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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 71 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 -18 +4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 2,146 2,771 3,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.07% 4.45% 5.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.15% 11.53% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,654 1,707 2,852
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 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,385 £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 23,450 24,031 28,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.55% 38.61% 40.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,437 14,336 19,970
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 24 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 24 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 +22 569 £55,000 -8.33% 188
South East -60 478 £55,000 -8.33% 161
Midlands +39 393 £57,500 -4.17% 93
North West +30 335 £55,500 -6.76% 134
West Midlands +56 284 £60,000 - 63
Scotland -49 250 £55,000 -15.38% 62
South West -8 249 £57,500 +15.00% 88
Yorkshire +19 181 £55,000 -8.33% 46
East of England -15 114 £60,000 -4.00% 34
East Midlands -3 106 £52,500 - 29
Wales +25 67 £52,500 -8.70% 17
North East +22 53 £55,000 +2.33% 10
Northern Ireland +2 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 40 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.40%) 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
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.093%) Kinematics
11 2 (0.093%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.093%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.61%) 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 (0.047%) 1Password
8 1 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.79%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 10 (0.47%) 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
1 654 (30.48%) Azure
2 625 (29.12%) AWS
3 229 (10.67%) GCP
4 203 (9.46%) PaaS
5 186 (8.67%) Microsoft 365
6 172 (8.01%) IaaS
7 73 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (2.61%) Amazon S3
9 50 (2.33%) GitHub
10 47 (2.19%) Power Platform
11 42 (1.96%) Serverless
12 36 (1.68%) 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 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 90 (4.19%) Firewall
2 62 (2.89%) DNS
3 52 (2.42%) WAN
4 48 (2.24%) DHCP
5 45 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 41 (1.91%) HTTP
7 36 (1.68%) LAN
8 33 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (1.44%) VPN
10 25 (1.16%) VoIP
11 23 (1.07%) SAN
12 20 (0.93%) Network Security
13 16 (0.75%) Internet
13 16 (0.75%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.56%) NAS
15 10 (0.47%) MPLS
15 10 (0.47%) VLAN
16 8 (0.37%) Unified Communications
17 7 (0.33%) 5G
17 7 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (6.85%) SQL Server
2 103 (4.80%) MySQL
3 64 (2.98%) Big Data
4 55 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 50 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 46 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (2.05%) Relational Database
8 43 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (1.54%) Redis
10 31 (1.44%) GIS
10 31 (1.44%) MongoDB
11 27 (1.26%) Hadoop
12 23 (1.07%) Data Lake
12 23 (1.07%) Scylla
13 21 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
14 20 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (0.79%) Power BI
16 16 (0.75%) Data Mining
17 15 (0.70%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 144 (6.71%) Git
2 64 (2.98%) JIRA
3 51 (2.38%) Selenium
4 42 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 19 (0.89%) Postman
6 16 (0.75%) JUnit
7 15 (0.70%) JMeter
8 14 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.61%) SoapUI
9 13 (0.61%) 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
12 7 (0.33%) MSBuild
12 7 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 580 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 278 (12.95%) Finance
3 145 (6.76%) Marketing
4 134 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
5 124 (5.78%) Presentation Skills
6 120 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 99 (4.61%) Retail
8 67 (3.12%) Legal
9 64 (2.98%) Manufacturing
10 60 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
11 59 (2.75%) Telecoms
12 57 (2.66%) Banking
13 43 (2.00%) Public Sector
14 42 (1.96%) Automotive
14 42 (1.96%) Law
15 39 (1.82%) Games
16 23 (1.07%) Tech for Good
17 21 (0.98%) Aerospace
17 21 (0.98%) Local Government
18 19 (0.89%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 435 (20.27%) Developer
2 373 (17.38%) Senior
3 266 (12.40%) Architect
4 169 (7.88%) Analyst
5 147 (6.85%) Senior Developer
6 145 (6.76%) Software Engineer
7 143 (6.66%) Lead
8 102 (4.75%) PHP Developer
9 100 (4.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 87 (4.05%) Cloud Architect
11 82 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
12 80 (3.73%) Full Stack Developer
13 78 (3.63%) Software Developer
14 76 (3.54%) Project Manager
15 70 (3.26%) Consultant
16 67 (3.12%) Development Manager
17 65 (3.03%) Business Development Manager
17 65 (3.03%) Business Manager
18 55 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
19 53 (2.47%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (10.11%) .NET
2 182 (8.48%) React
3 164 (7.64%) Laravel
4 124 (5.78%) HTML
5 122 (5.68%) CSS
6 102 (4.75%) Vue
7 89 (4.15%) RESTful
8 88 (4.10%) AngularJS
9 78 (3.63%) .NET Core
10 69 (3.22%) Node.js
11 62 (2.89%) Web Services
12 50 (2.33%) GraphQL
12 50 (2.33%) JSON
13 48 (2.24%) jQuery
14 45 (2.10%) REST
15 44 (2.05%) Kafka
16 39 (1.82%) Symfony
17 36 (1.68%) Spring
17 36 (1.68%) XML
18 35 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (4.38%) Public Cloud
2 85 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
3 84 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 81 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 72 (3.36%) PKI
6 59 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 59 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 55 (2.56%) Cloud Native
7 55 (2.56%) Mobile App
8 54 (2.52%) Management Information System
9 43 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 32 (1.49%) Client/Server
12 30 (1.40%) Data Centre
13 27 (1.26%) Blockchain
14 25 (1.16%) Driving Licence
15 21 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
15 21 (0.98%) Satnav
16 19 (0.89%) Mainframe
16 19 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 215 (10.02%) Windows
2 143 (6.66%) Linux
3 75 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.70%) Unix
5 45 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.03%) 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 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (23.02%) Agile
2 366 (17.05%) DevOps
3 360 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
4 296 (13.79%) Software Engineering
5 216 (10.07%) Project Management
6 198 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
7 191 (8.90%) Microservices
8 185 (8.62%) Roadmaps
9 174 (8.11%) CI/CD
10 172 (8.01%) Actionable Insight
11 170 (7.92%) Migration
12 167 (7.78%) Mentoring
13 159 (7.41%) Test Automation
14 145 (6.76%) Full Stack Development
15 139 (6.48%) User Experience
16 133 (6.20%) Business Development
17 128 (5.96%) Customer Service
18 122 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 122 (5.68%) Scrum
19 120 (5.59%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 330 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 271 (12.63%) SQL
3 252 (11.74%) C#
4 216 (10.07%) Python
5 185 (8.62%) PHP
6 183 (8.53%) Java
7 126 (5.87%) PowerShell
8 96 (4.47%) TypeScript
9 82 (3.82%) 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 (0.61%) 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
1 266 (12.40%) Degree
2 121 (5.64%) Security Cleared
3 67 (3.12%) 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 (0.47%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.37%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (8.71%) QA
2 68 (3.17%) 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 (0.89%) NIST
9 14 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.65%) PMO
10 13 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.37%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.37%) NCSC
13 7 (0.33%) COBIT
13 7 (0.33%) SEPA
14 6 (0.28%) GRC
14 6 (0.28%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 1
16 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 215 (10.02%) Docker
2 88 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 86 (4.01%) Active Directory
4 72 (3.36%) Hyper-V
5 33 (1.54%) 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 (0.047%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) RACF
Systems Management
1 223 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 80 (3.73%) Terraform
3 66 (3.08%) Ansible
4 46 (2.14%) Puppet
5 23 (1.07%) 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
1 394 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 152 (7.08%) Google
3 100 (4.66%) VMware
4 63 (2.94%) Dell
5 47 (2.19%) Oracle
6 44 (2.05%) Red Hat
7 39 (1.82%) SAP
8 33 (1.54%) 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 (0.61%) Ericsson
14 13 (0.61%) IBM
15 12 (0.56%) Veeam
16 11 (0.51%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.47%) Draytek
18 9 (0.42%) Splunk