SaaS Architect Jobs

SaaS Architect
UK

The median SaaS Architect salary in the UK is £103,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 708 889 935
Rank change year-on-year +181 +46 +178
Permanent jobs requiring a SaaS Architect 4 18 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.018% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.019% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 18
10th Percentile £97,625 £61,250 £75,000
25th Percentile £99,688 £75,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £103,750 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £107,188 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,875 £90,625 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £103,750 £80,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +29.69% -15.79% +8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,981 94,642 91,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 94.70% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,187 67,606 57,639
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%

SaaS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SaaS Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS Architect in the UK

SaaS Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaaS Architect.

Salary trend for SaaS Architect in the UK

SaaS Architect
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +144 4 £103,750 +29.69% 5
UK excluding London +162 2 £103,750 +29.69% 5
London +114 2 - - 3
South East +85 1 £110,000 +37.50% 1
West Midlands - 1 £97,500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £97,500 - 1

SaaS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, SaaS Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring SaaS Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) CISSP
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (50.00%) CISA
3 2 (50.00%) CISM
3 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) CRISC
3 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 2 (50.00%) SABSA
3 2 (50.00%) SANS
3 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda

SaaS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) SABSA
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISA
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CRISC
1 2 (50.00%) SANS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) NIST 800