SaaS Job Trends in Wales

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 47 48
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +27
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 82 20 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.99% 2.44% 2.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.29% 11.76% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 45 14 40
10th Percentile £30,000 - £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £29,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,094 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.13% -30.74% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68,750 £39,755 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £60,000 £72,580
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 726 170 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 26.46% 20.71% 25.60%
Number of salaries quoted 449 151 344
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,170 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,745 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,100 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,375 £63,375
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Wales

SaaS
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Wales over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Wales

SaaS
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
South Wales -2 56 £45,000 +18.13% 14
West Wales - 22 - - 1
North Wales +2 4 £30,000 - 3
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 29 (35.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (35.37%) Google Ads
1 29 (35.37%) Meta Ads
2 21 (25.61%) AWS
3 7 (8.54%) PaaS
4 5 (6.10%) GitHub
4 5 (6.10%) IaaS
5 4 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.88%) Azure
5 4 (4.88%) Cloudflare
5 4 (4.88%) dbt
5 4 (4.88%) Route 53
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.22%) Datadog
8 1 (1.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Firewall
2 4 (4.88%) DNS
3 2 (2.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.22%) JMeter
3 1 (1.22%) Locust
General
1 37 (45.12%) Marketing
2 35 (42.68%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (35.37%) Finance
4 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
5 7 (8.54%) Law
6 5 (6.10%) Agriculture
7 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (40.24%) Senior
2 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.20%) Lead
4 6 (7.32%) Account Executive
4 6 (7.32%) Data Scientist
4 6 (7.32%) Lead Data Scientist
4 6 (7.32%) Senior Data Scientist
5 5 (6.10%) Sales Executive
6 4 (4.88%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (4.88%) Developer
6 4 (4.88%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.88%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (4.88%) Software Developer
6 4 (4.88%) Test Leader
7 3 (3.66%) Business Development Executive
8 2 (2.44%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) Node.js
1 3 (3.66%) React
2 2 (2.44%) Kafka
2 2 (2.44%) PyTorch
2 2 (2.44%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.22%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.59%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.10%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.66%) Replication
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) Unix
4 2 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (53.66%) B2B
2 41 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (43.90%) Test Automation
4 35 (42.68%) AI
5 32 (39.02%) Mathematics
6 30 (36.59%) E-Commerce
7 29 (35.37%) A/B Testing
7 29 (35.37%) Actionable Insight
7 29 (35.37%) B2B Marketing
7 29 (35.37%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (35.37%) Creative Strategy
7 29 (35.37%) Customer Segmentation
7 29 (35.37%) Data Analysis
7 29 (35.37%) Demand Generation
7 29 (35.37%) Marketing Automation
7 29 (35.37%) Mathematical Modelling
7 29 (35.37%) Planning and Forecasting
7 29 (35.37%) Regression Analysis
7 29 (35.37%) Standard Deviation
7 29 (35.37%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.34%) SQL
2 9 (10.98%) Python
3 7 (8.54%) Java
4 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
1 3 (3.66%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) SLA
2 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.22%) QA
3 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (7.32%) Kubernetes
1 6 (7.32%) Terraform
2 2 (2.44%) Ansible
2 2 (2.44%) MaaS360
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.44%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.44%) Puppet
3 1 (1.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 32 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 29 (35.37%) Google
3 3 (3.66%) Sage
4 2 (2.44%) Apple
5 1 (1.22%) Adobe
5 1 (1.22%) Salesforce