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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 62 49
Rank change year-on-year +37 -13 -5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,313 779 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.09% 5.36% 4.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.65% 12.73% 11.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 604 1,359
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,917 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 7,039 6,118 13,937
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 42.09% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,812 4,457 11,917
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,609 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 14 May 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 37 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.99%) WordPress
4 11 (0.84%) CMS
5 10 (0.76%) Confluence
6 6 (0.46%) JBoss
6 6 (0.46%) SAS
6 6 (0.46%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.38%) Moodle
7 5 (0.38%) Totara
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.076%) Apache
9 1 (0.076%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 23 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (0.53%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.076%) InDesign
7 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.22%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.076%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.076%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.076%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.076%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.076%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 227 (17.29%) AWS
2 215 (16.37%) Azure
3 81 (6.17%) GCP
4 65 (4.95%) Entra ID
5 61 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (3.43%) Serverless
7 42 (3.20%) Power Platform
8 39 (2.97%) PaaS
9 37 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (2.67%) GitHub
11 27 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (1.37%) Figma
14 18 (1.37%) IaaS
15 16 (1.22%) AWS Direct Connect
15 16 (1.22%) Mimecast
16 12 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (0.91%) Amazon S3
17 11 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.21%) Firewall
2 20 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (1.37%) VPN
4 14 (1.07%) DNS
4 14 (1.07%) LAN
4 14 (1.07%) MPLS
4 14 (1.07%) WAN
5 13 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (0.99%) IPsec
5 13 (0.99%) NetScaler
5 13 (0.99%) NX-OS
5 13 (0.99%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.99%) VXLAN
5 13 (0.99%) WLAN
6 12 (0.91%) BGP
7 10 (0.76%) SSL
8 9 (0.69%) OSPF
9 6 (0.46%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (5.03%) SQL Server
2 34 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.06%) Power BI
4 19 (1.45%) MySQL
4 19 (1.45%) Redis
5 18 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.53%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.38%) Big Data
12 4 (0.30%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.23%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.15%) Metadata
14 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (3.50%) JIRA
2 32 (2.44%) Git
3 31 (2.36%) TeamCity
4 8 (0.61%) Claude Code
4 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.46%) JMeter
6 5 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.38%) Locust
6 5 (0.38%) Postman
6 5 (0.38%) Selenium
7 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.23%) JUnit
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.076%) GitBook
General
1 306 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 292 (22.24%) Finance
3 227 (17.29%) Retail
4 212 (16.15%) Marketing
5 163 (12.41%) Law
6 149 (11.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 132 (10.05%) Banking
8 121 (9.22%) Back Office
9 110 (8.38%) Financial Institution
10 100 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
11 79 (6.02%) Legal
12 45 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.13%) Public Sector
15 27 (2.06%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.75%) German Language
17 21 (1.60%) Advertising
18 19 (1.45%) Polish Language
19 16 (1.22%) Health Technology
20 15 (1.14%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 175 (13.33%) Senior
2 173 (13.18%) Developer
3 146 (11.12%) Lead
4 103 (7.84%) Software Engineer
5 84 (6.40%) Account Manager
6 80 (6.09%) Account Executive
7 72 (5.48%) Architect
8 70 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 63 (4.80%) Lead Developer
10 53 (4.04%) Support Engineer
11 43 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
13 41 (3.12%) Analyst
13 41 (3.12%) Sales Manager
14 40 (3.05%) Consultant
15 38 (2.89%) Development Manager
16 34 (2.59%) C# Developer
16 34 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
17 33 (2.51%) .NET Software Engineer
18 32 (2.44%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (7.84%) .NET
2 78 (5.94%) Node.js
3 68 (5.18%) React
4 38 (2.89%) Vue
5 37 (2.82%) RESTful
6 36 (2.74%) REST
7 33 (2.51%) HTML
8 32 (2.44%) CSS
9 25 (1.90%) JSON
10 21 (1.60%) XML
11 19 (1.45%) React Native
12 18 (1.37%) Spring
13 16 (1.22%) GraphQL
14 14 (1.07%) .NET Core
14 14 (1.07%) NestJS
15 13 (0.99%) AngularJS
15 13 (0.99%) Kafka
15 13 (0.99%) Next.js
15 13 (0.99%) OAuth
15 13 (0.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.77%) Onboarding
2 95 (7.24%) Cloud Native
3 73 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (1.98%) Blog
6 26 (1.98%) EPoS
7 22 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 21 (1.60%) PropTech
9 20 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.14%) Client/Server
10 15 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
10 15 (1.14%) Social Media
11 14 (1.07%) Web Conferencing
12 10 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (0.76%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.89%) Windows
2 27 (2.06%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.98%) Android
4 16 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.84%) Linux
6 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.15%) Unix
9 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (16.07%) AI
2 194 (14.78%) Software Engineering
3 178 (13.56%) B2B
3 178 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 152 (11.58%) Agile
6 147 (11.20%) CRM
7 145 (11.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 132 (10.05%) CI/CD
9 124 (9.44%) DevOps
10 117 (8.91%) Microservices
11 113 (8.61%) Roadmaps
12 112 (8.53%) Business Development
13 109 (8.30%) Fintech
14 96 (7.31%) Analytics
15 92 (7.01%) Mentoring
16 89 (6.78%) Decision-Making
17 82 (6.25%) SDLC
18 75 (5.71%) Project Management
19 72 (5.48%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 124 (9.44%) SQL
2 115 (8.76%) Python
3 84 (6.40%) Java
4 82 (6.25%) C#
4 82 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 62 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 35 (2.67%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.06%) PHP
8 25 (1.90%) Go
9 16 (1.22%) R
10 12 (0.91%) Bash
11 8 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.23%) Bicep
12 3 (0.23%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.23%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.23%) Swift
13 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.076%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.076%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 90 (6.85%) Degree
2 42 (3.20%) ACCA
3 30 (2.28%) CIMA
4 24 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.68%) CISSP
5 22 (1.68%) Security Cleared
6 17 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.07%) SC Cleared
8 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.84%) CISA
10 10 (0.76%) CRISC
11 8 (0.61%) CISM
12 7 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.53%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.46%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.46%) MBA
14 4 (0.30%) CEH
14 4 (0.30%) ISACA
15 3 (0.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (3.35%) QA
3 33 (2.51%) PCI DSS
4 31 (2.36%) SOC 2
5 30 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 30 (2.28%) GDPR
6 20 (1.52%) IFRS
7 19 (1.45%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (1.07%) WCAG
10 12 (0.91%) SLA
11 11 (0.84%) NIST
11 11 (0.84%) PMO
12 10 (0.76%) GRC
13 8 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.46%) GAAP
15 5 (0.38%) COBIT
15 5 (0.38%) SOC 1
16 3 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 63 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 50 (3.81%) Docker
3 3 (0.23%) Firmware
3 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.076%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 86 (6.55%) Terraform
2 71 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.89%) Grafana
4 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.76%) Ansible
7 8 (0.61%) Argo
8 2 (0.15%) CASB
8 2 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.15%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.076%) Graylog
9 1 (0.076%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.076%) QRadar
Vendors
1 111 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 49 (3.73%) Salesforce
3 41 (3.12%) HubSpot
4 37 (2.82%) Google
5 19 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.22%) Pardot
7 16 (1.22%) Sage
7 16 (1.22%) Xero
8 15 (1.14%) SAP
9 14 (1.07%) Adobe
9 14 (1.07%) Cisco
10 13 (0.99%) CheckPoint
10 13 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 13 (0.99%) Meraki
10 13 (0.99%) SolarWinds
11 12 (0.91%) Databricks
12 11 (0.84%) Oracle
13 9 (0.69%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.46%) Atlassian