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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 57 74
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +65
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 412 250 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.47% 4.39% 3.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.94% 13.01% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 353 174 226
10th Percentile £29,200 £37,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -13.73%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,375 £89,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -4.83%

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 3,183 1,921 3,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.56% 33.71% 35.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,529 1,193 2,661
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £76,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 26 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 26 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 +45 294 £55,000 -8.33% 62
East Midlands -18 117 £50,000 -16.67% 35
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 14 (3.40%) IIS
2 12 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.70%) Apache
5 4 (0.97%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.73%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.24%) Maximo
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (17.23%) Azure
2 30 (7.28%) AWS
3 16 (3.88%) PaaS
4 12 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.67%) GitHub
6 10 (2.43%) IaaS
7 9 (2.18%) Figma
8 8 (1.94%) GCP
8 8 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (1.70%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.46%) iPaaS
11 5 (1.21%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.97%) Datadog
13 3 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.73%) Firebase
13 3 (0.73%) OCI
13 3 (0.73%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.28%) Remote Desktop
2 11 (2.67%) DNS
3 9 (2.18%) Firewall
3 9 (2.18%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.70%) DHCP
5 6 (1.46%) SAN
5 6 (1.46%) VLAN
6 4 (0.97%) VPN
7 2 (0.49%) HTTP
7 2 (0.49%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) 3G
8 1 (0.24%) GPRS
8 1 (0.24%) GSM
8 1 (0.24%) Modbus
8 1 (0.24%) RS-232
8 1 (0.24%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.67%) MySQL
3 8 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.46%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.73%) Big Data
6 3 (0.73%) Power BI
6 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.49%) Tableau
8 1 (0.24%) Metadata
8 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.24%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (3.64%) JIRA
2 8 (1.94%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.21%) Git
4 3 (0.73%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.49%) Selenium
5 2 (0.49%) Storybook
6 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.24%) JMeter
6 1 (0.24%) Locust
6 1 (0.24%) Postman
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (21.12%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.86%) Retail
3 49 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.04%) Marketing
5 26 (6.31%) Law
6 21 (5.10%) Legal
7 20 (4.85%) Finance
8 9 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.18%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.94%) Games
9 8 (1.94%) German Language
9 8 (1.94%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Automotive
13 2 (0.49%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.49%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.24%) Banking
14 1 (0.24%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 51 (12.38%) Senior
2 37 (8.98%) Account Executive
3 34 (8.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 29 (7.04%) Developer
4 29 (7.04%) Sales Manager
5 28 (6.80%) Analyst
6 27 (6.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 24 (5.83%) Support Engineer
8 23 (5.58%) Account Manager
8 23 (5.58%) Support Analyst
9 21 (5.10%) Architect
10 20 (4.85%) ERP Support
10 20 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (4.61%) Channel Sales Manager
11 19 (4.61%) Infrastructure Support
11 19 (4.61%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 19 (4.61%) Lead
12 18 (4.37%) Designer
13 17 (4.13%) Applications Support
14 14 (3.40%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.98%) .NET
2 12 (2.91%) React
3 11 (2.67%) HTML
4 10 (2.43%) CSS
4 10 (2.43%) Node.js
5 9 (2.18%) LAMP
5 9 (2.18%) REST
6 8 (1.94%) Blazor
6 8 (1.94%) Material Design
6 8 (1.94%) WebAssembly
7 7 (1.70%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.21%) Laravel
8 5 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.21%) SOAP
8 5 (1.21%) Vue
9 4 (0.97%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.97%) RESTful
10 3 (0.73%) OAuth
10 3 (0.73%) PySpark
10 3 (0.73%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 63 (15.29%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.61%) EPoS
3 16 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.40%) PropTech
5 13 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.46%) Clustering
8 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.97%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.97%) Digital Signage
9 3 (0.73%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.73%) FMCG
9 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.49%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.49%) NHS
11 1 (0.24%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.24%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.34%) Windows
2 19 (4.61%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.16%) Linux
4 2 (0.49%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (21.36%) CRM
2 73 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (15.29%) Mentoring
4 58 (14.08%) B2B
5 54 (13.11%) ERP
6 51 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (12.14%) Logistics
8 49 (11.89%) Customer Service
9 41 (9.95%) Data Privacy
10 38 (9.22%) AI
10 38 (9.22%) E-Commerce
10 38 (9.22%) Software Engineering
11 36 (8.74%) Service Delivery
12 35 (8.50%) Roadmaps
13 34 (8.25%) Agile
13 34 (8.25%) Analytical Thinking
13 34 (8.25%) Customer Experience
14 31 (7.52%) Root Cause Analysis
15 28 (6.80%) CI/CD
15 28 (6.80%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 89 (21.60%) SQL
2 62 (15.05%) C#
3 29 (7.04%) JavaScript
4 18 (4.37%) PHP
5 11 (2.67%) Python
6 7 (1.70%) Java
6 7 (1.70%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.46%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.73%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.49%) Groovy
9 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.24%) C
10 1 (0.24%) C++
10 1 (0.24%) Go
10 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (5.83%) Degree
2 7 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.46%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.46%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.24%) ACCA
7 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.24%) CIMA
7 1 (0.24%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.44%) QA
2 11 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.43%) GDPR
4 9 (2.18%) WCAG
5 4 (0.97%) SLA
6 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) HL7
7 1 (0.24%) MISRA
7 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.46%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.73%) Docker
3 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (1.94%) Terraform
2 6 (1.46%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.97%) Ansible
4 4 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.49%) Grafana
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.24%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) CASB
6 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 34 (8.25%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.85%) Oracle
3 19 (4.61%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.43%) Google
5 9 (2.18%) Databricks
6 8 (1.94%) HubSpot
6 8 (1.94%) Xamarin
7 6 (1.46%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.46%) Veeam
8 3 (0.73%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.73%) SAP
9 2 (0.49%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.24%) Adobe
10 1 (0.24%) Netskope
10 1 (0.24%) Okta
10 1 (0.24%) Pardot
10 1 (0.24%) Zoho