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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 43 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +46
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 177 137 130
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.07% 5.14% 5.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.23% 13.37% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 128 67 114
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,375
25th Percentile £54,688 £46,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,438 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,000 £88,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - +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 1,162 1,025 1,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 39.84% 38.43% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 619 583 912
10th Percentile £29,700 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Salford +9 6 £45,000 - 1
Altrincham -7 3 £35,000 -30.00% 2
Cheadle - 3 £50,000 -
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 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.13%) Sketch
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.13%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 63 (35.59%) Azure
2 20 (11.30%) AWS
3 16 (9.04%) PaaS
3 16 (9.04%) Serverless
4 14 (7.91%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (6.78%) Azure Functions
6 12 (6.78%) IaaS
7 11 (6.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (6.21%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (6.21%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (5.65%) OneDrive
9 8 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.52%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.26%) GCP
12 3 (1.69%) OCI
13 2 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) Firewall
2 2 (1.13%) DHCP
2 2 (1.13%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (3.95%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.26%) MySQL
4 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.13%) Selenium
3 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) JMeter
3 1 (0.56%) Locust
3 1 (0.56%) Protractor
General
1 45 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 43 (24.29%) Finance
3 34 (19.21%) Marketing
4 16 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.47%) Legal
6 13 (7.34%) Law
7 12 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.26%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Billing
10 2 (1.13%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) French Language
11 1 (0.56%) German Language
11 1 (0.56%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.56%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (20.90%) Senior
2 35 (19.77%) Developer
3 28 (15.82%) Lead
4 14 (7.91%) .NET Developer
4 14 (7.91%) Head of Finance
5 13 (7.34%) Architect
6 11 (6.21%) Senior Developer
6 11 (6.21%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.65%) Team Leader
8 9 (5.08%) Lead Developer
9 8 (4.52%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Principal Developer
9 8 (4.52%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (3.95%) Marketing Executive
10 7 (3.95%) Senior Marketing Executive
11 6 (3.39%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.39%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.03%) .NET
2 15 (8.47%) REST
3 14 (7.91%) React
4 6 (3.39%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.26%) Entity Framework
5 4 (2.26%) RESTful
6 3 (1.69%) CSS
6 3 (1.69%) Jest
6 3 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.69%) Middleware
6 3 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.13%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.13%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.13%) Blazor
7 2 (1.13%) Framer.js
7 2 (1.13%) Next.js
7 2 (1.13%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (0.56%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.56%) Kafka
8 1 (0.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.99%) Mobile App
2 15 (8.47%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (6.21%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.69%) EPoS
10 2 (1.13%) Animation
10 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.56%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.56%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.82%) Windows
2 4 (2.26%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.13%) Android
3 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.12%) Agile
2 30 (16.95%) Software Engineering
3 28 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (12.43%) B2B
5 22 (12.43%) DevOps
6 21 (11.86%) Mentoring
7 20 (11.30%) CI/CD
8 18 (10.17%) AI
8 18 (10.17%) Microservices
9 17 (9.60%) Coaching
10 14 (7.91%) CRM
10 14 (7.91%) TDD
10 14 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (7.34%) Clean Code
11 13 (7.34%) Roadmaps
12 12 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (6.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (6.78%) SOLID
13 11 (6.21%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.21%) C#
2 14 (7.91%) SQL
2 14 (7.91%) TypeScript
3 7 (3.95%) Python
4 3 (1.69%) Apex Code
4 3 (1.69%) Java
4 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.13%) PHP
5 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (7.91%) ACCA
1 14 (7.91%) CIMA
2 12 (6.78%) Degree
3 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.26%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.26%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.95%) GDPR
2 5 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (2.82%) GLBA
3 4 (2.26%) QA
4 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.69%) Docker
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (8.47%) Terraform
2 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.13%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.08%) BiZZdesign
3 8 (4.52%) New Relic
3 8 (4.52%) Splunk
4 7 (3.95%) Databricks
5 5 (2.82%) iManage
6 3 (1.69%) Oracle
6 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.13%) Google
7 2 (1.13%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.56%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.56%) Dell
8 1 (0.56%) Sage
8 1 (0.56%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (0.56%) VMware