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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 52 60
Rank change year-on-year +27 +8 +24
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 339 103 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.77% 5.01% 3.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.77% 11.39% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 287 84 158
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,563
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 £77,813 £73,750
90th Percentile - £88,375 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,250
% change year-on-year +16.67% +8.60% -7.55%

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 1,632 904 1,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.57% 43.99% 38.97%
Number of salaries quoted 942 669 1,587
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £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 £97,500 £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 20 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 20 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 -2 8 £28,000 -44.00% 2
Bolton +19 3 £50,000 - 3
Stockport -6 3 £32,500 -33.33% 3
Salford -14 1 £70,079 - 1
Cheadle - 1 £50,000 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £42,500 - 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 12 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.06%) Moodle
2 7 (2.06%) Totara
3 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.59%) CMS
4 2 (0.59%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.59%) Sketch
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (15.04%) Azure
2 23 (6.78%) AWS
3 21 (6.19%) PaaS
4 18 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (5.01%) Serverless
6 16 (4.72%) Entra ID
6 16 (4.72%) IaaS
7 13 (3.83%) Azure Functions
8 12 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (3.54%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (2.95%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.65%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (2.36%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.47%) dbt
13 5 (1.47%) GCP
13 5 (1.47%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.36%) Firewall
2 3 (0.88%) DHCP
2 3 (0.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.47%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.59%) MySQL
5 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.29%) Looker
5 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (2.65%) Claude Code
2 4 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.59%) JIRA
4 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.29%) JMeter
4 1 (0.29%) Locust
4 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 77 (22.71%) Finance
2 37 (10.91%) Social Skills
3 30 (8.85%) Marketing
4 18 (5.31%) Legal
5 12 (3.54%) Law
6 11 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.06%) Retail
9 6 (1.77%) Advertising
10 3 (0.88%) Automotive
10 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.59%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.59%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.29%) French Language
12 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 70 (20.65%) Senior
2 48 (14.16%) Lead
3 36 (10.62%) Developer
4 25 (7.37%) Sales Manager
5 24 (7.08%) Sales Representative
5 24 (7.08%) Software Engineer
6 18 (5.31%) .NET Developer
7 16 (4.72%) Lead Developer
8 14 (4.13%) Senior Manager
9 13 (3.83%) Account Executive
10 12 (3.54%) Architect
10 12 (3.54%) Support Technician
11 11 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.95%) IT Support
12 10 (2.95%) IT Technician
13 9 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (2.65%) Java Engineer
13 9 (2.65%) Senior .NET Developer
13 9 (2.65%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.80%) .NET
2 13 (3.83%) React
3 12 (3.54%) REST
4 5 (1.47%) Node.js
5 4 (1.18%) JSON
6 3 (0.88%) Next.js
6 3 (0.88%) OAuth
7 2 (0.59%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.59%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.59%) CSS
7 2 (0.59%) Framer.js
7 2 (0.59%) Jest
7 2 (0.59%) JWT
7 2 (0.59%) Middleware
7 2 (0.59%) NestJS
7 2 (0.59%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.59%) OpenID
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.59%) Playwright
8 1 (0.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.73%) Marketing Technology
2 24 (7.08%) Mobile App
3 16 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.54%) PropTech
6 11 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.95%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.36%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.77%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.18%) Learning Management System
13 2 (0.59%) Animation
13 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.29%) Educational Technology
14 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.29%) EPoS
14 1 (0.29%) Renewable Energy
14 1 (0.29%) Replication
14 1 (0.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.95%) Windows
2 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (14.45%) Agile
2 44 (12.98%) Software Engineering
3 39 (11.50%) B2B
4 28 (8.26%) AI
5 25 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (6.78%) Coaching
6 23 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (5.60%) CI/CD
8 17 (5.01%) Analytics
8 17 (5.01%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (4.72%) Mentoring
10 15 (4.42%) DevOps
10 15 (4.42%) Roadmaps
11 13 (3.83%) Change Management
11 13 (3.83%) Microservices
11 13 (3.83%) SOLID
11 13 (3.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (3.54%) Design Patterns
12 12 (3.54%) TDD
13 11 (3.24%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 30 (8.85%) C#
2 22 (6.49%) SQL
3 13 (3.83%) Java
3 13 (3.83%) Python
4 12 (3.54%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.18%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.59%) PHP
8 1 (0.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (3.24%) ACCA
1 11 (3.24%) CIMA
2 9 (2.65%) SC Cleared
2 9 (2.65%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.77%) Azure Certification
3 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.18%) Degree
5 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.18%) QA
3 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (5.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.54%) Terraform
3 10 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.88%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 22 (6.49%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.36%) New Relic
2 8 (2.36%) Splunk
3 5 (1.47%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (1.47%) Databricks
3 5 (1.47%) Google
3 5 (1.47%) Sage
3 5 (1.47%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (1.18%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle
5 2 (0.59%) VMware
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco
6 1 (0.29%) Dell
6 1 (0.29%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.29%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.29%) Salesforce