SaaS Job Trends in the South East

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 74 57
Rank change year-on-year +40 -17 -18
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 542 342 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 5.23% 3.70% 4.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.86% 11.29% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 417 231 262
10th Percentile £33,550 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,375 £73,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% -8.76% -2.14%

All Cloud Computing 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 3,215 3,028 2,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.03% 32.75% 33.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,725 1,649 2,143
10th Percentile £28,450 £32,750 £29,021
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

SaaS job vacancy trend in the South East

SaaS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 2026. 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
Thames Valley +57 267 £50,000 -21.88% 140
Berkshire +52 144 £67,500 -10.00% 88
Surrey +33 105 £65,000 +25.00% 36
Hampshire +27 94 £40,000 -20.00% 24
Buckinghamshire +18 73 £47,500 -25.78% 28
Oxfordshire +57 50 £52,500 -25.00% 27
Kent -1 31 £62,500 +13.64% 10
East Sussex -1 26 £100,000 +66.67% 5
West Sussex +5 10 £90,000 +63.64% 5
Middlesex +5 6 £47,500 - 6
Sussex +3 2 £75,000 -
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.11%) IIS
2 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.74%) WordPress
3 3 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.74%) Adobe Premiere
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.74%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.55%) InDesign
5 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.18%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 41 (7.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (13.10%) Azure
2 64 (11.81%) AWS
3 35 (6.46%) GCP
4 20 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (2.21%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.03%) IaaS
7 10 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (1.85%) PaaS
8 9 (1.66%) GitHub
9 6 (1.11%) Serverless
10 5 (0.92%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 4 (0.74%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.74%) Google Ads
11 4 (0.74%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.85%) DNS
2 8 (1.48%) PuTTY
2 8 (1.48%) SSH
3 7 (1.29%) DHCP
4 6 (1.11%) Firewall
5 4 (0.74%) HTTP
6 3 (0.55%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.55%) VPN
6 3 (0.55%) Wireless
7 2 (0.37%) GPRS
7 2 (0.37%) LTE
7 2 (0.37%) Modbus
7 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.18%) BGP
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) MPLS
8 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.18%) VLAN
8 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.51%) Relational Database
2 16 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.03%) MySQL
4 9 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.48%) Power BI
6 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
6 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.55%) Tableau
8 2 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.37%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.37%) Looker
8 2 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.18%) Redis
9 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (2.40%) JIRA
2 5 (0.92%) git-flow
3 4 (0.74%) Git
4 1 (0.18%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.18%) Xcode
General
1 162 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 135 (24.91%) Finance
3 80 (14.76%) Marketing
4 72 (13.28%) Legal
5 45 (8.30%) Retail
6 34 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.32%) Law
9 12 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.85%) Health Technology
11 9 (1.66%) Brand Awareness
11 9 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.48%) Advertising
12 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.11%) Automotive
14 4 (0.74%) Billing
14 4 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.55%) Aviation
15 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (10.52%) Senior
2 45 (8.30%) Developer
3 36 (6.64%) Marketing Manager
4 31 (5.72%) Lead
5 30 (5.54%) Account Manager
6 29 (5.35%) Software Developer
7 24 (4.43%) .NET Developer
7 24 (4.43%) .NET Software Developer
8 22 (4.06%) Development Manager
9 21 (3.87%) Engineering Manager
10 20 (3.69%) Sales Representative
10 20 (3.69%) Technical Support
11 19 (3.51%) IT Manager
12 18 (3.32%) Accountant
12 18 (3.32%) Support Engineer
13 17 (3.14%) Analyst
14 15 (2.77%) Linux Engineer
14 15 (2.77%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.40%) Senior Manager
15 13 (2.40%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.33%) .NET
2 17 (3.14%) React
3 6 (1.11%) .NET Core
3 6 (1.11%) AngularJS
3 6 (1.11%) CSS
3 6 (1.11%) Kafka
4 5 (0.92%) AWS CDK
4 5 (0.92%) Material-UI
4 5 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (0.92%) REST
5 4 (0.74%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.74%) HTML
5 4 (0.74%) JSON
5 4 (0.74%) OAuth
5 4 (0.74%) SAML
5 4 (0.74%) SOAP
5 4 (0.74%) XML
6 3 (0.55%) Node.js
6 3 (0.55%) scikit-learn
6 3 (0.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.99%) Onboarding
2 22 (4.06%) Educational Technology
3 14 (2.58%) Social Media
4 12 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (2.03%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.48%) Life Science
7 6 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.92%) Video Editing
9 4 (0.74%) Blog
9 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.74%) IoT
9 4 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.74%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.74%) Photography
9 4 (0.74%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.74%) Video on Demand
9 4 (0.74%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.17%) Linux
2 14 (2.58%) Windows
3 8 (1.48%) VMS
4 7 (1.29%) CentOS
4 7 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.74%) Android
5 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (14.21%) Customer Experience
3 76 (14.02%) B2B
4 67 (12.36%) Decision-Making
5 63 (11.62%) Agile
6 62 (11.44%) ERP
7 59 (10.89%) AI
8 54 (9.96%) Business Development
8 54 (9.96%) Software Engineering
9 50 (9.23%) Resource Allocation
10 49 (9.04%) CRM
11 42 (7.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 40 (7.38%) Financial Modelling
13 39 (7.20%) Analytics
13 39 (7.20%) Business Case
13 39 (7.20%) Contract Negotiation
13 39 (7.20%) Trade-off Analysis
14 38 (7.01%) Roadmaps
15 37 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (5.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 54 (9.96%) SQL
2 33 (6.09%) TypeScript
3 29 (5.35%) JavaScript
4 28 (5.17%) C#
5 24 (4.43%) Python
6 14 (2.58%) Java
7 8 (1.48%) DCL
7 8 (1.48%) Perl
7 8 (1.48%) Tcl
8 7 (1.29%) Bash
9 5 (0.92%) PHP
10 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.55%) ABAP
11 3 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.37%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Go
13 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 51 (9.41%) Degree
2 40 (7.38%) Master's Degree
2 40 (7.38%) MBA
3 13 (2.40%) ACCA
4 4 (0.74%) CIMA
5 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.55%) CIPD
5 3 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (0.55%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.37%) CISA
6 2 (0.37%) CISSP
7 1 (0.18%) AAT
7 1 (0.18%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.18%) CISM
7 1 (0.18%) CRISC
7 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.18%) OSCP
7 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.06%) QA
2 20 (3.69%) GDPR
3 11 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.48%) GAAP
6 4 (0.74%) PMO
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.55%) NIST
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.37%) GRC
8 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) Docker
4 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (1.85%) Terraform
2 8 (1.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.11%) Ansible
4 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.55%) Grafana
6 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.37%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) CASB
8 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 44 (8.12%) SAP
2 41 (7.56%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.14%) Google
4 15 (2.77%) HubSpot
4 15 (2.77%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.03%) Zoho
6 10 (1.85%) Adobe
7 8 (1.48%) VMware
8 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.74%) Cisco
8 4 (0.74%) Facebook
8 4 (0.74%) Instagram
8 4 (0.74%) Pardot
8 4 (0.74%) TikTok
9 3 (0.55%) Databricks
9 3 (0.55%) Oracle
9 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.37%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.37%) Talend
10 2 (0.37%) Workday