SaaS Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 39 43
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -6
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,292 2,226 5,950
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.62% 6.78% 7.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.17% 14.11% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 999 1,505 3,715
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,602 £51,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

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 11,565 15,776 41,709
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.40% 48.07% 53.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,006 12,359 22,853
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,866 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £97,132
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

SaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS.

SaaS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SaaS over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

SaaS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.01%) Confluence
4 9 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.46%) IIS
7 5 (0.39%) WordPress
8 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.23%) Apache
8 3 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.077%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.077%) SAS
10 1 (0.077%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 24 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.077%) 1Password
7 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.77%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 7 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.31%) Exchequer
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.31%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.31%) Sage 50
6 4 (0.31%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.15%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.15%) iTrent
8 2 (0.15%) Workfront
9 1 (0.077%) Cognos Controller
9 1 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.077%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.077%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.077%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 484 (37.46%) Azure
2 431 (33.36%) AWS
3 174 (13.47%) Microsoft 365
4 151 (11.69%) GCP
5 142 (10.99%) PaaS
6 110 (8.51%) IaaS
7 73 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (4.41%) Serverless
9 53 (4.10%) GitHub
10 41 (3.17%) Entra ID
11 33 (2.55%) Amazon S3
12 29 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (2.01%) Azure AKS
14 26 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
15 25 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
17 21 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
18 20 (1.55%) AWS Fargate
19 19 (1.47%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.41%) Firewall
2 25 (1.93%) LAN
2 25 (1.93%) WAN
3 24 (1.86%) Network Security
4 18 (1.39%) VPN
4 18 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (1.08%) Internet
6 13 (1.01%) SAN
7 11 (0.85%) DNS
8 10 (0.77%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.77%) VoIP
9 9 (0.70%) SSL
10 8 (0.62%) HTTPS
10 8 (0.62%) VLAN
11 6 (0.46%) BGP
11 6 (0.46%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.39%) HTTP
13 4 (0.31%) DMZ
13 4 (0.31%) MPLS
14 3 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.64%) SQL Server
2 44 (3.41%) MySQL
3 34 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 21 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (1.32%) Big Data
9 13 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (1.01%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.85%) Power BI
11 10 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.77%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.62%) Redis
13 6 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.46%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 100 (7.74%) Git
2 38 (2.94%) JIRA
2 38 (2.94%) Selenium
3 27 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.93%) Postman
5 15 (1.16%) SonarQube
6 13 (1.01%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.01%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.85%) JMeter
8 10 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.77%) JUnit
8 10 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
9 9 (0.70%) Vagrant
10 7 (0.54%) GitLab
10 7 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.46%) Newman
11 6 (0.46%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.39%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 355 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 144 (11.15%) Finance
3 113 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
4 85 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (6.58%) Marketing
5 73 (5.65%) Retail
6 63 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.64%) Law
7 47 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 45 (3.48%) Automotive
9 32 (2.48%) Legal
10 23 (1.78%) Banking
11 22 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 20 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.47%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.39%) Advertising
15 17 (1.32%) Games
16 16 (1.24%) Local Government
16 16 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 246 (19.04%) Developer
2 244 (18.89%) Architect
3 219 (16.95%) Senior
4 115 (8.90%) Lead
5 105 (8.13%) Cloud Architect
6 77 (5.96%) Solutions Architect
7 71 (5.50%) Analyst
8 66 (5.11%) Software Engineer
9 65 (5.03%) Senior Developer
10 56 (4.33%) Full Stack Developer
11 51 (3.95%) Software Developer
12 50 (3.87%) PHP Developer
13 47 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
14 46 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 43 (3.33%) Consultant
16 41 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
17 36 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
18 33 (2.55%) Business Development Manager
18 33 (2.55%) Business Manager
18 33 (2.55%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (13.31%) .NET
2 87 (6.73%) HTML
3 83 (6.42%) CSS
4 82 (6.35%) React
5 74 (5.73%) Laravel
6 63 (4.88%) RESTful
7 56 (4.33%) Vue
8 52 (4.02%) Node.js
9 49 (3.79%) AngularJS
10 48 (3.72%) .NET Core
10 48 (3.72%) REST
11 32 (2.48%) .NET Framework
12 28 (2.17%) JSON
13 27 (2.09%) jQuery
14 24 (1.86%) Web Services
15 23 (1.78%) XML
16 22 (1.70%) ARM Templates
17 21 (1.63%) SOAP
18 18 (1.39%) GraphQL
19 17 (1.32%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.90%) Public Cloud
2 83 (6.42%) PKI
3 60 (4.64%) Cloud Native
4 56 (4.33%) Mobile App
4 56 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 51 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
7 41 (3.17%) Management Information System
8 38 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (2.71%) Onboarding
10 26 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.16%) Client/Server
12 14 (1.08%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.01%) NHS
14 11 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (0.85%) Replication
14 11 (0.85%) Satnav
15 10 (0.77%) Legacy Code
15 10 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 85 (6.58%) Windows
2 49 (3.79%) Linux
3 34 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.39%) Android
5 17 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.01%) Unix
8 8 (0.62%) CentOS
8 8 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.54%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.46%) Mac OS X
10 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.31%) VMS
12 3 (0.23%) zOS
13 2 (0.15%) Debian
13 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (24.69%) Agile
2 272 (21.05%) DevOps
3 207 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (13.16%) Project Management
4 170 (13.16%) Software Engineering
5 136 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 132 (10.22%) Microservices
7 127 (9.83%) Roadmaps
8 120 (9.29%) Test Automation
9 115 (8.90%) Mentoring
10 106 (8.20%) Migration
10 106 (8.20%) TOGAF
11 99 (7.66%) Actionable Insight
12 98 (7.59%) Full Stack Development
13 97 (7.51%) Presales
14 90 (6.97%) Configuration Management
15 81 (6.27%) Application Virtualisation
16 77 (5.96%) Analytics
17 73 (5.65%) Infrastructure as Code
17 73 (5.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 185 (14.32%) JavaScript
2 164 (12.69%) C#
3 150 (11.61%) SQL
4 99 (7.66%) Python
5 86 (6.66%) Java
6 82 (6.35%) PHP
7 55 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 30 (2.32%) Ruby
10 22 (1.70%) C
11 21 (1.63%) C++
12 17 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 16 (1.24%) Bash
14 14 (1.08%) Bicep
14 14 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.93%) Go
17 9 (0.70%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.62%) Swift
19 5 (0.39%) Ada
Qualifications
1 168 (13.00%) Degree
2 70 (5.42%) Security Cleared
3 35 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (2.55%) SC Cleared
5 25 (1.93%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
8 15 (1.16%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.85%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.70%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.70%) CISSP
12 8 (0.62%) CISM
13 7 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.54%) MBA
13 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.39%) GCIA
14 5 (0.39%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.59%) QA
2 36 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (2.09%) SLA
4 15 (1.16%) NCSC
5 14 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.08%) GDPR
6 13 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.93%) NIST
7 12 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
9 9 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.62%) GRC
11 5 (0.39%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.31%) COBIT
12 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (9.06%) Docker
2 45 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.15%) vSphere
9 1 (0.077%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 111 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 88 (6.81%) Terraform
3 43 (3.33%) Ansible
4 18 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.77%) vCenter Server
6 9 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (0.46%) CASB
8 4 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.23%) Grafana
10 2 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.15%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.15%) SCCM
11 1 (0.077%) Consul
11 1 (0.077%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.077%) Nagios
11 1 (0.077%) Packer
11 1 (0.077%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.077%) Puppet
Vendors
1 294 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 130 (10.06%) Google
3 33 (2.55%) SAP
3 33 (2.55%) VMware
4 31 (2.40%) Oracle
4 31 (2.40%) Salesforce
5 25 (1.93%) BT
6 20 (1.55%) Cisco
7 19 (1.47%) Dell
8 17 (1.32%) Sitecore
9 16 (1.24%) ForgeRock
10 15 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.77%) HubSpot
11 10 (0.77%) NEC
12 9 (0.70%) Apple
12 9 (0.70%) Databricks
12 9 (0.70%) Meraki
13 8 (0.62%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.54%) EMC
14 7 (0.54%) Sage