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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 48 40
Rank change year-on-year +15 -8 +37
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 153 141 135
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.67% 5.01% 6.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.30% 12.74% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 106 66 115
10th Percentile £35,625 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,853 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -4.84% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,625 £87,500 £97,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud 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 1,150 1,107 935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 42.61% 39.35% 44.76%
Number of salaries quoted 600 616 810
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £45,000 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 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
Salford +10 6 £45,000 -
Altrincham -7 3 £35,000 -30.00% 5
Cheadle - 3 £50,000 -
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 7 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) Apache
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.31%) Sketch
2 1 (0.65%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.31%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.31%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.31%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 53 (34.64%) Azure
2 16 (10.46%) AWS
2 16 (10.46%) PaaS
3 14 (9.15%) Serverless
4 12 (7.84%) IaaS
5 10 (6.54%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 9 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (5.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (5.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (4.58%) OneDrive
8 7 (4.58%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.96%) OCI
11 2 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) HTTP
1 1 (0.65%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.61%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.61%) MySQL
2 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Cypress.io
1 3 (1.96%) Selenium
2 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.65%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) JMeter
2 1 (0.65%) Locust
2 1 (0.65%) Protractor
General
1 43 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.84%) Finance
3 28 (18.30%) Marketing
4 15 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.54%) Legal
7 8 (5.23%) Law
8 4 (2.61%) Retail
9 3 (1.96%) Banking
10 2 (1.31%) Billing
10 2 (1.31%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.65%) Automotive
11 1 (0.65%) French Language
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) German Language
11 1 (0.65%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (19.61%) Developer
2 24 (15.69%) Lead
3 19 (12.42%) Senior
4 14 (9.15%) Architect
5 12 (7.84%) Head of Finance
5 12 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (5.88%) .NET Developer
6 9 (5.88%) Team Leader
7 8 (5.23%) Principal Developer
7 8 (5.23%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Azure Architect
9 6 (3.92%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.27%) C# Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Sales Manager
10 5 (3.27%) Technical Support
11 4 (2.61%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.26%) .NET
2 12 (7.84%) React
2 12 (7.84%) REST
3 6 (3.92%) .NET Framework
4 4 (2.61%) Entity Framework
4 4 (2.61%) RESTful
5 3 (1.96%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.96%) CSS
5 3 (1.96%) Jest
5 3 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.31%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.31%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.31%) Blazor
6 2 (1.31%) Framer.js
6 2 (1.31%) Kafka
6 2 (1.31%) Next.js
6 2 (1.31%) Node.js
6 2 (1.31%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (0.65%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 14 (9.15%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.19%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.27%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.96%) EPoS
8 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.31%) Animation
9 2 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.65%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.65%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.31%) Android
1 2 (1.31%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.31%) Windows
1 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.14%) Agile
2 27 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (16.34%) Software Engineering
4 22 (14.38%) DevOps
5 20 (13.07%) Mentoring
6 18 (11.76%) B2B
6 18 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 18 (11.76%) Microservices
7 17 (11.11%) AI
8 16 (10.46%) Coaching
8 16 (10.46%) CRM
9 14 (9.15%) Roadmaps
10 12 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (7.19%) Clean Code
11 11 (7.19%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (7.19%) TDD
12 10 (6.54%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (6.54%) Design Patterns
13 9 (5.88%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.26%) C#
2 11 (7.19%) SQL
2 11 (7.19%) TypeScript
3 5 (3.27%) Python
4 3 (1.96%) Apex Code
4 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.31%) PHP
6 1 (0.65%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (7.84%) ACCA
1 12 (7.84%) CIMA
1 12 (7.84%) Degree
2 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.31%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.58%) GDPR
2 5 (3.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (3.27%) GLBA
2 5 (3.27%) QA
3 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (9.80%) Terraform
2 9 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (5.23%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.96%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.88%) BiZZdesign
3 7 (4.58%) New Relic
3 7 (4.58%) Splunk
4 5 (3.27%) iManage
5 4 (2.61%) Databricks
6 3 (1.96%) Oracle
6 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.31%) Google
7 2 (1.31%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.65%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.65%) Dell
8 1 (0.65%) VMware