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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 81 71
Rank change year-on-year +65 -10 +7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 451 83 190
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.30% 3.62% 3.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.21% 8.74% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 398 66 151
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,438 £71,250
90th Percentile - £80,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +29.31% +0.87% +2.68%

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 1,721 950 2,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.85% 41.39% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 609 1,676
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £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 £85,313 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,002 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +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 25 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 25 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 +13 8 £28,000 -39.46% 1
Salford - 4 - - 3
Stockport +6 3 £32,500 -7.14%
Bolton - 3 £50,000 -
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 (1.55%) Moodle
1 7 (1.55%) Totara
2 5 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.44%) Confluence
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.20%) AWS
2 45 (9.98%) Azure
3 18 (3.99%) GCP
4 17 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
5 15 (3.33%) PaaS
6 13 (2.88%) Serverless
7 12 (2.66%) IaaS
8 9 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.77%) Azure Functions
9 8 (1.77%) dbt
10 7 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.33%) Pulumi
12 5 (1.11%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.11%) Intacct
12 5 (1.11%) Twilio
13 4 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.44%) Firewall
2 3 (0.67%) DHCP
2 3 (0.67%) DNS
2 3 (0.67%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) VoIP
3 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.67%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.44%) Looker
5 2 (0.44%) Redis
5 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.22%) MySQL
6 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.22%) OLAP
6 1 (0.22%) OLTP
6 1 (0.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (3.10%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.67%) JIRA
4 1 (0.22%) Git
General
1 101 (22.39%) Finance
2 40 (8.87%) Marketing
3 38 (8.43%) Social Skills
4 16 (3.55%) Legal
5 14 (3.10%) Retail
6 9 (2.00%) Law
6 9 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.77%) Billing
7 8 (1.77%) Legal Technology
8 7 (1.55%) Advertising
9 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.11%) Automotive
10 5 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Banking
12 3 (0.67%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.44%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 82 (18.18%) Senior
2 52 (11.53%) Lead
3 41 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 32 (7.10%) Developer
5 31 (6.87%) Sales Manager
6 27 (5.99%) Account Executive
7 23 (5.10%) Sales Representative
7 23 (5.10%) Senior Manager
8 20 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (3.99%) .NET Developer
10 17 (3.77%) Architect
11 15 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (3.10%) HR Manager
12 14 (3.10%) Java Engineer
12 14 (3.10%) Lead Developer
13 13 (2.88%) Senior Java Engineer
14 12 (2.66%) Financial Controller
14 12 (2.66%) Support Technician
15 11 (2.44%) Account Manager
15 11 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.98%) .NET
2 14 (3.10%) OAuth
3 12 (2.66%) JWT
4 11 (2.44%) OpenID
5 10 (2.22%) Node.js
5 10 (2.22%) SAML
6 9 (2.00%) OAuth2
6 9 (2.00%) REST
7 6 (1.33%) React
8 4 (0.89%) JSON
8 4 (0.89%) Vue
9 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.44%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.44%) Kafka
9 2 (0.44%) NestJS
9 2 (0.44%) Playwright
10 1 (0.22%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (0.22%) MACH
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.22%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.43%) Marketing Technology
2 24 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.66%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.21%) PropTech
5 14 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.55%) e-Learning
7 7 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.89%) Learning Management System
9 4 (0.89%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.67%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.67%) IVR
11 2 (0.44%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.44%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.44%) IoT
11 2 (0.44%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.22%) Windows
2 4 (0.89%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (11.97%) Software Engineering
2 51 (11.31%) B2B
3 49 (10.86%) AI
4 40 (8.87%) Agile
5 28 (6.21%) Analytics
6 27 (5.99%) CI/CD
7 26 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (5.54%) Fintech
9 24 (5.32%) Coaching
9 24 (5.32%) Decision-Making
10 22 (4.88%) Cloud Security
11 21 (4.66%) Machine Learning
12 20 (4.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (3.99%) Roadmaps
14 17 (3.77%) B2B Sales
14 17 (3.77%) Mentoring
15 16 (3.55%) Business Development
16 14 (3.10%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (3.10%) DevOps
16 14 (3.10%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.43%) SQL
2 19 (4.21%) C#
3 17 (3.77%) Java
4 15 (3.33%) Python
4 15 (3.33%) TypeScript
5 9 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.44%) Bicep
8 1 (0.22%) Bash
8 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (3.99%) ACCA
1 18 (3.99%) CIMA
2 11 (2.44%) SC Cleared
2 11 (2.44%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.55%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.11%) Degree
5 3 (0.67%) CISA
5 3 (0.67%) CISM
5 3 (0.67%) CISSP
5 3 (0.67%) CRISC
6 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.22%) CCA
7 1 (0.22%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.77%) GDPR
3 7 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.11%) QA
5 3 (0.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.44%) Terraform
2 8 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 17 (3.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.00%) Google
3 8 (1.77%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.11%) Sage
4 5 (1.11%) Ubiquiti
5 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.44%) Cisco
6 2 (0.44%) Databricks
6 2 (0.44%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle
6 2 (0.44%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.44%) VMware
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.22%) BroadSoft
7 1 (0.22%) Epicor
7 1 (0.22%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.22%) New Relic
7 1 (0.22%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.22%) Splunk