SaaS Job Trends in Essex

Software as a Service (SaaS)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 54 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +20
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 14 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.95% 1.10% 1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.86% 4.09% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 5
10th Percentile - £29,850 £33,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -4.49% -34.07%
75th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £46,750
90th Percentile £61,750 £45,250 -
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +30.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 288 171 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 19.49% 26.97% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 215 134 79
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% +3.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £64,625 £70,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.95% -6.50% -

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Essex

SaaS
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Essex over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Essex

SaaS
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Essex region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Ongar - 4 £37,500 -
Brentwood - 3 £31,000 -
Chelmsford - 3 £55,000 - 1
Colchester -16 1 £90,000 +100.00%
Harlow - 1 £55,000 - 2
SaaS
East of England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Google Workspace
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Marketing
3 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Business Development Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Business Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Development Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Head of Marketing
2 3 (21.43%) Head of Sales
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Support
4 1 (7.14%) Business Development Executive
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Graduate
4 1 (7.14%) Graduate
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) JSON
1 3 (21.43%) OAuth
1 3 (21.43%) REST
1 3 (21.43%) SOAP
1 3 (21.43%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Driving Licence
2 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (21.43%) EPoS
3 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) B2B
1 7 (50.00%) CRM
1 7 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (35.71%) B2B Sales
2 5 (35.71%) Business Development
3 4 (28.57%) Lead Generation
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) API Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Fintech
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Ticket Management
5 2 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (14.29%) AI
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.14%) Observability
6 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Adobe
1 4 (28.57%) Google
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) Sophos
2 3 (21.43%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) HubSpot
4 1 (7.14%) SGI