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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 47 52
Rank change year-on-year +21 +5 -7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,178 916 1,460
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.40% 5.76% 5.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.04% 12.33% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 904 617 1,253
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -7.41% -1.48%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,750 £92,900 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 5,879 7,428 12,600
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.92% 46.70% 45.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,080 4,765 11,021
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 4 February 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 18 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.27%) WordPress
3 11 (0.93%) JBoss
3 11 (0.93%) WebSphere
4 8 (0.68%) Confluence
5 7 (0.59%) CMS
6 6 (0.51%) IIS
7 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.17%) Apache
8 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.085%) Drupal
9 1 (0.085%) Moodle
9 1 (0.085%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.085%) Totara
Applications
1 33 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 12 (1.02%) InDesign
5 9 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.51%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.34%) Sketch
9 3 (0.25%) Trello
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.085%) GIMP
10 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.68%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 253 (21.48%) Azure
2 249 (21.14%) AWS
3 121 (10.27%) GCP
4 56 (4.75%) GitHub
5 47 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (3.82%) Entra ID
7 44 (3.74%) PaaS
8 39 (3.31%) Serverless
9 34 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (2.21%) IaaS
12 25 (2.12%) Figma
12 25 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (2.04%) Power Platform
14 19 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (1.44%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
18 13 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (1.10%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.89%) Remote Desktop
2 23 (1.95%) Firewall
3 17 (1.44%) VPN
4 13 (1.10%) BGP
5 10 (0.85%) DNS
5 10 (0.85%) LAN
5 10 (0.85%) Unified Communications
5 10 (0.85%) WAN
5 10 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.76%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.68%) MPLS
7 8 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.59%) IPsec
8 7 (0.59%) NetScaler
8 7 (0.59%) Network Security
8 7 (0.59%) NX-OS
8 7 (0.59%) OSPF
8 7 (0.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (7.13%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (2.72%) Data Lake
4 28 (2.38%) MySQL
5 26 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.78%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (1.44%) Power BI
9 10 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.76%) Redis
11 8 (0.68%) Data Mining
11 8 (0.68%) Data Vault
12 7 (0.59%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.51%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.51%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.51%) Tableau
14 4 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 36 (3.06%) JIRA
2 30 (2.55%) Git
3 29 (2.46%) TeamCity
4 9 (0.76%) Postman
4 9 (0.76%) Selenium
4 9 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.51%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.42%) GitBook
6 5 (0.42%) git-flow
7 4 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.34%) SoapUI
7 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.25%) Storybook
9 1 (0.085%) GitLab
9 1 (0.085%) MSTest
9 1 (0.085%) NUnit
9 1 (0.085%) Protractor
General
1 359 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 275 (23.34%) Finance
3 197 (16.72%) Retail
4 188 (15.96%) Marketing
5 116 (9.85%) Law
6 98 (8.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
8 89 (7.56%) Banking
9 86 (7.30%) Financial Institution
10 82 (6.96%) Back Office
11 63 (5.35%) Legal
12 40 (3.40%) Public Sector
13 38 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (2.04%) Manufacturing
14 24 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.36%) Health Technology
16 15 (1.27%) Polish Language
17 14 (1.19%) French Language
18 13 (1.10%) Billing
18 13 (1.10%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 196 (16.64%) Senior
2 156 (13.24%) Developer
3 138 (11.71%) Lead
4 68 (5.77%) Architect
5 66 (5.60%) Software Engineer
6 52 (4.41%) Account Manager
7 48 (4.07%) .NET Developer
8 47 (3.99%) Analyst
9 46 (3.90%) Lead Developer
10 44 (3.74%) Account Executive
11 41 (3.48%) Software Developer
12 39 (3.31%) Development Manager
12 39 (3.31%) Support Engineer
13 38 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support
13 38 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 35 (2.97%) Engineering Manager
15 33 (2.80%) .NET Software Developer
16 32 (2.72%) Marketing Executive
16 32 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (2.63%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (13.07%) .NET
2 107 (9.08%) React
3 55 (4.67%) Node.js
4 48 (4.07%) REST
5 32 (2.72%) CSS
6 31 (2.63%) RESTful
7 29 (2.46%) HTML
8 27 (2.29%) SOAP
9 25 (2.12%) Spring
10 22 (1.87%) .NET Framework
11 21 (1.78%) React Native
12 18 (1.53%) Entity Framework
12 18 (1.53%) Next.js
13 17 (1.44%) Kafka
14 16 (1.36%) ASP.NET Web API
14 16 (1.36%) Middleware
15 15 (1.27%) AngularJS
15 15 (1.27%) Hibernate
15 15 (1.27%) Razor View Engine
16 14 (1.19%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 160 (13.58%) Onboarding
2 90 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 80 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.80%) Social Media
7 28 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.29%) Web Conferencing
9 23 (1.95%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.87%) Data Centre
11 21 (1.78%) EPoS
12 20 (1.70%) Blog
13 18 (1.53%) Educational Technology
14 16 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.93%) DataPower
16 11 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (0.85%) Security Posture
18 9 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
19 8 (0.68%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.63%) Windows
2 28 (2.38%) Android
2 28 (2.38%) Apple iOS
3 21 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.76%) Linux
5 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.17%) Unix
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.085%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (18.68%) AI
2 217 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
3 210 (17.83%) Agile
4 206 (17.49%) Software Engineering
5 192 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 180 (15.28%) Mentoring
7 164 (13.92%) CRM
8 162 (13.75%) Roadmaps
9 145 (12.31%) CI/CD
10 139 (11.80%) B2B
11 135 (11.46%) DevOps
12 121 (10.27%) Microservices
13 109 (9.25%) Full-Stack Development
14 90 (7.64%) Analytics
15 86 (7.30%) Coaching
15 86 (7.30%) Customer Service
16 85 (7.22%) Fintech
17 82 (6.96%) Decision-Making
18 81 (6.88%) Business Development
19 77 (6.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 192 (16.30%) SQL
2 129 (10.95%) C#
3 106 (9.00%) TypeScript
4 90 (7.64%) Python
5 89 (7.56%) JavaScript
6 70 (5.94%) Java
7 28 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 26 (2.21%) PHP
9 14 (1.19%) Bash
9 14 (1.19%) Go
10 10 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 9 (0.76%) Bicep
12 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.34%) R
14 3 (0.25%) Swift
15 2 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.085%) ABAP
16 1 (0.085%) Ruby
16 1 (0.085%) VB
Qualifications
1 96 (8.15%) Degree
2 21 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (1.78%) Master's Degree
2 21 (1.78%) Security Cleared
3 16 (1.36%) CISSP
4 15 (1.27%) SC Cleared
5 11 (0.93%) ACCA
5 11 (0.93%) CRISC
6 9 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.68%) CIMA
7 8 (0.68%) CISA
7 8 (0.68%) CISM
8 6 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 5 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.34%) CEH
10 4 (0.34%) CISMP
10 4 (0.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.30%) QA
2 59 (5.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (3.14%) SOC 2
4 24 (2.04%) PCI DSS
5 22 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.70%) GDPR
6 20 (1.70%) GRC
7 18 (1.53%) NIST
8 13 (1.10%) SLA
9 12 (1.02%) ISO 9001
10 10 (0.85%) Data Quality
10 10 (0.85%) WCAG
11 9 (0.76%) IFRS
12 8 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.51%) PMO
14 5 (0.42%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.34%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.06%) Docker
3 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 88 (7.47%) Terraform
2 67 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 28 (2.38%) Grafana
4 13 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.85%) Ansible
7 8 (0.68%) Argo
8 4 (0.34%) Cilium
9 2 (0.17%) Packer
10 1 (0.085%) CASB
10 1 (0.085%) Istio
10 1 (0.085%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.085%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.085%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 102 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.52%) Salesforce
3 44 (3.74%) HubSpot
4 38 (3.23%) Adobe
5 34 (2.89%) Databricks
6 31 (2.63%) Google
7 24 (2.04%) Oracle
8 22 (1.87%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.61%) Cisco
10 15 (1.27%) Workday
11 13 (1.10%) Pardot
12 11 (0.93%) SAP
13 9 (0.76%) Zoho
14 8 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 7 (0.59%) CheckPoint
15 7 (0.59%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.59%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.59%) Meraki
15 7 (0.59%) Sage
15 7 (0.59%) SolarWinds