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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 78 63
Rank change year-on-year +62 -15 +19
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 399 86 187
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.82% 4.03% 3.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.44% 9.30% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 355 74 160
10th Percentile £34,700 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £71,563
90th Percentile - £86,000 £85,125
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -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 1,778 925 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.41% 43.37% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,187 583 1,625
10th Percentile £32,800 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +8 7 £28,000 -39.46% 5
Stockport -3 3 £32,500 -18.75% 2
Bolton - 3 £50,000 - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 - 2
Salford - 1 - - 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 9 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.75%) Moodle
2 7 (1.75%) Totara
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (12.53%) Azure
2 36 (9.02%) AWS
3 16 (4.01%) PaaS
4 15 (3.76%) GCP
4 15 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (3.76%) Serverless
5 13 (3.26%) Anthropic Claude
5 13 (3.26%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.01%) IaaS
7 11 (2.76%) Azure Functions
8 10 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.75%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.50%) dbt
10 6 (1.50%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.26%) Firewall
2 4 (1.00%) DHCP
2 4 (1.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.50%) Looker
4 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.25%) MySQL
5 1 (0.25%) OLAP
5 1 (0.25%) OLTP
5 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (3.26%) Claude Code
2 4 (1.00%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 90 (22.56%) Finance
2 32 (8.02%) Marketing
2 32 (8.02%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.51%) Legal
4 12 (3.01%) Law
5 10 (2.51%) Retail
6 7 (1.75%) Advertising
6 7 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.50%) Billing
8 5 (1.25%) Automotive
8 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.75%) Banking
9 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.50%) Dutch Language
10 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.25%) Local Government
11 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 86 (21.55%) Senior
2 49 (12.28%) Lead
3 38 (9.52%) Developer
4 35 (8.77%) Software Engineer
5 26 (6.52%) Sales Manager
6 23 (5.76%) Sales Representative
7 22 (5.51%) .NET Developer
8 21 (5.26%) Account Executive
9 20 (5.01%) Senior Manager
10 18 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.26%) Architect
12 15 (3.76%) Lead Developer
13 13 (3.26%) Java Engineer
13 13 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
13 13 (3.26%) Senior Java Engineer
14 12 (3.01%) HR Manager
14 12 (3.01%) Support Technician
15 11 (2.76%) Financial Controller
15 11 (2.76%) Principal .NET Developer
15 11 (2.76%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.03%) .NET
2 12 (3.01%) OAuth
3 11 (2.76%) JWT
4 10 (2.51%) OpenID
4 10 (2.51%) REST
5 9 (2.26%) SAML
6 7 (1.75%) OAuth2
6 7 (1.75%) React
7 5 (1.25%) Node.js
8 4 (1.00%) JSON
9 2 (0.50%) Kafka
9 2 (0.50%) Middleware
9 2 (0.50%) NestJS
9 2 (0.50%) Playwright
10 1 (0.25%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.25%) MACH
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.25%) Next.js
10 1 (0.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.52%) Marketing Technology
2 26 (6.52%) Mobile App
3 19 (4.76%) PropTech
4 15 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.01%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.00%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.00%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.25%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.51%) Windows
2 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (12.28%) Software Engineering
2 45 (11.28%) B2B
3 40 (10.03%) Agile
4 35 (8.77%) AI
5 22 (5.51%) CI/CD
6 20 (5.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (4.76%) Analytics
8 18 (4.51%) Coaching
9 16 (4.01%) Fintech
9 16 (4.01%) Mentoring
9 16 (4.01%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (3.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (3.76%) Machine Learning
11 14 (3.51%) RBAC
12 13 (3.26%) Business Development
13 12 (3.01%) Cloud Security
13 12 (3.01%) Data Science
13 12 (3.01%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (3.01%) SOLID
13 12 (3.01%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.77%) SQL
2 23 (5.76%) C#
3 16 (4.01%) Java
4 15 (3.76%) Python
5 9 (2.26%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.50%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.50%) Bicep
9 1 (0.25%) Bash
9 1 (0.25%) PHP
9 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (2.76%) SC Cleared
1 11 (2.76%) Security Cleared
2 10 (2.51%) ACCA
2 10 (2.51%) CIMA
3 7 (1.75%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.50%) Degree
5 1 (0.25%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
1 12 (3.01%) Terraform
2 6 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 17 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.01%) HubSpot
3 5 (1.25%) New Relic
3 5 (1.25%) Sage
3 5 (1.25%) Splunk
3 5 (1.25%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (1.00%) Google
5 3 (0.75%) Databricks
5 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.50%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (0.50%) Cisco
6 2 (0.50%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.50%) VMware
7 1 (0.25%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.25%) Salesforce