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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 49 50
Rank change year-on-year +24 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,320 729 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.52% 5.53% 4.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.61% 12.20% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 594 1,383
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £40,200
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,749
% change year-on-year - +1.96% -5.56%

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 6,730 5,973 13,993
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.35% 45.27% 43.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,519 4,666 12,113
10th Percentile £33,568 £33,225 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 April 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 34 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.98%) WordPress
4 10 (0.76%) CMS
4 10 (0.76%) JBoss
4 10 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.68%) Confluence
6 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.38%) Moodle
6 5 (0.38%) Totara
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) IIS
7 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.076%) Apache
Applications
1 26 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (0.53%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.30%) InDesign
6 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.15%) Sketch
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (1.67%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 243 (18.41%) AWS
2 224 (16.97%) Azure
3 96 (7.27%) GCP
4 63 (4.77%) Entra ID
5 60 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (3.94%) GitHub
7 49 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (3.18%) Serverless
9 36 (2.73%) PaaS
10 31 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (2.35%) Power Platform
11 25 (1.89%) IaaS
12 22 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (1.36%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.36%) Figma
13 18 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (1.21%) Mimecast
15 15 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.14%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.50%) Firewall
2 17 (1.29%) VPN
3 15 (1.14%) BGP
3 15 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (0.98%) LAN
4 13 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
4 13 (0.98%) WAN
5 12 (0.91%) DNS
6 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.76%) MPLS
7 10 (0.76%) SSL
8 9 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (0.68%) IPsec
8 9 (0.68%) NetScaler
8 9 (0.68%) NX-OS
8 9 (0.68%) OSPF
8 9 (0.68%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.76%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.05%) MySQL
4 24 (1.82%) Power BI
5 22 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (1.21%) Redis
9 13 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 13 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.45%) Big Data
12 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.30%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.30%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (3.33%) TeamCity
2 42 (3.18%) JIRA
3 32 (2.42%) Git
4 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.45%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.45%) JMeter
5 6 (0.45%) Postman
5 6 (0.45%) Selenium
6 5 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.38%) Locust
7 4 (0.30%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.23%) GitBook
8 3 (0.23%) git-flow
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.076%) JUnit
9 1 (0.076%) NUnit
General
1 341 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 326 (24.70%) Finance
3 250 (18.94%) Retail
4 216 (16.36%) Marketing
5 172 (13.03%) Law
6 161 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 148 (11.21%) Banking
8 136 (10.30%) Back Office
9 125 (9.47%) Financial Institution
10 105 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
11 83 (6.29%) Legal
12 57 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (2.73%) Public Sector
14 33 (2.50%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.52%) German Language
16 19 (1.44%) Polish Language
17 17 (1.29%) Automotive
17 17 (1.29%) French Language
18 16 (1.21%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 186 (14.09%) Senior
2 161 (12.20%) Developer
3 149 (11.29%) Lead
4 102 (7.73%) Software Engineer
5 78 (5.91%) Account Manager
6 71 (5.38%) Architect
7 62 (4.70%) Support Engineer
8 60 (4.55%) Lead Developer
9 59 (4.47%) Account Executive
10 54 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 53 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 51 (3.86%) Analyst
13 42 (3.18%) Development Manager
14 40 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
15 38 (2.88%) Consultant
16 35 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
17 32 (2.42%) Sales Manager
18 31 (2.35%) C# Developer
18 31 (2.35%) Marketing Manager
19 28 (2.12%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (8.64%) .NET
2 84 (6.36%) React
3 72 (5.45%) Node.js
4 41 (3.11%) REST
5 40 (3.03%) RESTful
6 38 (2.88%) CSS
7 36 (2.73%) HTML
8 28 (2.12%) Vue
9 23 (1.74%) JSON
10 21 (1.59%) React Native
10 21 (1.59%) Spring
11 19 (1.44%) GraphQL
12 18 (1.36%) XML
13 17 (1.29%) Next.js
13 17 (1.29%) SOAP
14 15 (1.14%) Kafka
15 14 (1.06%) Middleware
15 14 (1.06%) NestJS
16 13 (0.98%) .NET Core
16 13 (0.98%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.62%) Onboarding
2 115 (8.71%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 39 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.35%) Blog
8 24 (1.82%) EPoS
9 23 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 23 (1.74%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.59%) Social Media
11 20 (1.52%) PropTech
12 19 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
13 16 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
15 14 (1.06%) Client/Server
15 14 (1.06%) Security Posture
16 12 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.91%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.11%) Windows
2 27 (2.05%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.97%) Android
4 24 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.53%) Linux
6 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.15%) Unix
8 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (16.06%) AI
2 207 (15.68%) Software Engineering
3 196 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
4 184 (13.94%) B2B
5 179 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 164 (12.42%) CI/CD
7 155 (11.74%) CRM
8 147 (11.14%) Agile
9 138 (10.45%) DevOps
9 138 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
10 126 (9.55%) Microservices
11 117 (8.86%) Roadmaps
12 112 (8.48%) Fintech
12 112 (8.48%) Mentoring
13 101 (7.65%) Business Development
14 92 (6.97%) Analytics
15 86 (6.52%) Decision-Making
16 79 (5.98%) Project Management
17 78 (5.91%) SDLC
18 75 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 141 (10.68%) SQL
2 112 (8.48%) Python
3 96 (7.27%) Java
4 93 (7.05%) C#
5 76 (5.76%) TypeScript
6 55 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 28 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 26 (1.97%) PHP
9 25 (1.89%) Go
10 16 (1.21%) R
11 15 (1.14%) Bash
12 8 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.38%) Bicep
13 5 (0.38%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.15%) Ruby
14 2 (0.15%) Swift
15 1 (0.076%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 92 (6.97%) Degree
2 43 (3.26%) ACCA
3 31 (2.35%) CIMA
4 22 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 17 (1.29%) CISSP
7 15 (1.14%) Security Cleared
8 14 (1.06%) SC Cleared
9 9 (0.68%) CISA
10 8 (0.61%) CRISC
11 7 (0.53%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.45%) CISM
12 6 (0.45%) MBA
12 6 (0.45%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.30%) CEH
14 3 (0.23%) CIPD
14 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (4.47%) QA
3 41 (3.11%) SOC 2
4 39 (2.95%) PCI DSS
5 30 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.67%) GDPR
7 20 (1.52%) IFRS
8 18 (1.36%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.29%) GRC
9 17 (1.29%) SLA
10 15 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.14%) NIST
11 13 (0.98%) WCAG
12 10 (0.76%) PMO
13 8 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.45%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.38%) GAAP
16 3 (0.23%) COBIT
16 3 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 65 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.56%) Docker
3 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.23%) Firmware
5 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 106 (8.03%) Terraform
2 86 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 46 (3.48%) Grafana
4 26 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.83%) Ansible
5 11 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.53%) Argo
7 4 (0.30%) Cilium
8 2 (0.15%) CASB
8 2 (0.15%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.076%) Graylog
9 1 (0.076%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.076%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.076%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 108 (8.18%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.02%) Salesforce
3 35 (2.65%) Google
3 35 (2.65%) HubSpot
4 22 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.29%) Adobe
5 17 (1.29%) Databricks
5 17 (1.29%) Pardot
6 16 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (1.21%) Sage
6 16 (1.21%) Xero
7 14 (1.06%) Oracle
8 13 (0.98%) Cisco
9 9 (0.68%) CheckPoint
9 9 (0.68%) Dynatrace
9 9 (0.68%) Fortinet
9 9 (0.68%) Meraki
9 9 (0.68%) SAP
9 9 (0.68%) SolarWinds
10 6 (0.45%) Dell