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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 106 49
Rank change year-on-year +7 -57 +12
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 65 226 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.17% 3.32% 5.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.88% 7.80% 15.98%
Number of salaries quoted 45 141 105
10th Percentile £32,550 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £59,750 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £101,931
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +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 547 2,899 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.22% 42.54% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 291 1,011 871
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,114 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 30 May 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 30 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
Edinburgh -26 44 £52,500 -4.55% 213
Glasgow +126 16 £55,000 -18.52% 218
Aberdeen +17 4 £50,000 +29.87% 200
Dundee +8 2 £52,500 +16.67% 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 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 25 (38.46%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) AWS
3 7 (10.77%) GCP
4 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.62%) IaaS
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.62%) PaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.08%) Serverless
6 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub
7 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) Internet
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) HTTP
2 1 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.69%) Power BI
3 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.54%) Power Query
6 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.54%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.54%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (27.69%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Marketing
6 4 (6.15%) Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Senior
2 15 (23.08%) Developer
3 7 (10.77%) Analyst
3 7 (10.77%) Senior Developer
4 6 (9.23%) Lead
5 5 (7.69%) Architect
5 5 (7.69%) DBA
5 5 (7.69%) SQL DBA
5 5 (7.69%) SQL Server DBA
5 5 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Technical Support
5 5 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Account Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Software Team Leader
7 3 (4.62%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) .NET
2 7 (10.77%) React
3 5 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 5 (7.69%) Kafka
4 4 (6.15%) RESTful
5 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (3.08%) CSS
6 2 (3.08%) HTML
6 2 (3.08%) JSON
6 2 (3.08%) Playwright
6 2 (3.08%) REST
6 2 (3.08%) Spring
6 2 (3.08%) Vue
7 1 (1.54%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.54%) Middleware
7 1 (1.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Onboarding
2 6 (9.23%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Agile
2 12 (18.46%) DevOps
3 11 (16.92%) Fintech
3 11 (16.92%) Mentoring
3 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (16.92%) Roadmaps
4 10 (15.38%) B2B
5 9 (13.85%) CI/CD
5 9 (13.85%) Coaching
6 8 (12.31%) CRM
6 8 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.31%) Software Testing
6 8 (12.31%) TDD
7 7 (10.77%) Client Onboarding
7 7 (10.77%) Customer Experience
7 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.23%) Line Management
8 6 (9.23%) Microservices
8 6 (9.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) SQL
2 10 (15.38%) C#
2 10 (15.38%) Python
3 9 (13.85%) TypeScript
4 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 4 (6.15%) Java
7 3 (4.62%) Go
8 2 (3.08%) Elixir
8 2 (3.08%) F#
8 2 (3.08%) Ruby
8 2 (3.08%) Scala
9 1 (1.54%) C
9 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.54%) Groovy
9 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (3.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.08%) Databricks
3 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle
3 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow