SaaS Jobs in Scotland

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 49 60
Rank change year-on-year -48 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 250 260 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.73% 5.63% 4.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.52% 15.94% 13.81%
Number of salaries quoted 147 113 206
10th Percentile £34,600 £40,550 £35,625
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £38,831
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% +23.33% -1.41%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £77,530
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,328 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,935 1,631 2,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.75% 35.29% 34.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 912 1,290
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,263 £30,442
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,210 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 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
Edinburgh +24 150 £55,000 -21.43% 30
Glasgow -145 50 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Aberdeen +4 22 £38,500 -9.41% 4
Fife - 8 - - 1
Dundee -7 6 £45,000 -7.46% 1
South Lanarkshire - 3 £105,000 -
Perthshire - 2 £35,000 -
Aberdeenshire +8 1 £100,000 +100.00% 1
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 9
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 24 (9.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (40.40%) AWS
2 65 (26.00%) Azure
3 57 (22.80%) GCP
4 30 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 26 (10.40%) Miro
6 23 (9.20%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (9.20%) Google Docs
6 23 (9.20%) Lucidchart
6 23 (9.20%) Slack
7 20 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (7.60%) IaaS
9 18 (7.20%) PaaS
10 7 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.80%) Serverless
11 6 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.40%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.00%) GitHub
13 4 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.60%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.00%) Firewall
2 9 (3.60%) LAN
2 9 (3.60%) WAN
3 3 (1.20%) DHCP
3 3 (1.20%) DNS
3 3 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.20%) Wireless
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (11.20%) Big Data
3 24 (9.60%) Hadoop
4 23 (9.20%) Redis
4 23 (9.20%) Scylla
5 12 (4.80%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.20%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.80%) MySQL
9 5 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.60%) GIS
10 4 (1.60%) Power BI
10 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Git
2 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.60%) Maven
2 4 (1.60%) Selenium
3 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.80%) JIRA
5 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.40%) JUnit
General
1 81 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (11.20%) Finance
4 23 (9.20%) Marketing
5 16 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.60%) Military
7 12 (4.80%) Banking
8 11 (4.40%) Legal
9 9 (3.60%) Games
9 9 (3.60%) Retail
10 7 (2.80%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.80%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (21.60%) Software Engineer
2 48 (19.20%) Developer
3 47 (18.80%) Senior
4 33 (13.20%) Principal Engineer
5 32 (12.80%) Principal Software Engineer
6 27 (10.80%) Architect
7 26 (10.40%) Analyst
8 21 (8.40%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (6.40%) Cloud Architect
9 16 (6.40%) Software Developer
10 15 (6.00%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.60%) Support Analyst
11 14 (5.60%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 12 (4.80%) Senior Software Developer
13 10 (4.00%) Software Tester
13 10 (4.00%) Tester
14 9 (3.60%) .NET Developer
14 9 (3.60%) Lead
14 9 (3.60%) PHP Developer
15 8 (3.20%) Senior Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.60%) Kafka
2 25 (10.00%) .NET
3 23 (9.20%) GraphQL
4 17 (6.80%) AngularJS
5 16 (6.40%) RESTful
6 14 (5.60%) React
7 12 (4.80%) Laravel
8 11 (4.40%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.00%) REST
10 9 (3.60%) CSS
10 9 (3.60%) HTML
11 8 (3.20%) .NET Framework
11 8 (3.20%) Spring
11 8 (3.20%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.80%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (2.40%) Web Services
14 5 (2.00%) JSON
15 4 (1.60%) OpenID
15 4 (1.60%) Vue
15 4 (1.60%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.80%) Data Structures
2 23 (9.20%) Algorithms
3 14 (5.60%) PKI
3 14 (5.60%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.20%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.80%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.80%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.00%) Virtual Team
7 8 (3.20%) Blockchain
8 7 (2.80%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.40%) Video\Live Streaming
10 5 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.60%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.60%) Robotics
11 4 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.20%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.80%) Windows
2 27 (10.80%) Linux
3 20 (8.00%) Unix
4 14 (5.60%) Mac OS X
5 8 (3.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.60%) Android
6 4 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.00%) Agile
2 65 (26.00%) Software Engineering
3 58 (23.20%) Cybersecurity
4 46 (18.40%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 46 (18.40%) Threat Intelligence
5 42 (16.80%) DevOps
5 42 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (15.20%) User Experience
7 34 (13.60%) Data Science
8 32 (12.80%) Actionable Insight
9 31 (12.40%) Computer Security
9 31 (12.40%) Migration
10 29 (11.60%) Test Automation
11 28 (11.20%) High Availability
11 28 (11.20%) Microservices
11 28 (11.20%) Project Management
12 23 (9.20%) Incident Response
12 23 (9.20%) UX Research
13 22 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (8.80%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 52 (20.80%) Java
2 46 (18.40%) Python
3 39 (15.60%) C#
4 33 (13.20%) Go
5 30 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 27 (10.80%) TypeScript
7 25 (10.00%) Bash
8 24 (9.60%) Scala
9 23 (9.20%) SQL
10 14 (5.60%) C++
10 14 (5.60%) PHP
11 6 (2.40%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.60%) Swift
13 3 (1.20%) Ruby
13 3 (1.20%) Rust
14 1 (0.40%) R
14 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (14.40%) Degree
2 17 (6.80%) CISM
2 17 (6.80%) CISSP
3 14 (5.60%) GCIA
3 14 (5.60%) GCIH
3 14 (5.60%) GREM
4 10 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.40%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.00%) QA
2 6 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.40%) NIST
3 5 (2.00%) GDPR
4 4 (1.60%) SEPA
5 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 17 (6.80%) Docker
2 5 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.20%) Autotask
3 2 (0.80%) Ansible
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.80%) Puppet
3 2 (0.80%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 46 (18.40%) Dell
2 43 (17.20%) Google
3 36 (14.40%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.60%) IBM
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle
5 3 (1.20%) Apple
5 3 (1.20%) Facebook
5 3 (1.20%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.40%) Aruba
6 1 (0.40%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco
6 1 (0.40%) EMC
6 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.40%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.40%) VMware