13 10 (0.40%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.32%) C
15 8 (0.32%) DCL
15 8 (0.32%) Perl
15 8 (0.32%) Tcl
16 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 245 (9.88%) Degree
2 71 (2.86%) Master's Degree
3 58 (2.34%) ACCA
4 53 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (1.85%) MBA
6 45 (1.81%) Security Cleared
7 32 (1.29%) SC Cleared
8 29 (1.17%) CIMA
8 29 (1.17%) CISSP
9 22 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 19 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.56%) ICAEW
12 13 (0.52%) CRISC
12 13 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.52%) PMP
13 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.40%) CISA
14 10 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.36%) QA
2 76 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (2.98%) GDPR
4 37 (1.49%) SLA
5 34 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 27 (1.09%) GAAP
7 25 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 23 (0.93%) IFRS
9 22 (0.89%) NIST
10 20 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.77%) ISO 9001
12 17 (0.69%) GRC
13 16 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.52%) Data Quality
15 10 (0.40%) WCAG
16 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 8 (0.32%) EU AI Act
17 8 (0.32%) NIST 800
18 7 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.18%) Docker
3 37 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.081%) Terminal Server
8 2 (0.081%) vCloud
8 2 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.040%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.040%) Firmware
9 1 (0.040%) Postfix
9 1 (0.040%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 118 (4.76%) Terraform
2 96 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (1.13%) Ansible
5 25 (1.01%) Grafana
6 22 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.32%) Argo
8 7 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (0.28%) SCCM
9 5 (0.20%) Autotask
10 4 (0.16%) Cilium
11 3 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.12%) Puppet
12 1 (0.040%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.040%) CASB
12 1 (0.040%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.040%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.040%) SCOM
Vendors
1 289 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 107 (4.31%) Salesforce
3 79 (3.18%) HubSpot
4 66 (2.66%) Oracle
5 62 (2.50%) Google
6 59 (2.38%) SAP
7 46 (1.85%) VMware
8 41 (1.65%) Adobe
9 37 (1.49%) Databricks
10 33 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 31 (1.25%) Cisco
12 25 (1.01%) YouTube
13 23 (0.93%) Zoho
14 14 (0.56%) Alteryx
15 13 (0.52%) Workday
16 11 (0.44%) Apple
16 11 (0.44%) BiZZdesign
16 11 (0.44%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.44%) Software AG
16 11 (0.44%) Splunk