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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 77 79
Rank change year-on-year +60 +2 -30
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 485 95 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.03% 3.81% 2.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.47% 10.07% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 414 71 86
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,813 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +10.64% -1.30%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £88,750 £77,500
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 1,904 943 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.60% 37.78% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,474 617 1,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +12 6 £42,750 -7.57% 2
Salford -11 5 - - 2
Stockport - 5 £57,500 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
Sale - 2 £62,500 - 1
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 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.41%) CMS
2 2 (0.41%) Confluence
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.41%) Moodle
2 2 (0.41%) Totara
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (16.70%) AWS
2 41 (8.45%) Azure
3 21 (4.33%) Serverless
4 19 (3.92%) GCP
4 19 (3.92%) PaaS
5 16 (3.30%) IaaS
6 15 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (2.68%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.27%) Datadog
9 11 (2.27%) Route 53
10 8 (1.65%) dbt
11 7 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.24%) Pulumi
12 6 (1.24%) Twilio
13 5 (1.03%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.03%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.03%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.03%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.24%) Firewall
2 4 (0.82%) Network Security
3 3 (0.62%) DHCP
3 3 (0.62%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.21%) SNMP
4 1 (0.21%) VoIP
4 1 (0.21%) WAN
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.03%) Redis
3 4 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (0.82%) Data Mining
3 4 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.41%) Looker
5 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.21%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.21%) MySQL
6 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.21%) OLAP
6 1 (0.21%) OLTP
6 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (2.47%) Claude Code
2 7 (1.44%) JIRA
3 4 (0.82%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.62%) Git
General
1 83 (17.11%) Finance
2 38 (7.84%) Marketing
3 37 (7.63%) Social Skills
4 27 (5.57%) Retail
5 19 (3.92%) Legal
6 15 (3.09%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.27%) Aviation
8 7 (1.44%) Advertising
8 7 (1.44%) Billing
9 6 (1.24%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.03%) Automotive
10 5 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.62%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.41%) Banking
13 2 (0.41%) Law
13 2 (0.41%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 67 (13.81%) Senior
2 66 (13.61%) Lead
3 46 (9.48%) Software Engineer
4 29 (5.98%) Developer
4 29 (5.98%) Sales Manager
5 25 (5.15%) Account Executive
5 25 (5.15%) Architect
6 24 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
7 23 (4.74%) Sales Representative
8 18 (3.71%) Lead Software Engineer
9 16 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (3.09%) Senior Manager
11 14 (2.89%) Consultant
11 14 (2.89%) HR Manager
12 13 (2.68%) .NET Developer
12 13 (2.68%) Financial Controller
12 13 (2.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (2.68%) Lead Developer
12 13 (2.68%) Technical Engineer
13 12 (2.47%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.98%) .NET
2 19 (3.92%) Node.js
3 14 (2.89%) OAuth
4 12 (2.47%) JWT
5 11 (2.27%) OpenID
5 11 (2.27%) SAML
6 9 (1.86%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.65%) REST
8 5 (1.03%) Vue
9 4 (0.82%) JSON
9 4 (0.82%) NestJS
10 3 (0.62%) React
11 2 (0.41%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.41%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.41%) Kafka
11 2 (0.41%) Playwright
12 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET Core
12 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1 (0.21%) MACH
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.66%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.39%) Marketing Technology
3 15 (3.09%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.09%) PropTech
4 12 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.86%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.82%) IVR
8 4 (0.82%) NHS
8 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.62%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.62%) FMCG
9 3 (0.62%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.41%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.44%) Windows
2 6 (1.24%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.41%) Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (14.64%) Software Engineering
2 62 (12.78%) AI
3 50 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 47 (9.69%) B2B
5 39 (8.04%) Agile
6 36 (7.42%) Roadmaps
7 33 (6.80%) Analytics
8 31 (6.39%) Decision-Making
9 29 (5.98%) Mentoring
10 28 (5.77%) CI/CD
11 27 (5.57%) Cloud Security
12 26 (5.36%) Business Development
12 26 (5.36%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (5.15%) Machine Learning
13 25 (5.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (4.95%) Fintech
15 23 (4.74%) Coaching
16 22 (4.54%) Collaborative Culture
17 21 (4.33%) Customer Experience
17 21 (4.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.19%) SQL
2 20 (4.12%) Python
2 20 (4.12%) TypeScript
3 17 (3.51%) Java
4 15 (3.09%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.47%) C#
6 5 (1.03%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.41%) Bicep
7 2 (0.41%) C++
8 1 (0.21%) ABAP
8 1 (0.21%) Bash
8 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (4.12%) ACCA
1 20 (4.12%) CIMA
2 7 (1.44%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.24%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.03%) Degree
5 4 (0.82%) CISA
5 4 (0.82%) CISM
5 4 (0.82%) CISSP
5 4 (0.82%) CRISC
6 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.21%) CCA
8 1 (0.21%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.06%) GDPR
3 9 (1.86%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.65%) QA
5 5 (1.03%) PMO
6 4 (0.82%) NIST
7 3 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.82%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 11 (2.27%) Terraform
2 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (3.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.47%) Google
3 9 (1.86%) HubSpot
4 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow
4 3 (0.62%) VMware
5 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.41%) Cisco
5 2 (0.41%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle
5 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.41%) SAP
6 1 (0.21%) Aderant
6 1 (0.21%) BroadSoft
6 1 (0.21%) Epicor
6 1 (0.21%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.21%) iManage
6 1 (0.21%) Sage
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.21%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.21%) YouTube