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 citing SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 24 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 29 | 43 | 55 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +14 | +12 | -2 |
| Permanent jobs citing SaaS | 382 | 124 | 140 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester | 4.90% | 5.39% | 3.74% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 20.02% | 14.69% | 10.86% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 296 | 90 | 61 |
| 10th Percentile | £40,000 | £34,750 | £36,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £51,250 | £50,125 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £72,500 | £70,000 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +3.57% | +16.67% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £97,500 | £80,000 | £72,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £90,125 | £77,500 |
| North West median annual salary | £67,500 | £60,000 | £60,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +12.50% | - | - |
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 citing cloud computing skills in Manchester.
| 6 months to 24 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills | 1,908 | 844 | 1,289 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester | 24.45% | 36.71% | 34.47% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 1,394 | 571 | 723 |
| 10th Percentile | £36,250 | £29,500 | £35,150 |
| 25th Percentile | £49,000 | £40,000 | £45,375 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £65,000 | £60,000 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +8.33% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £80,000 | £75,000 | £72,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £87,500 | £84,000 |
| North West median annual salary | £60,000 | £57,500 | £55,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +4.35% | +4.55% | -4.35% |
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 Salary Trend in Manchester
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 24 October 2026.
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 24 October 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Salary Past 6 Months |
Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altrincham | +9 | 7 | £47,500 | -5.00% | 1 |
| Salford | -23 | 5 | - | - | 5 |
| Stockport | - | 2 | £70,000 | - | 4 |
| Sale | - | 2 | £62,500 | - | |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | - | 1 | £42,500 | - | |
| Bolton | - | 1 | - | - | 7 |
| SaaS North West |
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SaaS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 21.2% | 81 |
| 2 | Azure | 9.9% | 38 |
| 3 | GCP | 4.2% | 16 |
| 4 | AWS Lambda | 3.9% | 15 |
| 4 | Microsoft 365 | 3.9% | 15 |
| 4 | Serverless | 3.9% | 15 |
| 7 | Datadog | 3.4% | 13 |
| 7 | Route 53 | 3.4% | 13 |
| 9 | IaaS | 2.9% | 11 |
| 10 | Entra ID | 2.4% | 9 |
| 10 | PaaS | 2.4% | 9 |
| 12 | Power Platform | 2.1% | 8 |
| 13 | Azure DevOps | 1.6% | 6 |
| 13 | Twilio | 1.6% | 6 |
| 15 | Anthropic Claude | 1.3% | 5 |
| 15 | dbt | 1.3% | 5 |
| 15 | Google Workspace | 1.3% | 5 |
| 18 | Mimecast | 1.0% | 4 |
| 19 | Amazon S3 | 0.8% | 3 |
| 19 | AWS CloudFormation | 0.8% | 3 |