SaaS Job Trends in the Midlands

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SaaS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 72 67
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +13
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 249 315 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.44% 3.13% 3.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.73% 11.73% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 193 231 188
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £47,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% -

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,691 2,686 2,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.15% 26.67% 36.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,345 1,720 1,768
10th Percentile £27,600 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,250 £68,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% +4.00%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the Midlands

SaaS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
West Midlands +27 142 £60,000 - 95
East Midlands +6 105 £58,750 -2.08% 57
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (6.02%) IIS
2 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.41%) Apache
4 6 (2.41%) CMS
5 4 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.80%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (5.62%) Shopify
2 12 (4.82%) Magento
3 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (20.48%) Azure
2 43 (17.27%) AWS
3 20 (8.03%) PaaS
4 18 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (6.43%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.62%) Entra ID
7 12 (4.82%) BigCommerce
8 9 (3.61%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (3.61%) IaaS
9 8 (3.21%) GitHub
10 5 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.01%) Serverless
11 4 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.61%) iPaaS
11 4 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.02%) Remote Desktop
2 11 (4.42%) Firewall
3 8 (3.21%) DNS
4 4 (1.61%) DHCP
4 4 (1.61%) SAN
4 4 (1.61%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.61%) VLAN
4 4 (1.61%) VPN
4 4 (1.61%) WAN
5 2 (0.80%) Intranet
6 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.85%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.62%) Power BI
3 10 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.21%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.81%) MySQL
6 6 (2.41%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.01%) Data Hub
7 5 (2.01%) SQL CLR
8 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.80%) Metadata
9 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.40%) Looker
10 1 (0.40%) Power Query
10 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.82%) JIRA
2 7 (2.81%) Git
3 5 (2.01%) Selenium
4 4 (1.61%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) MLflow
6 1 (0.40%) Postman
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 86 (34.54%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.25%) Retail
3 32 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (12.85%) Finance
4 20 (8.03%) Marketing
5 16 (6.43%) Law
6 11 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.41%) Automotive
7 6 (2.41%) Back Office
7 6 (2.41%) Billing
7 6 (2.41%) Games
8 5 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.01%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.40%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (20.48%) Lead
2 34 (13.65%) Developer
3 23 (9.24%) Architect
4 18 (7.23%) Support Engineer
5 15 (6.02%) 2nd Line Support
5 15 (6.02%) Support Technician
6 14 (5.62%) Software Developer
7 13 (5.22%) Applications Support
7 13 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (5.22%) Senior
8 12 (4.82%) 2nd Line Support Technician
8 12 (4.82%) Analyst
8 12 (4.82%) IT Support
8 12 (4.82%) Software Engineer
9 11 (4.42%) C# Developer
9 11 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
9 11 (4.42%) SaaS Developer
9 11 (4.42%) Technical Support
10 10 (4.02%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.61%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.26%) .NET
2 9 (3.61%) HTML
2 9 (3.61%) React
3 8 (3.21%) .NET Framework
3 8 (3.21%) Entity Framework
4 7 (2.81%) REST
5 6 (2.41%) LAMP
6 5 (2.01%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.01%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.01%) Blazor
6 5 (2.01%) RESTful
7 4 (1.61%) CSS
7 4 (1.61%) Kafka
7 4 (1.61%) SOAP
8 3 (1.20%) Dapper ORM
8 3 (1.20%) Node.js
9 2 (0.80%) Middleware
9 2 (0.80%) OAuth
9 2 (0.80%) OpenID
9 2 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.45%) Onboarding
1 31 (12.45%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.43%) Driving Licence
3 13 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.82%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (4.82%) EPoS
5 9 (3.61%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.41%) NHS
8 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.01%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.61%) Clustering
9 4 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.61%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.80%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.63%) Windows
2 17 (6.83%) Linux
2 17 (6.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.31%) Agile
2 63 (25.30%) Mentoring
3 57 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (20.88%) CRM
5 42 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.47%) Data Privacy
7 39 (15.66%) Roadmaps
8 37 (14.86%) Coaching
8 37 (14.86%) ERP
9 34 (13.65%) DevOps
9 34 (13.65%) E-Commerce
9 34 (13.65%) Software Engineering
10 32 (12.85%) CI/CD
11 31 (12.45%) Logistics
12 30 (12.05%) Customer Service
13 28 (11.24%) Artificial Intelligence
14 26 (10.44%) ITIL
14 26 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (10.04%) B2B
16 24 (9.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 68 (27.31%) C#
2 63 (25.30%) SQL
3 29 (11.65%) JavaScript
4 19 (7.63%) Python
5 12 (4.82%) PHP
5 12 (4.82%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.61%) Bicep
6 9 (3.61%) Java
7 6 (2.41%) VB.NET
8 5 (2.01%) Delphi
8 5 (2.01%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.20%) VB
10 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) Bash
11 1 (0.40%) C
11 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.40%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) XAML
Qualifications
1 35 (14.06%) Degree
2 9 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.21%) CCNA
3 8 (3.21%) CCNP
3 8 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (3.21%) MCP
3 8 (3.21%) MCSA
3 8 (3.21%) MCSE
3 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (2.81%) City & Guilds
5 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.41%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.01%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.01%) PMP
7 4 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.80%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.03%) QA
2 14 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.81%) GDPR
3 7 (2.81%) SLA
4 5 (2.01%) NIST
5 3 (1.20%) PMBOK
6 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) COBIT
7 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) PMO
7 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.81%) Docker
3 5 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (4.02%) Terraform
2 6 (2.41%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.61%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Argo
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.83%) Oracle
3 12 (4.82%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.02%) Databricks
5 5 (2.01%) VMware
6 4 (1.61%) Commvault
6 4 (1.61%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.61%) Meraki
6 4 (1.61%) Veeam
7 2 (0.80%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.80%) Zoho
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe
8 1 (0.40%) Apple
8 1 (0.40%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.40%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.40%) IBM