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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 78 66
Rank change year-on-year +62 -12 -9
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 469 90 189
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.42% 3.65% 3.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.10% 9.11% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 415 72 146
10th Percentile £33,950 £36,250 £40,625
25th Percentile £54,375 £47,231 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - £86,775 £81,250
North West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - +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 1,797 988 2,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.43% 40.11% 37.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 645 1,598
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,850 £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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +14 8 £28,000 -39.46% 1
Salford - 5 - -
Stockport +3 3 £32,500 -7.14% 3
Bolton - 3 £50,000 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
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 7 (1.49%) Moodle
1 7 (1.49%) Totara
2 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.43%) CMS
3 2 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 60 (12.79%) AWS
2 43 (9.17%) Azure
3 18 (3.84%) PaaS
4 17 (3.62%) GCP
4 17 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.20%) IaaS
6 14 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
7 13 (2.77%) Serverless
8 8 (1.71%) Azure Functions
8 8 (1.71%) dbt
9 7 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.49%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.28%) Pulumi
10 6 (1.28%) Twilio
11 5 (1.07%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.07%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.07%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.35%) Firewall
2 4 (0.85%) Network Security
3 2 (0.43%) DHCP
3 2 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) VoIP
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.49%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (0.85%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.64%) Redis
5 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.43%) Looker
5 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.21%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.21%) MySQL
6 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.21%) OLAP
6 1 (0.21%) OLTP
6 1 (0.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (2.77%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.64%) JIRA
4 1 (0.21%) Git
General
1 102 (21.75%) Finance
2 39 (8.32%) Marketing
3 37 (7.89%) Social Skills
4 15 (3.20%) Retail
5 14 (2.99%) Legal
6 13 (2.77%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.71%) Billing
8 7 (1.49%) Advertising
8 7 (1.49%) Law
9 6 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.07%) Automotive
10 5 (1.07%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.07%) Legal Technology
10 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.64%) Banking
11 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.43%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 73 (15.57%) Senior
2 58 (12.37%) Lead
3 43 (9.17%) Software Engineer
4 34 (7.25%) Sales Manager
5 29 (6.18%) Developer
6 28 (5.97%) Account Executive
7 27 (5.76%) Sales Representative
8 21 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 20 (4.26%) Senior Manager
10 18 (3.84%) Architect
10 18 (3.84%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (3.41%) .NET Developer
12 14 (2.99%) HR Manager
13 13 (2.77%) Java Engineer
13 13 (2.77%) Lead Developer
14 12 (2.56%) Financial Controller
14 12 (2.56%) Security Engineer
14 12 (2.56%) Senior Java Engineer
14 12 (2.56%) Support Technician
15 11 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.82%) .NET
2 14 (2.99%) OAuth
3 13 (2.77%) Node.js
4 12 (2.56%) JWT
5 11 (2.35%) OpenID
6 10 (2.13%) SAML
7 9 (1.92%) OAuth2
7 9 (1.92%) REST
8 6 (1.28%) React
9 4 (0.85%) JSON
9 4 (0.85%) Vue
10 2 (0.43%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.43%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.43%) Kafka
10 2 (0.43%) NestJS
10 2 (0.43%) Playwright
11 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET Core
11 1 (0.21%) MACH
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.21%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.10%) Marketing Technology
2 27 (5.76%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.05%) Mobile App
3 19 (4.05%) PropTech
4 16 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.49%) e-Learning
7 6 (1.28%) AI Agents
8 4 (0.85%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.85%) IVR
8 4 (0.85%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.64%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.64%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.64%) NHS
9 3 (0.64%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.35%) Windows
2 5 (1.07%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (11.51%) Software Engineering
2 52 (11.09%) AI
3 48 (10.23%) B2B
4 38 (8.10%) Agile
5 32 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (6.61%) Analytics
7 28 (5.97%) CI/CD
7 28 (5.97%) Decision-Making
8 25 (5.33%) Cloud Security
8 25 (5.33%) Fintech
9 24 (5.12%) Coaching
9 24 (5.12%) Machine Learning
10 22 (4.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (4.48%) Roadmaps
12 19 (4.05%) Business Development
13 18 (3.84%) Mentoring
14 17 (3.62%) B2B Sales
15 15 (3.20%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (2.99%) DevOps
16 14 (2.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (5.76%) SQL
2 18 (3.84%) C#
3 16 (3.41%) Java
3 16 (3.41%) TypeScript
4 13 (2.77%) Python
5 10 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.43%) Bicep
8 1 (0.21%) Bash
8 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (4.05%) ACCA
1 19 (4.05%) CIMA
2 10 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 10 (2.13%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.49%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.07%) Degree
5 4 (0.85%) CISA
5 4 (0.85%) CISM
5 4 (0.85%) CISSP
5 4 (0.85%) CRISC
6 2 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.21%) CCA
7 1 (0.21%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.13%) GDPR
3 9 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.07%) QA
5 4 (0.85%) NIST
6 3 (0.64%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (2.35%) Terraform
2 9 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (3.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.56%) Google
3 8 (1.71%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.07%) Sage
4 5 (1.07%) Ubiquiti
5 3 (0.64%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.43%) Cisco
6 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle
6 2 (0.43%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.43%) VMware
7 1 (0.21%) BroadSoft
7 1 (0.21%) Databricks
7 1 (0.21%) Epicor
7 1 (0.21%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.21%) Salesforce