SaaS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 89 84
Rank change year-on-year +39 -5 -6
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 2,385 984 2,046
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.64% 3.45% 2.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.82% 11.11% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,033 747 1,666
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,602 8,853 22,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.37% 31.05% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,250 6,215 17,431
10th Percentile £28,975 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,772 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SaaS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England +50 708 £70,000 +16.67% 270
South East +50 623 £65,000 +18.18% 300
Midlands +11 449 £60,000 - 115
North West +74 435 £70,000 +16.67% 174
West Midlands +39 358 £60,000 - 83
Yorkshire +6 230 £65,000 +11.11% 70
South West +36 213 £50,000 -16.67% 75
East of England +21 176 £50,000 -25.93% 69
Scotland +23 123 £37,000 -29.52% 54
East Midlands -28 90 £60,750 +1.25% 31
Northern Ireland +7 46 £70,000 +75.00% 6
Wales +3 46 £45,000 +18.13% 11
North East -20 43 £42,500 -34.62% 26
Isle of Man - 8 - -
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 52 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.71%) CMS
4 16 (0.67%) Confluence
5 8 (0.34%) Moodle
5 8 (0.34%) Totara
6 7 (0.29%) WordPress
7 6 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.17%) IIS
10 2 (0.084%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.042%) Apache
11 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.042%) SAS
11 1 (0.042%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.13%) Trello
8 2 (0.084%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.042%) Notion
9 1 (0.042%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 275 (11.53%) Azure
2 220 (9.22%) AWS
3 106 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
4 102 (4.28%) PaaS
5 80 (3.35%) Entra ID
6 54 (2.26%) IaaS
7 37 (1.55%) GCP
7 37 (1.55%) Serverless
8 36 (1.51%) Power Platform
9 33 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (1.13%) dbt
10 27 (1.13%) GitHub
11 23 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 22 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (0.84%) Amazon S3
14 17 (0.71%) Figma
14 17 (0.71%) OneDrive
15 16 (0.67%) Mimecast
16 15 (0.63%) Azure AKS
16 15 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.43%) DNS
2 31 (1.30%) Firewall
3 17 (0.71%) DHCP
4 15 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.42%) HTTP
5 10 (0.42%) SSL
6 8 (0.34%) VoIP
7 6 (0.25%) PuTTY
7 6 (0.25%) SSH
7 6 (0.25%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.25%) VPN
8 4 (0.17%) Network Security
8 4 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.084%) DAB
10 2 (0.084%) MPLS
10 2 (0.084%) WAN
11 1 (0.042%) IPv4
11 1 (0.042%) IPv6
11 1 (0.042%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 29 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (0.88%) MySQL
3 21 (0.88%) Power BI
4 15 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.42%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.38%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.34%) Redis
11 7 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.21%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.17%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.17%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 54 (2.26%) JIRA
2 20 (0.84%) Git
3 12 (0.50%) Claude Code
4 9 (0.38%) Postman
5 8 (0.34%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.25%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.21%) JMeter
8 4 (0.17%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.17%) Locust
8 4 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.17%) Selenium
8 4 (0.17%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.13%) Storybook
10 2 (0.084%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.042%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.042%) git-flow
11 1 (0.042%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 328 (13.75%) Finance
2 300 (12.58%) Social Skills
3 286 (11.99%) Marketing
4 165 (6.92%) Legal
5 111 (4.65%) Retail
6 110 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
7 89 (3.73%) Law
8 67 (2.81%) Public Sector
9 47 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 32 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (0.92%) Automotive
14 20 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 18 (0.75%) German Language
16 17 (0.71%) Health Technology
17 15 (0.63%) Games
18 13 (0.55%) Advertising
19 11 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 277 (11.61%) Senior
2 254 (10.65%) Developer
3 190 (7.97%) Lead
4 159 (6.67%) Account Manager
5 139 (5.83%) Software Engineer
6 132 (5.53%) Account Executive
7 97 (4.07%) Sales Representative
8 85 (3.56%) Sales Manager
9 80 (3.35%) Analyst
10 76 (3.19%) .NET Developer
11 75 (3.14%) Development Manager
11 75 (3.14%) Support Engineer
12 74 (3.10%) Software Developer
13 69 (2.89%) Architect
14 67 (2.81%) Marketing Manager
14 67 (2.81%) Senior Manager
15 61 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
16 58 (2.43%) Business Manager
17 56 (2.35%) Sales Executive
17 56 (2.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (9.43%) .NET
2 71 (2.98%) React
3 64 (2.68%) Node.js
4 53 (2.22%) REST
5 40 (1.68%) CSS
5 40 (1.68%) HTML
6 31 (1.30%) .NET Framework
7 30 (1.26%) AngularJS
7 30 (1.26%) Vue
8 29 (1.22%) .NET Core
9 20 (0.84%) JSON
10 18 (0.75%) Laravel
10 18 (0.75%) NestJS
11 16 (0.67%) Entity Framework
11 16 (0.67%) XML
12 15 (0.63%) Ruby on Rails
13 14 (0.59%) Blazor
13 14 (0.59%) SOAP
14 13 (0.55%) OAuth
14 13 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 149 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 68 (2.85%) Marketing Technology
3 67 (2.81%) PropTech
4 52 (2.18%) Mobile App
5 47 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 42 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 31 (1.30%) EPoS
8 31 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (0.67%) Blog
11 16 (0.67%) Educational Technology
12 15 (0.63%) Data Structures
12 15 (0.63%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.59%) AI Agents
13 14 (0.59%) IoT
13 14 (0.59%) Web Conferencing
14 13 (0.55%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 73 (3.06%) Windows
2 54 (2.26%) Linux
3 45 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 15 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.55%) Android
7 12 (0.50%) CentOS
8 10 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.34%) Unix
11 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.25%) VMS
12 6 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.084%) Solaris
14 2 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (11.95%) B2B
2 259 (10.86%) Software Engineering
3 210 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 208 (8.72%) Agile
5 183 (7.67%) AI
6 179 (7.51%) Problem-Solving
7 166 (6.96%) Business Development
8 158 (6.62%) CRM
9 149 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 122 (5.12%) DevOps
11 111 (4.65%) CI/CD
11 111 (4.65%) Roadmaps
12 110 (4.61%) Analytics
13 109 (4.57%) Customer Experience
14 107 (4.49%) Decision-Making
15 101 (4.23%) Mentoring
16 90 (3.77%) Project Management
17 85 (3.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 83 (3.48%) Lead Generation
19 77 (3.23%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 163 (6.83%) SQL
2 162 (6.79%) C#
3 109 (4.57%) Python
4 87 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 84 (3.52%) TypeScript
6 68 (2.85%) Java
7 42 (1.76%) PHP
8 34 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.01%) Bash
10 16 (0.67%) R
11 15 (0.63%) Ruby
12 11 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.42%) Perl
14 7 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.25%) DCL
15 6 (0.25%) Tcl
16 5 (0.21%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.17%) Bicep
18 3 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 1 (0.042%) Go
Qualifications
1 70 (2.94%) Degree
2 49 (2.05%) ACCA
3 38 (1.59%) Security Cleared
4 37 (1.55%) CIMA
5 31 (1.30%) SC Cleared
6 18 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.29%) CISSP
10 6 (0.25%) CISM
10 6 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.25%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.17%) CEH
13 3 (0.13%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.084%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.084%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 2 (0.084%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 1 (0.042%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (2.64%) QA
2 54 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 31 (1.30%) GDPR
5 26 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 18 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (0.75%) IFRS
7 14 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 13 (0.55%) WCAG
9 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.38%) NIST
9 9 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.21%) GRC
11 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.21%) SLA
12 4 (0.17%) GAAP
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.042%) HL7
14 1 (0.042%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 86 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.18%) Docker
3 17 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.34%) vSphere
5 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.13%) Firmware
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (2.43%) Terraform
2 42 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.05%) Ansible
5 17 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.34%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.21%) Grafana
9 4 (0.17%) CASB
9 4 (0.17%) Control-M
10 2 (0.084%) Nessus
10 2 (0.084%) Puppet
11 1 (0.042%) Argo
11 1 (0.042%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.042%) Graylog
11 1 (0.042%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.042%) Nagios
11 1 (0.042%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 170 (7.13%) Microsoft
2 51 (2.14%) Salesforce
3 47 (1.97%) HubSpot
4 28 (1.17%) Google
5 21 (0.88%) Oracle
6 18 (0.75%) Red Hat
6 18 (0.75%) SAP
6 18 (0.75%) VMware
7 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
7 17 (0.71%) YouTube
8 16 (0.67%) Sage
8 16 (0.67%) Xero
9 14 (0.59%) ServiceNow
9 14 (0.59%) Xamarin
10 12 (0.50%) Splunk
11 9 (0.38%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.38%) Pardot
12 8 (0.34%) Databricks
12 8 (0.34%) Informatica
12 8 (0.34%) New Relic