SaaS Jobs in the South West

Software as a Service (SaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 98 96
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -48
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 78 251 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.24% 2.72% 3.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.89% 9.11% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 68 183 112
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £45,000 £35,483
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £79,375 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,883 £100,064 £80,425
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +1.50%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 877 2,754 2,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 25.16% 29.87% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 731 2,122 1,681
10th Percentile £29,848 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.55% +1.57%
75th Percentile £70,834 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the South West

SaaS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SaaS in the South West

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the South West

SaaS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol 0 44 £60,000 - 47
Dorset +50 10 £40,000 -6.71% 13
Gloucestershire +21 9 £60,000 - 31
Somerset +13 8 £78,750 +85.29% 19
Devon -3 4 £68,750 +52.78% 10
Cornwall +12 2 £77,500 -42.59% 1
SaaS
England

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (5.13%) Confluence
1 4 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.46%) Azure
2 18 (23.08%) Serverless
3 14 (17.95%) AWS
3 14 (17.95%) PaaS
4 13 (16.67%) IaaS
5 9 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 9 (11.54%) GitHub
5 9 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (8.97%) Azure Functions
7 7 (8.97%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (8.97%) OCI
7 7 (8.97%) Power Automate
8 5 (6.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (6.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (6.41%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.13%) Figma
9 4 (5.13%) OneDrive
10 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) LAN
2 3 (3.85%) MPLS
2 3 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.85%) Unified Communications
2 3 (3.85%) VPN
2 3 (3.85%) WAN
2 3 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.56%) DHCP
3 2 (2.56%) DNS
3 2 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.85%) Power BI
3 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.56%) RavenDB
4 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.28%) MySQL
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) JIRA
2 6 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (6.41%) Git
3 5 (6.41%) Postman
4 4 (5.13%) Selenium
4 4 (5.13%) Visual Studio
4 4 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.56%) Appium
General
1 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.23%) Finance
3 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Marketing
5 6 (7.69%) Banking
6 5 (6.41%) Retail
7 4 (5.13%) Law
7 4 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.28%) Automotive
9 1 (1.28%) Electronics
9 1 (1.28%) Environmental Health
9 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (19.23%) Developer
2 12 (15.38%) Senior
3 10 (12.82%) Software Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Customer Executive
5 6 (7.69%) Architect
5 6 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Product Manager
6 5 (6.41%) Lead
6 5 (6.41%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) IT Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Release Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) SaaS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.38%) .NET
2 8 (10.26%) AngularJS
2 8 (10.26%) CSS
2 8 (10.26%) HTML
3 6 (7.69%) React
4 5 (6.41%) .NET Framework
4 5 (6.41%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (6.41%) Bootstrap
4 5 (6.41%) JSON
4 5 (6.41%) Node.js
4 5 (6.41%) Tailwind CSS
4 5 (6.41%) XML
5 4 (5.13%) NgRx
5 4 (5.13%) RxJS
6 3 (3.85%) LAMP
6 3 (3.85%) Laravel
6 3 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (3.85%) React Native
7 2 (2.56%) Playwright
8 1 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Onboarding
1 9 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.41%) Client/Server
2 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.13%) IoT
4 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.56%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.28%) Blog
6 1 (1.28%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.28%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Linux
2 3 (3.85%) Windows
2 3 (3.85%) Windows 10
2 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (44.87%) Agile
2 26 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 17 (21.79%) DevOps
3 17 (21.79%) Software Engineering
4 12 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (15.38%) Scrum
5 10 (12.82%) Analytics
5 10 (12.82%) Project Management
6 9 (11.54%) Client Onboarding
6 9 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (11.54%) Customer Service
7 8 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.26%) Migration
7 8 (10.26%) Release Management
8 7 (8.97%) Continuous Deployment
8 7 (8.97%) Fintech
8 7 (8.97%) SDLC
8 7 (8.97%) Test Automation
9 6 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.95%) JavaScript
2 11 (14.10%) C#
3 10 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 10 (12.82%) SQL
4 8 (10.26%) Python
5 5 (6.41%) Bash
5 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.13%) Java
6 4 (5.13%) PHP
7 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.28%) CISSP
4 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.85%) NIST
3 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.13%) Docker
3 3 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.85%) Terraform
3 2 (2.56%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) Oracle
2 7 (8.97%) VMware
3 3 (3.85%) CheckPoint
3 3 (3.85%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (3.85%) SolarWinds
3 3 (3.85%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.56%) iManage
4 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.28%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.28%) Google
5 1 (1.28%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.28%) IBM
5 1 (1.28%) Informatica