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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 94 71
Rank change year-on-year +78 -23 +5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 439 79 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.23% 3.48% 3.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.40% 8.30% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 388 65 154
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - +2.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - £84,600 £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 1,663 952 2,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.39% 41.96% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,300 605 1,678
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £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 15 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 15 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 +11 7 £28,000 -39.46% 4
Stockport +5 3 £32,500 -7.14% 1
Bolton - 3 £50,000 - 3
Salford - 3 - - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 - 4
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 8 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.59%) Moodle
2 7 (1.59%) Totara
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.46%) CMS
4 2 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 49 (11.16%) Azure
2 46 (10.48%) AWS
3 18 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (3.87%) GCP
5 16 (3.64%) PaaS
6 13 (2.96%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (2.73%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.73%) IaaS
7 12 (2.73%) Serverless
8 8 (1.82%) Azure Functions
8 8 (1.82%) dbt
9 7 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.37%) Pulumi
11 5 (1.14%) Intacct
11 5 (1.14%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.91%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (0.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.51%) Firewall
2 4 (0.91%) DHCP
2 4 (0.91%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.23%) VoIP
3 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.46%) Looker
5 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.23%) OLAP
6 1 (0.23%) OLTP
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Power BI
6 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.96%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.46%) JIRA
General
1 97 (22.10%) Finance
2 39 (8.88%) Marketing
3 35 (7.97%) Social Skills
4 19 (4.33%) Legal
5 14 (3.19%) Retail
6 12 (2.73%) Law
7 11 (2.51%) Legal Technology
8 7 (1.59%) Advertising
8 7 (1.59%) Billing
9 6 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.14%) Automotive
11 4 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.68%) Banking
12 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.46%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (19.82%) Senior
2 51 (11.62%) Lead
3 38 (8.66%) Software Engineer
4 34 (7.74%) Developer
5 30 (6.83%) Sales Manager
6 27 (6.15%) Account Executive
7 23 (5.24%) Sales Representative
7 23 (5.24%) Senior Manager
8 19 (4.33%) .NET Developer
8 19 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (4.10%) Architect
10 15 (3.42%) Lead Developer
11 14 (3.19%) HR Manager
11 14 (3.19%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (2.96%) Java Engineer
12 13 (2.96%) Senior Java Engineer
13 12 (2.73%) Financial Controller
13 12 (2.73%) Support Technician
14 11 (2.51%) IT Support
15 10 (2.28%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.20%) .NET
2 13 (2.96%) OAuth
3 12 (2.73%) JWT
4 11 (2.51%) OpenID
5 10 (2.28%) SAML
6 8 (1.82%) Node.js
6 8 (1.82%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.59%) REST
8 6 (1.37%) React
9 4 (0.91%) JSON
10 2 (0.46%) Kafka
10 2 (0.46%) Middleware
10 2 (0.46%) NestJS
10 2 (0.46%) Playwright
10 2 (0.46%) Vue
11 1 (0.23%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
11 1 (0.23%) MACH
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.23%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.66%) Marketing Technology
2 22 (5.01%) Mobile App
3 20 (4.56%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.33%) PropTech
5 14 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.59%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.14%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.91%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.46%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.46%) IoT
13 1 (0.23%) Cloud Security Posture
13 1 (0.23%) Educational Technology
13 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.23%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.51%) Windows
2 5 (1.14%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (11.85%) Software Engineering
2 49 (11.16%) B2B
3 43 (9.79%) AI
4 39 (8.88%) Agile
5 25 (5.69%) Analytics
6 24 (5.47%) Coaching
6 24 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (5.24%) CI/CD
8 22 (5.01%) Fintech
9 20 (4.56%) Decision-Making
10 19 (4.33%) Cloud Security
11 18 (4.10%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (3.87%) Machine Learning
12 17 (3.87%) Mentoring
13 16 (3.64%) B2B Sales
13 16 (3.64%) Business Development
13 16 (3.64%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (2.96%) RBAC
14 13 (2.96%) Roadmaps
14 13 (2.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.61%) SQL
2 19 (4.33%) C#
3 16 (3.64%) Java
4 15 (3.42%) Python
5 11 (2.51%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.46%) Bicep
9 1 (0.23%) Bash
9 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (3.64%) ACCA
1 16 (3.64%) CIMA
2 11 (2.51%) SC Cleared
2 11 (2.51%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (0.91%) Degree
5 2 (0.46%) CISA
5 2 (0.46%) CISM
5 2 (0.46%) CISSP
5 2 (0.46%) CRISC
6 1 (0.23%) CCA
6 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.23%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.91%) GDPR
3 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.68%) QA
4 2 (0.46%) NIST
5 1 (0.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (2.73%) Terraform
2 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 19 (4.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.82%) HubSpot
3 7 (1.59%) Google
4 5 (1.14%) Sage
4 5 (1.14%) Ubiquiti
5 3 (0.68%) Databricks
5 3 (0.68%) New Relic
5 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.68%) Splunk
6 2 (0.46%) Cisco
6 2 (0.46%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle
6 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.46%) VMware
7 1 (0.23%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.23%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.23%) BroadSoft
7 1 (0.23%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.23%) Salesforce