SaaS Job Trends in London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 75 52
Rank change year-on-year +47 -23 +10
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,095 582 973
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.65% 4.10% 4.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.31% 9.27% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 758 403 770
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,277 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -4.83%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,326 6,277 9,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.42% 44.23% 45.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,097 4,203 8,003
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in London

SaaS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in London over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in London

SaaS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the London region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Central London -3 148 £75,000 - 296
West London +24 45 £40,000 -47.71% 17
South London +36 8 £80,000 +23.55% 7
East London - 2 £70,000 - 22
North London +6 1 £42,500 - 1
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.00%) JBoss
2 11 (1.00%) WebSphere
3 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.82%) WordPress
4 5 (0.46%) CMS
4 5 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.091%) Apache
5 1 (0.091%) nginx
Applications
1 48 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.46%) InDesign
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.091%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.28%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.091%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.091%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 198 (18.08%) Azure
2 180 (16.44%) AWS
3 100 (9.13%) GCP
4 69 (6.30%) PaaS
5 66 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (5.11%) Power Platform
7 44 (4.02%) IaaS
8 41 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (2.65%) Serverless
10 27 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (1.92%) Entra ID
12 18 (1.64%) GitHub
13 16 (1.46%) Datadog
13 16 (1.46%) Figma
14 15 (1.37%) AWS Direct Connect
14 15 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (1.28%) Azure Functions
15 14 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.38%) Firewall
2 36 (3.29%) VPN
3 26 (2.37%) DNS
4 24 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
5 23 (2.10%) DHCP
5 23 (2.10%) VLAN
6 18 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.55%) BGP
8 15 (1.37%) LAN
8 15 (1.37%) SD-WAN
8 15 (1.37%) WAN
9 13 (1.19%) SAN
10 11 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (1.00%) MPLS
10 11 (1.00%) OSPF
11 9 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (0.82%) IPsec
11 9 (0.82%) NetScaler
11 9 (0.82%) NX-OS
11 9 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (3.74%) Power BI
2 40 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 18 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.10%) MySQL
8 11 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.82%) Data Mining
11 8 (0.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.64%) Data Vault
12 7 (0.64%) Redis
13 6 (0.55%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.55%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.46%) Big Data
15 4 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (3.38%) TeamCity
2 12 (1.10%) Chocolatey
2 12 (1.10%) Git
2 12 (1.10%) JIRA
3 8 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.46%) Postman
5 4 (0.37%) Balsamiq
5 4 (0.37%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.37%) JMeter
6 3 (0.27%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.27%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.27%) Storybook
7 2 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.18%) Locust
7 2 (0.18%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.18%) Selenium
7 2 (0.18%) Subversion
7 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 389 (35.53%) Finance
2 288 (26.30%) Social Skills
3 186 (16.99%) Marketing
4 171 (15.62%) Law
5 162 (14.79%) Banking
6 161 (14.70%) Retail
7 127 (11.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 115 (10.50%) Legal
9 113 (10.32%) Back Office
10 107 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
11 106 (9.68%) Financial Institution
12 47 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
13 39 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (3.38%) German Language
15 27 (2.47%) Advertising
16 22 (2.01%) French Language
16 22 (2.01%) Public Sector
17 19 (1.74%) Polish Language
18 17 (1.55%) Dutch Language
19 14 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 208 (19.00%) Senior
2 93 (8.49%) Architect
2 93 (8.49%) Lead
3 62 (5.66%) Developer
4 60 (5.48%) Software Engineer
5 58 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
6 51 (4.66%) Consultant
7 41 (3.74%) Analyst
8 39 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (3.38%) Account Manager
10 34 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (3.11%) Senior Manager
11 32 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (2.83%) Account Executive
13 27 (2.47%) Java Engineer
14 26 (2.37%) Accountant
14 26 (2.37%) Sales Manager
15 25 (2.28%) Management Accountant
16 24 (2.19%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.21%) React
2 48 (4.38%) .NET
3 42 (3.84%) Node.js
4 34 (3.11%) REST
5 30 (2.74%) Middleware
6 25 (2.28%) Spring
7 22 (2.01%) RESTful
8 18 (1.64%) .NET Core
9 16 (1.46%) Hibernate
10 15 (1.37%) GraphQL
11 14 (1.28%) SOAP
11 14 (1.28%) Spring Boot
12 12 (1.10%) Next.js
13 10 (0.91%) Vue
14 9 (0.82%) Hugging Face
14 9 (0.82%) Swagger
15 8 (0.73%) PyTorch
16 7 (0.64%) NestJS
16 7 (0.64%) OpenAPI
16 7 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 98 (8.95%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.85%) Onboarding
3 48 (4.38%) Management Information System
3 48 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.56%) Social Media
5 26 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.19%) Web Conferencing
7 23 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (2.01%) Blog
9 21 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.83%) Security Posture
11 19 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
11 19 (1.74%) PropTech
12 13 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
12 13 (1.19%) Hedge funds
13 12 (1.10%) AI Agents
14 11 (1.00%) DataPower
14 11 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.74%) Windows
2 17 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.46%) Android
4 15 (1.37%) Linux
4 15 (1.37%) Unix
5 14 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.00%) VMS
7 7 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.37%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.27%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (22.74%) AI
2 158 (14.43%) Roadmaps
3 149 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
4 146 (13.33%) Fintech
5 145 (13.24%) B2B
6 139 (12.69%) Decision-Making
7 136 (12.42%) Software Engineering
8 131 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (10.96%) Analytics
10 112 (10.23%) Agile
11 98 (8.95%) DevOps
12 95 (8.68%) CI/CD
13 92 (8.40%) CRM
13 92 (8.40%) Microservices
14 89 (8.13%) Business Development
15 84 (7.67%) Mentoring
16 80 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
17 74 (6.76%) Computer Science
18 66 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
19 58 (5.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (10.05%) Python
2 87 (7.95%) SQL
3 83 (7.58%) Java
4 48 (4.38%) TypeScript
5 35 (3.20%) C#
6 32 (2.92%) PowerShell
7 25 (2.28%) JavaScript
8 23 (2.10%) Bash
9 18 (1.64%) Go
10 16 (1.46%) PHP
11 15 (1.37%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.27%) Bicep
14 2 (0.18%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.18%) R
14 2 (0.18%) Scala
14 2 (0.18%) Swift
15 1 (0.091%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.091%) Ruby
15 1 (0.091%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (12.42%) Degree
2 46 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (4.11%) ACCA
4 44 (4.02%) CIMA
5 25 (2.28%) CISSP
6 20 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 12 (1.10%) PMP
8 11 (1.00%) CCSK
8 11 (1.00%) ICAEW
8 11 (1.00%) IIBA
9 10 (0.91%) CISA
10 9 (0.82%) CRISC
10 9 (0.82%) Security Cleared
11 7 (0.64%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.37%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (2.92%) SOC 2
3 27 (2.47%) IFRS
3 27 (2.47%) PCI DSS
4 24 (2.19%) GAAP
4 24 (2.19%) QA
5 23 (2.10%) SLA
6 16 (1.46%) GDPR
7 13 (1.19%) GRC
8 10 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.82%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.64%) NIST
10 7 (0.64%) PMO
11 5 (0.46%) COBIT
11 5 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.46%) EMIR
11 5 (0.46%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.46%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.46%) MiFID
12 3 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.74%) Docker
3 12 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (7.95%) Terraform
2 77 (7.03%) Kubernetes
3 35 (3.20%) Grafana
4 28 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.19%) SCCM
7 8 (0.73%) Ansible
8 4 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.37%) Argo
8 4 (0.37%) Cilium
9 2 (0.18%) DatAdvantage
9 2 (0.18%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.091%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.091%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.091%) Puppet
10 1 (0.091%) SCOM
10 1 (0.091%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.091%) VxRail
Vendors
1 122 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.84%) Salesforce
3 47 (4.29%) Google
4 25 (2.28%) Oracle
5 24 (2.19%) SAP
6 23 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 21 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 21 (1.92%) VMware
8 18 (1.64%) Cisco
9 14 (1.28%) HubSpot
9 14 (1.28%) Meraki
9 14 (1.28%) Software AG
9 14 (1.28%) SolarWinds
10 12 (1.10%) Adobe
10 12 (1.10%) AppDynamics
10 12 (1.10%) CheckPoint
10 12 (1.10%) Tenable
11 11 (1.00%) Intapp
11 11 (1.00%) Workday
12 10 (0.91%) Databricks