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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +27 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,676 859 999
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.89% 5.27% 4.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.19% 14.73% 10.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 664 690
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £49,347
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £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 8,734 5,830 9,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.88% 35.74% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,411 4,200 6,586
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £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 18 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 74 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.84%) Confluence
4 12 (0.72%) CMS
5 8 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.48%) WordPress
6 7 (0.42%) Apache
6 7 (0.42%) IIS
7 6 (0.36%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.060%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.060%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.060%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.060%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.060%) Moodle
9 1 (0.060%) Totara
Applications
1 26 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.36%) 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 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.72%) 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%) 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 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 326 (19.45%) AWS
2 313 (18.68%) Azure
3 110 (6.56%) GCP
4 104 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
5 84 (5.01%) Entra ID
6 66 (3.94%) Power Platform
7 63 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (3.58%) PaaS
9 46 (2.74%) Serverless
10 38 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (2.09%) IaaS
12 30 (1.79%) GitHub
12 30 (1.79%) Mimecast
12 30 (1.79%) Snowflake
13 27 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
14 26 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (1.31%) Figma
16 21 (1.25%) Power Automate
16 21 (1.25%) PowerApps
17 18 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.78%) DNS
2 11 (0.66%) VPN
3 10 (0.60%) Broadband
4 9 (0.54%) AMQP
4 9 (0.54%) Network Security
4 9 (0.54%) SMS
4 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.48%) DHCP
6 7 (0.42%) Firewall
7 6 (0.36%) 5G
8 5 (0.30%) Internet
8 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
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%) SSL
9 4 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 47 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (2.09%) Power BI
4 34 (2.03%) Redis
5 20 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.01%) MySQL
7 15 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.48%) Big Data
9 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.42%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (0.30%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.30%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.30%) Looker
10 5 (0.30%) Metadata
11 4 (0.24%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.24%) Metabase
11 4 (0.24%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (5.79%) JIRA
2 55 (3.28%) TeamCity
3 41 (2.45%) Git
4 13 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 12 (0.72%) Selenium
6 11 (0.66%) GitLab
7 7 (0.42%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.36%) Postman
9 5 (0.30%) Poetry
9 5 (0.30%) Storybook
10 4 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.24%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.12%) JMeter
12 2 (0.12%) JUnit
12 2 (0.12%) MSI
12 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.060%) Cucumber
General
1 446 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 389 (23.21%) Finance
3 238 (14.20%) Marketing
3 238 (14.20%) Retail
4 222 (13.25%) Law
5 204 (12.17%) Legal
6 157 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 125 (7.46%) Banking
8 124 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
9 121 (7.22%) Back Office
10 105 (6.26%) Financial Institution
11 69 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
12 58 (3.46%) Public Sector
13 35 (2.09%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.79%) German Language
15 26 (1.55%) Health Technology
16 25 (1.49%) French Language
17 23 (1.37%) Advertising
17 23 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (13.66%) Lead
2 217 (12.95%) Senior
3 168 (10.02%) Developer
4 117 (6.98%) Account Executive
5 111 (6.62%) Software Engineer
6 106 (6.32%) Architect
7 94 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 81 (4.83%) Consultant
9 75 (4.47%) Software Developer
10 74 (4.42%) Analyst
10 74 (4.42%) Lead Developer
11 68 (4.06%) Account Manager
11 68 (4.06%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 67 (4.00%) Senior Manager
13 66 (3.94%) Lead Software Developer
14 62 (3.70%) IT Manager
15 55 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
16 49 (2.92%) Service Manager
16 49 (2.92%) Testing Manager
17 48 (2.86%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (7.52%) Node.js
2 116 (6.92%) Terraform
3 88 (5.25%) .NET
4 65 (3.88%) React
5 60 (3.58%) Middleware
6 56 (3.34%) Vue
7 51 (3.04%) REST
8 35 (2.09%) RESTful
9 30 (1.79%) CSS
10 25 (1.49%) HTML
11 21 (1.25%) Next.js
12 20 (1.19%) OAuth
13 19 (1.13%) NestJS
14 16 (0.95%) OpenID
15 15 (0.89%) Kafka
15 15 (0.89%) OpenAPI
15 15 (0.89%) Spring
15 15 (0.89%) Spring Boot
15 15 (0.89%) Swagger
16 14 (0.84%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 125 (7.46%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.74%) Product Ownership
3 103 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 62 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 48 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 48 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.15%) Web Conferencing
8 32 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
9 23 (1.37%) Social Media
10 20 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.07%) Driving Licence
11 18 (1.07%) PropTech
12 16 (0.95%) Client/Server
12 16 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 16 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (0.84%) Clustering
13 14 (0.84%) Educational Technology
14 13 (0.78%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.45%) Windows
2 23 (1.37%) Linux
3 13 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.60%) Android
6 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.060%) Unix
9 1 (0.060%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (18.32%) AI
2 266 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 264 (15.75%) B2B
3 264 (15.75%) DevOps
4 250 (14.92%) Software Engineering
5 238 (14.20%) Agile
6 219 (13.07%) CRM
7 202 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
8 194 (11.58%) Mentoring
9 193 (11.52%) Test Automation
10 182 (10.86%) CI/CD
11 168 (10.02%) Decision-Making
11 168 (10.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 167 (9.96%) Roadmaps
13 158 (9.43%) Business Development
13 158 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 156 (9.31%) Full-Stack Development
15 152 (9.07%) Microservices
16 141 (8.41%) Project Delivery
17 137 (8.17%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 194 (11.58%) TypeScript
2 174 (10.38%) JavaScript
3 150 (8.95%) C#
4 147 (8.77%) Python
5 139 (8.29%) SQL
6 98 (5.85%) Java
7 84 (5.01%) PowerShell
8 31 (1.85%) R
9 26 (1.55%) PHP
10 22 (1.31%) Go
11 14 (0.84%) Bash
12 12 (0.72%) Bicep
13 9 (0.54%) Ruby
14 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.24%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.24%) SOQL
16 3 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.18%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.18%) Swift
16 3 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (5.19%) Degree
2 76 (4.53%) CISSP
3 70 (4.18%) CISM
4 56 (3.34%) ITIL Certification
5 43 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (2.33%) ACCA
7 32 (1.91%) CIMA
8 25 (1.49%) Security Cleared
9 19 (1.13%) CRISC
10 17 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.84%) CISA
12 10 (0.60%) SC Cleared
13 8 (0.48%) ISACA
14 7 (0.42%) DBS Check
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
1 124 (7.40%) QA
2 81 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (4.42%) NIST
4 73 (4.36%) GDPR
5 48 (2.86%) ISO 22301
6 28 (1.67%) Data Quality
7 27 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 25 (1.49%) SOC 2
9 23 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 19 (1.13%) SLA
11 18 (1.07%) GRC
12 15 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.84%) IFRS
14 9 (0.54%) COBIT
15 8 (0.48%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.30%) GAAP
16 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 69 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.22%) Docker
3 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 87 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.82%) Grafana
3 36 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.07%) Ansible
5 14 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Argo
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.060%) CASB
10 1 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.060%) Packer
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Puppet
10 1 (0.060%) QRadar
Vendors
1 234 (13.96%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.43%) HubSpot
3 81 (4.83%) Salesforce
4 50 (2.98%) Google
5 34 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
6 26 (1.55%) Sage
7 16 (0.95%) Adobe
8 15 (0.89%) Databricks
8 15 (0.89%) SAP
9 12 (0.72%) Workday
9 12 (0.72%) Xero
10 11 (0.66%) Oracle
11 9 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.42%) Facebook
12 7 (0.42%) Instagram
12 7 (0.42%) Splunk
12 7 (0.42%) TikTok
12 7 (0.42%) YouTube
13 5 (0.30%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.30%) Freshdesk