SaaS Jobs in Scotland

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 100 49
Rank change year-on-year +26 -51 +12
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 83 251 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.92% 3.74% 5.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.49% 8.58% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 60 148 124
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,433 £80,625
90th Percentile £73,886 £91,934 £102,698
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 536 2,924 1,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.89% 43.54% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 368 1,027 951
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,400 £31,375
25th Percentile £44,688 £38,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,548 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,644 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.21% -11.54% +4.00%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaaS in Scotland.

Salary trend for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Edinburgh -17 60 £52,500 -4.55% 37
Glasgow +144 14 £57,500 -4.17% 34
Aberdeen +9 5 £50,000 +29.87% 2
Dundee +14 2 £52,500 +16.67% 9
Lanarkshire - 1 £39,000 - 8
North Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (4.82%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.35%) Azure
2 19 (22.89%) AWS
3 8 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.43%) GCP
5 5 (6.02%) PaaS
6 4 (4.82%) IaaS
7 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.61%) Serverless
8 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.41%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.20%) GitHub
9 1 (1.20%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) Internet
2 4 (4.82%) HTTP
3 2 (2.41%) Firewall
4 1 (1.20%) DHCP
4 1 (1.20%) DNS
4 1 (1.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.23%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.61%) Power BI
4 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) JIRA
2 6 (7.23%) Cypress.io
General
1 22 (26.51%) Finance
2 13 (15.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.25%) Banking
4 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Marketing
5 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (27.71%) Senior
2 16 (19.28%) Developer
3 10 (12.05%) Analyst
4 9 (10.84%) Lead
5 8 (9.64%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Technical Support
7 6 (7.23%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Business Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) DBA
8 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Software Team Leader
8 5 (6.02%) SQL DBA
8 5 (6.02%) SQL Server DBA
8 5 (6.02%) Team Leader
9 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.87%) .NET
2 9 (10.84%) AngularJS
3 8 (9.64%) Kafka
3 8 (9.64%) RESTful
4 7 (8.43%) React
5 6 (7.23%) .NET Core
5 6 (7.23%) CSS
5 6 (7.23%) HTML
6 4 (4.82%) Playwright
7 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (3.61%) Vue
8 2 (2.41%) JSON
8 2 (2.41%) REST
8 2 (2.41%) Spring
9 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.20%) Middleware
9 1 (1.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Onboarding
2 8 (9.64%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Windows
2 3 (3.61%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.96%) Agile
2 17 (20.48%) DevOps
3 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
4 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (14.46%) B2B
5 12 (14.46%) CRM
5 12 (14.46%) Roadmaps
6 11 (13.25%) Software Engineering
6 11 (13.25%) TDD
7 10 (12.05%) Client Onboarding
7 10 (12.05%) Coaching
7 10 (12.05%) Customer Experience
7 10 (12.05%) Software Testing
7 10 (12.05%) Unit Testing
8 9 (10.84%) Fintech
8 9 (10.84%) Microservices
9 8 (9.64%) Line Management
9 8 (9.64%) Project Management
9 8 (9.64%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.28%) C#
2 14 (16.87%) SQL
3 13 (15.66%) JavaScript
4 11 (13.25%) Python
4 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.23%) Go
5 6 (7.23%) Java
6 5 (6.02%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.41%) Elixir
7 2 (2.41%) F#
7 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.41%) Ruby
7 2 (2.41%) Scala
8 1 (1.20%) Bicep
8 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.20%) Groovy
8 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
1 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (2.41%) Degree
2 1 (1.20%) CCENT
2 1 (1.20%) CCNA
2 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.82%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Terraform
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.41%) Databricks
3 1 (1.20%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.20%) Cisco
3 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle
3 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow