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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 79 74
Rank change year-on-year +62 -5 -24
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 482 94 135
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.92% 3.79% 3.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.44% 10.04% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 411 71 89
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -3.40%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £88,750 £77,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - +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 1,895 936 1,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.19% 37.71% 36.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,467 612 1,108
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,550 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 £47,500 +2.70% 1
Salford -14 5 - -
Stockport - 5 £57,500 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
Sale - 2 £62,500 - 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 5 (1.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.41%) CMS
2 2 (0.41%) Confluence
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.21%) Apache
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.21%) Moodle
3 1 (0.21%) Totara
3 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 82 (17.01%) AWS
2 42 (8.71%) Azure
3 21 (4.36%) Serverless
4 19 (3.94%) GCP
4 19 (3.94%) PaaS
5 15 (3.11%) IaaS
5 15 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (2.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 11 (2.28%) Datadog
8 11 (2.28%) Route 53
9 9 (1.87%) dbt
10 7 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.24%) Twilio
12 5 (1.04%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.04%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.04%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.04%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.24%) Firewall
2 4 (0.83%) Network Security
3 3 (0.62%) DHCP
3 3 (0.62%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.21%) SNMP
4 1 (0.21%) VoIP
4 1 (0.21%) WAN
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.87%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.04%) Redis
4 4 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (0.83%) Data Mining
4 4 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.41%) Looker
6 2 (0.41%) MySQL
6 2 (0.41%) OLAP
6 2 (0.41%) OLTP
6 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.41%) Power BI
6 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.21%) Metabase
7 1 (0.21%) OLAP Cube
7 1 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (2.49%) Claude Code
2 7 (1.45%) JIRA
3 4 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (0.83%) Git
General
1 80 (16.60%) Finance
2 39 (8.09%) Social Skills
3 38 (7.88%) Marketing
4 27 (5.60%) Retail
5 20 (4.15%) Legal
6 16 (3.32%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.28%) Aviation
8 7 (1.45%) Advertising
8 7 (1.45%) Billing
9 6 (1.24%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.04%) Automotive
10 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.41%) Banking
13 2 (0.41%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 67 (13.90%) Lead
1 67 (13.90%) Senior
2 46 (9.54%) Software Engineer
3 31 (6.43%) Developer
4 27 (5.60%) Architect
4 27 (5.60%) Sales Manager
5 25 (5.19%) Account Executive
6 24 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
7 22 (4.56%) Sales Representative
8 18 (3.73%) Lead Software Engineer
9 16 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (3.11%) Consultant
10 15 (3.11%) Senior Manager
11 14 (2.90%) HR Manager
11 14 (2.90%) Lead Developer
12 13 (2.70%) .NET Developer
12 13 (2.70%) Financial Controller
12 13 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (2.70%) Technical Engineer
13 12 (2.49%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.22%) .NET
2 19 (3.94%) Node.js
3 14 (2.90%) OAuth
4 12 (2.49%) JWT
5 11 (2.28%) OpenID
5 11 (2.28%) SAML
5 11 (2.28%) Terraform
6 9 (1.87%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.66%) REST
8 6 (1.24%) Pulumi
9 5 (1.04%) Vue
10 4 (0.83%) JSON
10 4 (0.83%) NestJS
11 3 (0.62%) React
12 2 (0.41%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.41%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.41%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.41%) Kafka
12 2 (0.41%) Playwright
12 2 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.92%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.02%) Marketing Technology
3 15 (3.11%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.90%) PropTech
5 12 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.87%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.83%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.83%) IVR
9 4 (0.83%) NHS
9 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.62%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.62%) FMCG
10 3 (0.62%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.41%) IoT
11 2 (0.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.45%) Windows
2 6 (1.24%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.41%) Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (14.94%) Software Engineering
2 64 (13.28%) AI
3 50 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 47 (9.75%) B2B
5 39 (8.09%) Agile
6 36 (7.47%) Roadmaps
7 33 (6.85%) Analytics
8 31 (6.43%) Decision-Making
9 30 (6.22%) Mentoring
10 28 (5.81%) CI/CD
11 27 (5.60%) Cloud Security
11 27 (5.60%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (5.39%) Business Development
13 25 (5.19%) Machine Learning
13 25 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (4.98%) Coaching
14 24 (4.98%) Fintech
15 22 (4.56%) Collaborative Culture
15 22 (4.56%) DevOps
16 21 (4.36%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 32 (6.64%) SQL
2 23 (4.77%) Python
3 21 (4.36%) TypeScript
4 18 (3.73%) Java
5 16 (3.32%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.70%) C#
7 5 (1.04%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.41%) ABAP
8 2 (0.41%) Bicep
8 2 (0.41%) C++
9 1 (0.21%) Bash
9 1 (0.21%) PHP
9 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (4.15%) ACCA
1 20 (4.15%) CIMA
2 7 (1.45%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.24%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.04%) Degree
5 4 (0.83%) CISA
5 4 (0.83%) CISM
5 4 (0.83%) CISSP
5 4 (0.83%) CRISC
6 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.21%) CCA
8 1 (0.21%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.07%) GDPR
3 9 (1.87%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.87%) QA
4 5 (1.04%) PMO
5 4 (0.83%) NIST
6 3 (0.62%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.83%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (3.73%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.49%) Google
3 9 (1.87%) HubSpot
4 3 (0.62%) SAP
4 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow
4 3 (0.62%) VMware
5 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.41%) Cisco
5 2 (0.41%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle
5 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.41%) YouTube
6 1 (0.21%) BroadSoft
6 1 (0.21%) Epicor
6 1 (0.21%) iManage
6 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.21%) Sage
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.21%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.21%) Trend Micro