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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 55 60
Rank change year-on-year +29 +5 +18
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 346 105 189
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.73% 5.03% 3.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.84% 11.72% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 294 86 162
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £48,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - £88,125 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +8.11% -6.76%

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 1,660 896 1,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.28% 42.91% 38.86%
Number of salaries quoted 966 660 1,594
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,503 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 0 8 £28,000 -44.00% 2
Bolton +18 3 £50,000 - 3
Stockport -7 3 £32,500 -33.33% 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £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 12 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.02%) Moodle
2 7 (2.02%) Totara
3 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.58%) CMS
4 2 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Sketch
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.16%) Azure
2 23 (6.65%) AWS
3 20 (5.78%) PaaS
4 19 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.62%) Entra ID
5 16 (4.62%) IaaS
5 16 (4.62%) Serverless
6 11 (3.18%) Azure Functions
7 10 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
7 10 (2.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (2.89%) OneDrive
8 8 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.31%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.45%) GCP
10 5 (1.45%) Intacct
11 4 (1.16%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.60%) Firewall
2 4 (1.16%) DHCP
2 4 (1.16%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.45%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.16%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.58%) MySQL
5 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.29%) Looker
5 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (2.89%) Claude Code
2 4 (1.16%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.58%) JIRA
4 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 80 (23.12%) Finance
2 38 (10.98%) Social Skills
3 30 (8.67%) Marketing
4 17 (4.91%) Legal
5 12 (3.47%) Law
6 10 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.31%) Retail
8 6 (1.73%) Advertising
9 3 (0.87%) Automotive
9 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.58%) Dutch Language
10 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Billing
11 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 73 (21.10%) Senior
2 46 (13.29%) Lead
3 37 (10.69%) Developer
4 27 (7.80%) Software Engineer
5 25 (7.23%) Sales Manager
6 23 (6.65%) Sales Representative
7 19 (5.49%) .NET Developer
8 16 (4.62%) Account Executive
8 16 (4.62%) Lead Developer
9 14 (4.05%) Senior Manager
10 13 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (3.47%) Architect
11 12 (3.47%) Support Technician
12 10 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (2.89%) IT Support
12 10 (2.89%) IT Technician
12 10 (2.89%) Java Engineer
12 10 (2.89%) Senior Java Engineer
12 10 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.60%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.27%) .NET
2 10 (2.89%) React
2 10 (2.89%) REST
3 5 (1.45%) Node.js
4 4 (1.16%) JSON
5 3 (0.87%) OAuth
6 2 (0.58%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.58%) JWT
6 2 (0.58%) Middleware
6 2 (0.58%) NestJS
6 2 (0.58%) Next.js
6 2 (0.58%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.58%) OpenID
6 2 (0.58%) Playwright
7 1 (0.29%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.29%) Jest
7 1 (0.29%) MACH
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.12%) Marketing Technology
2 23 (6.65%) Mobile App
3 16 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (4.34%) PropTech
5 13 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.18%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.31%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.16%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.29%) Animation
12 1 (0.29%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.29%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.29%) Replication
12 1 (0.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.18%) Windows
2 5 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (13.29%) Software Engineering
2 45 (13.01%) Agile
3 38 (10.98%) B2B
4 28 (8.09%) AI
5 22 (6.36%) Coaching
5 22 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (4.91%) Analytics
7 16 (4.62%) CI/CD
7 16 (4.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (4.34%) Mentoring
9 14 (4.05%) DevOps
10 13 (3.76%) Change Management
10 13 (3.76%) Roadmaps
11 12 (3.47%) Microservices
11 12 (3.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (3.18%) Data Science
12 11 (3.18%) Design Patterns
12 11 (3.18%) SOLID
12 11 (3.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.80%) C#
2 24 (6.94%) SQL
3 14 (4.05%) Python
4 13 (3.76%) Java
5 10 (2.89%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.73%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.45%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.58%) Bicep
8 2 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (3.47%) ACCA
1 12 (3.47%) CIMA
2 9 (2.60%) SC Cleared
2 9 (2.60%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.02%) Azure Certification
3 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.87%) Degree
5 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
5 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (0.87%) QA
3 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) Docker
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.18%) Terraform
3 10 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.58%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 22 (6.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.31%) New Relic
2 8 (2.31%) Splunk
3 5 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (1.45%) Databricks
3 5 (1.45%) Google
3 5 (1.45%) Sage
3 5 (1.45%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (1.16%) HubSpot
5 3 (0.87%) VMware
6 2 (0.58%) Cisco
6 2 (0.58%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.29%) Dell
7 1 (0.29%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle
7 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow