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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 60 61
Rank change year-on-year +34 +1 +21
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 351 105 186
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.71% 5.00% 3.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.87% 11.74% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 301 86 158
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £88,125 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -7.60%

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 1,682 894 1,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.17% 42.55% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 980 657 1,599
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,511 £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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -1 8 £28,000 -44.00% 2
Bolton +18 3 £50,000 - 2
Stockport -8 3 £32,500 -33.33% 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £42,500 - 2
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 12 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.99%) Moodle
2 7 (1.99%) Totara
3 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Sketch
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 50 (14.25%) Azure
2 24 (6.84%) AWS
3 20 (5.70%) PaaS
4 19 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.56%) Entra ID
5 16 (4.56%) IaaS
5 16 (4.56%) Serverless
6 11 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
6 11 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 10 (2.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (2.85%) OneDrive
8 8 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.28%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.42%) GCP
10 5 (1.42%) Intacct
11 4 (1.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.56%) Firewall
2 4 (1.14%) DHCP
2 4 (1.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.14%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.14%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.57%) MySQL
4 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.28%) Looker
4 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.13%) Claude Code
2 4 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.57%) JIRA
4 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 81 (23.08%) Finance
2 38 (10.83%) Social Skills
3 31 (8.83%) Marketing
4 17 (4.84%) Legal
5 12 (3.42%) Law
6 9 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.28%) Retail
8 6 (1.71%) Advertising
9 4 (1.14%) Automotive
10 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.57%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Billing
12 1 (0.28%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 76 (21.65%) Senior
2 47 (13.39%) Lead
3 37 (10.54%) Developer
4 29 (8.26%) Software Engineer
5 25 (7.12%) Sales Manager
6 22 (6.27%) Sales Representative
7 19 (5.41%) .NET Developer
8 16 (4.56%) Account Executive
8 16 (4.56%) Lead Developer
9 14 (3.99%) Senior Manager
9 14 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (3.42%) Support Technician
11 11 (3.13%) Architect
11 11 (3.13%) Java Engineer
11 11 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
12 10 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (2.85%) IT Support
12 10 (2.85%) IT Technician
13 9 (2.56%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (2.56%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.11%) .NET
2 10 (2.85%) React
2 10 (2.85%) REST
3 5 (1.42%) Node.js
4 4 (1.14%) JSON
5 3 (0.85%) OAuth
6 2 (0.57%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.57%) JWT
6 2 (0.57%) Middleware
6 2 (0.57%) NestJS
6 2 (0.57%) Next.js
6 2 (0.57%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.57%) OpenID
6 2 (0.57%) Playwright
7 1 (0.28%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.28%) Framer.js
7 1 (0.28%) Kafka
7 1 (0.28%) MACH
7 1 (0.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.26%) Marketing Technology
2 23 (6.55%) Mobile App
3 16 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (4.27%) PropTech
5 13 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.28%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.28%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.14%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.28%) Animation
12 1 (0.28%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.28%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.28%) Replication
12 1 (0.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.13%) Windows
2 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (13.68%) Software Engineering
2 45 (12.82%) Agile
3 39 (11.11%) B2B
4 29 (8.26%) AI
5 22 (6.27%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (5.98%) Coaching
6 21 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (4.84%) CI/CD
8 16 (4.56%) Analytics
8 16 (4.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (4.56%) Mentoring
9 15 (4.27%) DevOps
10 13 (3.70%) Change Management
11 12 (3.42%) Microservices
11 12 (3.42%) Roadmaps
12 11 (3.13%) Data Science
12 11 (3.13%) Design Patterns
12 11 (3.13%) SOLID
12 11 (3.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (3.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.69%) C#
2 24 (6.84%) SQL
3 14 (3.99%) Java
3 14 (3.99%) Python
4 10 (2.85%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.71%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.57%) Bicep
6 2 (0.57%) PHP
7 1 (0.28%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (3.42%) ACCA
1 12 (3.42%) CIMA
2 9 (2.56%) SC Cleared
2 9 (2.56%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.99%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.57%) Degree
5 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
5 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (0.85%) QA
3 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.57%) Docker
3 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.42%) Terraform
3 10 (2.85%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.85%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 22 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.28%) New Relic
2 8 (2.28%) Splunk
3 5 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (1.42%) Google
3 5 (1.42%) Sage
3 5 (1.42%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (1.14%) Databricks
4 4 (1.14%) HubSpot
5 3 (0.85%) VMware
6 2 (0.57%) Cisco
6 2 (0.57%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.28%) Dell
7 1 (0.28%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow