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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 83 75
Rank change year-on-year +67 -8 -24
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 488 90 140
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.20% 3.60% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.72% 9.48% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 423 67 98
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £40,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% +0.80%
75th Percentile £100,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile - £89,250 £78,250
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 1,897 949 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.00% 37.99% 37.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,476 619 1,176
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,756 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% -2.61%

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 7 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 7 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 +12 6 £35,500 -23.24% 2
Salford -12 5 - - 1
Stockport - 4 £45,000 - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
Bolton - 1 £50,000 - 3
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 4 (0.82%) Moodle
1 4 (0.82%) Totara
2 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.41%) CMS
3 2 (0.41%) Confluence
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 73 (14.96%) AWS
2 39 (7.99%) Azure
3 18 (3.69%) GCP
3 18 (3.69%) PaaS
4 17 (3.48%) Serverless
5 16 (3.28%) IaaS
6 15 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (2.66%) Anthropic Claude
8 10 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.64%) dbt
10 7 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.43%) Datadog
10 7 (1.43%) Route 53
11 6 (1.23%) Pulumi
11 6 (1.23%) Twilio
12 5 (1.02%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.02%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.02%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.02%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.64%) Firewall
2 4 (0.82%) Network Security
3 3 (0.61%) DHCP
3 3 (0.61%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.20%) SNMP
4 1 (0.20%) VoIP
4 1 (0.20%) WAN
4 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.84%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.02%) Redis
3 4 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (0.82%) Data Mining
3 4 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.41%) Looker
4 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.20%) MySQL
5 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.20%) OLAP
5 1 (0.20%) OLTP
5 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (2.46%) Claude Code
2 6 (1.23%) JIRA
3 4 (0.82%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.41%) Git
General
1 91 (18.65%) Finance
2 37 (7.58%) Marketing
3 36 (7.38%) Social Skills
4 24 (4.92%) Retail
5 17 (3.48%) Legal
6 14 (2.87%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.43%) Advertising
7 7 (1.43%) Aviation
7 7 (1.43%) Billing
8 6 (1.23%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.02%) Automotive
9 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Banking
12 2 (0.41%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.41%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 67 (13.73%) Senior
2 63 (12.91%) Lead
3 45 (9.22%) Software Engineer
4 33 (6.76%) Sales Manager
5 29 (5.94%) Account Executive
6 27 (5.53%) Developer
7 25 (5.12%) Sales Representative
8 23 (4.71%) Architect
8 23 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (3.69%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (3.07%) Senior Manager
11 14 (2.87%) HR Manager
12 13 (2.66%) .NET Developer
12 13 (2.66%) Financial Controller
12 13 (2.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (2.66%) Technical Engineer
13 12 (2.46%) Lead Developer
13 12 (2.46%) Security Engineer
13 12 (2.46%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.74%) .NET
2 19 (3.89%) Node.js
3 14 (2.87%) OAuth
4 12 (2.46%) JWT
5 11 (2.25%) OpenID
5 11 (2.25%) SAML
6 9 (1.84%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.43%) REST
8 5 (1.02%) Vue
9 4 (0.82%) JSON
9 4 (0.82%) NestJS
10 3 (0.61%) React
11 2 (0.41%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.41%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.41%) Kafka
11 2 (0.41%) Playwright
12 1 (0.20%) ASP.NET Core
12 1 (0.20%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Graph
12 1 (0.20%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.76%) Marketing Technology
3 19 (3.89%) PropTech
4 15 (3.07%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.64%) Educational Technology
8 6 (1.23%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.02%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.82%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.82%) e-Learning
10 4 (0.82%) IVR
10 4 (0.82%) NHS
10 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.61%) FMCG
11 3 (0.61%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.84%) Windows
2 6 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.41%) Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (13.32%) Software Engineering
2 59 (12.09%) AI
3 48 (9.84%) B2B
4 42 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (7.58%) Agile
6 33 (6.76%) Analytics
7 31 (6.35%) Decision-Making
8 28 (5.74%) Roadmaps
9 27 (5.53%) CI/CD
10 25 (5.12%) Cloud Security
10 25 (5.12%) Machine Learning
11 24 (4.92%) Business Development
11 24 (4.92%) Fintech
11 24 (4.92%) Mentoring
12 22 (4.51%) Coaching
13 21 (4.30%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (4.10%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (3.89%) DevOps
15 19 (3.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (3.69%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.33%) SQL
2 20 (4.10%) TypeScript
3 18 (3.69%) Python
4 16 (3.28%) Java
5 13 (2.66%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.46%) C#
7 4 (0.82%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.41%) Bicep
9 1 (0.20%) Bash
9 1 (0.20%) C++
9 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (4.10%) ACCA
1 20 (4.10%) CIMA
2 8 (1.64%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.43%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.02%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.02%) Degree
5 4 (0.82%) CISA
5 4 (0.82%) CISM
5 4 (0.82%) CISSP
5 4 (0.82%) CRISC
5 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.20%) CCA
7 1 (0.20%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.05%) GDPR
3 9 (1.84%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.43%) QA
5 4 (0.82%) NIST
5 4 (0.82%) PMO
6 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.61%) Docker
2 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.25%) Terraform
2 10 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 16 (3.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.46%) Google
3 9 (1.84%) HubSpot
4 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow
4 3 (0.61%) 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%) Sage
5 2 (0.41%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (0.20%) Aderant
6 1 (0.20%) BroadSoft
6 1 (0.20%) Epicor
6 1 (0.20%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.20%) iManage
6 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.20%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.20%) SolarWinds