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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 67 61
Rank change year-on-year +49 -6 +21
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 367 101 188
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.89% 4.67% 3.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.77% 10.74% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 319 87 158
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £47,365 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -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 1,686 940 1,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 31.64% 43.42% 38.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 647 1,601
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 £97,511 £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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +4 8 £28,000 -39.46% 5
Stockport -5 3 £32,500 -33.33% 1
Bolton - 3 £50,000 - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £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 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.91%) Moodle
2 7 (1.91%) Totara
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.54%) CMS
4 2 (0.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.62%) Azure
2 27 (7.36%) AWS
3 19 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (5.18%) PaaS
4 16 (4.36%) Entra ID
5 15 (4.09%) IaaS
5 15 (4.09%) Serverless
6 12 (3.27%) Anthropic Claude
7 11 (3.00%) Azure Functions
8 10 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (2.72%) OneDrive
9 8 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (2.18%) GCP
9 8 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (2.18%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.36%) dbt
11 5 (1.36%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.45%) Firewall
2 4 (1.09%) DHCP
2 4 (1.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.54%) Looker
4 2 (0.54%) MySQL
5 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.27%) Claude Code
2 4 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.54%) JIRA
4 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 87 (23.71%) Finance
2 38 (10.35%) Social Skills
3 33 (8.99%) Marketing
4 18 (4.90%) Legal
5 12 (3.27%) Law
6 9 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.45%) Retail
7 8 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.91%) Advertising
9 4 (1.09%) Automotive
9 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.54%) Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Billing
11 2 (0.54%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.27%) Local Government
12 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 76 (20.71%) Senior
2 48 (13.08%) Lead
3 38 (10.35%) Developer
4 30 (8.17%) Software Engineer
5 25 (6.81%) Sales Manager
6 22 (5.99%) Sales Representative
7 21 (5.72%) .NET Developer
8 17 (4.63%) Account Executive
9 15 (4.09%) Lead Developer
9 15 (4.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (3.81%) Senior Manager
11 12 (3.27%) Architect
11 12 (3.27%) Java Engineer
11 12 (3.27%) Senior Java Engineer
11 12 (3.27%) Support Technician
12 11 (3.00%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (2.72%) IT Support
13 10 (2.72%) Principal Developer
13 10 (2.72%) Senior .NET Developer
13 10 (2.72%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.90%) .NET
2 10 (2.72%) REST
3 8 (2.18%) React
4 5 (1.36%) Node.js
4 5 (1.36%) OAuth
5 4 (1.09%) JSON
5 4 (1.09%) JWT
5 4 (1.09%) OpenID
6 3 (0.82%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.82%) SAML
7 2 (0.54%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.54%) Middleware
7 2 (0.54%) NestJS
7 2 (0.54%) Playwright
8 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.27%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.27%) Kafka
8 1 (0.27%) MACH
8 1 (0.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.35%) Marketing Technology
2 25 (6.81%) Mobile App
3 16 (4.36%) PropTech
4 15 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.00%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.18%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.63%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.09%) Learning Management System
13 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.27%) Educational Technology
14 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.27%) Renewable Energy
14 1 (0.27%) Replication
14 1 (0.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.00%) Windows
2 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (12.81%) Software Engineering
2 43 (11.72%) Agile
3 42 (11.44%) B2B
4 32 (8.72%) AI
5 22 (5.99%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (5.18%) Coaching
8 18 (4.90%) Analytics
8 18 (4.90%) CI/CD
9 16 (4.36%) Mentoring
10 15 (4.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (3.81%) DevOps
12 13 (3.54%) Change Management
13 11 (3.00%) Data Science
13 11 (3.00%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (3.00%) Roadmaps
13 11 (3.00%) SOLID
13 11 (3.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (3.00%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (2.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.08%) C#
2 25 (6.81%) SQL
3 15 (4.09%) Java
4 14 (3.81%) Python
5 9 (2.45%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.54%) Bicep
7 2 (0.54%) PHP
8 1 (0.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (3.27%) ACCA
1 12 (3.27%) CIMA
2 10 (2.72%) SC Cleared
2 10 (2.72%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.91%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.54%) Degree
5 1 (0.27%) ICAEW
5 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 18 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.54%) Docker
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.27%) Terraform
3 10 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.09%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 22 (5.99%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.18%) New Relic
2 8 (2.18%) Splunk
3 5 (1.36%) Google
3 5 (1.36%) HubSpot
3 5 (1.36%) Sage
3 5 (1.36%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (1.09%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (0.82%) Databricks
5 3 (0.82%) VMware
6 2 (0.54%) Cisco
6 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.54%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.27%) Dell
7 1 (0.27%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.27%) Salesforce