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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 57 59
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,692 869 1,022
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.87% 5.31% 4.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.31% 15.01% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 674 695
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,977
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 8,763 5,791 9,455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.57% 35.41% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,442 4,168 6,379
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 24 September 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 75 (4.43%) SharePoint
2 48 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.89%) Confluence
4 12 (0.71%) CMS
5 10 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.53%) Apache
7 8 (0.47%) WordPress
8 7 (0.41%) IIS
9 6 (0.35%) SAS
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.059%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.059%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.059%) Moodle
12 1 (0.059%) Totara
Applications
1 26 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.41%) Moqups
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Trello
7 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (0.95%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.18%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.18%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.18%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Maximo
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.059%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 335 (19.80%) AWS
2 324 (19.15%) Azure
3 120 (7.09%) GCP
4 105 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
5 87 (5.14%) Entra ID
6 70 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
6 70 (4.14%) Power Platform
7 59 (3.49%) PaaS
8 48 (2.84%) Serverless
9 44 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (2.19%) GitHub
11 33 (1.95%) IaaS
12 32 (1.89%) Snowflake
13 31 (1.83%) Mimecast
14 27 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
15 26 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
16 25 (1.48%) Power Automate
17 23 (1.36%) Figma
18 21 (1.24%) PowerApps
19 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.83%) VPN
2 12 (0.71%) DNS
3 11 (0.65%) Network Security
4 10 (0.59%) AMQP
4 10 (0.59%) Broadband
4 10 (0.59%) SMS
5 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.47%) DHCP
6 8 (0.47%) Firewall
6 8 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.35%) 5G
8 5 (0.30%) Internet
8 5 (0.30%) VoIP
8 5 (0.30%) WAN
9 4 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.24%) IPsec
9 4 (0.24%) LAN
9 4 (0.24%) MPLS
9 4 (0.24%) NetScaler
9 4 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.25%) SQL Server
2 51 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (2.19%) Power BI
4 35 (2.07%) Redis
5 20 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.95%) MySQL
7 14 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (0.71%) Big Data
9 10 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.53%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.41%) Looker
12 6 (0.35%) Metadata
12 6 (0.35%) Tableau
13 5 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (0.30%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.24%) Metabase
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.24%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 98 (5.79%) JIRA
2 62 (3.66%) TeamCity
3 42 (2.48%) Git
4 14 (0.83%) Cypress.io
5 13 (0.77%) Selenium
6 11 (0.65%) GitLab
7 7 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.41%) Postman
7 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.30%) JUnit
8 5 (0.30%) Poetry
8 5 (0.30%) Storybook
9 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.24%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.12%) JMeter
11 2 (0.12%) MSI
11 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.059%) LoadRunner
General
1 457 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 403 (23.82%) Finance
3 246 (14.54%) Retail
4 240 (14.18%) Marketing
5 230 (13.59%) Law
6 209 (12.35%) Legal
7 165 (9.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 132 (7.80%) Banking
9 128 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
10 127 (7.51%) Back Office
11 114 (6.74%) Financial Institution
12 66 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (3.78%) Public Sector
14 58 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (2.13%) Manufacturing
16 30 (1.77%) German Language
17 27 (1.60%) Health Technology
18 25 (1.48%) French Language
18 25 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
19 24 (1.42%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 230 (13.59%) Lead
2 226 (13.36%) Senior
3 163 (9.63%) Developer
4 116 (6.86%) Account Executive
5 113 (6.68%) Software Engineer
6 108 (6.38%) Architect
7 89 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 80 (4.73%) Consultant
9 78 (4.61%) Analyst
10 73 (4.31%) Software Developer
11 71 (4.20%) Lead Developer
12 68 (4.02%) Account Manager
13 67 (3.96%) Senior Manager
14 66 (3.90%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 64 (3.78%) Lead Software Developer
16 62 (3.66%) IT Manager
17 56 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
18 49 (2.90%) Testing Manager
19 48 (2.84%) IT Services Manager
19 48 (2.84%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (7.68%) Terraform
2 123 (7.27%) Node.js
3 88 (5.20%) .NET
4 66 (3.90%) React
5 60 (3.55%) Middleware
6 55 (3.25%) REST
7 54 (3.19%) Vue
8 38 (2.25%) RESTful
9 27 (1.60%) CSS
10 23 (1.36%) OAuth
11 22 (1.30%) HTML
11 22 (1.30%) Next.js
12 20 (1.18%) OpenID
13 18 (1.06%) NestJS
14 17 (1.00%) OAuth2
15 16 (0.95%) OpenAPI
15 16 (0.95%) Spring
15 16 (0.95%) Spring Boot
15 16 (0.95%) Swagger
16 15 (0.89%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 128 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 116 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 103 (6.09%) Onboarding
4 66 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (3.66%) Virtual Team
6 50 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 48 (2.84%) Cyber Threat
8 38 (2.25%) Web Conferencing
9 34 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (1.42%) Social Media
11 20 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.06%) Driving Licence
13 16 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
13 16 (0.95%) PropTech
14 14 (0.83%) Blog
14 14 (0.83%) Client/Server
14 14 (0.83%) Educational Technology
14 14 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.30%) Windows
2 24 (1.42%) Linux
3 17 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.77%) Android
4 13 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.18%) Debian
8 1 (0.059%) Unix
8 1 (0.059%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (18.79%) AI
2 270 (15.96%) DevOps
3 269 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 266 (15.72%) B2B
5 257 (15.19%) Software Engineering
6 245 (14.48%) Agile
7 222 (13.12%) CRM
8 208 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
9 198 (11.70%) Mentoring
10 197 (11.64%) Test Automation
11 194 (11.47%) CI/CD
12 176 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 168 (9.93%) Decision-Making
14 167 (9.87%) Roadmaps
15 157 (9.28%) Business Development
15 157 (9.28%) Microservices
15 157 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 153 (9.04%) Full-Stack Development
17 143 (8.45%) Project Delivery
18 137 (8.10%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 194 (11.47%) TypeScript
2 174 (10.28%) JavaScript
3 160 (9.46%) Python
4 149 (8.81%) C#
5 147 (8.69%) SQL
6 108 (6.38%) Java
7 84 (4.96%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.01%) R
9 26 (1.54%) PHP
10 25 (1.48%) Go
11 17 (1.00%) Bash
12 15 (0.89%) Bicep
13 9 (0.53%) Ruby
14 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.24%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.24%) SOQL
15 4 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.18%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.18%) Scala
16 3 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 88 (5.20%) Degree
2 77 (4.55%) CISSP
3 71 (4.20%) CISM
4 56 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
5 44 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (2.19%) ACCA
7 31 (1.83%) CIMA
8 30 (1.77%) Security Cleared
9 20 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.12%) CRISC
11 18 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.89%) SC Cleared
13 14 (0.83%) CISA
14 8 (0.47%) ISACA
15 7 (0.41%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.35%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.35%) DV Cleared
16 6 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (7.62%) QA
2 86 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (4.43%) NIST
4 73 (4.31%) GDPR
5 48 (2.84%) ISO 22301
6 32 (1.89%) Data Quality
7 30 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.60%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.60%) SOC 2
9 23 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (1.18%) GRC
11 18 (1.06%) SLA
12 14 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.77%) IFRS
14 9 (0.53%) COBIT
15 8 (0.47%) SOC 1
16 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.30%) GAAP
17 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 67 (3.96%) Active Directory
2 59 (3.49%) Docker
3 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 100 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 75 (4.43%) Grafana
3 37 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.12%) Ansible
5 16 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Argo
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.059%) CASB
10 1 (0.059%) Cilium
10 1 (0.059%) Kibana
10 1 (0.059%) Packer
10 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.059%) Puppet
10 1 (0.059%) QRadar
Vendors
1 243 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.50%) HubSpot
3 81 (4.79%) Salesforce
4 55 (3.25%) Google
5 36 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
6 26 (1.54%) Sage
7 20 (1.18%) Databricks
8 17 (1.00%) Adobe
9 16 (0.95%) SAP
10 13 (0.77%) Workday
11 11 (0.65%) Oracle
11 11 (0.65%) Xero
12 10 (0.59%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.59%) Splunk
13 9 (0.53%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.41%) Facebook
14 7 (0.41%) Instagram
14 7 (0.41%) TikTok
14 7 (0.41%) YouTube
15 5 (0.30%) Apple