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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 73 53
Rank change year-on-year +47 -20 -12
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,573 788 1,295
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.26% 4.78% 4.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.62% 12.96% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,187 600 1,078
10th Percentile £35,500 £33,000 £39,275
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +6.20% -5.84%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 8,450 6,082 11,854
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.99% 36.89% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,038 4,483 9,649
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 23 July 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 60 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.95%) Confluence
4 13 (0.83%) CMS
4 13 (0.83%) WordPress
5 6 (0.38%) SAS
6 5 (0.32%) Moodle
6 5 (0.32%) Totara
7 4 (0.25%) IIS
8 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.064%) JBoss
10 1 (0.064%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (0.51%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Trello
10 1 (0.064%) InDesign
10 1 (0.064%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 23 (1.46%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.19%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.19%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.19%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 306 (19.45%) Azure
2 290 (18.44%) AWS
3 106 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (6.23%) Entra ID
5 84 (5.34%) GCP
6 63 (4.01%) Power Platform
7 57 (3.62%) PaaS
8 53 (3.37%) Serverless
9 51 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (1.84%) Mimecast
12 28 (1.78%) IaaS
13 27 (1.72%) Snowflake
14 22 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (1.21%) Azure Functions
17 19 (1.21%) Figma
18 18 (1.14%) PowerApps
19 17 (1.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.21%) Firewall
2 16 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (0.95%) VPN
4 12 (0.76%) DNS
5 10 (0.64%) Broadband
6 9 (0.57%) LAN
6 9 (0.57%) WAN
7 8 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (0.51%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
7 8 (0.51%) IPsec
7 8 (0.51%) MPLS
7 8 (0.51%) NetScaler
7 8 (0.51%) NX-OS
7 8 (0.51%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.51%) VXLAN
7 8 (0.51%) WLAN
8 7 (0.45%) Internet
8 7 (0.45%) Network Security
8 7 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 43 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.29%) Power BI
4 32 (2.03%) Redis
5 25 (1.59%) MySQL
6 14 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.38%) Big Data
10 6 (0.38%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.32%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.32%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.32%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.25%) Metadata
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.25%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.25%) Tableau
13 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 93 (5.91%) JIRA
2 41 (2.61%) Git
3 40 (2.54%) TeamCity
4 10 (0.64%) Claude Code
5 8 (0.51%) GitLab
6 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.38%) JMeter
7 6 (0.38%) Selenium
8 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.32%) Locust
8 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.25%) Postman
9 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 428 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 350 (22.25%) Finance
3 230 (14.62%) Retail
4 214 (13.60%) Law
5 212 (13.48%) Marketing
6 168 (10.68%) Legal
7 156 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 133 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
9 127 (8.07%) Banking
10 118 (7.50%) Back Office
11 96 (6.10%) Financial Institution
12 62 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
13 52 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (2.03%) Advertising
15 29 (1.84%) Public Sector
16 27 (1.72%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.40%) German Language
17 22 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 21 (1.34%) Health Technology
19 18 (1.14%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 220 (13.99%) Senior
2 199 (12.65%) Lead
3 161 (10.24%) Developer
4 107 (6.80%) Software Engineer
5 97 (6.17%) Account Executive
6 83 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 82 (5.21%) Architect
8 77 (4.90%) Consultant
9 76 (4.83%) Account Manager
10 75 (4.77%) Senior Manager
11 63 (4.01%) Lead Developer
12 62 (3.94%) Service Manager
13 60 (3.81%) IT Manager
14 57 (3.62%) Support Engineer
15 54 (3.43%) Analyst
16 50 (3.18%) Software Developer
17 49 (3.12%) Testing Manager
18 48 (3.05%) IT Services Manager
18 48 (3.05%) Resilience Manager
19 44 (2.80%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (6.36%) Node.js
2 81 (5.15%) .NET
3 67 (4.26%) React
4 55 (3.50%) Vue
5 52 (3.31%) Middleware
6 44 (2.80%) REST
7 40 (2.54%) RESTful
8 38 (2.42%) CSS
9 35 (2.23%) HTML
10 23 (1.46%) JSON
11 19 (1.21%) Next.js
12 17 (1.08%) OAuth
12 17 (1.08%) XML
13 16 (1.02%) AngularJS
14 14 (0.89%) NestJS
15 13 (0.83%) Laravel
16 12 (0.76%) .NET Core
16 12 (0.76%) Kafka
17 11 (0.70%) GraphQL
17 11 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 112 (7.12%) Onboarding
3 90 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.81%) Virtual Team
5 48 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
6 44 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 36 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
11 24 (1.53%) Social Media
12 22 (1.40%) Blog
13 21 (1.34%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.27%) PropTech
15 17 (1.08%) Client/Server
15 17 (1.08%) Driving Licence
15 17 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
16 16 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (0.89%) Data Centre
18 13 (0.83%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.99%) Windows
2 18 (1.14%) Linux
3 12 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.64%) Android
5 10 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.19%) Debian
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.13%) VMS
8 1 (0.064%) Unix
8 1 (0.064%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (16.47%) AI
2 255 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 245 (15.58%) DevOps
4 238 (15.13%) Software Engineering
5 224 (14.24%) Agile
5 224 (14.24%) B2B
6 213 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
7 190 (12.08%) CRM
8 168 (10.68%) Test Automation
9 165 (10.49%) CI/CD
10 164 (10.43%) Mentoring
11 154 (9.79%) Roadmaps
12 151 (9.60%) Full-Stack Development
13 147 (9.35%) Microservices
14 142 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 132 (8.39%) Business Development
15 132 (8.39%) Decision-Making
16 123 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
17 115 (7.31%) Enterprise Architecture
18 112 (7.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 165 (10.49%) Python
1 165 (10.49%) TypeScript
2 146 (9.28%) JavaScript
3 132 (8.39%) C#
4 126 (8.01%) SQL
5 92 (5.85%) PowerShell
6 80 (5.09%) Java
7 33 (2.10%) PHP
8 30 (1.91%) R
9 25 (1.59%) Go
10 14 (0.89%) Bash
11 9 (0.57%) Bicep
11 9 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.51%) Ruby
13 5 (0.32%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.19%) Swift
15 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.064%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.064%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 102 (6.48%) Degree
2 81 (5.15%) CISSP
3 69 (4.39%) CISM
4 49 (3.12%) ITIL Certification
5 47 (2.99%) ACCA
6 37 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.16%) CIMA
8 32 (2.03%) Security Cleared
9 22 (1.40%) CRISC
10 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.27%) SC Cleared
11 18 (1.14%) CISA
12 14 (0.89%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.57%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.51%) ISACA
16 7 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 6 (0.38%) MBA
18 5 (0.32%) DV Cleared
18 5 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.12%) QA
2 92 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (4.83%) NIST
4 68 (4.32%) GDPR
5 48 (3.05%) ISO 22301
6 38 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 32 (2.03%) SOC 2
8 30 (1.91%) Accessibility
9 25 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.40%) Data Quality
10 22 (1.40%) IFRS
11 20 (1.27%) GRC
12 14 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 14 (0.89%) SLA
13 10 (0.64%) PMO
14 9 (0.57%) COBIT
15 8 (0.51%) SOC 1
15 8 (0.51%) WCAG
16 7 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.45%) GAAP
System Software
1 83 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.99%) Docker
3 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 95 (6.04%) Terraform
2 75 (4.77%) Kubernetes
3 52 (3.31%) Grafana
4 38 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Ansible
7 7 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.19%) Argo
9 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.13%) CASB
10 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.13%) Puppet
11 1 (0.064%) Graylog
11 1 (0.064%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.064%) Packer
11 1 (0.064%) QRadar
11 1 (0.064%) SCCM
Vendors
1 203 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 63 (4.01%) HubSpot
3 54 (3.43%) Salesforce
4 41 (2.61%) Google
5 30 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (1.14%) Sage
7 17 (1.08%) Adobe
8 16 (1.02%) Oracle
9 15 (0.95%) Databricks
9 15 (0.95%) Xero
10 13 (0.83%) SAP
10 13 (0.83%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.76%) Pardot
12 9 (0.57%) Cisco
12 9 (0.57%) Workday
13 8 (0.51%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.51%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.51%) Meraki
13 8 (0.51%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.38%) Atlassian