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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 69 50
Rank change year-on-year +42 -19 -6
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,347 734 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.14% 5.02% 4.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.78% 12.70% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 562 1,360
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,550 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,063 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £92,813 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -10.37%

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 7,174 5,780 14,070
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 39.57% 42.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,919 4,169 11,966
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
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 25 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 38 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.11%) WordPress
4 13 (0.97%) CMS
5 9 (0.67%) Confluence
6 6 (0.45%) SAS
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.37%) JBoss
7 5 (0.37%) Moodle
7 5 (0.37%) Totara
7 5 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.074%) Apache
9 1 (0.074%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 24 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
4 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.074%) InDesign
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.22%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.22%) Orchard Housing
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 228 (16.93%) AWS
2 218 (16.18%) Azure
3 86 (6.38%) GCP
4 70 (5.20%) Entra ID
5 67 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (3.41%) Serverless
7 45 (3.34%) Power Platform
8 43 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (3.12%) PaaS
10 28 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (2.08%) GitHub
11 20 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (1.48%) IaaS
12 19 (1.41%) Figma
13 18 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (1.19%) AWS Direct Connect
14 16 (1.19%) Mimecast
15 12 (0.89%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.15%) Firewall
2 22 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
3 20 (1.48%) VPN
4 17 (1.26%) DNS
5 14 (1.04%) LAN
5 14 (1.04%) MPLS
5 14 (1.04%) WAN
6 13 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (0.97%) IPsec
6 13 (0.97%) NetScaler
6 13 (0.97%) NX-OS
6 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.97%) VXLAN
6 13 (0.97%) WLAN
7 12 (0.89%) BGP
8 10 (0.74%) SSL
9 9 (0.67%) OSPF
10 8 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.31%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (2.08%) Power BI
4 17 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (1.26%) MySQL
5 16 (1.19%) Redis
6 12 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.37%) Big Data
10 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.30%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.30%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.15%) Metadata
13 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (3.49%) JIRA
2 37 (2.75%) TeamCity
3 30 (2.23%) Git
4 8 (0.59%) Claude Code
4 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.45%) JMeter
6 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.37%) Locust
6 5 (0.37%) Postman
7 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.30%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.30%) Selenium
8 3 (0.22%) JUnit
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.15%) Eclipse
General
1 308 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 307 (22.79%) Finance
3 237 (17.59%) Retail
4 221 (16.41%) Marketing
5 173 (12.84%) Law
6 155 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 139 (10.32%) Banking
8 127 (9.43%) Back Office
9 115 (8.54%) Financial Institution
10 105 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
11 85 (6.31%) Legal
12 44 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.30%) Public Sector
15 29 (2.15%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.71%) German Language
17 22 (1.63%) Advertising
18 19 (1.41%) Polish Language
19 18 (1.34%) Health Technology
20 16 (1.19%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 173 (12.84%) Senior
2 165 (12.25%) Developer
3 143 (10.62%) Lead
4 113 (8.39%) Software Engineer
5 91 (6.76%) Account Executive
6 87 (6.46%) Account Manager
7 70 (5.20%) Architect
8 69 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (4.45%) Lead Developer
10 51 (3.79%) Support Engineer
11 44 (3.27%) Analyst
11 44 (3.27%) Consultant
12 41 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 40 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
14 39 (2.90%) Sales Manager
15 38 (2.82%) .NET Software Engineer
16 36 (2.67%) C# Developer
17 34 (2.52%) .NET Developer
17 34 (2.52%) Development Manager
17 34 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (7.28%) .NET
2 73 (5.42%) Node.js
3 62 (4.60%) React
4 40 (2.97%) Vue
5 36 (2.67%) HTML
5 36 (2.67%) RESTful
6 34 (2.52%) CSS
7 33 (2.45%) REST
8 25 (1.86%) JSON
9 21 (1.56%) XML
10 17 (1.26%) Spring
11 16 (1.19%) React Native
12 15 (1.11%) .NET Core
13 14 (1.04%) AngularJS
13 14 (1.04%) GraphQL
14 13 (0.97%) NestJS
14 13 (0.97%) Next.js
14 13 (0.97%) OAuth
14 13 (0.97%) SOAP
15 12 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.42%) Onboarding
3 79 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.08%) Blog
8 25 (1.86%) EPoS
9 23 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.63%) PropTech
11 21 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.26%) Social Media
14 16 (1.19%) Web Conferencing
15 15 (1.11%) Client/Server
15 15 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
16 11 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.82%) Learning Management System
17 10 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.97%) Windows
2 24 (1.78%) Apple iOS
3 23 (1.71%) Android
4 14 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.82%) Linux
6 7 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.15%) Unix
9 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (15.44%) AI
2 193 (14.33%) Software Engineering
3 183 (13.59%) B2B
4 178 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 170 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 158 (11.73%) CRM
7 147 (10.91%) Agile
8 138 (10.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 132 (9.80%) CI/CD
10 127 (9.43%) DevOps
11 119 (8.83%) Microservices
11 119 (8.83%) Roadmaps
12 118 (8.76%) Business Development
13 112 (8.31%) Fintech
14 99 (7.35%) Decision-Making
15 97 (7.20%) Analytics
16 92 (6.83%) Mentoring
17 76 (5.64%) SDLC
18 74 (5.49%) Stakeholder Management
19 72 (5.35%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (8.76%) SQL
2 112 (8.31%) Python
3 88 (6.53%) Java
4 78 (5.79%) C#
5 77 (5.72%) TypeScript
6 59 (4.38%) JavaScript
7 38 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 25 (1.86%) Go
9 24 (1.78%) PHP
10 17 (1.26%) R
11 13 (0.97%) Bash
12 8 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.30%) Bicep
14 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.22%) Swift
15 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.074%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.074%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (6.53%) Degree
2 41 (3.04%) ACCA
3 29 (2.15%) CIMA
4 24 (1.78%) CISSP
4 24 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.71%) Security Cleared
6 16 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.11%) SC Cleared
8 13 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.82%) CISA
10 11 (0.82%) CRISC
11 10 (0.74%) CISM
12 7 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.45%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.45%) MBA
14 4 (0.30%) CEH
14 4 (0.30%) ISACA
15 3 (0.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (3.12%) QA
3 36 (2.67%) GDPR
4 34 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 32 (2.38%) SOC 2
6 30 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.48%) IFRS
8 18 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (1.11%) WCAG
10 14 (1.04%) NIST
11 12 (0.89%) SLA
12 11 (0.82%) GRC
12 11 (0.82%) PMO
13 9 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.45%) GAAP
16 5 (0.37%) COBIT
16 5 (0.37%) SOC 1
17 3 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 66 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.41%) Docker
3 3 (0.22%) Firmware
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (6.76%) Terraform
2 77 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.34%) Grafana
4 26 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.74%) Ansible
7 7 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.15%) CASB
9 2 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.074%) Graylog
10 1 (0.074%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.074%) QRadar
Vendors
1 122 (9.06%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.86%) Salesforce
3 41 (3.04%) HubSpot
4 38 (2.82%) Google
5 18 (1.34%) Sage
5 18 (1.34%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.26%) Adobe
6 17 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.19%) Pardot
7 16 (1.19%) Xero
8 15 (1.11%) SAP
9 14 (1.04%) Cisco
10 13 (0.97%) CheckPoint
10 13 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 13 (0.97%) Meraki
10 13 (0.97%) SolarWinds
11 12 (0.89%) Databricks
12 10 (0.74%) Oracle
13 9 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.45%) Atlassian