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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 77 51
Rank change year-on-year +49 -26 -6
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,362 712 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.84% 4.64% 4.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.13% 12.14% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 546 1,332
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £42,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £98,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%

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 7,512 5,864 14,576
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.73% 38.25% 42.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,246 4,262 12,119
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,221
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +1.67% -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% -10.16%

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 16 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 42 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 42 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.10%) WordPress
3 12 (0.88%) CMS
4 11 (0.81%) Confluence
5 6 (0.44%) SAS
6 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.37%) Moodle
6 5 (0.37%) Totara
7 4 (0.29%) JBoss
7 4 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.073%) Apache
9 1 (0.073%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.073%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.59%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.073%) InDesign
9 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.17%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.22%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.22%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 230 (16.89%) Azure
2 225 (16.52%) AWS
3 83 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 82 (6.02%) GCP
5 79 (5.80%) Entra ID
6 53 (3.89%) PaaS
7 50 (3.67%) Power Platform
8 48 (3.52%) Serverless
9 45 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
10 32 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (1.98%) IaaS
12 26 (1.91%) GitHub
13 22 (1.62%) Figma
14 19 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (1.32%) Mimecast
15 18 (1.32%) Snowflake
16 16 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 15 (1.10%) Azure Functions
18 14 (1.03%) AWS Direct Connect
18 14 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.98%) Firewall
2 21 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (1.32%) VPN
4 15 (1.10%) DNS
5 12 (0.88%) LAN
5 12 (0.88%) MPLS
5 12 (0.88%) WAN
6 11 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (0.81%) IPsec
6 11 (0.81%) NetScaler
6 11 (0.81%) NX-OS
6 11 (0.81%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.81%) VXLAN
6 11 (0.81%) WLAN
7 10 (0.73%) BGP
8 9 (0.66%) DHCP
9 8 (0.59%) Broadband
10 7 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.13%) Power BI
4 22 (1.62%) MySQL
5 21 (1.54%) Redis
6 16 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.37%) Big Data
11 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.29%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.29%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.29%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.29%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.22%) Tableau
14 2 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 58 (4.26%) JIRA
2 36 (2.64%) TeamCity
3 30 (2.20%) Git
4 9 (0.66%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.44%) JMeter
5 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.37%) Locust
6 5 (0.37%) Selenium
7 4 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.29%) Postman
7 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.22%) JUnit
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.15%) GitLab
General
1 325 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 312 (22.91%) Finance
3 222 (16.30%) Retail
4 204 (14.98%) Marketing
5 159 (11.67%) Law
6 152 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 131 (9.62%) Banking
8 119 (8.74%) Back Office
9 117 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
10 104 (7.64%) Financial Institution
11 90 (6.61%) Legal
12 47 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (2.20%) Manufacturing
15 28 (2.06%) Advertising
16 24 (1.76%) Public Sector
17 21 (1.54%) German Language
17 21 (1.54%) Health Technology
18 20 (1.47%) Polish Language
19 16 (1.17%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 178 (13.07%) Senior
2 164 (12.04%) Lead
3 160 (11.75%) Developer
4 103 (7.56%) Software Engineer
5 91 (6.68%) Account Executive
6 78 (5.73%) Account Manager
6 78 (5.73%) Architect
7 72 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (4.63%) Lead Developer
9 51 (3.74%) Consultant
9 51 (3.74%) Support Engineer
10 48 (3.52%) Analyst
11 42 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (3.01%) Sales Manager
13 37 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (2.72%) Marketing Manager
14 36 (2.64%) .NET Software Engineer
14 36 (2.64%) C# Developer
15 34 (2.50%) Software Developer
16 33 (2.42%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.39%) .NET
2 79 (5.80%) Node.js
3 59 (4.33%) React
4 45 (3.30%) Vue
5 36 (2.64%) RESTful
6 35 (2.57%) HTML
7 34 (2.50%) CSS
7 34 (2.50%) REST
8 25 (1.84%) JSON
9 20 (1.47%) XML
10 16 (1.17%) Spring
11 14 (1.03%) AngularJS
11 14 (1.03%) React Native
12 13 (0.95%) GraphQL
12 13 (0.95%) NestJS
12 13 (0.95%) OAuth
13 12 (0.88%) .NET Core
13 12 (0.88%) Next.js
13 12 (0.88%) Spring Boot
14 11 (0.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 112 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 96 (7.05%) Onboarding
3 81 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 27 (1.98%) Blog
7 26 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.76%) EPoS
9 23 (1.69%) PropTech
10 20 (1.47%) Social Media
11 18 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.10%) Client/Server
13 15 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
13 15 (1.10%) Web Conferencing
14 14 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.81%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.23%) Windows
2 20 (1.47%) Apple iOS
3 19 (1.40%) Android
4 16 (1.17%) Linux
5 13 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.22%) Unix
10 2 (0.15%) Debian
10 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (16.89%) AI
2 190 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
3 189 (13.88%) B2B
4 182 (13.36%) Software Engineering
5 170 (12.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 159 (11.67%) Agile
7 151 (11.09%) CRM
8 145 (10.65%) CI/CD
9 140 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 137 (10.06%) Roadmaps
11 131 (9.62%) DevOps
12 128 (9.40%) Microservices
13 112 (8.22%) Business Development
14 107 (7.86%) Decision-Making
15 106 (7.78%) Fintech
16 100 (7.34%) Mentoring
17 94 (6.90%) Analytics
18 80 (5.87%) Stakeholder Management
19 74 (5.43%) Lead Generation
20 72 (5.29%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.96%) SQL
2 117 (8.59%) Python
3 87 (6.39%) Java
4 86 (6.31%) TypeScript
5 73 (5.36%) C#
6 69 (5.07%) JavaScript
7 43 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 29 (2.13%) PHP
9 23 (1.69%) Go
10 19 (1.40%) R
11 15 (1.10%) Bash
12 9 (0.66%) Bicep
12 9 (0.66%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.37%) Ruby
14 4 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.22%) Swift
16 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.073%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 93 (6.83%) Degree
2 41 (3.01%) ACCA
3 29 (2.13%) CIMA
4 28 (2.06%) CISSP
4 28 (2.06%) Security Cleared
5 27 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.47%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.17%) CRISC
9 15 (1.10%) CISM
10 14 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.95%) CISA
12 7 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.44%) MBA
14 5 (0.37%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.37%) ISACA
14 5 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 4 (0.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (3.67%) GDPR
3 45 (3.30%) QA
4 36 (2.64%) PCI DSS
5 31 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 29 (2.13%) SOC 2
7 22 (1.62%) Data Quality
8 21 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (1.54%) NIST
9 19 (1.40%) IFRS
10 16 (1.17%) GRC
11 13 (0.95%) WCAG
12 12 (0.88%) PMO
12 12 (0.88%) SLA
13 11 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.51%) COBIT
16 6 (0.44%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.37%) GAAP
18 4 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 73 (5.36%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.23%) Docker
3 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.073%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (7.05%) Terraform
2 72 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 46 (3.38%) Grafana
4 29 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.95%) Ansible
7 5 (0.37%) Argo
7 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) CASB
8 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.22%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.073%) Graylog
10 1 (0.073%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.073%) QRadar
Vendors
1 149 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 44 (3.23%) HubSpot
2 44 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 34 (2.50%) Google
4 19 (1.40%) Adobe
4 19 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
4 19 (1.40%) Sage
5 16 (1.17%) Pardot
5 16 (1.17%) ServiceNow
5 16 (1.17%) Xero
6 14 (1.03%) Databricks
6 14 (1.03%) SAP
7 12 (0.88%) Cisco
7 12 (0.88%) Oracle
8 11 (0.81%) CheckPoint
8 11 (0.81%) Dynatrace
8 11 (0.81%) Meraki
8 11 (0.81%) SolarWinds
9 7 (0.51%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.44%) Atlassian