Hybrid/Remote SaaS Job Trends

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 58 59
Rank change year-on-year +28 +1 -10
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,664 841 993
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.90% 5.18% 4.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.18% 14.55% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 652 689
10th Percentile £35,150 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £49,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

SaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,674 5,782 9,505
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.98% 35.59% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,370 4,175 6,576
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SaaS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SaaS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SaaS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SaaS

SaaS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SaaS over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

SaaS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 74 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.84%) Confluence
4 10 (0.60%) CMS
5 7 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.42%) IIS
5 7 (0.42%) WordPress
6 6 (0.36%) Apache
6 6 (0.36%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.060%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.060%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.060%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.060%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.060%) Moodle
8 1 (0.060%) Totara
Applications
1 26 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.36%) Moqups
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Trello
7 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.02%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.18%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.18%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.18%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 324 (19.47%) AWS
2 311 (18.69%) Azure
3 107 (6.43%) GCP
4 104 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 84 (5.05%) Entra ID
6 67 (4.03%) Power Platform
7 62 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (3.61%) PaaS
9 45 (2.70%) Serverless
10 38 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (2.10%) IaaS
12 30 (1.80%) Mimecast
12 30 (1.80%) Snowflake
13 29 (1.74%) GitHub
14 27 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
15 26 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
16 22 (1.32%) Figma
17 21 (1.26%) Power Automate
17 21 (1.26%) PowerApps
18 18 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.78%) DNS
2 11 (0.66%) VPN
3 10 (0.60%) Broadband
4 9 (0.54%) AMQP
4 9 (0.54%) Network Security
4 9 (0.54%) SMS
4 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.48%) DHCP
6 7 (0.42%) Firewall
7 6 (0.36%) 5G
8 5 (0.30%) Internet
8 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.30%) VoIP
8 5 (0.30%) WAN
9 4 (0.24%) IPsec
9 4 (0.24%) LAN
9 4 (0.24%) MPLS
9 4 (0.24%) SSL
9 4 (0.24%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 45 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.16%) Power BI
4 33 (1.98%) Redis
5 20 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.02%) MySQL
7 15 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.48%) Big Data
9 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (0.30%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.30%) Metadata
12 4 (0.24%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.24%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.24%) Tableau
13 3 (0.18%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 97 (5.83%) JIRA
2 54 (3.25%) TeamCity
3 41 (2.46%) Git
4 13 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 12 (0.72%) Selenium
6 11 (0.66%) GitLab
7 8 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 7 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.36%) Postman
10 5 (0.30%) Poetry
10 5 (0.30%) Storybook
11 4 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.24%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.12%) JMeter
13 2 (0.12%) JUnit
13 2 (0.12%) MSI
13 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 1 (0.060%) Jenkins
General
1 441 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 380 (22.84%) Finance
3 236 (14.18%) Marketing
4 234 (14.06%) Retail
5 218 (13.10%) Law
6 201 (12.08%) Legal
7 155 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 123 (7.39%) Banking
9 122 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
10 118 (7.09%) Back Office
11 103 (6.19%) Financial Institution
12 68 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
13 59 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
14 58 (3.49%) Public Sector
15 36 (2.16%) Manufacturing
16 30 (1.80%) German Language
17 26 (1.56%) Health Technology
18 24 (1.44%) French Language
19 23 (1.38%) Advertising
19 23 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (13.64%) Lead
2 217 (13.04%) Senior
3 166 (9.98%) Developer
4 117 (7.03%) Account Executive
5 108 (6.49%) Software Engineer
6 104 (6.25%) Architect
7 93 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 81 (4.87%) Consultant
9 73 (4.39%) Analyst
9 73 (4.39%) Lead Developer
9 73 (4.39%) Software Developer
10 68 (4.09%) Senior Manager
11 67 (4.03%) Account Manager
11 67 (4.03%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 65 (3.91%) Lead Software Developer
13 62 (3.73%) IT Manager
14 53 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
15 49 (2.94%) Service Manager
15 49 (2.94%) Testing Manager
16 48 (2.88%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (7.33%) Node.js
2 114 (6.85%) Terraform
3 85 (5.11%) .NET
4 64 (3.85%) React
5 60 (3.61%) Middleware
6 55 (3.31%) Vue
7 51 (3.06%) REST
8 34 (2.04%) RESTful
9 30 (1.80%) CSS
10 25 (1.50%) HTML
11 20 (1.20%) Next.js
11 20 (1.20%) OAuth
12 18 (1.08%) NestJS
13 16 (0.96%) OpenID
14 15 (0.90%) Kafka
14 15 (0.90%) Spring
14 15 (0.90%) Spring Boot
15 14 (0.84%) Laravel
15 14 (0.84%) OpenAPI
15 14 (0.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 102 (6.13%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.73%) Virtual Team
5 61 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
6 49 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 48 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
8 42 (2.52%) Management Information System
9 36 (2.16%) Web Conferencing
10 32 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.32%) Social Media
12 20 (1.20%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.08%) Driving Licence
14 17 (1.02%) PropTech
15 16 (0.96%) Client/Server
15 16 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
16 14 (0.84%) Clustering
16 14 (0.84%) Educational Technology
17 13 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.46%) Windows
2 23 (1.38%) Linux
3 13 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.60%) Android
6 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.060%) Unix
9 1 (0.060%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (18.03%) AI
2 262 (15.75%) DevOps
3 260 (15.63%) B2B
3 260 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 245 (14.72%) Software Engineering
5 237 (14.24%) Agile
6 220 (13.22%) CRM
7 199 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
8 191 (11.48%) Mentoring
9 190 (11.42%) Test Automation
10 180 (10.82%) CI/CD
11 168 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
12 166 (9.98%) Decision-Making
13 165 (9.92%) Roadmaps
14 159 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 157 (9.44%) Business Development
16 152 (9.13%) Full-Stack Development
17 151 (9.07%) Microservices
18 141 (8.47%) Project Delivery
19 137 (8.23%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 191 (11.48%) TypeScript
2 171 (10.28%) JavaScript
3 148 (8.89%) C#
4 145 (8.71%) Python
5 138 (8.29%) SQL
6 97 (5.83%) Java
7 84 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 31 (1.86%) R
9 26 (1.56%) PHP
10 22 (1.32%) Go
11 14 (0.84%) Bash
12 12 (0.72%) Bicep
13 9 (0.54%) Ruby
14 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.24%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.24%) SOQL
16 3 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.18%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.18%) Swift
16 3 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (5.17%) Degree
2 75 (4.51%) CISSP
3 69 (4.15%) CISM
4 56 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
5 42 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (2.28%) ACCA
7 31 (1.86%) CIMA
8 25 (1.50%) Security Cleared
9 19 (1.14%) CRISC
10 17 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.84%) CISA
12 10 (0.60%) SC Cleared
13 8 (0.48%) ISACA
14 7 (0.42%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.36%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.30%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.30%) PMP
16 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (7.45%) QA
2 80 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (4.45%) NIST
4 72 (4.33%) GDPR
5 48 (2.88%) ISO 22301
6 27 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 25 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.50%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (1.14%) SLA
10 18 (1.08%) GRC
11 14 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (0.84%) IFRS
12 9 (0.54%) COBIT
13 8 (0.48%) SOC 1
14 5 (0.30%) GAAP
14 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
15 4 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 69 (4.15%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.19%) Docker
3 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 85 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 63 (3.79%) Grafana
3 36 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.08%) Ansible
5 14 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Argo
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.060%) CASB
10 1 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.060%) Packer
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Puppet
10 1 (0.060%) QRadar
Vendors
1 232 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.41%) HubSpot
3 81 (4.87%) Salesforce
4 50 (3.00%) Google
5 34 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
6 26 (1.56%) Sage
7 16 (0.96%) Adobe
8 15 (0.90%) Databricks
8 15 (0.90%) SAP
9 12 (0.72%) Workday
9 12 (0.72%) Xero
10 11 (0.66%) Oracle
11 10 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.42%) Facebook
12 7 (0.42%) Instagram
12 7 (0.42%) TikTok
12 7 (0.42%) YouTube
13 6 (0.36%) Splunk
14 5 (0.30%) Apple
14 5 (0.30%) Dynatrace