Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 74 63
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 -12
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,676 3,416 4,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.21% 3.47% 4.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.12% 9.66% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,254 2,642 3,280
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -5 1,493 £65,000 - 2,472
UK excluding London -23 979 £58,000 +5.45% 992
Work from Home -1 766 £62,500 -3.85% 1,489
London -6 560 £80,000 - 1,544
South East +2 260 £55,000 -2.52% 227
North of England -55 244 £60,000 +9.09% 363
Midlands -18 202 £60,000 +4.35% 164
North West -93 124 £60,000 +9.09% 242
West Midlands -42 112 £60,000 - 95
East of England +39 102 £67,500 +12.50% 67
Yorkshire +15 102 £58,500 +6.36% 102
East Midlands +28 88 £60,000 +14.29% 64
Scotland +23 79 £52,500 -4.55% 56
South West 0 78 £60,000 +4.35% 99
North East +17 18 £65,000 +18.18% 21
Wales -8 12 £38,094 -27.44% 10
Northern Ireland +12 4 £40,000 -46.67% 25

SaaS
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 62 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.61%) IIS
4 24 (1.43%) Confluence
5 22 (1.31%) CMS
6 11 (0.66%) nginx
6 11 (0.66%) WordPress
7 9 (0.54%) Apache
7 9 (0.54%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.18%) Moodle
12 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.060%) Totara
13 1 (0.060%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.42%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.36%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.18%) InDesign
9 3 (0.18%) Productboard
9 3 (0.18%) Sketch
9 3 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.12%) Trello
11 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.060%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 33 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 20 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.72%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 11 (0.66%) Shopify
5 9 (0.54%) Magento
6 6 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.18%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 535 (31.92%) Azure
2 425 (25.36%) AWS
3 234 (13.96%) PaaS
4 182 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
5 157 (9.37%) IaaS
6 113 (6.74%) GCP
7 81 (4.83%) Entra ID
8 79 (4.71%) Serverless
9 78 (4.65%) GitHub
10 77 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (3.10%) Power Platform
12 38 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
13 36 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (2.03%) OCI
15 30 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (1.49%) Boomi
16 25 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (1.37%) Figma
18 21 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.58%) Firewall
2 56 (3.34%) DNS
3 36 (2.15%) VPN
4 31 (1.85%) Internet
5 28 (1.67%) DHCP
6 23 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (1.31%) TCP/IP
8 18 (1.07%) Network Security
8 18 (1.07%) SMTP
8 18 (1.07%) WAN
9 16 (0.95%) LAN
10 13 (0.78%) DKIM
10 13 (0.78%) DMARC
10 13 (0.78%) SAN
10 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.78%) VLAN
11 11 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (0.66%) HTTP
12 10 (0.60%) DNSSEC
12 10 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (7.70%) SQL Server
2 65 (3.88%) NoSQL
3 49 (2.92%) MySQL
4 48 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (2.86%) Power BI
5 40 (2.39%) Big Data
6 31 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 21 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.01%) Relational Database
11 16 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 13 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.72%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.72%) Data Hub
13 12 (0.72%) SQL CLR
13 12 (0.72%) SQLite
14 11 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.60%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 79 (4.71%) JIRA
2 63 (3.76%) Git
3 50 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.55%) Selenium
5 23 (1.37%) Eclipse
5 23 (1.37%) JUnit
6 22 (1.31%) IntelliJ
6 22 (1.31%) Jasmine
6 22 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (1.31%) Mockito
6 22 (1.31%) Protractor
7 18 (1.07%) Postman
8 17 (1.01%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.36%) NUnit
12 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.30%) WiX
General
1 575 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 341 (20.35%) Finance
3 232 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (8.11%) Marketing
5 104 (6.21%) Law
6 96 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (5.37%) Public Sector
8 69 (4.12%) Retail
9 65 (3.88%) Legal
10 63 (3.76%) Banking
11 57 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 30 (1.79%) Games
15 28 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 25 (1.49%) Billing
17 21 (1.25%) Advertising
18 20 (1.19%) Back Office
18 20 (1.19%) Local Government
19 19 (1.13%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 289 (17.24%) Senior
2 221 (13.19%) Developer
3 173 (10.32%) Architect
4 165 (9.84%) Lead
5 103 (6.15%) Analyst
6 96 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
7 80 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (4.47%) Senior Developer
9 71 (4.24%) Consultant
10 66 (3.94%) Software Engineer
11 59 (3.52%) IT Support
12 55 (3.28%) IT Manager
13 54 (3.22%) Support Engineer
14 50 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
15 47 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 47 (2.80%) IT Engineer
15 47 (2.80%) Product Manager
16 39 (2.33%) SaaS Developer
16 39 (2.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (10.20%) React
2 159 (9.49%) .NET
3 94 (5.61%) REST
4 84 (5.01%) AngularJS
5 78 (4.65%) HTML
6 75 (4.47%) CSS
7 71 (4.24%) Node.js
8 58 (3.46%) RESTful
9 45 (2.68%) .NET Framework
10 43 (2.57%) Kafka
11 40 (2.39%) .NET Core
12 39 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
13 32 (1.91%) Next.js
14 31 (1.85%) JSON
15 29 (1.73%) Django
15 29 (1.73%) OAuth
16 26 (1.55%) Entity Framework
16 26 (1.55%) Laravel
17 24 (1.43%) GraphQL
18 22 (1.31%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.55%) Cloud Native
2 92 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 88 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 80 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
5 79 (4.71%) Management Information System
6 71 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
7 49 (2.92%) Private Cloud
8 46 (2.74%) Public Cloud
9 41 (2.45%) Algorithms
10 40 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 38 (2.27%) Mobile App
12 37 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 33 (1.97%) Data Centre
14 32 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.67%) Client/Server
16 27 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
17 26 (1.55%) Social Media
18 23 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
18 23 (1.37%) Virtual Team
19 22 (1.31%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 174 (10.38%) Windows
2 111 (6.62%) Linux
3 54 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.79%) Android
5 20 (1.19%) Mac OS
6 18 (1.07%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.30%) Unix
9 5 (0.30%) VMS
10 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.12%) SUSE
12 1 (0.060%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (27.45%) Agile
2 410 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
3 286 (17.06%) DevOps
4 264 (15.75%) Roadmaps
5 206 (12.29%) Software Engineering
6 193 (11.52%) CI/CD
7 186 (11.10%) Mentoring
8 161 (9.61%) Project Management
9 157 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 149 (8.89%) CRM
11 148 (8.83%) Analytics
12 143 (8.53%) ITIL
13 142 (8.47%) B2B
14 137 (8.17%) Microservices
15 135 (8.05%) Artificial Intelligence
16 128 (7.64%) Migration
16 128 (7.64%) User Experience
17 122 (7.28%) Computer Science
17 122 (7.28%) Full-Stack Development
18 120 (7.16%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 283 (16.89%) SQL
2 212 (12.65%) Python
3 191 (11.40%) JavaScript
4 183 (10.92%) C#
5 147 (8.77%) TypeScript
6 102 (6.09%) PowerShell
7 99 (5.91%) Java
8 37 (2.21%) Bash
9 36 (2.15%) PHP
10 22 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.78%) Go
12 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.54%) C++
13 9 (0.54%) F#
13 9 (0.54%) Ruby
14 7 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.42%) Haskell
14 7 (0.42%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.42%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 247 (14.74%) Degree
2 80 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 44 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (2.57%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.27%) PMP
8 37 (2.21%) PMI Certification
9 35 (2.09%) CISSP
10 31 (1.85%) DBS Check
11 30 (1.79%) SC Cleared
12 23 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.13%) AWS Certification
14 18 (1.07%) CBAP
15 17 (1.01%) CCNA
16 16 (0.95%) MCSE
17 14 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.84%) MCSA
18 12 (0.72%) CCNP
19 10 (0.60%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.71%) QA
2 58 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (2.74%) SLA
4 43 (2.57%) GDPR
5 38 (2.27%) NIST
6 30 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.84%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.78%) PMO
9 11 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 11 (0.66%) NCSC
9 11 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (0.36%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.30%) GRC
14 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.18%) PMBOK
System Software
1 126 (7.52%) Docker
2 83 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 58 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.60%) vSphere
8 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.12%) HDFS
10 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.060%) Firmware
10 1 (0.060%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.060%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 114 (6.80%) Terraform
2 102 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (2.33%) Ansible
5 24 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.95%) SCCM
7 8 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.48%) WSUS
8 6 (0.36%) Grafana
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.30%) Puppet
9 5 (0.30%) SCOM
10 4 (0.24%) Oozie
11 3 (0.18%) CASB
11 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.18%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.18%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 330 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.31%) Salesforce
3 82 (4.89%) Google
4 80 (4.77%) Oracle
5 74 (4.42%) VMware
6 59 (3.52%) Cisco
6 59 (3.52%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.33%) IBM
8 29 (1.73%) SAP
9 28 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 21 (1.25%) YouTube
11 20 (1.19%) Databricks
11 20 (1.19%) Zoho
12 18 (1.07%) Citrix
13 17 (1.01%) Commvault
14 16 (0.95%) HubSpot
14 16 (0.95%) Informatica
15 14 (0.84%) Adobe
15 14 (0.84%) Red Hat
16 13 (0.78%) Workday