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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 103 37
Rank change year-on-year +1 -66 +25
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 68 188 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.10% 3.01% 6.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.70% 7.79% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 44 126 127
10th Percentile £33,625 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +13.38%
75th Percentile £65,313 £67,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £74,075 £79,375 £83,151
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

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 581 2,413 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.97% 38.59% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 276 913 843
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £30,050
25th Percentile £45,938 £38,084 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,457
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -19 39 £52,500 -4.55% 25
Glasgow +107 25 £58,000 -3.33% 19
Aberdeen +18 2 £45,000 +16.88%
Dundee +9 2 £58,750 +38.24% 2
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 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.29%) Azure
2 18 (26.47%) AWS
3 5 (7.35%) GCP
3 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.41%) GitHub
4 3 (4.41%) IaaS
4 3 (4.41%) PaaS
5 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Internet
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) Network Security
2 1 (1.47%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.12%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.35%) Power BI
3 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Power Query
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.47%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.47%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (19.12%) Finance
2 9 (13.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Marketing
4 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Back Office
5 2 (2.94%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Legal
6 1 (1.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (29.41%) Developer
2 13 (19.12%) Senior
3 6 (8.82%) Analyst
3 6 (8.82%) Lead
3 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
3 6 (8.82%) Software Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) DBA
4 5 (7.35%) SQL DBA
4 5 (7.35%) SQL Server DBA
5 4 (5.88%) Dynamics NAV Developer
5 4 (5.88%) SaaS Developer
5 4 (5.88%) Sales Manager
5 4 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Technical Support
5 4 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) React
2 7 (10.29%) .NET
3 6 (8.82%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.88%) Vue
5 3 (4.41%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.41%) RESTful
6 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.94%) Kafka
6 2 (2.94%) XML
7 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.47%) CSS
7 1 (1.47%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.47%) HTML
7 1 (1.47%) Middleware
7 1 (1.47%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.35%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.88%) NHS
4 3 (4.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Linux
1 3 (4.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.88%) Agile
2 14 (20.59%) DevOps
3 13 (19.12%) B2B
4 11 (16.18%) Fintech
4 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
5 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 9 (13.24%) CI/CD
6 9 (13.24%) CRM
6 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.76%) Coaching
7 8 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.29%) Microservices
8 7 (10.29%) Roadmaps
8 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (8.82%) B2B Sales
9 6 (8.82%) Client Onboarding
9 6 (8.82%) Customer Experience
9 6 (8.82%) Project Management
9 6 (8.82%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.47%) SQL
2 10 (14.71%) C#
3 8 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.82%) Python
5 5 (7.35%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.41%) C
7 2 (2.94%) Elixir
7 2 (2.94%) F#
7 2 (2.94%) Go
7 2 (2.94%) Java
7 2 (2.94%) Ruby
7 2 (2.94%) Scala
8 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.94%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Ansible
1 1 (1.47%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.47%) Cisco
2 1 (1.47%) Fortinet
2 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.47%) VMware