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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 35 55
Rank change year-on-year -26 +20 +20
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 167 229 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.19% 7.77% 5.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.10% 20.41% 13.48%
Number of salaries quoted 71 130 194
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,875 £36,102
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £63,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +21.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,056 £86,425
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +8.00%

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 1,037 1,122 2,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.80% 38.06% 37.67%
Number of salaries quoted 477 736 1,220
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,450 £72,647
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 -1 88 £55,000 -21.43% 12
Glasgow -7 57 £42,500 +6.25% 13
Lanarkshire - 4 - - 5
Aberdeen -3 3 £42,500 +16.44% 1
Renfrewshire - 3 - -
South Lanarkshire -3 2 £47,500 +63.79%
North Lanarkshire - 2 £57,500 - 4
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 1 (0.60%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.52%) Azure
2 34 (20.36%) AWS
3 28 (16.77%) Power Platform
4 19 (11.38%) GCP
5 18 (10.78%) Entra ID
6 17 (10.18%) IaaS
6 17 (10.18%) PaaS
7 8 (4.79%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (4.79%) Serverless
8 7 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.19%) GitHub
8 7 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.80%) Azure Storage
10 3 (1.80%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.99%) Firewall
2 3 (1.80%) Broadband
2 3 (1.80%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.20%) HTTP
3 2 (1.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (24.55%) SQL Server
2 28 (16.77%) Power BI
3 20 (11.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 18 (10.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (7.19%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (5.39%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.19%) MySQL
7 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.80%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.80%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (1.80%) Power Query
8 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Git
2 2 (1.20%) GitLab
2 2 (1.20%) Mocha
3 1 (0.60%) JMeter
3 1 (0.60%) Maven
3 1 (0.60%) Selenium
3 1 (0.60%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (25.15%) Finance
2 31 (18.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (14.37%) Social Skills
4 17 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Billing
5 8 (4.79%) Military
6 4 (2.40%) Banking
6 4 (2.40%) Marketing
6 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (34.13%) Developer
2 25 (14.97%) SQL Developer
3 22 (13.17%) Analyst
4 21 (12.57%) Senior
5 19 (11.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (11.38%) Software Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) Software Developer
6 13 (7.78%) Support Analyst
7 12 (7.19%) Junior
8 10 (5.99%) Lead
8 10 (5.99%) Senior Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Service Manager
9 9 (5.39%) .NET Developer
9 9 (5.39%) .NET Software Developer
9 9 (5.39%) CloudOps Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Operations Engineer
10 8 (4.79%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Junior Developer
10 8 (4.79%) Service Delivery Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.97%) .NET
2 23 (13.77%) CSS
2 23 (13.77%) HTML
3 19 (11.38%) RESTful
4 16 (9.58%) .NET Core
5 15 (8.98%) AngularJS
6 14 (8.38%) Node.js
6 14 (8.38%) React
7 12 (7.19%) Kafka
8 10 (5.99%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.79%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (4.79%) Express.js
9 8 (4.79%) Vue
10 7 (4.19%) Laravel
11 6 (3.59%) MERN Stack
12 5 (2.99%) Spring
13 4 (2.40%) ADO
13 4 (2.40%) OAuth
14 3 (1.80%) Web Services
14 3 (1.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.57%) Linux
2 15 (8.98%) Windows
3 11 (6.59%) Unix
4 8 (4.79%) Mac OS X
5 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.75%) Fintech
2 40 (23.95%) Agile
3 39 (23.35%) DevOps
4 38 (22.75%) Software Engineering
5 28 (16.77%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (14.97%) Project Management
7 24 (14.37%) Data Management
8 23 (13.77%) Mentoring
9 22 (13.17%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (11.98%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (11.98%) Software Testing
11 18 (10.78%) Change Control
11 18 (10.78%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (10.78%) Service Delivery
12 17 (10.18%) Cloud Operations
12 17 (10.18%) Coaching
12 17 (10.18%) TDD
13 16 (9.58%) Microservices
14 15 (8.98%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (33.53%) SQL
2 32 (19.16%) JavaScript
3 19 (11.38%) C#
4 15 (8.98%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.39%) Java
5 9 (5.39%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.79%) PHP
7 5 (2.99%) Bash
8 4 (2.40%) Python
8 4 (2.40%) Ruby
9 3 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.20%) Elixir
10 2 (1.20%) Perl
10 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (18.56%) Degree
2 9 (5.39%) CISM
2 9 (5.39%) CISSP
3 8 (4.79%) GCIA
3 8 (4.79%) GCIH
3 8 (4.79%) GREM
4 5 (2.99%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.40%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) CCENT
7 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.60%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.40%) QA
3 3 (1.80%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (8.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.99%) Terraform
2 9 (5.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.60%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.79%) Dell
3 4 (2.40%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.80%) Databricks
4 3 (1.80%) Oracle
5 2 (1.20%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) Adobe
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco
6 1 (0.60%) Xamarin