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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 90 68
Rank change year-on-year +75 -22 +3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 463 86 190
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.35% 3.63% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.20% 8.91% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 410 69 149
10th Percentile £34,925 £36,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - £81,700 £82,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - +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 1,767 965 2,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.07% 40.75% 37.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 626 1,660
10th Percentile £34,050 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,625 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,514 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +14 8 £28,000 -39.46% 3
Salford - 5 - - 1
Stockport +7 3 £32,500 -7.14%
Bolton - 3 £50,000 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 - 3
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 (1.51%) Moodle
1 7 (1.51%) Totara
2 4 (0.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.43%) CMS
3 2 (0.43%) Confluence
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 60 (12.96%) AWS
2 46 (9.94%) Azure
3 19 (4.10%) GCP
4 18 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (3.46%) PaaS
6 15 (3.24%) Anthropic Claude
7 13 (2.81%) IaaS
7 13 (2.81%) Serverless
8 8 (1.73%) Azure Functions
8 8 (1.73%) dbt
8 8 (1.73%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.30%) Pulumi
10 6 (1.30%) Twilio
11 5 (1.08%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.08%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.08%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.59%) Firewall
2 4 (0.86%) Network Security
3 3 (0.65%) DHCP
3 3 (0.65%) DNS
4 1 (0.22%) VoIP
4 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (1.30%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (0.86%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.43%) Looker
3 2 (0.43%) Redis
3 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.22%) MySQL
4 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.22%) OLAP
4 1 (0.22%) OLTP
4 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (3.02%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.86%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.22%) Git
General
1 103 (22.25%) Finance
2 41 (8.86%) Marketing
3 39 (8.42%) Social Skills
4 16 (3.46%) Legal
5 15 (3.24%) Retail
6 11 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.94%) Law
8 8 (1.73%) Billing
9 7 (1.51%) Advertising
9 7 (1.51%) Legal Technology
10 6 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.08%) Automotive
11 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.65%) Banking
12 3 (0.65%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 80 (17.28%) Senior
2 54 (11.66%) Lead
3 43 (9.29%) Software Engineer
4 31 (6.70%) Developer
4 31 (6.70%) Sales Manager
5 27 (5.83%) Account Executive
6 24 (5.18%) Sales Representative
7 22 (4.75%) Senior Manager
8 21 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (3.89%) Architect
10 17 (3.67%) .NET Developer
11 16 (3.46%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (3.02%) HR Manager
12 14 (3.02%) Java Engineer
12 14 (3.02%) Lead Developer
13 13 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (2.81%) Senior Java Engineer
14 12 (2.59%) Financial Controller
14 12 (2.59%) Security Engineer
14 12 (2.59%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.78%) .NET
2 14 (3.02%) OAuth
3 12 (2.59%) JWT
4 11 (2.38%) Node.js
4 11 (2.38%) OpenID
5 10 (2.16%) SAML
6 9 (1.94%) OAuth2
6 9 (1.94%) REST
7 6 (1.30%) React
8 4 (0.86%) JSON
8 4 (0.86%) Vue
9 2 (0.43%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.43%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.43%) Kafka
9 2 (0.43%) NestJS
9 2 (0.43%) 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 (8.21%) Marketing Technology
2 26 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.32%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.10%) PropTech
5 14 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.51%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.30%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.86%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.86%) IVR
9 4 (0.86%) Learning Management System
9 4 (0.86%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.65%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.65%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.43%) IoT
12 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.59%) Windows
2 6 (1.30%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (12.10%) Software Engineering
2 52 (11.23%) B2B
3 49 (10.58%) AI
4 39 (8.42%) Agile
5 28 (6.05%) Analytics
5 28 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (5.83%) CI/CD
6 27 (5.83%) Fintech
7 26 (5.62%) Decision-Making
8 25 (5.40%) Cloud Security
9 23 (4.97%) Coaching
10 22 (4.75%) Machine Learning
11 21 (4.54%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (4.10%) Roadmaps
13 17 (3.67%) B2B Sales
13 17 (3.67%) Business Development
13 17 (3.67%) Mentoring
14 16 (3.46%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (3.02%) DevOps
15 14 (3.02%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.05%) SQL
2 19 (4.10%) C#
3 17 (3.67%) Java
4 16 (3.46%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.24%) Python
6 9 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.43%) Bicep
9 1 (0.22%) Bash
9 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (4.10%) ACCA
1 19 (4.10%) CIMA
2 11 (2.38%) SC Cleared
2 11 (2.38%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.51%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.08%) Degree
5 4 (0.86%) CISA
5 4 (0.86%) CISM
5 4 (0.86%) CISSP
5 4 (0.86%) CRISC
6 2 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.22%) CCA
7 1 (0.22%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.16%) GDPR
3 9 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.08%) QA
5 4 (0.86%) NIST
6 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.38%) Terraform
2 9 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (3.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.59%) Google
3 8 (1.73%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.08%) Sage
4 5 (1.08%) Ubiquiti
5 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.43%) Cisco
6 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle
6 2 (0.43%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.43%) VMware
7 1 (0.22%) BroadSoft
7 1 (0.22%) Databricks
7 1 (0.22%) Epicor
7 1 (0.22%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.22%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce