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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 69 52
Rank change year-on-year +42 -17 -9
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,530 791 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.16% 4.79% 4.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.35% 12.87% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,154 607 1,227
10th Percentile £35,500 £33,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,125 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,500 £96,250
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 8,339 6,148 13,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.05% 37.24% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,923 4,539 10,887
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 16 July 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 57 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.92%) CMS
3 14 (0.92%) Confluence
4 13 (0.85%) WordPress
5 6 (0.39%) SAS
6 5 (0.33%) Moodle
6 5 (0.33%) Totara
7 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.26%) IIS
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.13%) JBoss
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.065%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.065%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 25 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (0.52%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.065%) InDesign
9 1 (0.065%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 22 (1.44%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.20%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.20%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.20%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 297 (19.41%) Azure
2 283 (18.50%) AWS
3 106 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (6.34%) Entra ID
5 86 (5.62%) GCP
6 60 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 55 (3.59%) PaaS
8 54 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (3.33%) Serverless
10 35 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (1.76%) Mimecast
12 26 (1.70%) IaaS
13 25 (1.63%) Snowflake
14 20 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.24%) Figma
16 18 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
17 17 (1.11%) Azure Functions
17 17 (1.11%) GitHub
18 16 (1.05%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.37%) Firewall
2 17 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (0.98%) VPN
4 13 (0.85%) DNS
5 10 (0.65%) Broadband
6 9 (0.59%) LAN
6 9 (0.59%) WAN
7 8 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
7 8 (0.52%) DHCP
7 8 (0.52%) IPsec
7 8 (0.52%) MPLS
7 8 (0.52%) NetScaler
7 8 (0.52%) NX-OS
7 8 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.52%) VXLAN
7 8 (0.52%) WLAN
8 7 (0.46%) BGP
8 7 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (2.29%) Power BI
4 31 (2.03%) Redis
5 26 (1.70%) MySQL
6 14 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.33%) Big Data
10 5 (0.33%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.33%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.26%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.26%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.20%) Metadata
12 3 (0.20%) Tableau
13 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 84 (5.49%) JIRA
2 42 (2.75%) TeamCity
3 35 (2.29%) Git
4 10 (0.65%) Claude Code
5 7 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.39%) JMeter
7 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.33%) GitLab
7 5 (0.33%) Locust
7 5 (0.33%) Postman
7 5 (0.33%) Selenium
8 4 (0.26%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.20%) JUnit
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 407 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 349 (22.81%) Finance
3 234 (15.29%) Retail
4 222 (14.51%) Law
5 201 (13.14%) Marketing
6 163 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 152 (9.93%) Legal
8 137 (8.95%) Banking
9 129 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
10 128 (8.37%) Back Office
11 106 (6.93%) Financial Institution
12 60 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.96%) Advertising
15 26 (1.70%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.70%) Public Sector
16 22 (1.44%) German Language
17 20 (1.31%) Health Technology
17 20 (1.31%) Polish Language
17 20 (1.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 210 (13.73%) Senior
2 197 (12.88%) Lead
3 159 (10.39%) Developer
4 111 (7.25%) Software Engineer
5 94 (6.14%) Account Executive
6 84 (5.49%) Architect
7 81 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 75 (4.90%) Account Manager
9 73 (4.77%) Consultant
10 66 (4.31%) Lead Developer
11 62 (4.05%) Senior Manager
12 58 (3.79%) Service Manager
12 58 (3.79%) Support Engineer
13 55 (3.59%) Analyst
13 55 (3.59%) IT Manager
14 49 (3.20%) Software Developer
15 46 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (2.88%) IT Services Manager
16 44 (2.88%) Resilience Manager
17 43 (2.81%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (6.47%) Node.js
2 82 (5.36%) .NET
3 63 (4.12%) React
4 54 (3.53%) Vue
5 49 (3.20%) Middleware
6 41 (2.68%) RESTful
7 40 (2.61%) REST
8 36 (2.35%) CSS
9 35 (2.29%) HTML
10 25 (1.63%) JSON
11 19 (1.24%) XML
12 16 (1.05%) Next.js
12 16 (1.05%) OAuth
13 15 (0.98%) AngularJS
14 14 (0.92%) NestJS
15 12 (0.78%) .NET Core
15 12 (0.78%) GraphQL
15 12 (0.78%) Laravel
15 12 (0.78%) Spring
16 11 (0.72%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 109 (7.12%) Onboarding
3 89 (5.82%) Product Ownership
4 48 (3.14%) Virtual Team
5 46 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
7 40 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 33 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.63%) Blog
11 23 (1.50%) Social Media
11 23 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
12 22 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.31%) PropTech
14 17 (1.11%) Client/Server
15 16 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (1.05%) Driving Licence
15 16 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
16 14 (0.92%) Data Centre
16 14 (0.92%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.01%) Windows
2 17 (1.11%) Linux
3 13 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.72%) Android
6 9 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.20%) Debian
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.065%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (16.21%) AI
2 238 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 230 (15.03%) Software Engineering
4 225 (14.71%) DevOps
5 216 (14.12%) Agile
6 213 (13.92%) B2B
7 211 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 178 (11.63%) CRM
9 162 (10.59%) CI/CD
10 153 (10.00%) Test Automation
11 151 (9.87%) Full-Stack Development
11 151 (9.87%) Mentoring
11 151 (9.87%) Roadmaps
12 147 (9.61%) Microservices
13 125 (8.17%) Business Development
13 125 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 124 (8.10%) Decision-Making
15 114 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
16 105 (6.86%) Fintech
17 102 (6.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 155 (10.13%) Python
2 148 (9.67%) TypeScript
3 130 (8.50%) JavaScript
4 127 (8.30%) SQL
5 114 (7.45%) C#
6 87 (5.69%) Java
7 80 (5.23%) PowerShell
8 32 (2.09%) PHP
9 28 (1.83%) R
10 25 (1.63%) Go
11 14 (0.92%) Bash
12 10 (0.65%) Bicep
12 10 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.46%) Ruby
14 5 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.20%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.20%) Swift
16 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.065%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.065%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 102 (6.67%) Degree
2 78 (5.10%) CISSP
3 65 (4.25%) CISM
4 45 (2.94%) ACCA
5 44 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
6 37 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.09%) CIMA
7 32 (2.09%) Security Cleared
8 23 (1.50%) CRISC
9 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.31%) SC Cleared
11 19 (1.24%) CISA
12 14 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.52%) ISACA
14 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.39%) MBA
17 5 (0.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.41%) QA
2 90 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 72 (4.71%) NIST
4 67 (4.38%) GDPR
5 44 (2.88%) ISO 22301
6 41 (2.68%) PCI DSS
7 33 (2.16%) SOC 2
8 27 (1.76%) Accessibility
9 26 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 23 (1.50%) Data Quality
11 22 (1.44%) IFRS
12 21 (1.37%) GRC
13 14 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 13 (0.85%) SLA
15 10 (0.65%) PMO
16 9 (0.59%) COBIT
17 8 (0.52%) SOC 1
17 8 (0.52%) WCAG
18 7 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.46%) GAAP
System Software
1 82 (5.36%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.68%) Docker
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.065%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (6.27%) Terraform
2 76 (4.97%) Kubernetes
3 53 (3.46%) Grafana
4 37 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.52%) Ansible
7 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.20%) Argo
8 3 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.13%) CASB
9 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.065%) Graylog
10 1 (0.065%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.065%) Packer
10 1 (0.065%) QRadar
Vendors
1 195 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 57 (3.73%) HubSpot
3 51 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 37 (2.42%) Google
5 28 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (1.18%) Adobe
6 18 (1.18%) Sage
7 16 (1.05%) Oracle
8 15 (0.98%) Databricks
8 15 (0.98%) Xero
9 13 (0.85%) Pardot
9 13 (0.85%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.78%) SAP
11 9 (0.59%) Cisco
12 8 (0.52%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.52%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.52%) Meraki
12 8 (0.52%) SolarWinds
12 8 (0.52%) Workday
13 6 (0.39%) Atlassian