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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 77 51
Rank change year-on-year +50 -26 -6
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,348 704 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.93% 4.66% 4.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.34% 12.07% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 540 1,339
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £41,200
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,750 £100,000
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 7,351 5,831 14,405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.77% 38.63% 42.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,061 4,238 12,059
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,102
25th Percentile £46,104 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.20%

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 9 June 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 40 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.11%) WordPress
4 12 (0.89%) CMS
5 11 (0.82%) Confluence
6 6 (0.45%) SAS
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.37%) Moodle
7 5 (0.37%) Totara
8 4 (0.30%) JBoss
8 4 (0.30%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.074%) Apache
10 1 (0.074%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.074%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (0.59%) Photoshop
4 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
5 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.074%) InDesign
8 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.22%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.22%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 228 (16.91%) AWS
2 227 (16.84%) Azure
3 83 (6.16%) GCP
4 76 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (5.49%) Entra ID
6 51 (3.78%) PaaS
7 50 (3.71%) Power Platform
8 47 (3.49%) Serverless
9 43 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (2.00%) GitHub
12 25 (1.85%) IaaS
13 22 (1.63%) Figma
14 19 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (1.19%) Mimecast
17 15 (1.11%) AWS Direct Connect
17 15 (1.11%) Snowflake
18 13 (0.96%) Azure Functions
18 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.08%) Firewall
2 22 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (1.41%) VPN
4 16 (1.19%) DNS
5 13 (0.96%) LAN
5 13 (0.96%) MPLS
5 13 (0.96%) WAN
6 12 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
6 12 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
6 12 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
6 12 (0.89%) IPsec
6 12 (0.89%) NetScaler
6 12 (0.89%) NX-OS
6 12 (0.89%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.89%) VXLAN
6 12 (0.89%) WLAN
7 11 (0.82%) BGP
8 9 (0.67%) DHCP
9 8 (0.59%) OSPF
9 8 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.15%) Power BI
4 20 (1.48%) MySQL
5 17 (1.26%) Redis
6 16 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.37%) Big Data
10 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.37%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.30%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.30%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.22%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (3.86%) JIRA
2 36 (2.67%) TeamCity
3 28 (2.08%) Git
4 9 (0.67%) Claude Code
5 7 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.45%) JMeter
7 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.37%) Locust
7 5 (0.37%) Selenium
8 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.30%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.30%) Postman
8 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.22%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.22%) JUnit
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 321 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 308 (22.85%) Finance
3 226 (16.77%) Retail
4 210 (15.58%) Marketing
5 164 (12.17%) Law
6 153 (11.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 133 (9.87%) Banking
8 121 (8.98%) Back Office
9 112 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
10 108 (8.01%) Financial Institution
11 87 (6.45%) Legal
12 46 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.30%) Manufacturing
15 28 (2.08%) Advertising
16 25 (1.85%) Public Sector
17 22 (1.63%) German Language
18 21 (1.56%) Health Technology
19 19 (1.41%) Polish Language
20 16 (1.19%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 174 (12.91%) Senior
2 162 (12.02%) Developer
3 156 (11.57%) Lead
4 104 (7.72%) Software Engineer
5 91 (6.75%) Account Executive
6 81 (6.01%) Account Manager
7 74 (5.49%) Architect
8 69 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 61 (4.53%) Lead Developer
10 50 (3.71%) Support Engineer
11 46 (3.41%) Analyst
11 46 (3.41%) Consultant
12 42 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
13 40 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (2.89%) Sales Manager
15 36 (2.67%) .NET Software Engineer
15 36 (2.67%) C# Developer
16 35 (2.60%) Marketing Manager
17 34 (2.52%) .NET Developer
18 32 (2.37%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.53%) .NET
2 76 (5.64%) Node.js
3 61 (4.53%) React
4 41 (3.04%) Vue
5 36 (2.67%) RESTful
6 35 (2.60%) HTML
7 33 (2.45%) CSS
8 32 (2.37%) REST
9 25 (1.85%) JSON
10 20 (1.48%) XML
11 16 (1.19%) React Native
12 15 (1.11%) Spring
13 14 (1.04%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.96%) GraphQL
14 13 (0.96%) Kafka
14 13 (0.96%) NestJS
14 13 (0.96%) Next.js
14 13 (0.96%) OAuth
15 12 (0.89%) .NET Core
16 11 (0.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 95 (7.05%) Onboarding
3 81 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.08%) Blog
7 26 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.78%) EPoS
9 22 (1.63%) PropTech
10 20 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.48%) Social Media
11 17 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.11%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
12 15 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
13 12 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.82%) Learning Management System
15 10 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.19%) Windows
2 23 (1.71%) Apple iOS
3 22 (1.63%) Android
4 13 (0.96%) Linux
4 13 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.22%) Unix
9 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (16.77%) AI
2 187 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
3 185 (13.72%) B2B
4 183 (13.58%) Software Engineering
5 166 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 155 (11.50%) Agile
7 154 (11.42%) CRM
8 139 (10.31%) CI/CD
9 136 (10.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 134 (9.94%) Roadmaps
11 127 (9.42%) DevOps
12 122 (9.05%) Microservices
13 111 (8.23%) Business Development
14 107 (7.94%) Fintech
15 103 (7.64%) Decision-Making
16 100 (7.42%) Mentoring
17 95 (7.05%) Analytics
18 77 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
19 73 (5.42%) Lead Generation
20 72 (5.34%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 118 (8.75%) SQL
2 116 (8.61%) Python
3 88 (6.53%) Java
4 82 (6.08%) TypeScript
5 73 (5.42%) C#
6 68 (5.04%) JavaScript
7 41 (3.04%) PowerShell
8 26 (1.93%) PHP
9 23 (1.71%) Go
10 17 (1.26%) R
11 14 (1.04%) Bash
12 9 (0.67%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.52%) Bicep
14 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.22%) Ruby
14 3 (0.22%) Swift
15 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.074%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 89 (6.60%) Degree
2 41 (3.04%) ACCA
3 29 (2.15%) CIMA
4 26 (1.93%) Security Cleared
5 25 (1.85%) CISSP
5 25 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.41%) SC Cleared
7 15 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 13 (0.96%) CRISC
10 12 (0.89%) CISM
11 11 (0.82%) CISA
12 7 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.45%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.45%) MBA
14 4 (0.30%) ISACA
14 4 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 3 (0.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (3.34%) QA
3 44 (3.26%) GDPR
4 34 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 31 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 29 (2.15%) SOC 2
7 23 (1.71%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (1.41%) IFRS
9 18 (1.34%) NIST
10 14 (1.04%) GRC
10 14 (1.04%) WCAG
11 13 (0.96%) SLA
12 11 (0.82%) PMO
13 10 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.37%) COBIT
15 5 (0.37%) GAAP
15 5 (0.37%) SOC 1
16 3 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 69 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.49%) Docker
3 3 (0.22%) Firmware
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (7.27%) Terraform
2 74 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 46 (3.41%) Grafana
4 26 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.82%) Ansible
7 7 (0.52%) Argo
8 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.22%) CASB
9 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.22%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 1 (0.074%) Graylog
11 1 (0.074%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.074%) QRadar
Vendors
1 137 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 46 (3.41%) Salesforce
3 44 (3.26%) HubSpot
4 35 (2.60%) Google
5 19 (1.41%) Adobe
5 19 (1.41%) Sage
6 17 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
6 17 (1.26%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.19%) Pardot
7 16 (1.19%) Xero
8 14 (1.04%) SAP
9 13 (0.96%) Cisco
10 12 (0.89%) CheckPoint
10 12 (0.89%) Databricks
10 12 (0.89%) Dynatrace
10 12 (0.89%) Meraki
10 12 (0.89%) SolarWinds
11 10 (0.74%) Oracle
12 8 (0.59%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.45%) Atlassian