SaaS Job Trends in Leicestershire

Software as a Service (SaaS)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -19
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 16 32 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 3.52% 4.81% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.91% 18.08% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 15 30 7
10th Percentile £26,250 - £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £34,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +69.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £62,500
90th Percentile £76,750 - £70,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -15.38%

All Cloud Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 115 177 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 25.33% 26.62% 44.13%
Number of salaries quoted 103 122 157
10th Percentile £26,050 £31,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £31,875 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,500 £72,125 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +4.76%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

SaaS
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Leicestershire

SaaS
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Leicester 0 6 £72,500 +20.83% 6
SaaS
East Midlands

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) iPaaS
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) DHCP
2 6 (37.50%) SAN
2 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (37.50%) VLAN
3 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Looker
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Law
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) IT Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) IT Support
2 5 (31.25%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Sales Representative
4 2 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Clustering
1 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
1 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) B2B
3 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Business Development
4 3 (18.75%) CRM
4 3 (18.75%) Lead Generation
4 3 (18.75%) People Management
4 3 (18.75%) Telesales
5 2 (12.50%) AI
5 2 (12.50%) Coaching
5 2 (12.50%) Line Management
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) C#
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Veeam
3 2 (12.50%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Meraki