SaaS Job Trends in the North East

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 41 76
Rank change year-on-year -51 +35 -24
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 57 38 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.58% 3.88% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.32% 17.12% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 53 30 11
10th Percentile £31,250 £50,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £55,313 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,563 £65,603
90th Percentile £91,375 £97,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -11.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 685 222 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.98% 22.65% 29.11%
Number of salaries quoted 528 152 215
10th Percentile £36,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £29,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £78,661 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in the North East

SaaS
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the North East over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the North East

SaaS
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Tyne and Wear -58 48 £45,000 -28.00% 51
Durham -11 4 £66,375 +4.35% 1
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) IaaS
2 8 (14.04%) PaaS
3 7 (12.28%) AWS
4 5 (8.77%) Azure
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.51%) GCP
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.51%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.75%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.75%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.75%) Meta Ads
7 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.75%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.26%) GIS
1 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.51%) Power BI
3 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.75%) MySQL
3 1 (1.75%) Redis
3 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (28.07%) Marketing
2 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.05%) Finance
4 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (10.53%) Retail
6 4 (7.02%) Legal
7 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Law
9 1 (1.75%) Polish Language
9 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Russian Language
9 1 (1.75%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 11 (19.30%) Architect
2 9 (15.79%) Account Executive
2 9 (15.79%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) Lead Architect
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Business Development Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Business Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Development Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Sales Representative
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Technical Architect
8 1 (1.75%) Sales Administrator
8 1 (1.75%) Senior Sales Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) Middleware
2 5 (8.77%) .NET
3 3 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 3 (5.26%) Ajax
3 3 (5.26%) boto
3 3 (5.26%) CSS
3 3 (5.26%) CSS3
3 3 (5.26%) Flask
3 3 (5.26%) HTML
3 3 (5.26%) HTML5
3 3 (5.26%) Jinja
3 3 (5.26%) jQuery
3 3 (5.26%) OpenLayers
3 3 (5.26%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.75%) Akka
4 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.75%) doobie
4 1 (1.75%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) PropTech
2 8 (14.04%) Onboarding
3 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
3 7 (12.28%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (12.28%) Web Conferencing
4 3 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.51%) Educational Technology
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.51%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (3.51%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.81%) Agile
1 13 (22.81%) Business Development
2 12 (21.05%) Analytics
2 12 (21.05%) Commercial Awareness
2 12 (21.05%) CRM
3 10 (17.54%) Decision-Making
4 9 (15.79%) B2B
4 9 (15.79%) DevOps
4 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (14.04%) Coaching
5 8 (14.04%) Lead Generation
5 8 (14.04%) Roadmaps
6 7 (12.28%) Computer Science
6 7 (12.28%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (12.28%) Microservices
6 7 (12.28%) Risk Management
6 7 (12.28%) SDLC
6 7 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (12.28%) Technology Transformation
7 6 (10.53%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) Python
2 5 (8.77%) SQL
3 2 (3.51%) C#
3 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.51%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.51%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) Grafana
2 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) BMC
2 5 (8.77%) HubSpot
2 5 (8.77%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.02%) Google
4 2 (3.51%) Adobe
4 2 (3.51%) Sage