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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 61 84
Rank change year-on-year +19 +23 +29
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 348 293 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.56% 4.14% 3.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.33% 13.38% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 302 203 138
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £47,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,750 £72,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £89,300
England median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% -10.71% +2.49%

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 2,822 2,190 1,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 37.00% 30.96% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,375 1,295 1,659
10th Percentile £26,875 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,396 £79,200 £77,950
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 +31 227 £55,000 -8.33% 327
East Midlands -6 121 £45,000 -25.00% 271
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 (4.89%) IIS
2 12 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.30%) Apache
5 5 (1.44%) CMS
6 4 (1.15%) WordPress
7 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.86%) Trello
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.29%) Magento
3 1 (0.29%) Maximo
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (17.82%) Azure
2 44 (12.64%) AWS
3 16 (4.60%) PaaS
4 12 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.87%) Entra ID
5 10 (2.87%) GCP
6 9 (2.59%) GitHub
7 8 (2.30%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.72%) IaaS
8 6 (1.72%) iPaaS
8 6 (1.72%) OCI
8 6 (1.72%) Serverless
9 5 (1.44%) Figma
9 5 (1.44%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.15%) Datadog
11 3 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (11.21%) Remote Desktop
2 10 (2.87%) DNS
3 9 (2.59%) Firewall
4 8 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.01%) DHCP
6 6 (1.72%) SAN
6 6 (1.72%) VLAN
7 3 (0.86%) VPN
8 2 (0.57%) HTTP
9 1 (0.29%) 3G
9 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.29%) GPRS
9 1 (0.29%) GSM
9 1 (0.29%) Modbus
9 1 (0.29%) RS-232
9 1 (0.29%) RS-485
9 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.45%) MySQL
3 8 (2.30%) Data Lake
3 8 (2.30%) Power BI
4 7 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.86%) Big Data
6 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.86%) Tableau
7 2 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.57%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 17 (4.89%) JIRA
2 7 (2.01%) Selenium
3 6 (1.72%) Git
4 4 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.57%) Postman
5 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.29%) JMeter
6 1 (0.29%) Locust
6 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 105 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (13.79%) Retail
4 26 (7.47%) Marketing
5 19 (5.46%) Finance
6 16 (4.60%) Law
7 10 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.87%) Games
8 9 (2.59%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.30%) German Language
10 6 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.15%) Legal
13 3 (0.86%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.57%) Automotive
14 2 (0.57%) Dutch Language
14 2 (0.57%) Local Government
14 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (12.36%) 2nd Line Support
2 36 (10.34%) Lead
3 32 (9.20%) Architect
4 31 (8.91%) Senior
5 28 (8.05%) Developer
6 27 (7.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 25 (7.18%) Support Engineer
8 24 (6.90%) Analyst
8 24 (6.90%) Applications Support
9 20 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (5.75%) Support Analyst
10 19 (5.46%) Infrastructure Support
10 19 (5.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 18 (5.17%) Account Executive
12 17 (4.89%) Sales Manager
12 17 (4.89%) Support Technician
12 17 (4.89%) Technical Support
13 14 (4.02%) Software Analyst
13 14 (4.02%) Software Engineer
13 14 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.48%) .NET
2 16 (4.60%) React
3 10 (2.87%) HTML
3 10 (2.87%) LAMP
3 10 (2.87%) REST
4 9 (2.59%) CSS
4 9 (2.59%) Node.js
5 7 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.72%) SOAP
7 5 (1.44%) Laravel
7 5 (1.44%) Vue
8 4 (1.15%) Blazor
8 4 (1.15%) RESTful
9 3 (0.86%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.86%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.86%) Material Design
9 3 (0.86%) Next.js
9 3 (0.86%) OAuth
9 3 (0.86%) PySpark
9 3 (0.86%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 20 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.30%) EPoS
6 7 (2.01%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.72%) Clustering
8 5 (1.44%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.15%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.86%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.86%) NHS
10 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.57%) Culture of Ownership
11 2 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.57%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.57%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.57%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.89%) Windows
2 16 (4.60%) Windows Server
3 14 (4.02%) Linux
4 2 (0.57%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (25.29%) CRM
2 86 (24.71%) Mentoring
3 82 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (16.09%) Agile
6 51 (14.66%) E-Commerce
6 51 (14.66%) ERP
7 49 (14.08%) Logistics
8 48 (13.79%) Customer Service
9 46 (13.22%) Data Privacy
10 44 (12.64%) Analytical Thinking
10 44 (12.64%) Root Cause Analysis
11 39 (11.21%) B2B
12 38 (10.92%) Software Engineering
13 36 (10.34%) Roadmaps
14 33 (9.48%) CI/CD
15 32 (9.20%) DevOps
16 30 (8.62%) AI
17 27 (7.76%) Customer Experience
18 26 (7.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (31.03%) SQL
2 82 (23.56%) C#
3 33 (9.48%) JavaScript
4 21 (6.03%) PHP
5 19 (5.46%) Python
6 11 (3.16%) Java
7 7 (2.01%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.57%) Bicep
10 2 (0.57%) C
10 2 (0.57%) Go
10 2 (0.57%) Groovy
10 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.57%) Ruby
11 1 (0.29%) C++
11 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.29%) XAML
Qualifications
1 28 (8.05%) Degree
2 10 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.72%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.72%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.72%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.44%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.44%) PMP
5 4 (1.15%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.29%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.79%) QA
2 10 (2.87%) SLA
3 9 (2.59%) GDPR
4 8 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.86%) WCAG
6 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.29%) MISRA
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.72%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.15%) Docker
4 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (3.45%) Terraform
2 7 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (1.44%) Ansible
5 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.57%) Grafana
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 45 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.76%) Oracle
3 18 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.45%) Databricks
5 10 (2.87%) Google
6 8 (2.30%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.72%) Veeam
8 3 (0.86%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.57%) Adobe
9 2 (0.57%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.57%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.29%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.29%) Pardot