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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +26 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 409 118 145
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.34% 4.97% 3.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.44% 13.96% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 331 86 66
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +14.58% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,625 £77,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

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 1,908 845 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.91% 35.62% 35.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 564 772
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,075
25th Percentile £46,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £81,250 £74,444 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +12 7 £47,500 -5.00% 1
Salford -19 5 - - 3
Stockport - 3 £70,000 - 5
Sale - 2 £62,500 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £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 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.24%) Apache
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.24%) Confluence
3 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (20.78%) AWS
2 38 (9.29%) Azure
3 18 (4.40%) Serverless
4 16 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (3.91%) GCP
5 14 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.18%) Datadog
6 13 (3.18%) Route 53
7 8 (1.96%) Anthropic Claude
7 8 (1.96%) IaaS
7 8 (1.96%) PaaS
8 7 (1.71%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.47%) Twilio
10 5 (1.22%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.22%) dbt
10 5 (1.22%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.98%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (0.98%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.73%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) Firewall
2 4 (0.98%) Network Security
3 3 (0.73%) DHCP
3 3 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.49%) SNMP
4 2 (0.49%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) VoIP
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.22%) Redis
4 4 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (0.98%) Data Mining
4 4 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.49%) MySQL
6 2 (0.49%) OLAP
6 2 (0.49%) OLTP
6 2 (0.49%) Power BI
6 2 (0.49%) Tableau
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.24%) Big Data
7 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.24%) OLAP Cube
7 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (1.71%) Claude Code
2 6 (1.47%) JIRA
3 4 (0.98%) Git
4 2 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
General
1 67 (16.38%) Finance
2 58 (14.18%) Social Skills
3 50 (12.22%) Marketing
4 26 (6.36%) Legal
4 26 (6.36%) Retail
5 16 (3.91%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.18%) Aviation
7 12 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.71%) Billing
10 6 (1.47%) Advertising
11 5 (1.22%) Automotive
11 5 (1.22%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.22%) Law
11 5 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.73%) Banking
14 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (12.47%) Senior
2 46 (11.25%) Lead
3 38 (9.29%) Software Engineer
4 30 (7.33%) Account Executive
5 24 (5.87%) Architect
6 22 (5.38%) Developer
7 21 (5.13%) Consultant
7 21 (5.13%) Sales Manager
8 18 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (3.42%) Lead Software Engineer
10 14 (3.42%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.18%) Financial Controller
11 13 (3.18%) Head of Architecture
11 13 (3.18%) HR Manager
11 13 (3.18%) Sales Representative
12 12 (2.93%) Account Manager
12 12 (2.93%) Security Engineer
12 12 (2.93%) Software Manager
13 11 (2.69%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.60%) .NET
2 20 (4.89%) Node.js
3 12 (2.93%) SAML
4 11 (2.69%) OAuth
5 10 (2.44%) JWT
5 10 (2.44%) OpenID
5 10 (2.44%) Terraform
6 7 (1.71%) NestJS
6 7 (1.71%) OAuth2
7 6 (1.47%) Pulumi
7 6 (1.47%) REST
8 4 (0.98%) Vue
9 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.49%) JSON
9 2 (0.49%) Kafka
9 2 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
10 1 (0.24%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.24%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.24%) NumPy
10 1 (0.24%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.18%) Marketing Technology
4 12 (2.93%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.69%) PropTech
6 9 (2.20%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.22%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.98%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.98%) IVR
8 4 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.98%) NHS
8 4 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.73%) FMCG
9 3 (0.73%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.49%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.49%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.47%) Windows
1 6 (1.47%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.49%) Linux
2 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (16.38%) Software Engineering
2 62 (15.16%) AI
3 54 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (9.78%) B2B
5 38 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (9.05%) Roadmaps
7 34 (8.31%) Decision-Making
8 30 (7.33%) Analytics
9 29 (7.09%) Business Development
10 28 (6.85%) Agile
10 28 (6.85%) Mentoring
11 27 (6.60%) Cloud Security
11 27 (6.60%) Customer Experience
11 27 (6.60%) Fintech
12 26 (6.36%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (6.11%) Collaborative Culture
14 23 (5.62%) Machine Learning
14 23 (5.62%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (5.38%) Coaching
16 21 (5.13%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.36%) SQL
2 23 (5.62%) Python
3 17 (4.16%) TypeScript
4 13 (3.18%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.69%) C#
6 10 (2.44%) Java
7 7 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.49%) ABAP
8 2 (0.49%) C++
9 1 (0.24%) Bash
9 1 (0.24%) Bicep
9 1 (0.24%) PHP
9 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (3.91%) ACCA
1 16 (3.91%) CIMA
2 12 (2.93%) Degree
3 8 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.47%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.22%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.98%) CISA
6 4 (0.98%) CISM
6 4 (0.98%) CISSP
6 4 (0.98%) CRISC
7 3 (0.73%) CIPD
7 3 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.49%) PhD
8 2 (0.49%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.24%) CCA
9 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.44%) GDPR
3 9 (2.20%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.96%) QA
5 5 (1.22%) PMO
6 4 (0.98%) NIST
7 3 (0.73%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.73%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (4.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.44%) Google
2 10 (2.44%) HubSpot
2 10 (2.44%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.20%) Samsung
3 9 (2.20%) TikTok
4 8 (1.96%) Sage
5 6 (1.47%) SAP
6 3 (0.73%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.73%) VMware
7 2 (0.49%) Aderant
7 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.49%) Botify
7 2 (0.49%) iManage
7 2 (0.49%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle
7 2 (0.49%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.49%) YouTube
8 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.24%) Trend Micro