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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 82 77
Rank change year-on-year +46 -5 -9
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 3,527 1,479 2,769
As % of all permanent jobs in England 4.34% 3.78% 3.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.68% 10.76% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,858 1,079 2,258
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +1.96% -5.56%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 24,019 13,745 29,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.53% 35.10% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,764 9,783 24,164
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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
London +36 1,322 £80,000 - 889
North of England +71 726 £70,000 +16.67% 257
South East +53 624 £65,000 +18.18% 320
Midlands +30 456 £60,000 - 127
North West +100 450 £70,000 +16.67% 171
West Midlands +39 367 £60,000 - 96
Yorkshire +16 232 £65,000 +12.07% 66
South West +26 208 £48,750 -18.75% 78
East of England +24 177 £50,000 -26.47% 59
East Midlands -30 88 £58,000 -3.33% 29
North East -12 44 £42,500 -34.62% 20
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 62 (1.76%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.68%) CMS
4 21 (0.60%) Confluence
5 14 (0.40%) WordPress
6 11 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.23%) Apache
7 8 (0.23%) Moodle
7 8 (0.23%) Totara
8 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.17%) SAS
10 5 (0.14%) JBoss
10 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.11%) Documentum
12 3 (0.085%) IIS
13 2 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.028%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.028%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.028%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 57 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.085%) Trello
9 1 (0.028%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.028%) InDesign
9 1 (0.028%) Notion
9 1 (0.028%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 41 (1.16%) NetSuite
2 17 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.085%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 2 (0.057%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 2 (0.057%) Shopify
7 1 (0.028%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.028%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.028%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.028%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.028%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.028%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.028%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.028%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.028%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.028%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 435 (12.33%) Azure
2 355 (10.07%) AWS
3 187 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
4 172 (4.88%) PaaS
5 106 (3.01%) GCP
5 106 (3.01%) IaaS
6 105 (2.98%) Power Platform
7 92 (2.61%) Entra ID
8 76 (2.15%) Serverless
9 50 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
10 41 (1.16%) GitHub
11 36 (1.02%) Figma
12 35 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 31 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (0.85%) Datadog
15 27 (0.77%) Azure Functions
15 27 (0.77%) Google Sheets
16 26 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
17 25 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.81%) Firewall
2 52 (1.47%) DNS
3 48 (1.36%) VPN
4 47 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
5 35 (0.99%) DHCP
6 31 (0.88%) VLAN
7 22 (0.62%) SAN
8 18 (0.51%) WAN
9 17 (0.48%) LAN
9 17 (0.48%) MPLS
9 17 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (0.40%) BGP
12 13 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
12 13 (0.37%) IPsec
12 13 (0.37%) NetScaler
12 13 (0.37%) NX-OS
12 13 (0.37%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 66 (1.87%) Power BI
3 47 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (1.19%) MySQL
5 22 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (0.62%) Relational Database
6 21 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 16 (0.45%) Redis
8 15 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (0.37%) NoSQL
9 13 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (0.34%) MongoDB
11 11 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.23%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.20%) Big Data
14 6 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.17%) Power Query
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (0.11%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 63 (1.79%) JIRA
2 31 (0.88%) TeamCity
3 28 (0.79%) Git
4 21 (0.60%) Chocolatey
5 13 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 12 (0.34%) Postman
7 8 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.23%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.14%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.14%) JMeter
8 5 (0.14%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.11%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.11%) Locust
9 4 (0.11%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.085%) Storybook
General
1 751 (21.29%) Finance
2 547 (15.51%) Social Skills
3 478 (13.55%) Marketing
4 290 (8.22%) Retail
5 283 (8.02%) Legal
6 263 (7.46%) Law
7 236 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
8 196 (5.56%) Banking
9 175 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 127 (3.60%) Back Office
11 117 (3.32%) Financial Institution
12 92 (2.61%) Public Sector
13 83 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
15 50 (1.42%) Advertising
15 50 (1.42%) German Language
16 44 (1.25%) Manufacturing
17 37 (1.05%) Telecoms
18 29 (0.82%) Automotive
18 29 (0.82%) French Language
Job Titles
1 473 (13.41%) Senior
2 309 (8.76%) Lead
3 303 (8.59%) Developer
4 205 (5.81%) Software Engineer
5 176 (4.99%) Account Executive
6 170 (4.82%) Account Manager
7 163 (4.62%) Architect
8 118 (3.35%) Analyst
9 114 (3.23%) Sales Manager
10 110 (3.12%) Sales Representative
11 107 (3.03%) Senior Manager
12 92 (2.61%) Marketing Manager
13 91 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
14 87 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
15 81 (2.30%) Support Engineer
16 80 (2.27%) Senior Software Engineer
17 76 (2.15%) .NET Developer
17 76 (2.15%) Financial Controller
18 72 (2.04%) Azure Engineer
18 72 (2.04%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (7.09%) .NET
2 110 (3.12%) React
3 96 (2.72%) Node.js
4 75 (2.13%) REST
5 49 (1.39%) .NET Core
6 43 (1.22%) CSS
6 43 (1.22%) HTML
7 39 (1.11%) Vue
8 36 (1.02%) RESTful
9 31 (0.88%) .NET Framework
10 28 (0.79%) Laravel
10 28 (0.79%) NestJS
11 27 (0.77%) AngularJS
12 24 (0.68%) JSON
13 22 (0.62%) OAuth
13 22 (0.62%) XML
14 18 (0.51%) SOAP
15 16 (0.45%) Entity Framework
15 16 (0.45%) Middleware
15 16 (0.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 206 (5.84%) Onboarding
2 136 (3.86%) Cloud Native
3 95 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 93 (2.64%) PropTech
5 79 (2.24%) Marketing Technology
6 69 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 67 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 59 (1.67%) Mobile App
9 49 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
11 36 (1.02%) Blog
12 34 (0.96%) EPoS
13 31 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 31 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
14 29 (0.82%) Social Media
15 28 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
16 25 (0.71%) AI Agents
16 25 (0.71%) Security Posture
17 22 (0.62%) Data Centre
18 21 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (3.32%) Windows
2 77 (2.18%) Linux
3 46 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.62%) Android
5 22 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 21 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 18 (0.51%) VMS
8 16 (0.45%) Unix
9 12 (0.34%) CentOS
10 9 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.057%) Solaris
13 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (13.13%) B2B
2 456 (12.93%) AI
3 390 (11.06%) Software Engineering
4 337 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 319 (9.04%) Agile
6 316 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
7 265 (7.51%) Business Development
8 254 (7.20%) Decision-Making
9 252 (7.14%) CRM
10 245 (6.95%) Analytics
11 236 (6.69%) Roadmaps
12 219 (6.21%) Fintech
13 201 (5.70%) Full-Stack Development
14 200 (5.67%) DevOps
15 177 (5.02%) CI/CD
16 168 (4.76%) Mentoring
17 146 (4.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 144 (4.08%) Customer Experience
18 144 (4.08%) Project Management
19 130 (3.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 229 (6.49%) Python
2 212 (6.01%) SQL
3 197 (5.59%) C#
4 120 (3.40%) Java
5 119 (3.37%) TypeScript
6 105 (2.98%) JavaScript
7 76 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 66 (1.87%) PHP
9 50 (1.42%) Bash
10 27 (0.77%) Go
11 18 (0.51%) R
12 13 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.31%) Ruby
15 9 (0.26%) Perl
16 6 (0.17%) DCL
16 6 (0.17%) Tcl
17 5 (0.14%) Bicep
17 5 (0.14%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 186 (5.27%) Degree
2 122 (3.46%) ACCA
3 108 (3.06%) CIMA
4 63 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (1.39%) Security Cleared
6 38 (1.08%) CISSP
7 31 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 31 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 18 (0.51%) CRISC
8 18 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 17 (0.48%) CISA
10 16 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.34%) ICAEW
13 11 (0.31%) PMP
14 10 (0.28%) CCSK
15 9 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (0.26%) IIBA
16 7 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (2.47%) QA
2 76 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (1.50%) GDPR
3 53 (1.50%) IFRS
4 49 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 37 (1.05%) SOC 2
6 36 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 36 (1.02%) GAAP
6 36 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 34 (0.96%) SLA
8 31 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.40%) GRC
10 14 (0.40%) WCAG
11 12 (0.34%) NIST
11 12 (0.34%) PMO
12 9 (0.26%) COBIT
13 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.20%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.17%) SOC 1
System Software
1 115 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 64 (1.81%) Docker
3 36 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.34%) vSphere
6 10 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.085%) Firmware
8 3 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 139 (3.94%) Terraform
2 102 (2.89%) Kubernetes
3 77 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (1.13%) Grafana
5 36 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 35 (0.99%) Ansible
7 22 (0.62%) SCCM
8 16 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (0.28%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.14%) Argo
11 5 (0.14%) Autotask
11 5 (0.14%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.085%) CASB
12 3 (0.085%) Nessus
13 2 (0.057%) DatAdvantage
13 2 (0.057%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.028%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.028%) Host Intrusion Detection System
14 1 (0.028%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 301 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 112 (3.18%) Salesforce
3 102 (2.89%) Google
4 81 (2.30%) HubSpot
5 47 (1.33%) VMware
6 38 (1.08%) SAP
6 38 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 34 (0.96%) Dynatrace
8 33 (0.94%) Xero
9 28 (0.79%) Oracle
10 24 (0.68%) Cisco
11 23 (0.65%) Meraki
11 23 (0.65%) SolarWinds
11 23 (0.65%) YouTube
12 22 (0.62%) Red Hat
13 21 (0.60%) AppDynamics
13 21 (0.60%) Tenable
14 20 (0.57%) Sage
15 17 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
15 17 (0.48%) Pardot