SaaS Job Trends in the North of England

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 74 62
Rank change year-on-year +27 -12 +45
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 459 261 470
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.74% 3.28% 3.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.28% 9.62% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 376 159 395
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,579
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,465 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +1.58% +2.53%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -5.80%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,464 2,712 4,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.33% 34.11% 37.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,046 1,543 3,989
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,925 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,125 £42,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £83,750
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 North of England

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in the North of England

SaaS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the North of England

SaaS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West +30 240 £65,000 +8.33% 152
Yorkshire +27 175 £55,000 -15.38% 61
North East +26 44 £42,500 -15.00% 17
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.87%) Confluence
2 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.65%) Moodle
3 3 (0.65%) Totara
4 2 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.31%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 106 (23.09%) Azure
2 68 (14.81%) AWS
3 42 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (6.97%) PaaS
5 27 (5.88%) IaaS
6 22 (4.79%) Entra ID
7 17 (3.70%) Serverless
8 13 (2.83%) Power Platform
9 11 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (2.18%) Azure Functions
10 10 (2.18%) OneDrive
11 9 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (1.96%) GCP
11 9 (1.96%) GitHub
11 9 (1.96%) Intacct
12 8 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.40%) SAN
2 10 (2.18%) Firewall
3 4 (0.87%) Network Security
4 3 (0.65%) DNS
5 2 (0.44%) DHCP
5 2 (0.44%) VPN
6 1 (0.22%) HTTP
6 1 (0.22%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.83%) Data Lake
2 13 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.09%) MySQL
3 5 (1.09%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.65%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.44%) Power BI
6 2 (0.44%) Power Query
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (1.09%) JIRA
2 4 (0.87%) Postman
3 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.44%) JMeter
4 2 (0.44%) Locust
4 2 (0.44%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Protractor
General
1 96 (20.92%) Finance
2 88 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 60 (13.07%) Marketing
4 41 (8.93%) Legal
5 29 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (6.10%) Law
7 20 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (4.36%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.92%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.27%) Retail
10 14 (3.05%) Advertising
11 7 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.31%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.09%) Automotive
13 5 (1.09%) Games
14 4 (0.87%) Banking
14 4 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.65%) Billing
16 2 (0.44%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 61 (13.29%) Senior
2 56 (12.20%) Developer
3 46 (10.02%) Lead
4 45 (9.80%) Sales Representative
5 27 (5.88%) Development Manager
6 21 (4.58%) Architect
7 18 (3.92%) Software Development Manager
7 18 (3.92%) Software Manager
8 17 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.49%) .NET Developer
9 16 (3.49%) C# Developer
9 16 (3.49%) Infrastructure Support
10 14 (3.05%) .NET Development Manager
10 14 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (3.05%) Lead Developer
10 14 (3.05%) Senior Developer
10 14 (3.05%) Support Engineer
10 14 (3.05%) Support Technician
11 13 (2.83%) Analyst
11 13 (2.83%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (15.25%) .NET
2 25 (5.45%) React
3 17 (3.70%) REST
4 8 (1.74%) AngularJS
4 8 (1.74%) CSS
5 7 (1.53%) Micronaut
6 6 (1.31%) HTML
7 4 (0.87%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.87%) React Native
8 3 (0.65%) HTML5
8 3 (0.65%) Jest
8 3 (0.65%) jQuery
8 3 (0.65%) Laravel
8 3 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.65%) Middleware
8 3 (0.65%) Next.js
8 3 (0.65%) Node.js
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.65%) Symfony
9 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.71%) Onboarding
2 33 (7.19%) Mobile App
3 26 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.49%) Cloud Native
7 14 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.83%) Marketing Technology
9 12 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.31%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.09%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.09%) Educational Technology
12 5 (1.09%) EPoS
12 5 (1.09%) Life Science
12 5 (1.09%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.87%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.49%) Windows
2 10 (2.18%) Android
3 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (20.92%) Agile
2 70 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 70 (15.25%) Software Engineering
3 57 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (10.02%) DevOps
5 44 (9.59%) B2B
6 43 (9.37%) Mentoring
7 42 (9.15%) Coaching
8 39 (8.50%) Roadmaps
9 36 (7.84%) CI/CD
10 34 (7.41%) SDLC
11 31 (6.75%) AI
12 30 (6.54%) CRM
12 30 (6.54%) Product Vision
13 29 (6.32%) Microservices
14 28 (6.10%) Full-Stack Development
14 28 (6.10%) User Experience
15 24 (5.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (5.23%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (4.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 60 (13.07%) C#
2 36 (7.84%) SQL
3 25 (5.45%) TypeScript
4 17 (3.70%) Java
5 15 (3.27%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.18%) Python
7 7 (1.53%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.31%) Bicep
8 6 (1.31%) PHP
9 3 (0.65%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.65%) Bash
9 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (4.79%) Degree
2 13 (2.83%) ACCA
2 13 (2.83%) CIMA
3 8 (1.74%) SC Cleared
3 8 (1.74%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.31%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.22%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.22%) CISA
7 1 (0.22%) CISSP
7 1 (0.22%) CRISC
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.22%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.14%) GDPR
2 18 (3.92%) QA
3 12 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.87%) GLBA
7 3 (0.65%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.65%) GRC
7 3 (0.65%) NIST
7 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.44%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.74%) Docker
4 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (4.79%) Terraform
2 20 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.53%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.65%) Ansible
5 3 (0.65%) Grafana
Vendors
1 59 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.61%) Databricks
2 12 (2.61%) VMware
3 9 (1.96%) BiZZdesign
3 9 (1.96%) Sage
3 9 (1.96%) Splunk
4 8 (1.74%) New Relic
5 6 (1.31%) HubSpot
6 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.09%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (1.09%) Zoho
7 4 (0.87%) Google
7 4 (0.87%) iManage
7 4 (0.87%) Oracle
7 4 (0.87%) Xero
8 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.65%) Forcepoint
8 3 (0.65%) Proofpoint
8 3 (0.65%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.44%) Sony