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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 62 79
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 +45
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 380 258 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.59% 4.17% 3.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.98% 12.56% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 334 167 209
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £83,438 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

All Cloud Computing 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 2,928 2,054 2,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 35.35% 33.17% 36.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 1,187 2,618
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

SaaS job vacancy trend 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 2 February 2026.

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 2 February 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
West Midlands +46 281 £55,000 -8.33% 78
East Midlands -13 99 £37,500 -37.50% 43
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 17 (4.47%) IIS
2 15 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.84%) Apache
5 5 (1.32%) CMS
6 4 (1.05%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (0.79%) Trello
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 67 (17.63%) Azure
2 37 (9.74%) AWS
3 16 (4.21%) PaaS
4 13 (3.42%) GitHub
4 13 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 10 (2.63%) Figma
6 9 (2.37%) GCP
6 9 (2.37%) IaaS
7 8 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (1.84%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.58%) iPaaS
10 5 (1.32%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.32%) OCI
11 4 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.05%) Datadog
11 4 (1.05%) Serverless
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.79%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.21%) Remote Desktop
2 11 (2.89%) DNS
3 9 (2.37%) Firewall
3 9 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.84%) DHCP
5 6 (1.58%) SAN
5 6 (1.58%) VLAN
6 4 (1.05%) VPN
7 2 (0.53%) HTTP
7 2 (0.53%) SSL
8 1 (0.26%) 3G
8 1 (0.26%) GPRS
8 1 (0.26%) GSM
8 1 (0.26%) Modbus
8 1 (0.26%) RS-232
8 1 (0.26%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.89%) MySQL
3 10 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.84%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.84%) Power BI
5 6 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.79%) Big Data
8 2 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.53%) Tableau
9 1 (0.26%) Looker
9 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.26%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (4.21%) JIRA
2 8 (2.11%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.32%) Git
4 4 (1.05%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.05%) Selenium
5 2 (0.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.26%) JMeter
6 1 (0.26%) Locust
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 96 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (11.84%) Retail
4 24 (6.32%) Law
5 19 (5.00%) Marketing
6 18 (4.74%) Finance
7 16 (4.21%) Legal
8 9 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.11%) Games
9 8 (2.11%) German Language
9 8 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.53%) Local Government
13 1 (0.26%) Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 40 (10.53%) Senior
2 39 (10.26%) 2nd Line Support
3 32 (8.42%) Developer
4 30 (7.89%) Account Executive
5 29 (7.63%) Analyst
6 27 (7.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 26 (6.84%) Support Engineer
8 25 (6.58%) Sales Manager
9 24 (6.32%) Applications Support
10 23 (6.05%) Architect
10 23 (6.05%) Support Analyst
11 22 (5.79%) Account Manager
11 22 (5.79%) Lead
12 20 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (5.00%) Channel Sales Manager
13 19 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
13 19 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 16 (4.21%) Technical Support
15 14 (3.68%) Software Analyst
15 14 (3.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.53%) .NET
2 15 (3.95%) React
3 10 (2.63%) HTML
3 10 (2.63%) LAMP
3 10 (2.63%) REST
4 9 (2.37%) Blazor
4 9 (2.37%) CSS
4 9 (2.37%) Node.js
5 8 (2.11%) Material Design
5 8 (2.11%) WebAssembly
6 6 (1.58%) SOAP
7 5 (1.32%) Laravel
7 5 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.32%) Vue
8 3 (0.79%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.79%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.79%) OAuth
8 3 (0.79%) PySpark
8 3 (0.79%) React Native
8 3 (0.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.53%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.53%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.00%) EPoS
4 13 (3.42%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.11%) PropTech
8 6 (1.58%) Clustering
9 4 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.79%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.79%) FMCG
10 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.53%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.53%) NHS
12 1 (0.26%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.26%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.26%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.79%) Windows
2 19 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (3.68%) Linux
4 2 (0.53%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (22.37%) CRM
2 80 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (19.47%) Mentoring
4 62 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (13.68%) Logistics
6 48 (12.63%) ERP
7 44 (11.58%) Customer Service
7 44 (11.58%) E-Commerce
8 40 (10.53%) Agile
8 40 (10.53%) Analytical Thinking
8 40 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
9 39 (10.26%) Data Privacy
10 38 (10.00%) Software Engineering
11 37 (9.74%) B2B
12 36 (9.47%) AI
13 34 (8.95%) CI/CD
14 32 (8.42%) Roadmaps
15 31 (8.16%) DevOps
16 28 (7.37%) Service Delivery
17 26 (6.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 99 (26.05%) SQL
2 72 (18.95%) C#
3 29 (7.63%) JavaScript
4 21 (5.53%) PHP
5 15 (3.95%) Python
6 10 (2.63%) Java
7 7 (1.84%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.05%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.53%) Go
9 2 (0.53%) Groovy
9 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.53%) Ruby
10 1 (0.26%) Bicep
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 28 (7.37%) Degree
2 9 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.58%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.58%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.32%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.32%) PMP
5 4 (1.05%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.26%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.63%) QA
2 9 (2.37%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.37%) GDPR
2 9 (2.37%) WCAG
3 8 (2.11%) SLA
4 6 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.26%) HL7
6 1 (0.26%) MISRA
System Software
1 14 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.58%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.79%) Docker
3 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (2.37%) Terraform
2 6 (1.58%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.05%) Ansible
3 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.53%) Grafana
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) Argo
5 1 (0.26%) CASB
5 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 41 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.58%) Oracle
3 20 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.89%) Databricks
5 10 (2.63%) Google
6 9 (2.37%) HubSpot
7 8 (2.11%) Xamarin
8 6 (1.58%) Veeam
9 5 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.79%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.79%) SAP
11 2 (0.53%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.26%) Adobe
12 1 (0.26%) Netskope
12 1 (0.26%) Okta
12 1 (0.26%) Pardot
12 1 (0.26%) Zoho