SaaS Jobs in the North West

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 61 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +20
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 265 332 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.86% 5.13% 5.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.90% 12.60% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 184 170 429
10th Percentile £36,625 £38,975 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,188 £46,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -3.48% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,875 £84,056 £97,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,979 2,634 4,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.17% 40.70% 45.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,093 1,774 2,883
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,040
25th Percentile £41,933 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,645 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the North West.

Salary trend for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the North West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the North West

SaaS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Manchester -21 164 £60,000 +2.54% 41
Cheshire +10 50 £42,500 -20.93% 6
Merseyside -23 21 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Lancashire -9 15 £70,000 +24.44% 6
Cumbria - 15 £65,000 - 3
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) BambooHR
1 2 (0.75%) iTrent
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (31.70%) Azure
2 72 (27.17%) AWS
3 29 (10.94%) GCP
4 23 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.28%) PaaS
6 11 (4.15%) IaaS
7 4 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.75%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.75%) GitHub
9 2 (0.75%) Serverless
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) WAN
2 4 (1.51%) LAN
2 4 (1.51%) WLAN
3 3 (1.13%) Firewall
4 2 (0.75%) Skype
5 1 (0.38%) BGP
5 1 (0.38%) DHCP
5 1 (0.38%) DNS
5 1 (0.38%) OSPF
5 1 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.38%) SNMP
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.66%) MySQL
2 14 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.02%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.64%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.26%) Metadata
7 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.51%) Big Data
8 4 (1.51%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.51%) GIS
9 3 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.75%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.38%) Event Store
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.42%) Git
2 9 (3.40%) Selenium
3 6 (2.26%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.89%) GitLab
4 5 (1.89%) JIRA
4 5 (1.89%) JMeter
4 5 (1.89%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.89%) WebDriver
5 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.38%) Moq
6 1 (0.38%) MSI
6 1 (0.38%) NUnit
6 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 59 (22.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
3 16 (6.04%) Tech for Good
4 15 (5.66%) Marketing
5 13 (4.91%) Retail
6 12 (4.53%) Finance
7 11 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.15%) Legal
8 8 (3.02%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.26%) Law
9 6 (2.26%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Automotive
12 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Local Government
12 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.38%) Back Office
13 1 (0.38%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (27.92%) Developer
2 54 (20.38%) Architect
3 47 (17.74%) Senior
4 27 (10.19%) Senior Developer
5 23 (8.68%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (6.42%) Cloud Architect
7 13 (4.91%) Consultant
8 12 (4.53%) Analyst
8 12 (4.53%) Lead
9 11 (4.15%) .NET Developer
9 11 (4.15%) Full Stack Developer
9 11 (4.15%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.77%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.40%) PHP Developer
12 7 (2.64%) Development Director
12 7 (2.64%) HR Director
12 7 (2.64%) JavaScript Developer
12 7 (2.64%) Software Development Director
13 6 (2.26%) Senior .NET Developer
13 6 (2.26%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.72%) React
2 31 (11.70%) .NET
3 25 (9.43%) Node.js
4 17 (6.42%) CSS
4 17 (6.42%) HTML
5 13 (4.91%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.15%) .NET Core
6 11 (4.15%) RESTful
7 10 (3.77%) Laravel
8 6 (2.26%) Next.js
9 5 (1.89%) Gherkin
9 5 (1.89%) jQuery
10 4 (1.51%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.51%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.13%) Django
11 3 (1.13%) Symfony
11 3 (1.13%) Tailwind CSS
12 2 (0.75%) MACH
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.75%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.17%) Public Cloud
2 14 (5.28%) PKI
3 12 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.77%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.02%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.26%) Blog
7 6 (2.26%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.13%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.13%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.13%) Replication
8 3 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.75%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.75%) NHS
9 2 (0.75%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.38%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.40%) Windows
2 7 (2.64%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.26%) Linux
4 4 (1.51%) Android
5 3 (1.13%) Unix
6 2 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (26.42%) Agile
2 44 (16.60%) Mentoring
3 37 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (13.21%) DevOps
5 31 (11.70%) Roadmaps
6 30 (11.32%) Software Engineering
7 29 (10.94%) Full Stack Development
8 26 (9.81%) CI/CD
8 26 (9.81%) Project Management
8 26 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (9.43%) B2B
9 25 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (9.06%) Microservices
11 22 (8.30%) TDD
12 21 (7.92%) Analytics
12 21 (7.92%) Test Automation
13 20 (7.55%) Fintech
13 20 (7.55%) Presales
14 19 (7.17%) Code Quality
14 19 (7.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 42 (15.85%) SQL
3 41 (15.47%) C#
4 22 (8.30%) Python
5 15 (5.66%) PHP
6 14 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.91%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.15%) Bash
9 3 (1.13%) Java
9 3 (1.13%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.75%) Bicep
10 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.75%) Swift
11 1 (0.38%) Ada
11 1 (0.38%) C
11 1 (0.38%) C++
11 1 (0.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (6.04%) Degree
2 11 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.02%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.51%) BC Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) CISSP
6 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CCA
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Master
7 1 (0.38%) PMP
7 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.94%) QA
2 11 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.40%) GDPR
4 6 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.89%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.51%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.51%) NIST
6 4 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.13%) PMO
8 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (4.15%) Docker
2 9 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 13 (4.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.51%) Terraform
4 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.66%) Google
3 10 (3.77%) BT
4 8 (3.02%) VMware
5 6 (2.26%) Oracle
6 3 (1.13%) Apple
6 3 (1.13%) IBM
6 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.13%) SAP
7 2 (0.75%) Sage
7 2 (0.75%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.75%) Workday
8 1 (0.38%) Aderant
8 1 (0.38%) CA
8 1 (0.38%) Databricks
8 1 (0.38%) HP
8 1 (0.38%) New Relic
8 1 (0.38%) Qualys
8 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.38%) Xerox