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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 59 86
Rank change year-on-year -131 +27 -25
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 104 348 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.33% 3.34% 4.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.18% 9.98% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 88 267 143
10th Percentile £32,125 £37,000 £37,300
25th Percentile £42,188 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.31% -3.48% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £85,500 £73,470
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -

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 1,449 3,486 3,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 18.47% 33.51% 43.28%
Number of salaries quoted 833 2,698 1,855
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £32,916
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,964 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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
Manchester -22 86 £60,000 - 262
Merseyside +7 8 £28,500 -45.71% 13
Cheshire -48 5 £61,250 +16.67% 50
Lancashire -68 5 £52,500 -28.81% 56
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 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.92%) IIS
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.96%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (29.81%) Azure
2 22 (21.15%) AWS
3 13 (12.50%) GitHub
4 7 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.73%) IaaS
4 7 (6.73%) PaaS
5 5 (4.81%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.81%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.88%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.92%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.92%) GCP
8 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.77%) VPN
2 3 (2.88%) DNS
3 2 (1.92%) Firewall
3 2 (1.92%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.69%) MySQL
3 5 (4.81%) Data Hub
3 5 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.81%) Power BI
3 5 (4.81%) SQL CLR
4 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.88%) Big Data
5 3 (2.88%) Event Store
5 3 (2.88%) Metadata
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Git
1 7 (6.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.85%) NUnit
3 3 (2.88%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.88%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.92%) MSTest
4 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.96%) GitLab
5 1 (0.96%) Mocha
5 1 (0.96%) Selenium
5 1 (0.96%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.35%) Finance
3 15 (14.42%) Marketing
4 5 (4.81%) Back Office
4 5 (4.81%) Health Technology
4 5 (4.81%) Law
5 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.88%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Cantonese Language
6 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Retail
7 2 (1.92%) Automotive
7 2 (1.92%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.92%) Front Office
7 2 (1.92%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (22.12%) Developer
2 17 (16.35%) Senior
3 15 (14.42%) Senior Developer
4 12 (11.54%) Lead
5 9 (8.65%) .NET Developer
6 7 (6.73%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Senior .NET Developer
7 6 (5.77%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) SQL Developer
8 5 (4.81%) Business Development Manager
8 5 (4.81%) Business Manager
8 5 (4.81%) Consultant
8 5 (4.81%) Development Manager
9 4 (3.85%) Architect
9 4 (3.85%) C# Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) React Developer
10 3 (2.88%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.27%) .NET
2 12 (11.54%) CSS
3 11 (10.58%) .NET Core
4 10 (9.62%) React
5 9 (8.65%) HTML
6 8 (7.69%) .NET Framework
7 7 (6.73%) Entity Framework
8 5 (4.81%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.81%) ASP.NET
8 5 (4.81%) CSS3
8 5 (4.81%) HTML5
8 5 (4.81%) Node.js
8 5 (4.81%) REST
8 5 (4.81%) RESTful
9 4 (3.85%) Next.js
9 4 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (2.88%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (2.88%) Bootstrap
10 3 (2.88%) GraphQL
10 3 (2.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Cloud Native
1 9 (8.65%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.77%) Mobile App
2 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.81%) IoT
3 5 (4.81%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.88%) CCTV
4 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.88%) Smartphone
4 3 (2.88%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.92%) Blog
5 2 (1.92%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.92%) Derivative
5 2 (1.92%) Equities
5 2 (1.92%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.92%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Windows
2 5 (4.81%) Android
3 3 (2.88%) Linux
4 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.92%) Agile
2 21 (20.19%) CI/CD
3 19 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (17.31%) DevOps
5 16 (15.38%) B2B
6 15 (14.42%) TDD
7 14 (13.46%) Software Engineering
8 10 (9.62%) Customer Engagement
8 10 (9.62%) Customer Service
8 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (9.62%) Mentoring
9 9 (8.65%) Collaborative Culture
9 9 (8.65%) ERP
9 9 (8.65%) Fintech
10 8 (7.69%) Analytics
10 8 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (7.69%) ITIL
10 8 (7.69%) Microservices
10 8 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.27%) SQL
2 14 (13.46%) C#
3 12 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.58%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.81%) Python
6 3 (2.88%) Java
6 3 (2.88%) PHP
6 3 (2.88%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.92%) Bash
7 2 (1.92%) Bicep
7 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.96%) Go
8 1 (0.96%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.92%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.96%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.88%) GDPR
1 3 (2.88%) SLA
2 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.92%) NIST
2 2 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.96%) PMO
3 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.88%) Docker
3 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (13.46%) Terraform
2 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.88%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.92%) Ansible
4 2 (1.92%) Grafana
4 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.81%) VMware
3 3 (2.88%) Databricks
3 3 (2.88%) New Relic
3 3 (2.88%) Sage
3 3 (2.88%) SAP
4 2 (1.92%) Google
4 2 (1.92%) HubSpot
4 2 (1.92%) Meraki
4 2 (1.92%) Rapid7
4 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.96%) Adobe
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.96%) Revolut
5 1 (0.96%) Zoho