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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 84 67
Rank change year-on-year +68 -17 +8
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 429 82 193
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.20% 3.62% 3.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.48% 8.58% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 379 69 157
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £40,750
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% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £58,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +29.31% +4.50% -3.48%

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 1,620 956 2,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.20% 42.15% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 609 1,655
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £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 £71,991
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 10 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 10 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 +10 7 £28,000 -39.46% 5
Stockport +4 3 £32,500 -7.14% 1
Bolton - 3 £50,000 - 2
Salford - 2 - - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 - 2
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 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.63%) Moodle
2 7 (1.63%) Totara
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.47%) CMS
4 2 (0.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (11.19%) Azure
2 43 (10.02%) AWS
3 17 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (3.73%) GCP
5 15 (3.50%) PaaS
6 13 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (2.80%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.80%) Serverless
8 11 (2.56%) IaaS
9 8 (1.86%) Azure Functions
9 8 (1.86%) dbt
10 7 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.40%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.40%) Pulumi
12 5 (1.17%) Intacct
12 5 (1.17%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.10%) Firewall
2 4 (0.93%) DHCP
2 4 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.17%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.47%) Looker
5 2 (0.47%) 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 (3.03%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 96 (22.38%) Finance
2 38 (8.86%) Marketing
3 35 (8.16%) Social Skills
4 18 (4.20%) Legal
5 12 (2.80%) Law
5 12 (2.80%) Retail
6 7 (1.63%) Advertising
6 7 (1.63%) Billing
6 7 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.17%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.17%) Automotive
8 4 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.70%) Banking
9 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.70%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.47%) Dutch Language
10 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 88 (20.51%) Senior
2 50 (11.66%) Lead
3 38 (8.86%) Software Engineer
4 35 (8.16%) Developer
5 29 (6.76%) Sales Manager
6 25 (5.83%) Account Executive
7 23 (5.36%) Sales Representative
8 22 (5.13%) Senior Manager
9 20 (4.66%) .NET Developer
10 19 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (4.20%) Architect
12 15 (3.50%) Lead Developer
13 14 (3.26%) HR Manager
13 14 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
14 13 (3.03%) Java Engineer
14 13 (3.03%) Senior Java Engineer
15 12 (2.80%) Financial Controller
15 12 (2.80%) Support Technician
16 11 (2.56%) IT Support
17 10 (2.33%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.62%) .NET
2 13 (3.03%) OAuth
3 12 (2.80%) JWT
4 11 (2.56%) OpenID
5 10 (2.33%) SAML
6 8 (1.86%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.63%) Node.js
7 7 (1.63%) REST
8 6 (1.40%) React
9 4 (0.93%) JSON
10 2 (0.47%) Kafka
10 2 (0.47%) Middleware
10 2 (0.47%) NestJS
10 2 (0.47%) Playwright
10 2 (0.47%) 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 (8.86%) Marketing Technology
2 23 (5.36%) Mobile App
3 19 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.43%) PropTech
4 13 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.63%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.17%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.17%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.93%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.47%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.23%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.23%) IVR
11 1 (0.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.33%) Windows
2 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (12.12%) Software Engineering
2 47 (10.96%) B2B
3 43 (10.02%) AI
4 40 (9.32%) Agile
5 24 (5.59%) Analytics
6 23 (5.36%) CI/CD
6 23 (5.36%) Coaching
7 22 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (4.90%) Fintech
9 19 (4.43%) Decision-Making
10 17 (3.96%) Cloud Security
10 17 (3.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (3.96%) Machine Learning
10 17 (3.96%) Mentoring
10 17 (3.96%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (3.26%) Business Development
11 14 (3.26%) RBAC
12 13 (3.03%) B2B Sales
12 13 (3.03%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (2.80%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.76%) SQL
2 19 (4.43%) C#
3 16 (3.73%) Java
4 15 (3.50%) Python
5 10 (2.33%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.86%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.40%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.47%) Bicep
9 1 (0.23%) Bash
9 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (3.26%) ACCA
1 14 (3.26%) CIMA
2 11 (2.56%) SC Cleared
2 11 (2.56%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.63%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (0.93%) Degree
5 1 (0.23%) CCA
5 1 (0.23%) CISA
5 1 (0.23%) CISM
5 1 (0.23%) CISSP
5 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.23%) CRISC
5 1 (0.23%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (0.70%) GDPR
2 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.70%) QA
3 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.23%) NIST
4 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (2.80%) Terraform
2 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.40%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 19 (4.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.86%) HubSpot
3 5 (1.17%) Google
3 5 (1.17%) Sage
3 5 (1.17%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (0.93%) New Relic
4 4 (0.93%) Splunk
5 3 (0.70%) Databricks
5 3 (0.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco
6 2 (0.47%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle
6 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.47%) VMware
7 1 (0.23%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.23%) BroadSoft
7 1 (0.23%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.23%) Salesforce