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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 62 80
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 +35
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 358 279 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.54% 4.11% 3.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.55% 12.95% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 311 189 137
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% -

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 2,852 2,154 1,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.13% 31.71% 38.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,400 1,249 1,716
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,688
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 £82,500 £78,900 £77,750
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 26 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 26 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 +45 243 £55,000 -8.33% 274
East Midlands -14 115 £44,000 -26.67% 215
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 (4.75%) IIS
2 12 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.96%) Apache
5 5 (1.40%) CMS
6 4 (1.12%) WordPress
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.84%) Trello
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Magento
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (18.16%) Azure
2 41 (11.45%) AWS
3 17 (4.75%) PaaS
4 12 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.79%) GCP
5 10 (2.79%) GitHub
6 9 (2.51%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.23%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.96%) Figma
8 7 (1.96%) IaaS
9 6 (1.68%) iPaaS
9 6 (1.68%) OCI
10 5 (1.40%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.12%) Datadog
11 4 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (1.12%) Serverless
12 3 (0.84%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (10.89%) Remote Desktop
2 10 (2.79%) DNS
3 9 (2.51%) Firewall
4 8 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.96%) DHCP
6 6 (1.68%) SAN
6 6 (1.68%) VLAN
7 3 (0.84%) VPN
8 2 (0.56%) HTTP
9 1 (0.28%) 3G
9 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.28%) GPRS
9 1 (0.28%) GSM
9 1 (0.28%) Modbus
9 1 (0.28%) RS-232
9 1 (0.28%) RS-485
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.35%) MySQL
3 10 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.23%) Power BI
5 7 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.84%) Big Data
7 3 (0.84%) Tableau
8 2 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.56%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.28%) Looker
9 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (4.75%) JIRA
2 6 (1.68%) Git
2 6 (1.68%) Selenium
3 4 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.12%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.56%) Postman
5 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.28%) JMeter
5 1 (0.28%) Locust
5 1 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 105 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (13.41%) Retail
4 25 (6.98%) Marketing
5 19 (5.31%) Finance
6 18 (5.03%) Law
7 10 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.79%) Games
8 9 (2.51%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.23%) German Language
9 8 (2.23%) Legal
10 6 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.84%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.56%) Automotive
13 2 (0.56%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.56%) Local Government
14 1 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 43 (12.01%) 2nd Line Support
2 32 (8.94%) Lead
3 31 (8.66%) Architect
3 31 (8.66%) Developer
3 31 (8.66%) Senior
4 27 (7.54%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 25 (6.98%) Analyst
5 25 (6.98%) Support Engineer
6 24 (6.70%) Applications Support
7 23 (6.42%) Account Executive
8 20 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (5.59%) Sales Manager
8 20 (5.59%) Support Analyst
9 19 (5.31%) Infrastructure Support
9 19 (5.31%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 17 (4.75%) Support Technician
10 17 (4.75%) Technical Support
11 14 (3.91%) Software Analyst
11 14 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.63%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.06%) .NET
2 16 (4.47%) React
3 10 (2.79%) HTML
3 10 (2.79%) LAMP
3 10 (2.79%) REST
4 9 (2.51%) CSS
4 9 (2.51%) Node.js
5 7 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.68%) SOAP
7 5 (1.40%) Blazor
7 5 (1.40%) Laravel
7 5 (1.40%) Material Design
7 5 (1.40%) Vue
8 4 (1.12%) RESTful
8 4 (1.12%) WebAssembly
9 3 (0.84%) Next.js
9 3 (0.84%) OAuth
9 3 (0.84%) PySpark
9 3 (0.84%) React Native
10 2 (0.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.48%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.35%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.07%) EPoS
6 10 (2.79%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.68%) Clustering
7 6 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.40%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.40%) PropTech
9 4 (1.12%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.84%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.84%) NHS
10 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
11 2 (0.56%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.56%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.56%) Social Media
12 1 (0.28%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.31%) Windows
2 17 (4.75%) Windows Server
3 14 (3.91%) Linux
4 2 (0.56%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (24.86%) CRM
2 85 (23.74%) Mentoring
3 82 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (14.53%) Agile
5 52 (14.53%) Logistics
6 51 (14.25%) E-Commerce
6 51 (14.25%) ERP
7 48 (13.41%) Customer Service
8 46 (12.85%) Data Privacy
9 44 (12.29%) Analytical Thinking
9 44 (12.29%) Root Cause Analysis
10 37 (10.34%) B2B
11 35 (9.78%) Roadmaps
11 35 (9.78%) Software Engineering
12 33 (9.22%) CI/CD
13 32 (8.94%) DevOps
14 31 (8.66%) AI
15 27 (7.54%) Customer Experience
16 26 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 106 (29.61%) SQL
2 79 (22.07%) C#
3 30 (8.38%) JavaScript
4 21 (5.87%) PHP
5 18 (5.03%) Python
6 11 (3.07%) Java
7 7 (1.96%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.56%) C
10 2 (0.56%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) Groovy
10 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.28%) Bicep
11 1 (0.28%) C++
11 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.28%) XAML
Qualifications
1 28 (7.82%) Degree
2 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.68%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.68%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.68%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.40%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.40%) PMP
5 4 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.41%) QA
2 10 (2.79%) GDPR
2 10 (2.79%) SLA
3 8 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.40%) WCAG
5 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.28%) HL7
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.28%) MISRA
6 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.68%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.12%) Docker
4 3 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (2.51%) Terraform
2 7 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (1.40%) Ansible
5 3 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.56%) Grafana
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) Argo
7 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 44 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.54%) Oracle
3 18 (5.03%) Salesforce
4 11 (3.07%) Databricks
5 10 (2.79%) Google
6 8 (2.23%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.68%) Veeam
8 5 (1.40%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.84%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.56%) Adobe
10 2 (0.56%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.28%) Pardot