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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 40 56
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 +35
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 199 138 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.09% 5.42% 4.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.28% 13.73% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 152 70 134
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £40,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,558 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £60,232 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +0.39% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,060 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,625 £86,250
North West median annual salary £65,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.75% - +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 1,222 1,005 1,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.38% 39.46% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 662 582 1,245
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% -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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -2 8 £28,000 -44.00% 1
Salford +6 5 £45,000 - 1
Cheadle - 3 £50,000 -
Bolton +15 2 £50,000 - 7
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 10 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.01%) Moodle
3 2 (1.01%) Totara
Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.01%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.01%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.16%) Azure
2 17 (8.54%) AWS
3 16 (8.04%) Entra ID
3 16 (8.04%) PaaS
3 16 (8.04%) Serverless
4 15 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (6.53%) IaaS
6 12 (6.03%) Azure Functions
7 11 (5.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (5.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (5.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (5.03%) OneDrive
9 8 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.02%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.51%) Intacct
11 3 (1.51%) OCI
12 2 (1.01%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.51%) Firewall
2 2 (1.01%) DHCP
2 2 (1.01%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (3.52%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.01%) MySQL
4 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.01%) Claude Code
2 2 (1.01%) Selenium
3 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.50%) JMeter
3 1 (0.50%) Locust
3 1 (0.50%) Protractor
General
1 53 (26.63%) Finance
2 43 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.08%) Marketing
4 19 (9.55%) Legal
5 16 (8.04%) Law
6 15 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.01%) Banking
9 3 (1.51%) Billing
9 3 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.01%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.50%) Automotive
11 1 (0.50%) French Language
11 1 (0.50%) German Language
11 1 (0.50%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.50%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.50%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (22.11%) Senior
2 33 (16.58%) Developer
3 30 (15.08%) Lead
4 13 (6.53%) .NET Developer
4 13 (6.53%) Architect
4 13 (6.53%) Head of Finance
5 11 (5.53%) Senior Developer
5 11 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (5.03%) Team Leader
7 9 (4.52%) Lead Developer
7 9 (4.52%) Sales Representative
8 8 (4.02%) Account Manager
8 8 (4.02%) Marketing Executive
8 8 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.02%) Senior .NET Developer
8 8 (4.02%) Senior Account Manager
8 8 (4.02%) Senior Manager
8 8 (4.02%) Senior Marketing Executive
9 7 (3.52%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.52%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.60%) .NET
2 15 (7.54%) React
2 15 (7.54%) REST
3 5 (2.51%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.51%) CSS
4 3 (1.51%) Entity Framework
4 3 (1.51%) Jest
4 3 (1.51%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.51%) Middleware
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.01%) Framer.js
5 2 (1.01%) Next.js
5 2 (1.01%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (0.50%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.50%) Blazor
6 1 (0.50%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.50%) HTML
6 1 (0.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.06%) Mobile App
2 15 (7.54%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.53%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.52%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.51%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.51%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.51%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.51%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.51%) EPoS
9 2 (1.01%) Animation
9 2 (1.01%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.50%) IoT
10 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.52%) Windows
2 4 (2.01%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Android
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.62%) Agile
2 31 (15.58%) Software Engineering
3 27 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (11.56%) B2B
6 21 (10.55%) DevOps
7 19 (9.55%) CI/CD
7 19 (9.55%) Mentoring
8 17 (8.54%) Coaching
9 15 (7.54%) AI
9 15 (7.54%) Microservices
10 14 (7.04%) TDD
11 13 (6.53%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (6.53%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (6.03%) Design Patterns
12 12 (6.03%) SOLID
13 11 (5.53%) Change Management
13 11 (5.53%) Clean Code
13 11 (5.53%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (5.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.09%) C#
2 14 (7.04%) TypeScript
3 11 (5.53%) SQL
4 4 (2.01%) Python
5 3 (1.51%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.51%) Java
5 3 (1.51%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.01%) PHP
6 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (6.53%) ACCA
1 13 (6.53%) CIMA
2 9 (4.52%) Degree
3 6 (3.02%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.02%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.51%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.02%) GDPR
2 5 (2.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (2.51%) GLBA
3 4 (2.01%) QA
4 3 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) Docker
3 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (7.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (7.54%) Terraform
2 9 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.01%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.52%) BiZZdesign
3 8 (4.02%) New Relic
3 8 (4.02%) Splunk
4 7 (3.52%) Databricks
5 5 (2.51%) iManage
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle
6 3 (1.51%) Sage
6 3 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.51%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (1.01%) Google
8 1 (0.50%) Dell
8 1 (0.50%) VMware
8 1 (0.50%) Xamarin