SaaS Job Trends in Manchester

Software as a Service (SaaS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 94 68
Rank change year-on-year +78 -26 +8
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 441 79 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.25% 3.48% 3.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.39% 8.30% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 390 65 153
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - +2.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - £84,600 £82,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +29.31% +5.45% -4.35%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,671 952 2,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.47% 41.88% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 605 1,679
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Manchester

SaaS
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Manchester

SaaS
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Altrincham +11 7 £28,000 -39.46% 5
Stockport +6 3 £32,500 -7.14% 1
Bolton - 3 £50,000 - 2
Salford - 3 - - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 - 1
SaaS
North West

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.59%) Moodle
2 7 (1.59%) Totara
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.45%) CMS
4 2 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (10.88%) Azure
2 46 (10.43%) AWS
3 18 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (3.85%) GCP
5 15 (3.40%) PaaS
6 14 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (2.72%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.72%) Serverless
8 11 (2.49%) IaaS
9 8 (1.81%) Azure Functions
9 8 (1.81%) dbt
10 7 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.36%) Pulumi
12 5 (1.13%) Intacct
12 5 (1.13%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.91%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (0.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.49%) Firewall
2 4 (0.91%) DHCP
2 4 (0.91%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.23%) VoIP
3 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.13%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.45%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.45%) Looker
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.23%) OLAP
6 1 (0.23%) OLTP
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Power BI
6 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.95%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 97 (22.00%) Finance
2 40 (9.07%) Marketing
3 35 (7.94%) Social Skills
4 19 (4.31%) Legal
5 14 (3.17%) Retail
6 12 (2.72%) Law
7 11 (2.49%) Legal Technology
8 8 (1.81%) Billing
9 7 (1.59%) Advertising
10 6 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.13%) Automotive
12 4 (0.91%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.68%) Banking
13 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Dutch Language
14 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (19.73%) Senior
2 51 (11.56%) Lead
3 38 (8.62%) Software Engineer
4 34 (7.71%) Developer
5 30 (6.80%) Sales Manager
6 28 (6.35%) Account Executive
7 23 (5.22%) Sales Representative
7 23 (5.22%) Senior Manager
8 19 (4.31%) .NET Developer
8 19 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
9 17 (3.85%) Architect
10 15 (3.40%) Lead Developer
11 14 (3.17%) HR Manager
11 14 (3.17%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (2.95%) Java Engineer
12 13 (2.95%) Senior Java Engineer
13 12 (2.72%) Financial Controller
13 12 (2.72%) Support Technician
14 11 (2.49%) IT Support
15 10 (2.27%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.16%) .NET
2 13 (2.95%) OAuth
3 12 (2.72%) JWT
4 11 (2.49%) OpenID
5 10 (2.27%) SAML
6 8 (1.81%) Node.js
6 8 (1.81%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.59%) REST
8 6 (1.36%) React
9 4 (0.91%) JSON
10 2 (0.45%) Kafka
10 2 (0.45%) Middleware
10 2 (0.45%) NestJS
10 2 (0.45%) Playwright
10 2 (0.45%) Vue
11 1 (0.23%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
11 1 (0.23%) MACH
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.23%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.62%) Marketing Technology
2 22 (4.99%) Mobile App
3 20 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.31%) PropTech
5 14 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.59%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.13%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.13%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.91%) Learning Management System
9 4 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.45%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.45%) IoT
11 1 (0.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.23%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.23%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.49%) Windows
2 5 (1.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (11.56%) Software Engineering
2 50 (11.34%) B2B
3 44 (9.98%) AI
4 39 (8.84%) Agile
5 25 (5.67%) Analytics
6 24 (5.44%) Coaching
6 24 (5.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (5.22%) CI/CD
7 23 (5.22%) Fintech
8 21 (4.76%) Decision-Making
9 19 (4.31%) Cloud Security
10 18 (4.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (3.85%) Machine Learning
11 17 (3.85%) Mentoring
12 16 (3.63%) B2B Sales
12 16 (3.63%) Business Development
13 15 (3.40%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (2.95%) RBAC
14 13 (2.95%) Roadmaps
14 13 (2.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.58%) SQL
2 19 (4.31%) C#
3 16 (3.63%) Java
4 15 (3.40%) Python
5 11 (2.49%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.81%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.45%) Bicep
9 1 (0.23%) Bash
9 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (3.63%) ACCA
1 16 (3.63%) CIMA
2 11 (2.49%) SC Cleared
2 11 (2.49%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (0.91%) Degree
5 2 (0.45%) CISA
5 2 (0.45%) CISM
5 2 (0.45%) CISSP
5 2 (0.45%) CRISC
6 1 (0.23%) CCA
6 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.23%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.91%) GDPR
3 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.68%) QA
4 2 (0.45%) NIST
5 1 (0.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (2.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (2.72%) Terraform
2 10 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 19 (4.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.81%) HubSpot
3 7 (1.59%) Google
4 5 (1.13%) Sage
4 5 (1.13%) Ubiquiti
5 3 (0.68%) Databricks
5 3 (0.68%) New Relic
5 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.68%) Splunk
6 2 (0.45%) Cisco
6 2 (0.45%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle
6 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.45%) VMware
7 1 (0.23%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.23%) BroadSoft
7 1 (0.23%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.23%) Salesforce