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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 51 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 952 1,005 1,268
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.91% 5.03% 5.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.64% 11.46% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 723 653 1,072
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £41,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £93,300 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,750 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.25% -11.11% -

All Cloud 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 5,721 8,770 10,864
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.50% 43.90% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,044 5,722 9,277
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,275 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,611 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 27 October 2025.

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 20 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.58%) IIS
3 13 (1.37%) Confluence
4 8 (0.84%) Apache
4 8 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.84%) WordPress
5 5 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.21%) JBoss
7 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.26%) InDesign
5 9 (0.95%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.74%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.42%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.42%) Sketch
8 3 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) GIMP
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
9 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.11%) SPSS
9 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.58%) Shopify
2 12 (1.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (1.16%) NetSuite
4 10 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (1.05%) Magento
5 8 (0.84%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.11%) FastStats
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 236 (24.79%) Azure
2 210 (22.06%) AWS
3 98 (10.29%) GCP
4 78 (8.19%) PaaS
5 58 (6.09%) Power Platform
6 55 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (5.57%) IaaS
8 49 (5.15%) GitHub
9 43 (4.52%) Entra ID
10 37 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
13 18 (1.89%) Serverless
14 16 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (1.68%) Power Automate
15 15 (1.58%) Azure AI
15 15 (1.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 14 (1.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.68%) Remote Desktop
2 23 (2.42%) VPN
3 22 (2.31%) Firewall
4 19 (2.00%) DNS
5 16 (1.68%) WAN
6 15 (1.58%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.95%) Unified Communications
8 7 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.53%) HTTP
10 4 (0.42%) DHCP
10 4 (0.42%) Internet
10 4 (0.42%) Network Security
11 3 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.32%) SAN
12 2 (0.21%) BGP
12 2 (0.21%) Extranet
12 2 (0.21%) GPRS
12 2 (0.21%) Intranet
12 2 (0.21%) VLAN
12 2 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.04%) Power BI
3 41 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (4.10%) Data Lake
5 38 (3.99%) MySQL
6 19 (2.00%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (1.47%) Data Hub
8 14 (1.47%) SQL CLR
9 11 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.05%) Tableau
11 9 (0.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.95%) Looker
11 9 (0.95%) Metadata
12 8 (0.84%) Data Mining
12 8 (0.84%) Data Vault
12 8 (0.84%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.63%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (5.46%) Git
2 34 (3.57%) JIRA
3 13 (1.37%) TeamCity
4 10 (1.05%) Selenium
5 8 (0.84%) Postman
6 6 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.42%) git-flow
8 4 (0.42%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.32%) GitBook
9 3 (0.32%) Storybook
10 2 (0.21%) GitLab
10 2 (0.21%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.21%) Protractor
10 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 345 (36.24%) Social Skills
2 222 (23.32%) Finance
3 132 (13.87%) Marketing
4 117 (12.29%) Retail
5 104 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
6 60 (6.30%) Back Office
7 52 (5.46%) Law
8 45 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (4.73%) Legal
9 33 (3.47%) Public Sector
10 31 (3.26%) Banking
11 27 (2.84%) Financial Institution
12 26 (2.73%) Automotive
12 26 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.47%) Local Government
16 13 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.16%) Billing
18 10 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 136 (14.29%) Senior
2 133 (13.97%) Developer
3 101 (10.61%) Lead
4 83 (8.72%) Architect
5 51 (5.36%) Software Developer
6 48 (5.04%) Analyst
7 47 (4.94%) .NET Developer
8 41 (4.31%) Consultant
8 41 (4.31%) Engineering Manager
9 40 (4.20%) Product Manager
10 37 (3.89%) 2nd Line Support
11 34 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 31 (3.26%) .NET Software Developer
13 29 (3.05%) SaaS Developer
14 28 (2.94%) Senior Developer
15 27 (2.84%) Cloud Architect
16 25 (2.63%) Account Manager
17 23 (2.42%) 1st/2nd Line Support
17 23 (2.42%) Account Executive
18 22 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (13.34%) .NET
2 82 (8.61%) React
3 48 (5.04%) REST
4 35 (3.68%) Node.js
5 26 (2.73%) .NET Framework
6 23 (2.42%) CSS
6 23 (2.42%) HTML
7 22 (2.31%) Entity Framework
7 22 (2.31%) Next.js
8 21 (2.21%) XML
9 19 (2.00%) SOAP
10 17 (1.79%) .NET Core
10 17 (1.79%) RESTful
11 16 (1.68%) SAML
12 15 (1.58%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.58%) Kafka
13 10 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
13 10 (1.05%) Laravel
13 10 (1.05%) Vue
13 10 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 150 (15.76%) Onboarding
2 79 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 51 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 40 (4.20%) Social Media
5 34 (3.57%) NHS
6 33 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.15%) Data Centre
8 22 (2.31%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (2.21%) Web Conferencing
10 18 (1.89%) Educational Technology
11 17 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.79%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.58%) Driving Licence
13 13 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.37%) EPoS
14 12 (1.26%) Life Science
14 12 (1.26%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.26%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.99%) Windows
2 24 (2.52%) Windows Server
3 20 (2.10%) Linux
4 9 (0.95%) Android
4 9 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.32%) Unix
7 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (27.73%) Agile
2 206 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
3 185 (19.43%) Roadmaps
4 181 (19.01%) Mentoring
5 166 (17.44%) AI
6 153 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 151 (15.86%) Software Engineering
8 139 (14.60%) DevOps
9 138 (14.50%) CRM
10 135 (14.18%) B2B
11 112 (11.76%) Analytics
12 101 (10.61%) CI/CD
13 99 (10.40%) Data Privacy
14 92 (9.66%) ERP
15 89 (9.35%) Customer Service
16 87 (9.14%) Coaching
16 87 (9.14%) Decision-Making
17 80 (8.40%) Microservices
18 75 (7.88%) Full-Stack Development
19 71 (7.46%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 203 (21.32%) SQL
2 144 (15.13%) C#
3 93 (9.77%) TypeScript
4 86 (9.03%) JavaScript
5 67 (7.04%) Python
6 41 (4.31%) PowerShell
7 38 (3.99%) Java
8 22 (2.31%) Bicep
9 20 (2.10%) PHP
10 14 (1.47%) C
11 11 (1.16%) Bash
12 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.63%) Go
15 5 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.32%) Delphi
16 3 (0.32%) Swift
17 1 (0.11%) C++
17 1 (0.11%) Perl
17 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (11.03%) Degree
2 29 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (2.73%) ACCA
4 25 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.21%) DBS Check
6 20 (2.10%) Security Cleared
7 14 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.16%) CISSP
9 9 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.95%) SC Cleared
10 8 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.74%) CISM
11 7 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 6 (0.63%) CIMA
12 6 (0.63%) City & Guilds
12 6 (0.63%) CRISC
13 5 (0.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (0.53%) MCSA
14 4 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.77%) QA
2 57 (5.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.52%) ISO 9001
4 20 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.10%) GDPR
5 15 (1.58%) SOC 2
6 14 (1.47%) NIST
7 13 (1.37%) SLA
8 12 (1.26%) GRC
9 11 (1.16%) GAAP
10 10 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.84%) IFRS
13 7 (0.74%) PMO
14 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.53%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.42%) JSP 440
17 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
17 3 (0.32%) WCAG
18 2 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 26 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.42%) Docker
3 22 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.11%) vSphere
5 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (5.99%) Terraform
2 50 (5.25%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.37%) Ansible
4 13 (1.37%) Grafana
5 5 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.32%) Cilium
6 3 (0.32%) SmoothWall
7 2 (0.21%) Argo
7 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) CASB
8 1 (0.11%) CFEngine
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 119 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.04%) Salesforce
3 41 (4.31%) HubSpot
4 40 (4.20%) Databricks
5 39 (4.10%) Adobe
6 31 (3.26%) Oracle
7 27 (2.84%) Google
8 23 (2.42%) VMware
9 16 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.58%) Cisco
10 15 (1.58%) Meraki
11 14 (1.47%) Workday
12 13 (1.37%) Zoho
13 11 (1.16%) Alteryx
13 11 (1.16%) SAP
14 10 (1.05%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.63%) Facebook
15 6 (0.63%) Instagram
15 6 (0.63%) Pardot
15 6 (0.63%) Twitter