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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 49 39
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 +30
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 145 144 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.90% 4.52% 6.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.78% 11.94% 13.81%
Number of salaries quoted 99 63 118
10th Percentile £34,900 £36,350 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £49,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,206 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.37% -5.84% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,375
North West median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +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 1,052 1,206 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 42.80% 37.85% 44.82%
Number of salaries quoted 581 676 868
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,875 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 8 December 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 8 December 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 +14 6 £45,000 - 2
Altrincham -4 3 £35,000 -30.00% 3
Cheadle - 3 £50,000 -
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 4 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
3 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.38%) Sketch
2 1 (0.69%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.38%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 48 (33.10%) Azure
2 16 (11.03%) AWS
3 14 (9.66%) PaaS
3 14 (9.66%) Serverless
4 11 (7.59%) IaaS
5 9 (6.21%) Azure Functions
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (4.83%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.76%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.07%) GitHub
11 3 (2.07%) OCI
12 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.76%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.76%) MySQL
2 4 (2.76%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.07%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.69%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.69%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Cypress.io
1 3 (2.07%) Selenium
2 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) JMeter
2 1 (0.69%) Locust
2 1 (0.69%) Protractor
General
1 43 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.52%) Finance
3 28 (19.31%) Marketing
4 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (5.52%) Legal
6 7 (4.83%) Retail
7 6 (4.14%) Law
8 5 (3.45%) Billing
9 3 (2.07%) Banking
9 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.38%) Automotive
10 2 (1.38%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.69%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) French Language
11 1 (0.69%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) German Language
11 1 (0.69%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (19.31%) Developer
2 23 (15.86%) Lead
3 17 (11.72%) Senior
4 13 (8.97%) Architect
5 12 (8.28%) Head of Finance
6 11 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.21%) Principal Developer
7 9 (6.21%) Team Leader
8 7 (4.83%) .NET Developer
8 7 (4.83%) Software Developer
9 6 (4.14%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Azure Architect
10 5 (3.45%) C# Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Sales Manager
10 5 (3.45%) Technical Support
11 4 (2.76%) Backend Developer
11 4 (2.76%) Consultant
11 4 (2.76%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.69%) .NET
2 12 (8.28%) REST
3 11 (7.59%) React
4 7 (4.83%) .NET Framework
5 5 (3.45%) Entity Framework
6 4 (2.76%) RESTful
7 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.07%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.07%) CSS
7 3 (2.07%) Jest
7 3 (2.07%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.38%) Blazor
8 2 (1.38%) Framer.js
8 2 (1.38%) Kafka
8 2 (1.38%) Next.js
8 2 (1.38%) Node.js
8 2 (1.38%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.34%) Mobile App
2 13 (8.97%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.14%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.07%) EPoS
8 3 (2.07%) IoT
8 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.07%) Social Media
9 2 (1.38%) Animation
9 2 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.69%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.07%) Windows
1 3 (2.07%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.38%) Android
2 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.90%) Agile
2 26 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (17.24%) Software Engineering
4 20 (13.79%) Mentoring
5 19 (13.10%) CRM
5 19 (13.10%) DevOps
6 18 (12.41%) B2B
6 18 (12.41%) CI/CD
7 16 (11.03%) Coaching
7 16 (11.03%) Microservices
7 16 (11.03%) Roadmaps
8 14 (9.66%) AI
9 12 (8.28%) Clean Code
9 12 (8.28%) TDD
10 11 (7.59%) Collaborative Culture
10 11 (7.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (6.90%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.07%) C#
2 13 (8.97%) SQL
3 11 (7.59%) TypeScript
4 5 (3.45%) Python
5 3 (2.07%) Apex Code
5 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.38%) PHP
7 1 (0.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (8.97%) Degree
2 12 (8.28%) ACCA
2 12 (8.28%) CIMA
3 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.38%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) GDPR
2 5 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (3.45%) GLBA
2 5 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.76%) Docker
3 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (8.28%) Terraform
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.07%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.52%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (3.45%) iManage
4 4 (2.76%) Databricks
4 4 (2.76%) New Relic
4 4 (2.76%) Splunk
5 3 (2.07%) Oracle
5 3 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.38%) Google
6 2 (1.38%) VMware
6 2 (1.38%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.69%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.69%) Dell