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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 60 60
Rank change year-on-year +32 0 -14
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,647 834 1,089
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.09% 5.04% 4.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.99% 14.00% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,268 634 845
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,300 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,063 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,750 £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 8,675 5,959 10,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.32% 36.01% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,348 4,366 7,655
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,140
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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 27 August 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 74 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.79%) Confluence
4 9 (0.55%) CMS
5 7 (0.43%) IIS
6 6 (0.36%) SAS
7 4 (0.24%) WordPress
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.12%) Apache
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.061%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.061%) Moodle
10 1 (0.061%) Totara
Applications
1 28 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.30%) Moqups
5 4 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.061%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.061%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 20 (1.21%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.18%) Aareon QL
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%) 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%) Shopify
4 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.061%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 320 (19.43%) AWS
2 307 (18.64%) Azure
3 101 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (5.89%) GCP
5 86 (5.22%) Entra ID
6 63 (3.83%) Power Platform
7 60 (3.64%) PaaS
8 51 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (2.91%) Serverless
10 36 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (2.06%) IaaS
12 30 (1.82%) Mimecast
12 30 (1.82%) Snowflake
13 29 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
14 27 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
15 23 (1.40%) GitHub
16 21 (1.28%) Figma
16 21 (1.28%) PowerApps
17 20 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
18 17 (1.03%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.79%) DNS
2 11 (0.67%) VPN
3 10 (0.61%) Broadband
4 9 (0.55%) Firewall
4 9 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.49%) DHCP
5 8 (0.49%) Network Security
6 6 (0.36%) 5G
6 6 (0.36%) AMQP
6 6 (0.36%) SMS
6 6 (0.36%) SSL
7 5 (0.30%) Internet
7 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.30%) WAN
8 4 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.24%) IPsec
8 4 (0.24%) LAN
8 4 (0.24%) MPLS
8 4 (0.24%) VoIP
8 4 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 43 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (2.13%) Redis
4 33 (2.00%) Power BI
5 19 (1.15%) MySQL
6 15 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.30%) Big Data
8 5 (0.30%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.30%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.24%) Metadata
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.24%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.24%) Tableau
10 2 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 97 (5.89%) JIRA
2 45 (2.73%) Git
3 43 (2.61%) TeamCity
4 12 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 11 (0.67%) GitLab
5 11 (0.67%) Selenium
6 10 (0.61%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.43%) Postman
8 6 (0.36%) JMeter
8 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.30%) Locust
9 5 (0.30%) Storybook
10 4 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.12%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.12%) JUnit
12 2 (0.12%) MSI
General
1 443 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 347 (21.07%) Finance
3 227 (13.78%) Marketing
4 217 (13.18%) Retail
5 202 (12.26%) Law
6 199 (12.08%) Legal
7 150 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 125 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
9 112 (6.80%) Banking
10 107 (6.50%) Back Office
11 89 (5.40%) Financial Institution
12 64 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
14 54 (3.28%) Public Sector
15 33 (2.00%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.70%) German Language
17 27 (1.64%) Advertising
18 25 (1.52%) Health Technology
19 21 (1.28%) Billing
20 19 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (13.48%) Lead
2 220 (13.36%) Senior
3 169 (10.26%) Developer
4 105 (6.38%) Account Executive
4 105 (6.38%) Software Engineer
5 101 (6.13%) Architect
6 96 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 84 (5.10%) Consultant
8 72 (4.37%) Lead Developer
8 72 (4.37%) Senior Manager
9 68 (4.13%) Software Developer
10 64 (3.89%) Account Manager
11 62 (3.76%) IT Manager
12 61 (3.70%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 61 (3.70%) Lead Software Developer
13 59 (3.58%) Analyst
14 52 (3.16%) Service Manager
15 49 (2.98%) Testing Manager
16 48 (2.91%) IT Services Manager
16 48 (2.91%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (7.53%) Node.js
2 103 (6.25%) Terraform
3 86 (5.22%) .NET
4 68 (4.13%) React
5 60 (3.64%) Vue
6 59 (3.58%) Middleware
7 53 (3.22%) REST
8 35 (2.13%) RESTful
9 33 (2.00%) CSS
10 28 (1.70%) HTML
11 24 (1.46%) Next.js
12 22 (1.34%) NestJS
13 18 (1.09%) OAuth
14 16 (0.97%) JSON
15 14 (0.85%) Laravel
16 13 (0.79%) OpenID
17 12 (0.73%) Kafka
17 12 (0.73%) Spring
17 12 (0.73%) Spring Boot
17 12 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 124 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 102 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 99 (6.01%) Onboarding
4 61 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 53 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
7 46 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 35 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
10 28 (1.70%) Web Conferencing
11 20 (1.21%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.21%) PropTech
12 19 (1.15%) Driving Licence
13 18 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
13 18 (1.09%) Social Media
14 17 (1.03%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.85%) Clustering
15 14 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.79%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.49%) Windows
2 21 (1.28%) Linux
3 10 (0.61%) Android
3 10 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.61%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) Debian
5 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.061%) Unix
6 1 (0.061%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (17.24%) AI
2 270 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 263 (15.97%) DevOps
4 244 (14.81%) Agile
5 243 (14.75%) Software Engineering
6 237 (14.39%) B2B
7 206 (12.51%) CRM
8 199 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
9 185 (11.23%) Test Automation
10 183 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 173 (10.50%) CI/CD
12 164 (9.96%) Decision-Making
13 163 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 162 (9.84%) Roadmaps
15 160 (9.71%) Full-Stack Development
16 155 (9.41%) Business Development
17 151 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
18 146 (8.86%) Microservices
19 134 (8.14%) Project Delivery
20 123 (7.47%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 190 (11.54%) TypeScript
2 166 (10.08%) JavaScript
3 156 (9.47%) Python
4 143 (8.68%) C#
5 130 (7.89%) SQL
6 86 (5.22%) Java
7 84 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.06%) PHP
9 31 (1.88%) R
10 23 (1.40%) Go
11 14 (0.85%) Bash
12 11 (0.67%) Bicep
13 9 (0.55%) Ruby
14 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.18%) Swift
16 2 (0.12%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.12%) SOQL
16 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (5.22%) Degree
2 75 (4.55%) CISSP
3 69 (4.19%) CISM
4 54 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
5 43 (2.61%) ACCA
6 42 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.06%) CIMA
8 24 (1.46%) Security Cleared
9 19 (1.15%) CRISC
10 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.85%) CISA
12 9 (0.55%) SC Cleared
13 8 (0.49%) ISACA
14 7 (0.43%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.36%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.30%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 4 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (7.83%) QA
2 83 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (4.49%) NIST
4 67 (4.07%) GDPR
5 48 (2.91%) ISO 22301
6 32 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.52%) SOC 2
9 22 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.28%) SLA
11 18 (1.09%) GRC
11 18 (1.09%) IFRS
12 16 (0.97%) Data Quality
13 14 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.55%) COBIT
15 8 (0.49%) WCAG
16 7 (0.43%) GAAP
16 7 (0.43%) SOC 1
17 6 (0.36%) PMO
18 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 72 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 55 (3.34%) Docker
3 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.18%) Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 82 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.40%) Grafana
3 36 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.97%) Ansible
5 15 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.18%) Argo
8 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.061%) CASB
10 1 (0.061%) Graylog
10 1 (0.061%) Packer
10 1 (0.061%) QRadar
Vendors
1 225 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.98%) HubSpot
3 71 (4.31%) Salesforce
4 50 (3.04%) Google
5 32 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
6 22 (1.34%) Sage
7 19 (1.15%) Adobe
8 16 (0.97%) SAP
9 15 (0.91%) Databricks
10 13 (0.79%) Xero
11 12 (0.73%) Oracle
12 11 (0.67%) Workday
13 8 (0.49%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.36%) Pardot
15 5 (0.30%) Apple
15 5 (0.30%) Facebook
16 4 (0.24%) Dynatrace
16 4 (0.24%) Meraki
16 4 (0.24%) SolarWinds
16 4 (0.24%) Splunk