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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 78 47
Rank change year-on-year +51 -31 -2
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,401 731 1,579
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.87% 4.67% 4.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.04% 12.28% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,114 562 1,331
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,550 £41,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.56% -1.54%
75th Percentile £93,438 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 7,766 5,951 14,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.11% 38.05% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,505 4,348 12,077
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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 25 June 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 51 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.07%) WordPress
4 13 (0.93%) CMS
5 12 (0.86%) Confluence
6 6 (0.43%) SAS
7 5 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.36%) Moodle
7 5 (0.36%) Totara
8 3 (0.21%) JBoss
8 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.071%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 21 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.57%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.071%) InDesign
9 1 (0.071%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.14%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.21%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.21%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.21%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 250 (17.84%) Azure
2 240 (17.13%) AWS
3 96 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (6.50%) Entra ID
5 90 (6.42%) GCP
6 56 (4.00%) PaaS
7 54 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 52 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (3.64%) Serverless
10 36 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (2.00%) IaaS
12 27 (1.93%) GitHub
13 24 (1.71%) Mimecast
14 21 (1.50%) Figma
14 21 (1.50%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (1.21%) Azure Functions
16 17 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
18 15 (1.07%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.78%) Firewall
2 20 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.21%) VPN
4 14 (1.00%) DNS
5 11 (0.79%) LAN
5 11 (0.79%) WAN
6 10 (0.71%) Broadband
6 10 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
6 10 (0.71%) IPsec
6 10 (0.71%) MPLS
6 10 (0.71%) NetScaler
6 10 (0.71%) NX-OS
6 10 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.71%) VXLAN
6 10 (0.71%) WLAN
7 9 (0.64%) BGP
7 9 (0.64%) DHCP
8 7 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 39 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (2.21%) Power BI
4 26 (1.86%) MySQL
4 26 (1.86%) Redis
5 17 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.50%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.36%) Big Data
10 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.36%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.29%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.29%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (5.00%) JIRA
2 40 (2.86%) TeamCity
3 34 (2.43%) Git
4 10 (0.71%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.43%) JMeter
5 6 (0.43%) Selenium
6 5 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.36%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.36%) Locust
6 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.36%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.29%) GitLab
7 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.29%) Postman
8 3 (0.21%) JUnit
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 339 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 328 (23.41%) Finance
3 223 (15.92%) Retail
4 195 (13.92%) Marketing
5 162 (11.56%) Law
6 156 (11.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 135 (9.64%) Banking
8 123 (8.78%) Back Office
9 122 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
10 104 (7.42%) Financial Institution
11 102 (7.28%) Legal
12 48 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (2.14%) Manufacturing
15 28 (2.00%) Advertising
16 26 (1.86%) Public Sector
17 22 (1.57%) Health Technology
18 21 (1.50%) German Language
19 20 (1.43%) Polish Language
20 18 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 178 (12.71%) Senior
2 175 (12.49%) Lead
3 163 (11.63%) Developer
4 114 (8.14%) Software Engineer
5 92 (6.57%) Account Executive
6 79 (5.64%) Architect
7 77 (5.50%) Account Manager
8 75 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (4.78%) Lead Developer
10 56 (4.00%) Consultant
10 56 (4.00%) Support Engineer
11 49 (3.50%) Analyst
12 42 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
13 40 (2.86%) Sales Manager
14 38 (2.71%) Software Developer
15 37 (2.64%) Marketing Manager
16 36 (2.57%) .NET Software Engineer
16 36 (2.57%) Senior Software Engineer
17 35 (2.50%) C# Developer
17 35 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.21%) Node.js
2 86 (6.14%) .NET
3 62 (4.43%) React
4 50 (3.57%) Vue
5 36 (2.57%) REST
5 36 (2.57%) RESTful
6 35 (2.50%) CSS
6 35 (2.50%) HTML
7 26 (1.86%) JSON
8 20 (1.43%) XML
9 16 (1.14%) Spring
10 15 (1.07%) AngularJS
11 14 (1.00%) OAuth
11 14 (1.00%) React Native
12 13 (0.93%) .NET Core
12 13 (0.93%) NestJS
12 13 (0.93%) Next.js
12 13 (0.93%) Spring Boot
13 12 (0.86%) GraphQL
14 11 (0.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.85%) Onboarding
3 86 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 44 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (1.86%) Blog
8 23 (1.64%) EPoS
8 23 (1.64%) PropTech
9 20 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 20 (1.43%) Social Media
10 17 (1.21%) Client/Server
10 17 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.14%) Web Conferencing
12 15 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.93%) Driving Licence
15 12 (0.86%) Life Science
15 12 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.14%) Windows
2 19 (1.36%) Apple iOS
2 19 (1.36%) Linux
3 18 (1.28%) Android
4 13 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.21%) Debian
7 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Unix
8 2 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (17.42%) AI
2 199 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
2 199 (14.20%) Software Engineering
3 195 (13.92%) B2B
4 183 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 169 (12.06%) Agile
6 160 (11.42%) CI/CD
7 157 (11.21%) CRM
8 148 (10.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (10.35%) DevOps
10 140 (9.99%) Roadmaps
11 139 (9.92%) Microservices
12 116 (8.28%) Decision-Making
13 111 (7.92%) Business Development
14 108 (7.71%) Fintech
14 108 (7.71%) Mentoring
15 96 (6.85%) Analytics
16 86 (6.14%) Stakeholder Management
17 82 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
18 79 (5.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.14%) Python
1 128 (9.14%) SQL
2 96 (6.85%) TypeScript
3 91 (6.50%) Java
4 78 (5.57%) JavaScript
5 73 (5.21%) C#
6 45 (3.21%) PowerShell
7 32 (2.28%) PHP
8 25 (1.78%) R
9 23 (1.64%) Go
10 16 (1.14%) Bash
11 10 (0.71%) Bicep
11 10 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.50%) Ruby
13 4 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.21%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.21%) Swift
15 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.071%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 99 (7.07%) Degree
2 42 (3.00%) ACCA
3 32 (2.28%) CISSP
3 32 (2.28%) Security Cleared
4 30 (2.14%) CIMA
4 30 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.57%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.50%) CRISC
7 20 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.36%) CISM
9 17 (1.21%) CISA
10 15 (1.07%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.00%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.57%) ISACA
13 7 (0.50%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 6 (0.43%) MBA
15 5 (0.36%) DV Cleared
16 4 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (4.00%) GDPR
3 50 (3.57%) QA
4 39 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 31 (2.21%) SOC 2
6 30 (2.14%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.86%) NIST
8 25 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 23 (1.64%) Data Quality
10 20 (1.43%) IFRS
11 17 (1.21%) GRC
12 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.86%) SLA
12 12 (0.86%) WCAG
13 11 (0.79%) PMO
14 10 (0.71%) COBIT
15 9 (0.64%) SOC 1
16 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.43%) GAAP
18 5 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 81 (5.78%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.21%) Docker
3 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.21%) Firmware
5 1 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.071%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (7.14%) Terraform
2 78 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.57%) Grafana
4 35 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.00%) Ansible
7 5 (0.36%) Argo
7 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.21%) Packer
9 2 (0.14%) CASB
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.14%) Puppet
10 1 (0.071%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.071%) Graylog
10 1 (0.071%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.071%) QRadar
Vendors
1 168 (11.99%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.35%) Salesforce
3 43 (3.07%) HubSpot
4 33 (2.36%) Google
5 25 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
6 20 (1.43%) Sage
7 19 (1.36%) Adobe
8 18 (1.28%) Databricks
9 16 (1.14%) Pardot
9 16 (1.14%) Xero
10 15 (1.07%) Oracle
10 15 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.00%) SAP
12 11 (0.79%) Cisco
13 10 (0.71%) CheckPoint
13 10 (0.71%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.71%) Meraki
13 10 (0.71%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.43%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.43%) Fortinet