SaaS Developer Jobs

SaaS Developer
UK

The median SaaS Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 653 867 949
Rank change year-on-year +214 +82 +136
Permanent jobs requiring a SaaS Developer 39 29 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.029% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.031% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 32 26 35
10th Percentile - £37,500 £43,150
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +86.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,438 £100,000
90th Percentile - £77,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +33.33%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

SaaS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS Developer in the UK

SaaS Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SaaS Developer in the UK

SaaS Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS Developer in the UK

SaaS Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +189 39 £60,000 +9.09% 16
Work from Home +217 37 £60,000 +16.50% 15
UK excluding London +221 31 £60,000 - 12
Midlands - 23 £60,000 - 4
East Midlands - 14 £60,000 - 2
West Midlands - 9 £60,000 - 2
London +112 8 £65,000 +26.21% 5
North of England +77 4 £70,000 +16.67% 4
South East +109 3 £72,500 +31.82% 3
North West +28 3 £70,000 +33.33% 3
Yorkshire +75 1 £60,000 +6.67% 1
East of England +56 1 £85,000 +13.33%

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SaaS Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) SaaS
2 30 (76.92%) Azure
2 30 (76.92%) SQL
3 24 (61.54%) AWS
4 23 (58.97%) React
5 22 (56.41%) Docker
5 22 (56.41%) Java
6 21 (53.85%) Agile
6 21 (53.85%) Microservices
7 19 (48.72%) Hibernate
7 19 (48.72%) Unit Testing
7 19 (48.72%) JPA
7 19 (48.72%) JUnit
7 19 (48.72%) Linux
7 19 (48.72%) Eclipse
7 19 (48.72%) IntelliJ
7 19 (48.72%) IBM
7 19 (48.72%) Algorithms
7 19 (48.72%) Jasmine
7 19 (48.72%) AngularJS
7 19 (48.72%) Karma Test Runner
7 19 (48.72%) Mockito
7 19 (48.72%) NoSQL
7 19 (48.72%) RabbitMQ
7 19 (48.72%) Protractor
7 19 (48.72%) Containerisation
8 15 (38.46%) Data Privacy
9 10 (25.64%) Fintech
9 10 (25.64%) Finance
9 10 (25.64%) JavaScript

SaaS Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Magento
1 5 (12.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) SaaS
2 30 (76.92%) Azure
3 24 (61.54%) AWS
4 8 (20.51%) Power Platform
5 5 (12.82%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (48.72%) NoSQL
2 8 (20.51%) Data Hub
2 8 (20.51%) Metadata
2 8 (20.51%) Power BI
2 8 (20.51%) SQL CLR
2 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 8 (20.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 8 (20.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
3 2 (5.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (48.72%) Eclipse
1 19 (48.72%) IntelliJ
1 19 (48.72%) Jasmine
1 19 (48.72%) JUnit
1 19 (48.72%) Karma Test Runner
1 19 (48.72%) Mockito
1 19 (48.72%) Protractor
2 3 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) PHPUnit
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (25.64%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Back Office
3 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Automotive
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (58.97%) React
2 19 (48.72%) AngularJS
2 19 (48.72%) Hibernate
2 19 (48.72%) JPA
2 19 (48.72%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (25.64%) HTML
4 5 (12.82%) CSS
5 4 (10.26%) RESTful
6 3 (7.69%) Laravel
7 2 (5.13%) Jest
7 2 (5.13%) jQuery
7 2 (5.13%) LAMP
7 2 (5.13%) REST
8 1 (2.56%) Alpine.js
8 1 (2.56%) Kafka
8 1 (2.56%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (48.72%) Algorithms
2 8 (20.51%) Private Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) EPoS
4 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.56%) NHS
6 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (48.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Agile
1 21 (53.85%) Microservices
2 19 (48.72%) Containerisation
2 19 (48.72%) Unit Testing
3 15 (38.46%) Data Privacy
4 10 (25.64%) Fintech
4 10 (25.64%) Refactoring
5 8 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (20.51%) High Availability
5 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (20.51%) Migration
5 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (20.51%) Statistics
5 8 (20.51%) Wealth Management
5 8 (20.51%) Workflow
6 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) E-Commerce
8 5 (12.82%) Logistics
8 5 (12.82%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (76.92%) SQL
2 22 (56.41%) Java
3 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.51%) T-SQL
5 5 (12.82%) C#
5 5 (12.82%) Delphi
6 3 (7.69%) PHP
7 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 22 (56.41%) Docker
2 8 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) IBM
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.51%) VMware
3 1 (2.56%) Google