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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 87 69
Rank change year-on-year +71 -18 +7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 449 83 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.33% 3.64% 3.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.58% 8.77% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 399 67 152
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,125 £71,250
90th Percentile - £83,150 £82,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £58,000 £55,250
% change year-on-year +29.31% +4.98% -3.91%

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 1,689 946 2,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.56% 41.51% 36.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 604 1,694
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,813 £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 19 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 19 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 +12 8 £28,000 -39.46% 3
Stockport +6 3 £32,500 -7.14% 2
Bolton - 3 £50,000 - 1
Salford - 3 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
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 (1.56%) Moodle
1 7 (1.56%) Totara
2 6 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.45%) CMS
4 2 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (11.14%) AWS
2 47 (10.47%) Azure
3 18 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (3.79%) GCP
5 15 (3.34%) PaaS
6 14 (3.12%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (2.67%) Serverless
8 11 (2.45%) IaaS
9 10 (2.23%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.78%) Azure Functions
10 8 (1.78%) dbt
11 7 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.34%) Pulumi
13 5 (1.11%) Intacct
14 4 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (0.89%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.89%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.45%) Firewall
2 4 (0.89%) DHCP
2 4 (0.89%) DNS
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) VoIP
3 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.45%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.45%) Looker
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.22%) OLAP
6 1 (0.22%) OLTP
6 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.22%) Power BI
6 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.90%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 98 (21.83%) Finance
2 40 (8.91%) Marketing
3 36 (8.02%) Social Skills
4 17 (3.79%) Legal
5 14 (3.12%) Retail
6 10 (2.23%) Law
7 9 (2.00%) Legal Technology
8 8 (1.78%) Billing
9 7 (1.56%) Advertising
9 7 (1.56%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.11%) Automotive
11 5 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Banking
13 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Dutch Language
14 2 (0.45%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (19.60%) Senior
2 51 (11.36%) Lead
3 40 (8.91%) Software Engineer
4 33 (7.35%) Developer
5 30 (6.68%) Sales Manager
6 27 (6.01%) Account Executive
7 23 (5.12%) Sales Representative
7 23 (5.12%) Senior Manager
8 20 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (4.23%) .NET Developer
10 17 (3.79%) Architect
11 15 (3.34%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (3.12%) HR Manager
12 14 (3.12%) Java Engineer
12 14 (3.12%) Lead Developer
13 13 (2.90%) Senior Java Engineer
14 12 (2.67%) Financial Controller
14 12 (2.67%) Support Technician
15 11 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (2.45%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.02%) .NET
2 13 (2.90%) OAuth
3 12 (2.67%) JWT
4 11 (2.45%) OpenID
5 10 (2.23%) SAML
6 8 (1.78%) Node.js
6 8 (1.78%) OAuth2
6 8 (1.78%) REST
7 5 (1.11%) React
8 4 (0.89%) JSON
9 2 (0.45%) Kafka
9 2 (0.45%) Middleware
9 2 (0.45%) NestJS
9 2 (0.45%) Playwright
9 2 (0.45%) Vue
10 1 (0.22%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.22%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.22%) MACH
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.22%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.46%) Marketing Technology
2 23 (5.12%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.90%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.23%) PropTech
5 14 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.56%) e-Learning
6 7 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.11%) AI Agents
8 4 (0.89%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.89%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.67%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.45%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.45%) IoT
10 2 (0.45%) IVR
11 1 (0.22%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.45%) Windows
2 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (11.58%) B2B
1 52 (11.58%) Software Engineering
2 45 (10.02%) AI
3 40 (8.91%) Agile
4 27 (6.01%) Analytics
5 26 (5.79%) CI/CD
6 25 (5.57%) Coaching
7 24 (5.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (5.35%) Fintech
8 22 (4.90%) Decision-Making
9 21 (4.68%) Cloud Security
10 19 (4.23%) Machine Learning
11 17 (3.79%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (3.79%) Mentoring
11 17 (3.79%) Roadmaps
12 16 (3.56%) B2B Sales
12 16 (3.56%) Business Development
13 14 (3.12%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (2.90%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (2.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.46%) SQL
2 18 (4.01%) C#
3 17 (3.79%) Java
4 15 (3.34%) Python
5 12 (2.67%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.78%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.34%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.45%) Bicep
9 1 (0.22%) Bash
9 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (3.56%) ACCA
1 16 (3.56%) CIMA
2 11 (2.45%) SC Cleared
2 11 (2.45%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.56%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (0.89%) Degree
5 3 (0.67%) CISA
5 3 (0.67%) CISM
5 3 (0.67%) CISSP
5 3 (0.67%) CRISC
6 1 (0.22%) CCA
6 1 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.22%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.56%) GDPR
3 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.67%) NIST
4 3 (0.67%) QA
5 1 (0.22%) PMO
5 1 (0.22%) SLA
5 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.23%) Terraform
2 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.56%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 18 (4.01%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.78%) Google
2 8 (1.78%) HubSpot
3 5 (1.11%) Sage
3 5 (1.11%) Ubiquiti
4 3 (0.67%) Databricks
4 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.45%) Cisco
5 2 (0.45%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle
5 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.45%) VMware
6 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.22%) BroadSoft
6 1 (0.22%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.22%) New Relic
6 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.22%) Splunk