SaaS Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 71 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 -19 +5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 2,151 2,752 3,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.07% 4.43% 5.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.17% 11.46% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 1,700 2,831
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,485
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.22% +7.59%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,664 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,462 24,024 28,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.48% 38.71% 40.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,429 14,305 19,860
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £84,775
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +23 569 £55,000 -8.33% 194
South East -63 482 £55,000 -8.33% 184
Midlands +46 394 £57,500 -4.17% 106
North West +26 335 £55,500 -6.76% 133
West Midlands +53 284 £60,000 - 70
South West -12 250 £57,500 +15.00% 92
Scotland -50 250 £55,000 -15.38% 66
Yorkshire +18 181 £55,000 -8.33% 51
East of England -14 114 £60,000 -4.00% 41
East Midlands +3 107 £52,500 - 35
Wales +21 66 £52,500 -8.70% 17
North East +18 53 £55,000 +2.33% 12
Northern Ireland +1 28 £75,000 +25.00% 12
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 41 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 21 (0.98%) Confluence
5 18 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.70%) IIS
7 8 (0.37%) CMS
8 7 (0.33%) WordPress
9 4 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) Apache
11 2 (0.093%) Kinematics
11 2 (0.093%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.093%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.093%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.093%) InVision
7 2 (0.093%) Notion
7 2 (0.093%) Sketch
8 1 (0.046%) 1Password
8 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.79%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 10 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.19%) Exchequer
8 4 (0.19%) Sage 200
8 4 (0.19%) Sage 50
8 4 (0.19%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.14%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.14%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.14%) SAP Retail
10 2 (0.093%) Maximo
10 2 (0.093%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 655 (30.45%) Azure
2 627 (29.15%) AWS
3 229 (10.65%) GCP
4 204 (9.48%) PaaS
5 187 (8.69%) Microsoft 365
6 173 (8.04%) IaaS
7 74 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (2.60%) Amazon S3
9 51 (2.37%) GitHub
10 48 (2.23%) Power Platform
11 42 (1.95%) Serverless
12 36 (1.67%) OpenShift
13 31 (1.44%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
14 29 (1.35%) Miro
15 28 (1.30%) Slack
16 24 (1.12%) Entra ID
17 23 (1.07%) Google Docs
17 23 (1.07%) Lucidchart
18 22 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 91 (4.23%) Firewall
2 63 (2.93%) DNS
3 53 (2.46%) WAN
4 48 (2.23%) DHCP
5 45 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 41 (1.91%) HTTP
7 36 (1.67%) LAN
8 33 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (1.44%) VPN
10 25 (1.16%) VoIP
11 23 (1.07%) SAN
12 21 (0.98%) Network Security
13 17 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.74%) Internet
15 12 (0.56%) NAS
16 10 (0.46%) MPLS
16 10 (0.46%) VLAN
17 8 (0.37%) Unified Communications
18 7 (0.33%) 5G
18 7 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 102 (4.74%) MySQL
3 64 (2.98%) Big Data
4 55 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 50 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
6 46 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (1.95%) Relational Database
9 33 (1.53%) Redis
10 32 (1.49%) MongoDB
11 31 (1.44%) GIS
12 27 (1.26%) Hadoop
13 23 (1.07%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.07%) Scylla
14 21 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
15 20 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (0.79%) Power BI
17 16 (0.74%) Data Mining
18 15 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 144 (6.69%) Git
2 64 (2.98%) JIRA
3 51 (2.37%) Selenium
4 42 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 19 (0.88%) Postman
6 16 (0.74%) JUnit
7 15 (0.70%) JMeter
8 14 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.60%) SoapUI
9 13 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.51%) GitLab
11 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (0.37%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.37%) Serenity BDD
11 8 (0.37%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.33%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.33%) MSBuild
General
1 580 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 279 (12.97%) Finance
3 145 (6.74%) Marketing
4 134 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 124 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
6 120 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 99 (4.60%) Retail
8 67 (3.11%) Legal
9 64 (2.98%) Manufacturing
10 60 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
11 59 (2.74%) Telecoms
12 57 (2.65%) Banking
13 43 (2.00%) Law
13 43 (2.00%) Public Sector
14 42 (1.95%) Automotive
15 39 (1.81%) Games
16 23 (1.07%) Tech for Good
17 21 (0.98%) Aerospace
17 21 (0.98%) Local Government
18 19 (0.88%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 436 (20.27%) Developer
2 374 (17.39%) Senior
3 267 (12.41%) Architect
4 169 (7.86%) Analyst
5 147 (6.83%) Senior Developer
6 144 (6.69%) Software Engineer
7 142 (6.60%) Lead
8 103 (4.79%) PHP Developer
9 101 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 87 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
11 82 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 80 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
13 79 (3.67%) Software Developer
14 76 (3.53%) Project Manager
15 71 (3.30%) Consultant
16 67 (3.11%) Development Manager
17 65 (3.02%) Business Development Manager
17 65 (3.02%) Business Manager
18 55 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
19 53 (2.46%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (10.00%) .NET
2 181 (8.41%) React
3 165 (7.67%) Laravel
4 123 (5.72%) HTML
5 121 (5.63%) CSS
6 103 (4.79%) Vue
7 89 (4.14%) RESTful
8 87 (4.04%) AngularJS
9 78 (3.63%) .NET Core
10 70 (3.25%) Node.js
11 63 (2.93%) Web Services
12 50 (2.32%) GraphQL
12 50 (2.32%) JSON
13 48 (2.23%) jQuery
14 45 (2.09%) REST
15 44 (2.05%) Kafka
16 39 (1.81%) Symfony
17 36 (1.67%) Spring
17 36 (1.67%) XML
18 35 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (4.37%) Public Cloud
2 85 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
2 85 (3.95%) Product Ownership
3 81 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 72 (3.35%) PKI
5 60 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 59 (2.74%) Data Structures
7 55 (2.56%) Cloud Native
7 55 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 55 (2.56%) Mobile App
8 44 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 32 (1.49%) Client/Server
11 30 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 27 (1.26%) Blockchain
13 25 (1.16%) Driving Licence
14 21 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
14 21 (0.98%) Satnav
15 19 (0.88%) Mainframe
15 19 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 216 (10.04%) Windows
2 142 (6.60%) Linux
3 75 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.70%) Unix
5 45 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 21 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
9 20 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (0.84%) Android
11 17 (0.79%) Ubuntu
11 17 (0.79%) Windows 10
12 14 (0.65%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.37%) CentOS
14 6 (0.28%) Solaris
14 6 (0.28%) Windows 7
14 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.19%) VMS
16 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (22.97%) Agile
2 368 (17.11%) DevOps
3 360 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
4 296 (13.76%) Software Engineering
5 217 (10.09%) Project Management
6 199 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
7 192 (8.93%) Microservices
8 185 (8.60%) Roadmaps
9 175 (8.14%) CI/CD
10 172 (8.00%) Actionable Insight
11 170 (7.90%) Migration
12 168 (7.81%) Mentoring
13 160 (7.44%) Test Automation
14 146 (6.79%) Full Stack Development
15 140 (6.51%) User Experience
16 133 (6.18%) Business Development
17 128 (5.95%) Customer Service
18 123 (5.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 122 (5.67%) Scrum
20 120 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 330 (15.34%) JavaScript
2 270 (12.55%) SQL
3 250 (11.62%) C#
4 216 (10.04%) Python
5 186 (8.65%) PHP
6 183 (8.51%) Java
7 128 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 96 (4.46%) TypeScript
9 82 (3.81%) Bash
10 47 (2.19%) C++
11 46 (2.14%) Go
12 29 (1.35%) C
13 24 (1.12%) Scala
14 23 (1.07%) Ruby
15 13 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.56%) Swift
17 9 (0.42%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.37%) Ada
19 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
20 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 268 (12.46%) Degree
2 123 (5.72%) Security Cleared
3 67 (3.11%) SC Cleared
4 61 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.05%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.12%) CISSP
6 24 (1.12%) ISTQB
7 20 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 20 (0.93%) CISM
7 20 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.79%) MBA
9 14 (0.65%) GCIA
9 14 (0.65%) GCIH
9 14 (0.65%) GREM
10 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.46%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (8.69%) QA
2 68 (3.16%) SLA
3 46 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (1.44%) GDPR
5 25 (1.16%) Data Quality
6 21 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
7 20 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (0.88%) NIST
9 14 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.65%) PMO
10 13 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.42%) NCSC
13 8 (0.37%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.33%) COBIT
14 7 (0.33%) SEPA
15 6 (0.28%) GRC
15 6 (0.28%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.23%) SOC 1
17 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 217 (10.09%) Docker
2 88 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 86 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 72 (3.35%) Hyper-V
5 33 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.56%) vSphere
7 3 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.14%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.093%) KVM
8 2 (0.093%) QEMU
8 2 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.093%) Xen
9 1 (0.046%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.046%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.046%) RACF
Systems Management
1 224 (10.41%) Kubernetes
2 81 (3.77%) Terraform
3 67 (3.11%) Ansible
4 46 (2.14%) Puppet
5 24 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.28%) CASB
6 6 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (0.28%) NetCrunch
6 6 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.28%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.19%) Grafana
9 3 (0.14%) Autotask
9 3 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.14%) Nessus
10 2 (0.093%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.093%) Podman
10 2 (0.093%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 395 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 153 (7.11%) Google
3 100 (4.65%) VMware
4 63 (2.93%) Dell
5 47 (2.19%) Oracle
6 44 (2.05%) Red Hat
7 39 (1.81%) SAP
8 33 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 28 (1.30%) Cisco
10 27 (1.26%) Adobe
10 27 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 25 (1.16%) Apple
12 17 (0.79%) Meraki
13 15 (0.70%) HubSpot
14 13 (0.60%) Ericsson
14 13 (0.60%) IBM
15 12 (0.56%) Veeam
16 11 (0.51%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.46%) Draytek
18 9 (0.42%) Splunk