SaaS Jobs in the South East

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 93 33
Rank change year-on-year -9 -60 +9
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 252 486 980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.67% 2.90% 6.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.63% 9.46% 18.38%
Number of salaries quoted 188 392 712
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £39,025
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £90,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,749 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.96% -5.56% -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,167 5,137 5,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.99% 30.64% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 4,000 3,703
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,963 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the South East.

Salary trend for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the South East

SaaS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Hampshire +8 78 £50,000 -13.04% 93
Thames Valley -14 63 £65,000 +21.50% 153
Middlesex +13 32 - - 6
Surrey -9 29 £60,000 +4.35% 91
Berkshire -3 28 £80,000 +52.38% 84
Kent +44 25 £55,000 +29.41% 19
Buckinghamshire +23 20 £65,000 +15.56% 37
Oxfordshire -3 15 £51,750 -1.43% 44
East Sussex +14 11 £57,500 -23.33% 33
West Sussex +29 8 £60,000 +20.00% 6
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (5.95%) CMS
2 12 (4.76%) IIS
3 7 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.59%) Apache
5 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.19%) Productboard
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.40%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.40%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 102 (40.48%) Azure
2 64 (25.40%) AWS
3 53 (21.03%) PaaS
4 44 (17.46%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (8.33%) IaaS
6 15 (5.95%) iPaaS
7 14 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.56%) GCP
7 14 (5.56%) GitHub
8 9 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.78%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 6 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.98%) Serverless
11 5 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.59%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.54%) Firewall
2 17 (6.75%) VPN
3 10 (3.97%) DNS
3 10 (3.97%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.59%) BGP
4 4 (1.59%) IPsec
4 4 (1.59%) OSPF
4 4 (1.59%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.59%) SSL
4 4 (1.59%) VoIP
4 4 (1.59%) WAN
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.79%) Internet
5 2 (0.79%) Network Security
5 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.79%) Wireless
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.33%) MySQL
3 10 (3.97%) Data Lake
4 8 (3.17%) SQLite
5 7 (2.78%) Big Data
6 6 (2.38%) Power BI
7 3 (1.19%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.19%) Tableau
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.79%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.79%) Bigtable
8 2 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.79%) HBase
8 2 (0.79%) Impala
8 2 (0.79%) Metadata
8 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 22 (8.73%) Git
2 18 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.38%) Selenium
4 5 (1.98%) JIRA
5 3 (1.19%) PHPUnit
5 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
6 1 (0.40%) JUnit
6 1 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.40%) Mockito
6 1 (0.40%) MSTest
6 1 (0.40%) NUnit
6 1 (0.40%) Protractor
6 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 83 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (19.05%) Finance
4 33 (13.10%) Legal
5 30 (11.90%) Marketing
6 21 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (7.94%) Law
8 19 (7.54%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (7.14%) Telecoms
10 11 (4.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (3.17%) Tech for Good
12 7 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.78%) Retail
13 5 (1.98%) Advertising
13 5 (1.98%) Automotive
14 4 (1.59%) Local Government
14 4 (1.59%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.19%) Games
15 3 (1.19%) Military
16 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 35 (13.89%) Developer
3 34 (13.49%) Architect
3 34 (13.49%) Senior
4 27 (10.71%) Analyst
5 26 (10.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (10.32%) Lead
6 17 (6.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 15 (5.95%) Applications Architect
7 15 (5.95%) IT Architect
8 12 (4.76%) IT Support
9 9 (3.57%) Support Engineer
9 9 (3.57%) Test Analyst
10 8 (3.17%) Account Manager
10 8 (3.17%) Service Desk Manager
10 8 (3.17%) Service Manager
11 7 (2.78%) Data Analyst
11 7 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.38%) Lead Developer
12 6 (2.38%) Technical Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.08%) .NET
2 23 (9.13%) React
3 15 (5.95%) AngularJS
4 12 (4.76%) Laravel
4 12 (4.76%) Node.js
4 12 (4.76%) REST
5 11 (4.37%) Vue
6 9 (3.57%) Blazor
7 8 (3.17%) .NET Core
7 8 (3.17%) .NET Framework
8 7 (2.78%) CSS
8 7 (2.78%) HTML
9 6 (2.38%) Pandas
10 5 (1.98%) JSON
10 5 (1.98%) LAMP
10 5 (1.98%) PySpark
10 5 (1.98%) RESTful
11 4 (1.59%) Jest
11 4 (1.59%) Next.js
11 4 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.13%) Management Information System
2 15 (5.95%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (5.16%) Client/Server
3 13 (5.16%) Private Cloud
3 13 (5.16%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.57%) Social Media
6 8 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.38%) NHS
8 4 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.59%) PKI
8 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.79%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.94%) Windows
2 18 (7.14%) Linux
3 5 (1.98%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
4 2 (0.79%) VMS
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) CentOS
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (25.00%) Agile
2 60 (23.81%) DevOps
3 47 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 34 (13.49%) Analytics
5 34 (13.49%) CI/CD
6 32 (12.70%) Mentoring
7 30 (11.90%) ITIL
8 29 (11.51%) Migration
9 28 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (10.71%) Project Delivery
10 27 (10.71%) TDD
11 26 (10.32%) B2B
12 25 (9.92%) Coaching
12 25 (9.92%) CRM
12 25 (9.92%) ERP
13 24 (9.52%) Technology Strategy
14 23 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (9.13%) IT Strategy
15 22 (8.73%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.29%) Python
1 36 (14.29%) SQL
2 30 (11.90%) JavaScript
3 28 (11.11%) C#
4 14 (5.56%) PHP
5 13 (5.16%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.97%) Java
8 7 (2.78%) Bash
9 4 (1.59%) Bicep
9 4 (1.59%) Perl
10 2 (0.79%) C
10 2 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.79%) Ruby
10 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (11.51%) Degree
2 19 (7.54%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (3.97%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.57%) ISTQB
6 8 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.38%) CISSP
7 6 (2.38%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.79%) CCNP
10 2 (0.79%) CEH
10 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.79%) MBA
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.40%) MCSE
11 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.30%) QA
2 18 (7.14%) SLA
3 11 (4.37%) GDPR
4 7 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.59%) NIST
6 3 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.19%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.79%) PMO
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) GLP
8 1 (0.40%) GMP
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) GxP
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (5.16%) Docker
2 6 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.79%) HDFS
4 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.35%) Kubernetes
1 16 (6.35%) Terraform
2 9 (3.57%) Ansible
3 7 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.79%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.79%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 55 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.75%) Oracle
3 8 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.78%) Google
4 7 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.38%) Cisco
6 5 (1.98%) Databricks
7 4 (1.59%) Meraki
7 4 (1.59%) VMware
8 3 (1.19%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.79%) Aruba
9 2 (0.79%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.79%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.79%) Juniper
9 2 (0.79%) MapR
9 2 (0.79%) Ruckus Wireless
9 2 (0.79%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) Adyen
10 1 (0.40%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.40%) Spotify