SaaS Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 62 61
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,844 2,384 3,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.83% 4.95% 4.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.55% 13.12% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 1,482 2,949
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,960 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

All Cloud 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 19,313 18,168 31,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.59% 37.74% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,490 12,560 19,951
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,239 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,443 £71,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
North of England -16 443 £55,000 -8.33% 107
South East -41 428 £56,421 -9.73% 99
Midlands -1 379 £60,000 - 74
North West -11 265 £60,000 +8.11% 61
South West +2 250 £50,500 -15.83% 28
West Midlands 0 231 £60,000 -0.83% 47
Scotland -74 166 £55,000 -8.33% 30
Yorkshire -21 151 £55,000 -12.00% 32
East Midlands +6 147 £55,000 - 27
East of England +15 98 £62,500 +6.38% 20
Wales +13 55 £55,000 +22.22% 4
North East -2 27 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Northern Ireland -8 27 £75,000 +66.67% 16
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 45 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.25%) Confluence
4 10 (0.54%) IIS
5 9 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.49%) CMS
6 8 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.38%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.22%) Apache
8 4 (0.22%) WordPress
9 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.054%) JBoss
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.054%) WildFly
Applications
1 28 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) InVision
6 2 (0.11%) Sketch
7 1 (0.054%) 1Password
7 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 10 (0.54%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.22%) Exchequer
7 4 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.22%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.22%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.11%) BambooHR
9 2 (0.11%) iTrent
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.054%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 578 (31.34%) Azure
2 493 (26.74%) AWS
3 205 (11.12%) Microsoft 365
4 154 (8.35%) PaaS
5 138 (7.48%) GCP
6 128 (6.94%) IaaS
7 74 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.82%) Serverless
9 51 (2.77%) GitHub
10 31 (1.68%) Power Platform
11 30 (1.63%) Entra ID
12 26 (1.41%) Amazon S3
13 24 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (1.30%) OpenShift
14 23 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
19 12 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.12%) Firewall
2 54 (2.93%) DNS
2 54 (2.93%) WAN
3 34 (1.84%) DHCP
4 32 (1.74%) LAN
5 29 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.36%) HTTP
6 25 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (1.30%) Network Security
8 23 (1.25%) VPN
9 19 (1.03%) VoIP
10 18 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 16 (0.87%) SAN
12 13 (0.70%) Internet
13 9 (0.49%) MPLS
13 9 (0.49%) NAS
14 7 (0.38%) 5G
14 7 (0.38%) RFID
14 7 (0.38%) VLAN
14 7 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 77 (4.18%) MySQL
3 40 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 40 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 34 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 31 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (1.63%) Big Data
7 26 (1.41%) GIS
8 24 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (1.25%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
11 20 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.65%) Power BI
14 12 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (0.49%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
17 7 (0.38%) Data Mining
17 7 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 119 (6.45%) Git
2 52 (2.82%) JIRA
3 39 (2.11%) Selenium
4 26 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 15 (0.81%) Visual Studio
6 13 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.65%) JMeter
8 11 (0.60%) JUnit
8 11 (0.60%) Postman
9 10 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
9 10 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 10 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (0.49%) GitLab
10 9 (0.49%) NUnit
11 8 (0.43%) Jasmine
11 8 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.33%) Newman
12 6 (0.33%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 433 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 216 (11.71%) Finance
3 123 (6.67%) Marketing
4 121 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (6.18%) Presentation Skills
6 77 (4.18%) Retail
7 63 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (3.15%) Public Sector
9 49 (2.66%) Telecoms
10 47 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (2.39%) Manufacturing
12 43 (2.33%) Law
13 39 (2.11%) Tech for Good
14 38 (2.06%) Aerospace
15 35 (1.90%) Local Government
16 34 (1.84%) Automotive
17 33 (1.79%) Banking
18 31 (1.68%) Legal
19 24 (1.30%) Aviation
19 24 (1.30%) Games
Job Titles
1 418 (22.67%) Developer
2 314 (17.03%) Senior
3 254 (13.77%) Architect
4 120 (6.51%) Senior Developer
5 117 (6.34%) Lead
6 116 (6.29%) Analyst
7 114 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 104 (5.64%) Software Developer
9 95 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
9 95 (5.15%) Full Stack Developer
10 80 (4.34%) .NET Developer
11 79 (4.28%) PHP Developer
12 72 (3.90%) Software Engineer
13 70 (3.80%) Consultant
13 70 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
14 53 (2.87%) Development Manager
15 52 (2.82%) Business Development Manager
15 52 (2.82%) Business Manager
16 47 (2.55%) Project Manager
17 46 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (12.96%) .NET
2 153 (8.30%) React
3 121 (6.56%) HTML
4 116 (6.29%) CSS
5 115 (6.24%) Laravel
6 79 (4.28%) Vue
7 74 (4.01%) .NET Core
8 73 (3.96%) RESTful
9 68 (3.69%) AngularJS
10 58 (3.15%) Node.js
11 52 (2.82%) .NET Framework
12 42 (2.28%) XML
13 38 (2.06%) jQuery
14 36 (1.95%) JSON
15 30 (1.63%) ASP.NET
16 29 (1.57%) REST
17 26 (1.41%) Web Services
18 22 (1.19%) Entity Framework
19 20 (1.08%) SOAP
20 19 (1.03%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.59%) Public Cloud
2 72 (3.90%) PKI
3 62 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 62 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.31%) Mobile App
5 57 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 47 (2.55%) Cloud Native
7 46 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 46 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
9 34 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.41%) NHS
12 22 (1.19%) Driving Licence
13 17 (0.92%) IoT
13 17 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 16 (0.87%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.81%) Low-Code
16 14 (0.76%) Client/Server
17 13 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (9.54%) Windows
2 123 (6.67%) Linux
3 61 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.30%) Unix
6 22 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 20 (1.08%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.98%) Android
9 11 (0.60%) Mac OS
10 10 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.43%) Solaris
12 7 (0.38%) CentOS
13 6 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.22%) VMS
15 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.11%) Debian
17 1 (0.054%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (21.48%) Agile
2 294 (15.94%) DevOps
3 293 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
4 217 (11.77%) Software Engineering
5 202 (10.95%) Project Management
6 171 (9.27%) Full Stack Development
7 157 (8.51%) Roadmaps
8 156 (8.46%) Mentoring
9 130 (7.05%) Actionable Insight
10 129 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 128 (6.94%) CI/CD
12 126 (6.83%) Test Automation
13 123 (6.67%) Microservices
13 123 (6.67%) Migration
14 116 (6.29%) Analytics
14 116 (6.29%) Business Development
15 112 (6.07%) Customer Service
16 107 (5.80%) Cybersecurity
17 102 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
18 100 (5.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 267 (14.48%) JavaScript
2 260 (14.10%) SQL
3 242 (13.12%) C#
4 136 (7.38%) PHP
5 135 (7.32%) Python
6 104 (5.64%) Java
7 103 (5.59%) PowerShell
8 85 (4.61%) TypeScript
9 53 (2.87%) Bash
10 40 (2.17%) C++
11 31 (1.68%) C
12 21 (1.14%) Ruby
13 18 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 16 (0.87%) Go
15 13 (0.70%) Bicep
16 10 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.43%) Swift
18 7 (0.38%) XAML
19 5 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 238 (12.91%) Degree
2 118 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 54 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (2.01%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.41%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 21 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 16 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.70%) CISSP
11 13 (0.70%) MBA
12 11 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.54%) CISM
13 10 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.43%) CCNA
15 5 (0.27%) GCIA
15 5 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (6.72%) QA
2 70 (3.80%) SLA
3 54 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.46%) GDPR
5 19 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.87%) NCSC
8 14 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.76%) NIST
9 13 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 11 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
11 10 (0.54%) GRC
12 9 (0.49%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.27%) SOC 1
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.16%) PMO
16 2 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 2 (0.11%) IASME
System Software
1 134 (7.27%) Docker
2 82 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (3.85%) Active Directory
4 55 (2.98%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.38%) Firmware
8 5 (0.27%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) QEMU
9 2 (0.11%) Xen
10 1 (0.054%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 151 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 82 (4.45%) Terraform
3 65 (3.52%) Ansible
4 31 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.41%) Puppet
6 9 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.16%) Autotask
9 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.11%) CASB
10 2 (0.11%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.11%) Grafana
10 2 (0.11%) Nagios
10 2 (0.11%) Nessus
10 2 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Sentry
10 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 347 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 103 (5.59%) Google
3 92 (4.99%) VMware
4 46 (2.49%) Oracle
5 41 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 36 (1.95%) Cisco
7 32 (1.74%) SAP
8 23 (1.25%) HP
8 23 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.08%) BT
10 17 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 16 (0.87%) Dell
11 16 (0.87%) Meraki
12 15 (0.81%) HubSpot
13 12 (0.65%) Draytek
14 11 (0.60%) Veeam
15 10 (0.54%) Ericsson
15 10 (0.54%) NEC
16 9 (0.49%) Apple
17 8 (0.43%) Sage