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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 -11
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,641 825 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.09% 4.98% 4.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.89% 13.90% 10.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 625 852
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 8,685 5,936 10,100
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.50% 35.87% 40.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,339 4,337 7,667
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,101
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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.99%

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 August 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 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.79%) Confluence
4 9 (0.55%) CMS
5 7 (0.43%) IIS
6 6 (0.37%) SAS
7 5 (0.30%) WordPress
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.12%) Apache
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.061%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.061%) Moodle
10 1 (0.061%) Totara
Applications
1 28 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (0.30%) Moqups
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.061%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 21 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.18%) Aareon QL
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%) Shopify
4 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.061%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 317 (19.32%) AWS
2 309 (18.83%) Azure
3 101 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (5.79%) GCP
5 88 (5.36%) Entra ID
6 62 (3.78%) Power Platform
7 61 (3.72%) PaaS
8 50 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (2.99%) Serverless
10 37 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (2.07%) IaaS
12 31 (1.89%) Mimecast
13 30 (1.83%) Snowflake
14 29 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
15 26 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
16 22 (1.34%) GitHub
17 21 (1.28%) Figma
17 21 (1.28%) PowerApps
18 20 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
19 18 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.79%) DNS
2 11 (0.67%) VPN
3 10 (0.61%) Broadband
4 9 (0.55%) Firewall
4 9 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.49%) DHCP
5 8 (0.49%) Network Security
6 6 (0.37%) 5G
6 6 (0.37%) AMQP
6 6 (0.37%) SMS
6 6 (0.37%) SSL
7 5 (0.30%) Internet
7 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.30%) WAN
8 4 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (0.24%) LAN
8 4 (0.24%) MPLS
8 4 (0.24%) VoIP
8 4 (0.24%) VXLAN
8 4 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.35%) SQL Server
2 43 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.19%) Redis
4 32 (1.95%) Power BI
5 19 (1.16%) MySQL
6 15 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.30%) Big Data
8 5 (0.30%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.30%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.24%) Metadata
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.24%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.24%) Tableau
10 2 (0.12%) DuckDB
10 2 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (5.97%) JIRA
2 45 (2.74%) Git
3 42 (2.56%) TeamCity
4 12 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 11 (0.67%) Claude Code
5 11 (0.67%) GitLab
5 11 (0.67%) Selenium
6 7 (0.43%) Postman
7 6 (0.37%) JMeter
7 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.30%) Locust
8 5 (0.30%) Storybook
9 4 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.12%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.12%) MSI
11 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 441 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 345 (21.02%) Finance
3 224 (13.65%) Marketing
4 213 (12.98%) Retail
5 200 (12.19%) Law
6 199 (12.13%) Legal
7 150 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 123 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
9 111 (6.76%) Banking
10 106 (6.46%) Back Office
11 88 (5.36%) Financial Institution
12 64 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (3.23%) Public Sector
15 32 (1.95%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.65%) Advertising
16 27 (1.65%) German Language
17 25 (1.52%) Health Technology
18 21 (1.28%) Billing
19 19 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (13.59%) Lead
2 221 (13.47%) Senior
3 170 (10.36%) Developer
4 105 (6.40%) Account Executive
4 105 (6.40%) Software Engineer
5 101 (6.15%) Architect
6 97 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 82 (5.00%) Consultant
8 73 (4.45%) Lead Developer
9 72 (4.39%) Senior Manager
10 68 (4.14%) Software Developer
11 64 (3.90%) Account Manager
12 61 (3.72%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 61 (3.72%) Lead Software Developer
13 60 (3.66%) IT Manager
14 58 (3.53%) Analyst
15 52 (3.17%) Service Manager
16 49 (2.99%) Testing Manager
17 48 (2.93%) IT Services Manager
17 48 (2.93%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (7.62%) Node.js
2 102 (6.22%) Terraform
3 87 (5.30%) .NET
4 68 (4.14%) React
5 61 (3.72%) Vue
6 58 (3.53%) Middleware
7 52 (3.17%) REST
8 36 (2.19%) RESTful
9 33 (2.01%) CSS
10 28 (1.71%) HTML
11 24 (1.46%) Next.js
12 22 (1.34%) NestJS
13 18 (1.10%) OAuth
14 16 (0.98%) JSON
15 14 (0.85%) Laravel
16 13 (0.79%) OpenID
17 12 (0.73%) Kafka
17 12 (0.73%) XML
18 11 (0.67%) Django
18 11 (0.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 100 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 98 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 61 (3.72%) Virtual Team
5 51 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (2.93%) Cyber Threat
7 46 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 36 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (1.58%) Web Conferencing
11 21 (1.28%) PropTech
12 20 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.22%) Driving Licence
13 18 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
13 18 (1.10%) Social Media
14 17 (1.04%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.85%) Clustering
15 14 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.79%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.56%) Windows
2 21 (1.28%) Linux
3 10 (0.61%) Android
3 10 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.61%) Mac OS
4 8 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) Debian
5 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.061%) Unix
6 1 (0.061%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (17.43%) AI
2 271 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 263 (16.03%) DevOps
4 245 (14.93%) Software Engineering
5 243 (14.81%) Agile
6 235 (14.32%) B2B
7 202 (12.31%) CRM
8 197 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 182 (11.09%) Test Automation
10 181 (11.03%) Mentoring
11 173 (10.54%) CI/CD
12 164 (9.99%) Decision-Making
13 163 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 162 (9.87%) Roadmaps
15 161 (9.81%) Full-Stack Development
16 154 (9.38%) Business Development
17 150 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 146 (8.90%) Microservices
19 132 (8.04%) Project Delivery
20 123 (7.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 189 (11.52%) TypeScript
2 164 (9.99%) JavaScript
3 158 (9.63%) Python
4 144 (8.78%) C#
5 131 (7.98%) SQL
6 85 (5.18%) Java
7 84 (5.12%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.07%) PHP
9 32 (1.95%) R
10 23 (1.40%) Go
11 14 (0.85%) Bash
12 11 (0.67%) Bicep
13 9 (0.55%) Ruby
14 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.18%) Swift
16 2 (0.12%) ABAP
16 2 (0.12%) SOQL
16 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (5.42%) Degree
2 75 (4.57%) CISSP
3 69 (4.20%) CISM
4 54 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
5 44 (2.68%) ACCA
6 43 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.07%) CIMA
8 24 (1.46%) Security Cleared
9 19 (1.16%) CRISC
10 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.85%) CISA
12 9 (0.55%) SC Cleared
13 8 (0.49%) ISACA
14 7 (0.43%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.37%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.30%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.30%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (7.80%) QA
2 84 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (4.51%) NIST
4 67 (4.08%) GDPR
5 48 (2.93%) ISO 22301
6 31 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.52%) SOC 2
9 22 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.28%) SLA
11 19 (1.16%) IFRS
12 18 (1.10%) GRC
13 15 (0.91%) Data Quality
14 14 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.55%) COBIT
16 8 (0.49%) WCAG
17 7 (0.43%) GAAP
17 7 (0.43%) SOC 1
18 6 (0.37%) PMO
19 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 74 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.41%) Docker
3 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.18%) Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 82 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.35%) Grafana
3 37 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.98%) Ansible
4 16 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.18%) Argo
7 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.061%) CASB
9 1 (0.061%) Graylog
9 1 (0.061%) Packer
9 1 (0.061%) QRadar
Vendors
1 226 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.94%) HubSpot
3 68 (4.14%) Salesforce
4 49 (2.99%) Google
5 33 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
6 21 (1.28%) Sage
7 18 (1.10%) Adobe
8 16 (0.98%) SAP
9 15 (0.91%) Databricks
10 13 (0.79%) Xero
11 12 (0.73%) Oracle
12 11 (0.67%) Workday
13 9 (0.55%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.37%) Pardot
15 5 (0.30%) Apple
15 5 (0.30%) Facebook
16 4 (0.24%) Atlassian
16 4 (0.24%) CheckPoint
16 4 (0.24%) Cisco
16 4 (0.24%) Hyperion