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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 53 44
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 +17
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 133 147 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.55% 4.09% 6.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.75% 11.56% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 93 60 117
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,813 £76,250
90th Percentile £94,250 £80,375 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Cloud 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 902 1,272 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.61% 35.38% 45.60%
Number of salaries quoted 598 688 932
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,750 £33,843
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,825 £85,900
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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
Salford +18 6 £45,000 -
Cheadle - 3 £50,000 - 1
Altrincham -5 2 £56,250 - 22
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 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.50%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.50%) Sketch
2 1 (0.75%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 38 (28.57%) Azure
2 14 (10.53%) AWS
3 12 (9.02%) PaaS
4 10 (7.52%) Serverless
5 9 (6.77%) IaaS
6 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.51%) Azure Functions
7 5 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.01%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.26%) GitHub
9 3 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.26%) OCI
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.50%) Figma
10 2 (1.50%) GCP
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.50%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.50%) MySQL
4 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.50%) SQL CLR
5 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
1 3 (2.26%) Selenium
2 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.75%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) JMeter
2 1 (0.75%) Locust
2 1 (0.75%) Protractor
General
1 36 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.06%) Finance
3 25 (18.80%) Marketing
4 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.02%) Legal
6 7 (5.26%) Retail
7 6 (4.51%) Law
8 5 (3.76%) Billing
8 5 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.26%) Banking
9 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.50%) Automotive
10 2 (1.50%) Back Office
10 2 (1.50%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.75%) French Language
11 1 (0.75%) Games
11 1 (0.75%) German Language
11 1 (0.75%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (18.05%) Developer
2 21 (15.79%) Lead
3 16 (12.03%) Senior
4 11 (8.27%) Architect
5 9 (6.77%) Head of Finance
5 9 (6.77%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.02%) Principal Developer
6 8 (6.02%) Team Leader
7 7 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 6 (4.51%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.76%) .NET Developer
9 5 (3.76%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (3.76%) Sales Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Technical Support
10 4 (3.01%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.01%) C# Developer
10 4 (3.01%) Consultant
10 4 (3.01%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.26%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.80%) .NET
2 9 (6.77%) React
2 9 (6.77%) REST
3 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
3 6 (4.51%) Entity Framework
4 4 (3.01%) .NET Core
4 4 (3.01%) RESTful
5 3 (2.26%) CSS
5 3 (2.26%) Jest
5 3 (2.26%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.50%) Blazor
6 2 (1.50%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (1.50%) Framer.js
6 2 (1.50%) Kafka
6 2 (1.50%) Next.js
6 2 (1.50%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (0.75%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.02%) Mobile App
1 12 (9.02%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.26%) EPoS
5 3 (2.26%) IoT
5 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.26%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.26%) Social Media
6 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.50%) Animation
6 2 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.75%) NHS
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Windows
1 4 (3.01%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.50%) Android
2 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.56%) Agile
2 24 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (17.29%) Software Engineering
4 21 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (15.04%) CRM
5 20 (15.04%) Mentoring
6 18 (13.53%) B2B
7 17 (12.78%) DevOps
8 16 (12.03%) Coaching
9 15 (11.28%) Roadmaps
10 14 (10.53%) CI/CD
11 13 (9.77%) Clean Code
11 13 (9.77%) Microservices
12 12 (9.02%) Collaborative Culture
13 11 (8.27%) AI
13 11 (8.27%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (7.52%) Data Privacy
14 10 (7.52%) TDD
14 10 (7.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.30%) C#
2 14 (10.53%) SQL
3 9 (6.77%) TypeScript
4 5 (3.76%) Python
5 3 (2.26%) Apex Code
5 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (10.53%) Degree
2 9 (6.77%) ACCA
2 9 (6.77%) CIMA
3 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) GDPR
2 5 (3.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (3.76%) GLBA
2 5 (3.76%) QA
3 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.75%) PMO
4 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.01%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.01%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (6.02%) Terraform
2 3 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.75%) Grafana
3 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.51%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (3.76%) iManage
4 4 (3.01%) Databricks
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle
5 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.26%) VMware
6 2 (1.50%) Google
6 2 (1.50%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.75%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.75%) Dell
7 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.75%) New Relic
7 1 (0.75%) Splunk