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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 57 53
Rank change year-on-year +27 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,676 871 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.75% 5.26% 4.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.21% 15.26% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,256 672 685
10th Percentile £35,250 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
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 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 8,723 5,708 9,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.12% 34.47% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,394 4,052 6,208
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
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 29 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 71 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.89%) Confluence
4 13 (0.78%) CMS
5 12 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.54%) Apache
7 8 (0.48%) WordPress
8 7 (0.42%) IIS
9 6 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.060%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.060%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.060%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.42%) 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 14 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.18%) Aareon QL
4 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
4 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.18%) OPENHousing
4 3 (0.18%) Orchard Housing
4 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.12%) Maximo
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.060%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 335 (19.99%) AWS
2 321 (19.15%) Azure
3 120 (7.16%) GCP
4 103 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
5 81 (4.83%) Entra ID
6 73 (4.36%) Power Platform
7 70 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (3.46%) PaaS
9 48 (2.86%) Serverless
10 46 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (2.33%) GitHub
12 33 (1.97%) IaaS
12 33 (1.97%) Snowflake
13 27 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 27 (1.61%) Mimecast
14 26 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
14 26 (1.55%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.37%) Figma
16 21 (1.25%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) VPN
2 12 (0.72%) DNS
2 12 (0.72%) Network Security
3 11 (0.66%) AMQP
3 11 (0.66%) SMS
4 10 (0.60%) Broadband
5 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.48%) DHCP
6 8 (0.48%) Firewall
6 8 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.36%) 5G
7 6 (0.36%) Internet
8 5 (0.30%) VoIP
8 5 (0.30%) WAN
9 4 (0.24%) BGP
9 4 (0.24%) IPsec
9 4 (0.24%) LAN
9 4 (0.24%) MPLS
9 4 (0.24%) NX-OS
9 4 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 52 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (2.39%) Power BI
4 36 (2.15%) Redis
5 21 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.89%) MySQL
7 13 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (0.78%) Big Data
8 10 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.42%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.42%) Looker
10 6 (0.36%) Metadata
10 6 (0.36%) Tableau
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (0.30%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.24%) Metabase
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.18%) GIS
Development Applications
1 95 (5.67%) JIRA
2 62 (3.70%) TeamCity
3 45 (2.68%) Git
4 14 (0.84%) Cypress.io
5 13 (0.78%) Selenium
6 11 (0.66%) GitLab
7 7 (0.42%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.42%) Postman
7 7 (0.42%) 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%) MSI
11 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.060%) JMeter
12 1 (0.060%) LoadRunner
General
1 455 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 399 (23.81%) Finance
3 243 (14.50%) Retail
4 238 (14.20%) Marketing
5 233 (13.90%) Law
6 206 (12.29%) Legal
7 167 (9.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 137 (8.17%) Banking
9 130 (7.76%) Back Office
10 129 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
11 117 (6.98%) Financial Institution
12 66 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (3.88%) Public Sector
14 56 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (2.03%) Manufacturing
16 31 (1.85%) German Language
17 28 (1.67%) Health Technology
18 27 (1.61%) French Language
19 26 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
20 24 (1.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 232 (13.84%) Lead
2 230 (13.72%) Senior
3 162 (9.67%) Developer
4 114 (6.80%) Account Executive
5 111 (6.62%) Software Engineer
6 109 (6.50%) Architect
7 89 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
8 80 (4.77%) Consultant
9 78 (4.65%) Analyst
10 74 (4.42%) Software Developer
11 71 (4.24%) Lead Developer
12 66 (3.94%) Account Manager
12 66 (3.94%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 66 (3.94%) Senior Manager
13 65 (3.88%) Lead Software Developer
14 63 (3.76%) IT Manager
15 57 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
16 49 (2.92%) Testing Manager
17 48 (2.86%) IT Services Manager
17 48 (2.86%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (7.82%) Terraform
2 126 (7.52%) Node.js
3 91 (5.43%) .NET
4 64 (3.82%) React
5 60 (3.58%) Middleware
6 55 (3.28%) REST
7 53 (3.16%) Vue
8 40 (2.39%) RESTful
9 25 (1.49%) CSS
10 24 (1.43%) OAuth
11 22 (1.31%) Next.js
11 22 (1.31%) OpenID
12 20 (1.19%) HTML
12 20 (1.19%) NestJS
13 19 (1.13%) OAuth2
14 17 (1.01%) OpenAPI
14 17 (1.01%) Spring
14 17 (1.01%) Spring Boot
14 17 (1.01%) Swagger
15 15 (0.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.76%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 103 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 68 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 51 (3.04%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
9 41 (2.45%) Web Conferencing
10 34 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.49%) Social Media
12 20 (1.19%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.07%) Driving Licence
14 17 (1.01%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.89%) Blog
15 15 (0.89%) PropTech
15 15 (0.89%) Security Posture
16 14 (0.84%) Clustering
17 13 (0.78%) EPoS
17 13 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.33%) Windows
2 24 (1.43%) Linux
3 16 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.78%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.72%) Android
6 5 (0.30%) 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
1 313 (18.68%) AI
2 270 (16.11%) DevOps
3 269 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 267 (15.93%) B2B
5 257 (15.33%) Software Engineering
6 249 (14.86%) Agile
7 220 (13.13%) CRM
8 209 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
9 199 (11.87%) Mentoring
10 198 (11.81%) Test Automation
11 197 (11.75%) CI/CD
12 182 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 167 (9.96%) Roadmaps
14 162 (9.67%) Decision-Making
15 158 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 157 (9.37%) Business Development
17 156 (9.31%) Microservices
18 151 (9.01%) Full-Stack Development
19 142 (8.47%) Project Delivery
20 135 (8.05%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 192 (11.46%) TypeScript
2 175 (10.44%) JavaScript
3 163 (9.73%) Python
4 154 (9.19%) C#
5 148 (8.83%) SQL
6 108 (6.44%) Java
7 85 (5.07%) PowerShell
8 30 (1.79%) R
9 25 (1.49%) PHP
10 24 (1.43%) Go
11 17 (1.01%) Bash
12 15 (0.89%) Bicep
13 9 (0.54%) Ruby
14 6 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.24%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.24%) SOQL
17 3 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.18%) Scala
17 3 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (5.19%) Degree
2 77 (4.59%) CISSP
3 71 (4.24%) CISM
4 56 (3.34%) ITIL Certification
5 43 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.85%) Security Cleared
7 28 (1.67%) ACCA
8 23 (1.37%) CIMA
9 20 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.13%) CRISC
11 18 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.95%) SC Cleared
13 14 (0.84%) CISA
14 8 (0.48%) ISACA
15 7 (0.42%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.36%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.36%) DV Cleared
16 6 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (7.58%) QA
2 83 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (4.47%) NIST
4 74 (4.42%) GDPR
5 48 (2.86%) ISO 22301
6 33 (1.97%) Data Quality
7 31 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.61%) SOC 2
9 25 (1.49%) Accessibility
10 24 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 21 (1.25%) GRC
12 18 (1.07%) SLA
13 14 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.66%) IFRS
15 9 (0.54%) COBIT
16 8 (0.48%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
18 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
18 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 62 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 62 (3.70%) Docker
2 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 74 (4.42%) Grafana
3 33 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.31%) Ansible
5 16 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Argo
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 2 (0.12%) SQL Sentry
10 1 (0.060%) CASB
10 1 (0.060%) Cilium
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
1 242 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.55%) HubSpot
3 79 (4.71%) Salesforce
4 53 (3.16%) Google
5 32 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (1.49%) Sage
7 21 (1.25%) Databricks
8 17 (1.01%) Adobe
9 15 (0.89%) SAP
10 14 (0.84%) Workday
11 13 (0.78%) Oracle
12 10 (0.60%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.54%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.54%) Splunk
14 8 (0.48%) Xero
15 7 (0.42%) Facebook
15 7 (0.42%) Instagram
15 7 (0.42%) TikTok
15 7 (0.42%) YouTube
16 6 (0.36%) Freshdesk