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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 50 50
Rank change year-on-year +26 0 -6
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,252 851 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.62% 5.80% 5.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.33% 12.41% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 946 611 1,298
10th Percentile £32,125 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £61,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -8.89% -1.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -5.55%

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 6,157 6,857 13,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.49% 46.74% 45.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,192 4,636 11,379
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,257 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.15% +10.01% -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 2 March 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 25 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.44%) WordPress
3 15 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.88%) Confluence
4 11 (0.88%) JBoss
4 11 (0.88%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.72%) CMS
6 5 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.32%) IIS
7 4 (0.32%) Moodle
7 4 (0.32%) Totara
8 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.080%) Apache
9 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 36 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 12 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.88%) InDesign
6 7 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.56%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.24%) Sketch
9 2 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.080%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 15 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.40%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 260 (20.77%) Azure
2 253 (20.21%) AWS
3 120 (9.58%) GCP
4 59 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (4.47%) Entra ID
6 55 (4.39%) GitHub
7 49 (3.91%) PaaS
8 41 (3.27%) Serverless
9 40 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (2.40%) IaaS
12 24 (1.92%) Power Platform
13 23 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (1.76%) Figma
15 20 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (1.36%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
19 14 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
20 13 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
2 30 (2.40%) Firewall
3 18 (1.44%) VPN
4 15 (1.20%) BGP
4 15 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (1.04%) DNS
5 13 (1.04%) LAN
6 12 (0.96%) WAN
7 11 (0.88%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.80%) MPLS
8 10 (0.80%) Unified Communications
9 9 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (0.72%) IPsec
9 9 (0.72%) NetScaler
9 9 (0.72%) NX-OS
9 9 (0.72%) OSPF
9 9 (0.72%) VXLAN
9 9 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (2.32%) MySQL
4 26 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 21 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.52%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.36%) Power BI
9 11 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.80%) Redis
11 9 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.56%) Data Mining
13 7 (0.56%) Data Vault
14 6 (0.48%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.48%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.48%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.32%) Big Data
16 3 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 39 (3.12%) JIRA
2 37 (2.96%) TeamCity
3 32 (2.56%) Git
4 8 (0.64%) Postman
4 8 (0.64%) Selenium
4 8 (0.64%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.40%) GitBook
6 5 (0.40%) git-flow
7 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.24%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.24%) JMeter
8 3 (0.24%) Locust
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.24%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.24%) Storybook
9 2 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.080%) Claude Code
General
1 365 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 288 (23.00%) Finance
3 231 (18.45%) Retail
4 193 (15.42%) Marketing
5 142 (11.34%) Law
6 132 (10.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 120 (9.58%) Banking
8 109 (8.71%) Back Office
9 106 (8.47%) Financial Institution
10 102 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
11 68 (5.43%) Legal
12 49 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (3.19%) Public Sector
14 30 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (2.08%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.52%) Polish Language
17 17 (1.36%) Automotive
18 15 (1.20%) French Language
18 15 (1.20%) Health Technology
18 15 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 202 (16.13%) Senior
2 151 (12.06%) Developer
3 145 (11.58%) Lead
4 83 (6.63%) Software Engineer
5 67 (5.35%) Architect
6 61 (4.87%) Account Manager
7 51 (4.07%) Support Engineer
8 50 (3.99%) Analyst
9 49 (3.91%) Lead Developer
10 48 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (3.75%) Account Executive
12 43 (3.43%) Development Manager
13 40 (3.19%) Consultant
14 38 (3.04%) .NET Developer
15 37 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
16 36 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (2.72%) 2nd Line Support
18 32 (2.56%) Marketing Executive
19 29 (2.32%) Sales Manager
20 27 (2.16%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (11.66%) .NET
2 105 (8.39%) React
3 62 (4.95%) Node.js
4 44 (3.51%) REST
5 37 (2.96%) CSS
5 37 (2.96%) RESTful
6 34 (2.72%) HTML
7 24 (1.92%) Spring
8 22 (1.76%) React Native
8 22 (1.76%) SOAP
9 19 (1.52%) .NET Framework
9 19 (1.52%) AngularJS
9 19 (1.52%) Next.js
10 17 (1.36%) Kafka
11 15 (1.20%) Entity Framework
11 15 (1.20%) GraphQL
11 15 (1.20%) Middleware
12 14 (1.12%) .NET Core
12 14 (1.12%) Hibernate
12 14 (1.12%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 166 (13.26%) Onboarding
2 107 (8.55%) Cloud Native
3 79 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (2.56%) Social Media
7 29 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 28 (2.24%) Web Conferencing
9 26 (2.08%) Blog
10 24 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 24 (1.92%) Mobile App
11 19 (1.52%) EPoS
12 16 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
13 13 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (0.96%) Driving Licence
14 12 (0.96%) Educational Technology
14 12 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.96%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.88%) DataPower
15 11 (0.88%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.04%) Windows
2 29 (2.32%) Apple iOS
3 28 (2.24%) Android
4 24 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.64%) Linux
6 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.16%) Unix
8 2 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.080%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (17.57%) AI
2 214 (17.09%) Software Engineering
3 208 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
4 204 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 183 (14.62%) Agile
6 180 (14.38%) CRM
7 168 (13.42%) B2B
8 163 (13.02%) CI/CD
9 154 (12.30%) Mentoring
10 143 (11.42%) Roadmaps
11 142 (11.34%) DevOps
12 130 (10.38%) Microservices
13 123 (9.82%) Full-Stack Development
14 100 (7.99%) Fintech
15 95 (7.59%) Analytics
16 90 (7.19%) Business Development
17 89 (7.11%) Customer Service
18 88 (7.03%) Decision-Making
19 79 (6.31%) Coaching
20 78 (6.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 172 (13.74%) SQL
2 124 (9.90%) C#
3 103 (8.23%) Python
4 100 (7.99%) TypeScript
5 83 (6.63%) Java
6 80 (6.39%) JavaScript
7 35 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 21 (1.68%) PHP
9 16 (1.28%) Bash
10 14 (1.12%) Go
11 9 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.64%) R
13 7 (0.56%) Bicep
14 3 (0.24%) Swift
15 2 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.080%) ABAP
16 1 (0.080%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.080%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 109 (8.71%) Degree
2 24 (1.92%) Master's Degree
3 22 (1.76%) CISSP
3 22 (1.76%) Security Cleared
4 21 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.04%) ACCA
6 13 (1.04%) CRISC
7 10 (0.80%) CISA
8 9 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.72%) CISM
9 8 (0.64%) CIMA
10 7 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 5 (0.40%) MBA
12 4 (0.32%) CEH
12 4 (0.32%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.99%) QA
2 68 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (3.19%) SOC 2
4 32 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 27 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.76%) GRC
7 21 (1.68%) GDPR
8 20 (1.60%) NIST
9 16 (1.28%) Data Quality
10 14 (1.12%) SLA
11 12 (0.96%) WCAG
12 11 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.88%) IFRS
12 11 (0.88%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.64%) PMO
14 5 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.32%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 58 (4.63%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.51%) Docker
3 4 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 98 (7.83%) Terraform
2 75 (5.99%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.04%) Grafana
4 19 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.80%) Ansible
7 8 (0.64%) Argo
8 4 (0.32%) Cilium
9 2 (0.16%) CASB
9 2 (0.16%) Packer
10 1 (0.080%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.080%) Istio
10 1 (0.080%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.080%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.080%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 106 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.95%) Salesforce
3 47 (3.75%) HubSpot
4 32 (2.56%) Adobe
5 30 (2.40%) Google
6 27 (2.16%) Databricks
7 25 (2.00%) Oracle
8 24 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 21 (1.68%) Cisco
10 13 (1.04%) Pardot
10 13 (1.04%) SAP
11 12 (0.96%) Workday
12 9 (0.72%) CheckPoint
12 9 (0.72%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.72%) Fortinet
12 9 (0.72%) Meraki
12 9 (0.72%) Sage
12 9 (0.72%) SolarWinds
12 9 (0.72%) Zoho
13 8 (0.64%) CrowdStrike