Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 75 76
Rank change year-on-year +40 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 3,895 1,697 3,286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.29% 3.88% 3.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.24% 11.02% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,128 1,251 2,638
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Cloud Computing 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 27,355 15,396 34,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.11% 35.19% 35.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,896 10,932 26,754
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,322 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +4.91% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SaaS job vacancy trend in the UK

SaaS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Top 18 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 10 May 2026. 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 +34 3,479 £67,500 +3.85% 1,621
UK excluding London +41 2,389 £60,000 +4.35% 885
Work from Home +28 1,298 £65,000 +4.00% 858
London +33 1,294 £80,000 +3.23% 853
North of England +54 713 £70,000 +16.67% 271
South East +51 621 £65,000 +18.18% 301
Midlands +22 450 £60,000 - 116
North West +84 438 £70,000 +16.67% 175
West Midlands +39 359 £60,000 - 84
Yorkshire +7 231 £65,000 +11.11% 70
South West +30 213 £50,000 -16.67% 74
East of England +21 176 £50,000 -25.93% 66
Scotland +22 122 £36,000 -31.43% 52
East Midlands -32 90 £60,750 +1.25% 31
Wales +7 47 £45,000 +18.13% 11
Northern Ireland +6 46 £70,000 +75.00% 6
North East -16 44 £42,500 -34.62% 26
Isle of Man - 8 - -

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 66 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 66 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 23 (0.59%) CMS
3 22 (0.56%) Confluence
4 19 (0.49%) WordPress
5 16 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.23%) Apache
7 8 (0.21%) Moodle
7 8 (0.21%) Totara
8 7 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.18%) JBoss
8 7 (0.18%) SAS
8 7 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
9 5 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
10 4 (0.10%) Documentum
10 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 2 (0.051%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.026%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 67 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 11 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
5 11 (0.28%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
7 6 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.077%) Trello
10 2 (0.051%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) InDesign
11 1 (0.026%) Notion
11 1 (0.026%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 41 (1.05%) NetSuite
2 21 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.077%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 2 (0.051%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 2 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.051%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (0.051%) Shopify
7 1 (0.026%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.026%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.026%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.026%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.026%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.026%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.026%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.026%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.026%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.026%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 499 (12.81%) Azure
2 401 (10.30%) AWS
3 219 (5.62%) PaaS
4 197 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
5 122 (3.13%) IaaS
5 122 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 120 (3.08%) GCP
7 114 (2.93%) Entra ID
8 95 (2.44%) Serverless
9 59 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (1.39%) GitHub
11 39 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 34 (0.87%) Figma
15 32 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 31 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
17 30 (0.77%) Azure Functions
18 29 (0.74%) Datadog
18 29 (0.74%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 77 (1.98%) Firewall
2 66 (1.69%) DNS
3 50 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
4 49 (1.26%) VPN
5 44 (1.13%) DHCP
6 30 (0.77%) VLAN
7 23 (0.59%) SAN
8 18 (0.46%) WAN
9 17 (0.44%) LAN
9 17 (0.44%) MPLS
9 17 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (0.39%) Internet
11 14 (0.36%) BGP
12 13 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
12 13 (0.33%) IPsec
12 13 (0.33%) NetScaler
12 13 (0.33%) NX-OS
12 13 (0.33%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 71 (1.82%) Power BI
3 55 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (1.16%) MySQL
5 30 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 24 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 21 (0.54%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 19 (0.49%) Redis
10 16 (0.41%) MongoDB
11 13 (0.33%) BigQuery
11 13 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.15%) Big Data
15 6 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.15%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 67 (1.72%) JIRA
2 48 (1.23%) Git
3 28 (0.72%) TeamCity
4 20 (0.51%) Chocolatey
5 13 (0.33%) Postman
6 12 (0.31%) Claude Code
7 8 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.15%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.15%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.15%) JMeter
8 6 (0.15%) Selenium
9 5 (0.13%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.13%) Locust
9 5 (0.13%) Yeoman
10 4 (0.10%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.10%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.10%) SpecFlow
General
1 789 (20.26%) Finance
2 650 (16.69%) Social Skills
3 518 (13.30%) Marketing
4 291 (7.47%) Legal
5 273 (7.01%) Retail
6 269 (6.91%) Law
7 265 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
8 183 (4.70%) Banking
9 171 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 117 (3.00%) Back Office
11 107 (2.75%) Financial Institution
12 101 (2.59%) Public Sector
13 99 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
14 88 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
15 64 (1.64%) German Language
16 57 (1.46%) Advertising
17 47 (1.21%) Manufacturing
18 37 (0.95%) Telecoms
19 32 (0.82%) Health Technology
20 31 (0.80%) French Language
Job Titles
1 508 (13.04%) Senior
2 363 (9.32%) Developer
3 336 (8.63%) Lead
4 226 (5.80%) Account Manager
5 202 (5.19%) Software Engineer
6 197 (5.06%) Account Executive
7 175 (4.49%) Architect
8 137 (3.52%) Sales Representative
9 122 (3.13%) Analyst
10 120 (3.08%) Sales Manager
11 109 (2.80%) Senior Manager
12 101 (2.59%) Marketing Manager
12 101 (2.59%) Support Engineer
13 94 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
14 90 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
15 86 (2.21%) Software Developer
16 85 (2.18%) .NET Developer
16 85 (2.18%) Lead Developer
17 84 (2.16%) Sales Executive
18 80 (2.05%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (7.09%) .NET
2 138 (3.54%) React
3 108 (2.77%) Node.js
4 79 (2.03%) REST
5 52 (1.34%) .NET Core
6 48 (1.23%) RESTful
7 44 (1.13%) CSS
8 43 (1.10%) HTML
9 41 (1.05%) .NET Framework
9 41 (1.05%) Vue
10 30 (0.77%) AngularJS
11 28 (0.72%) Laravel
12 27 (0.69%) JSON
13 26 (0.67%) NestJS
14 25 (0.64%) Spring
15 24 (0.62%) SOAP
16 23 (0.59%) Entity Framework
16 23 (0.59%) Kafka
17 22 (0.56%) OAuth
18 21 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 236 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 141 (3.62%) Cloud Native
3 97 (2.49%) PropTech
4 92 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 80 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 79 (2.03%) Marketing Technology
7 78 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 67 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 59 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
11 38 (0.98%) Blog
12 36 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
13 33 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
14 32 (0.82%) EPoS
15 30 (0.77%) Social Media
16 28 (0.72%) AI Agents
16 28 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
16 28 (0.72%) Security Posture
17 23 (0.59%) Educational Technology
18 22 (0.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 130 (3.34%) Windows
2 84 (2.16%) Linux
3 58 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 35 (0.90%) Android
5 32 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.69%) Unix
7 24 (0.62%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.46%) VMS
10 12 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.10%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.051%) Solaris
16 2 (0.051%) Windows 10
17 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (13.15%) B2B
2 494 (12.68%) AI
3 400 (10.27%) Software Engineering
4 368 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
5 364 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 355 (9.11%) Agile
7 302 (7.75%) Business Development
8 292 (7.50%) CRM
9 278 (7.14%) Decision-Making
10 261 (6.70%) Analytics
11 251 (6.44%) DevOps
12 248 (6.37%) Roadmaps
13 234 (6.01%) Full-Stack Development
14 222 (5.70%) Fintech
15 220 (5.65%) CI/CD
16 185 (4.75%) Mentoring
17 162 (4.16%) Project Management
18 161 (4.13%) Stakeholder Management
19 154 (3.95%) Customer Experience
20 152 (3.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 254 (6.52%) Python
2 252 (6.47%) SQL
3 211 (5.42%) C#
4 140 (3.59%) Java
5 136 (3.49%) TypeScript
6 120 (3.08%) JavaScript
7 80 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 65 (1.67%) PHP
9 46 (1.18%) Bash
10 29 (0.74%) Go
11 19 (0.49%) Ruby
12 18 (0.46%) R
13 12 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.26%) Perl
16 7 (0.18%) Bicep
16 7 (0.18%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.15%) DCL
17 6 (0.15%) Tcl
18 5 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 207 (5.31%) Degree
2 123 (3.16%) ACCA
3 110 (2.82%) CIMA
4 67 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (1.62%) Security Cleared
6 41 (1.05%) CISSP
7 40 (1.03%) SC Cleared
8 32 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 30 (0.77%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 19 (0.49%) PMP
12 18 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.44%) CRISC
14 16 (0.41%) CISA
15 11 (0.28%) CCSK
15 11 (0.28%) ICAEW
16 10 (0.26%) CISM
16 10 (0.26%) IIBA
17 9 (0.23%) AWS Certification
17 9 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (2.49%) QA
2 83 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (1.49%) GDPR
4 52 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 52 (1.34%) IFRS
5 45 (1.16%) SOC 2
6 37 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 37 (0.95%) SLA
7 36 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 36 (0.92%) GAAP
8 32 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 18 (0.46%) NIST
10 17 (0.44%) GRC
11 14 (0.36%) WCAG
12 12 (0.31%) PMO
13 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.21%) COBIT
14 7 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.13%) SOC 1
System Software
1 139 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 84 (2.16%) Docker
3 41 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 16 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.28%) vSphere
6 10 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.10%) Firmware
8 3 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 154 (3.95%) Terraform
2 112 (2.88%) Kubernetes
3 79 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (1.05%) Ansible
5 39 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (0.95%) Grafana
7 23 (0.59%) SCCM
8 15 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.23%) Argo
10 9 (0.23%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.13%) Autotask
12 5 (0.13%) CASB
13 4 (0.10%) Control-M
13 4 (0.10%) Prometheus
14 2 (0.051%) DatAdvantage
14 2 (0.051%) Nessus
14 2 (0.051%) Puppet
14 2 (0.051%) SCOM
Vendors
1 348 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 126 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 105 (2.70%) Google
4 88 (2.26%) HubSpot
5 52 (1.34%) VMware
6 42 (1.08%) SAP
7 37 (0.95%) ServiceNow
8 33 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 33 (0.85%) Xero
9 30 (0.77%) Oracle
10 26 (0.67%) Meraki
10 26 (0.67%) YouTube
11 24 (0.62%) Cisco
12 23 (0.59%) SolarWinds
13 21 (0.54%) Sage
14 20 (0.51%) AppDynamics
14 20 (0.51%) Red Hat
14 20 (0.51%) Tenable
15 18 (0.46%) Adobe
15 18 (0.46%) Databricks