SaaS Jobs in the North West

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 87 62
Rank change year-on-year +26 -25 +3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 335 322 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.46% 4.02% 5.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.10% 9.29% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 260 166 380
10th Percentile £37,375 £37,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,438 £78,938
90th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £92,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
North West

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,317 3,465 4,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.22% 43.26% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,628 1,989 2,696
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +13 198 £60,000 -4.00% 102
Cheshire +23 61 £52,500 - 24
Merseyside -7 33 £48,500 -11.82% 4
Cumbria - 32 £45,000 - 1
Lancashire -12 7 £70,000 +77.22% 5
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 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.90%) IIS
4 2 (0.60%) NetWeaver
4 2 (0.60%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 104 (31.04%) Azure
2 87 (25.97%) AWS
3 38 (11.34%) IaaS
3 38 (11.34%) PaaS
4 36 (10.75%) GCP
5 23 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.79%) Serverless
8 4 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.19%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.19%) OCI
8 4 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.90%) NuGet
10 2 (0.60%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (0.60%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (0.60%) Miro
10 2 (0.60%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.69%) Firewall
2 5 (1.49%) WAN
3 4 (1.19%) DHCP
3 4 (1.19%) DNS
3 4 (1.19%) LAN
3 4 (1.19%) WLAN
4 3 (0.90%) BGP
4 3 (0.90%) Internet
4 3 (0.90%) NAS
4 3 (0.90%) OSPF
4 3 (0.90%) SAN
4 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.90%) VoIP
5 2 (0.60%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.30%) IPsec
6 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.85%) MySQL
2 22 (6.57%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.69%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.39%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.39%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.09%) Big Data
6 6 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.79%) Metadata
7 5 (1.49%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.49%) Redis
8 4 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.19%) GIS
9 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.60%) Tableau
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (7.76%) Git
2 5 (1.49%) Cypress.io
2 5 (1.49%) TeamCity
3 4 (1.19%) GitLab
4 3 (0.90%) MSBuild
4 3 (0.90%) Postman
4 3 (0.90%) Selenium
4 3 (0.90%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.90%) Subversion
4 3 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (0.60%) JIRA
5 2 (0.60%) JMeter
5 2 (0.60%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.30%) Moq
6 1 (0.30%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) NUnit
General
1 70 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.15%) Finance
3 25 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (5.67%) Legal
6 15 (4.48%) Marketing
7 14 (4.18%) Health Technology
8 12 (3.58%) Law
9 8 (2.39%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.39%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.79%) Banking
10 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.79%) Retail
11 4 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Automotive
13 2 (0.60%) Advertising
13 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Local Government
13 2 (0.60%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 75 (22.39%) Developer
2 68 (20.30%) Architect
3 46 (13.73%) Senior
4 30 (8.96%) Analyst
5 29 (8.66%) Solutions Architect
6 28 (8.36%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.16%) Lead
8 21 (6.27%) Full Stack Developer
9 20 (5.97%) Project Manager
10 17 (5.07%) Consultant
10 17 (5.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 16 (4.78%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.28%) Technical Consultant
14 10 (2.99%) Senior Full Stack Developer
15 9 (2.69%) PHP Developer
15 9 (2.69%) Systems Support
16 8 (2.39%) Data Architect
16 8 (2.39%) Infrastructure Technician
16 8 (2.39%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.03%) React
2 25 (7.46%) Laravel
3 23 (6.87%) Node.js
4 22 (6.57%) CSS
5 21 (6.27%) .NET
6 20 (5.97%) HTML
7 7 (2.09%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.79%) OpenID
8 6 (1.79%) Symfony
8 6 (1.79%) Vue
9 5 (1.49%) Next.js
9 5 (1.49%) Playwright
9 5 (1.49%) RESTful
10 4 (1.19%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (0.90%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.60%) GraphQL
12 2 (0.60%) Jest
12 2 (0.60%) Lambda Expressions
12 2 (0.60%) LEMP Stack
12 2 (0.60%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.87%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (4.78%) Public Cloud
3 15 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.18%) PKI
5 7 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.09%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.79%) Blog
6 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.49%) Blockchain
7 5 (1.49%) Hackathon
7 5 (1.49%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.49%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.90%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.97%) Windows
2 13 (3.88%) Linux
3 10 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.39%) Unix
5 8 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.19%) Android
7 4 (1.19%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (20.00%) Agile
2 56 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (14.93%) Migration
4 38 (11.34%) Roadmaps
5 37 (11.04%) Software Engineering
6 35 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
6 35 (10.45%) Mentoring
7 33 (9.85%) Full Stack Development
8 32 (9.55%) Microservices
9 31 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (8.36%) Project Management
11 27 (8.06%) CI/CD
12 26 (7.76%) Presales
13 25 (7.46%) DevOps
14 19 (5.67%) Actionable Insight
14 19 (5.67%) Design Patterns
14 19 (5.67%) Front End Development
14 19 (5.67%) TDD
14 19 (5.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (19.40%) JavaScript
2 37 (11.04%) SQL
3 32 (9.55%) C#
4 29 (8.66%) Python
5 25 (7.46%) PHP
6 19 (5.67%) PowerShell
7 14 (4.18%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.28%) Bash
9 6 (1.79%) Java
10 2 (0.60%) ABAP
10 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.60%) Swift
11 1 (0.30%) Ada
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (4.18%) Degree
2 12 (3.58%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.39%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.60%) CISSP
6 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.30%) CCA
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Master
7 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.75%) QA
2 14 (4.18%) PMO
3 13 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.09%) GDPR
6 6 (1.79%) SLA
7 5 (1.49%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.19%) ISO 9001
8 4 (1.19%) NIST
8 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (6.87%) Docker
2 21 (6.27%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.30%) RACF
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.69%) Terraform
3 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.90%) Ansible
4 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.90%) Puppet
4 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.48%) Google
3 12 (3.58%) Oracle
3 12 (3.58%) VMware
4 9 (2.69%) Apple
5 6 (1.79%) Adobe
6 4 (1.19%) IBM
6 4 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.19%) SAP
6 4 (1.19%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.90%) Snow
8 2 (0.60%) Aderant
8 2 (0.60%) Workday
9 1 (0.30%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.30%) BT
9 1 (0.30%) iManage
9 1 (0.30%) Samsung
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) Verint
9 1 (0.30%) Xerox