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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 47 50
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,105 933 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.30% 5.68% 5.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.96% 12.24% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 857 623 1,016
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,822 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,465 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -13.62% +1.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £92,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% -7.41% -3.57%

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 5,537 7,623 10,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.56% 46.40% 46.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,938 4,857 8,735
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,625 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 14 January 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 10 (0.90%) SharePoint
1 10 (0.90%) WordPress
2 9 (0.81%) JBoss
2 9 (0.81%) WebSphere
3 8 (0.72%) Confluence
4 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.54%) IIS
6 3 (0.27%) Apache
6 3 (0.27%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.090%) Drupal
8 1 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.090%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 34 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.09%) InDesign
5 9 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.63%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.36%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.36%) Sketch
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.27%) Trello
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.090%) GIMP
11 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.090%) Revit
11 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.27%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.72%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (21.09%) Azure
2 231 (20.90%) AWS
3 113 (10.23%) GCP
4 59 (5.34%) GitHub
5 48 (4.34%) PaaS
6 37 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (3.26%) Serverless
8 34 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 29 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (2.35%) IaaS
12 21 (1.90%) Power Platform
13 20 (1.81%) Figma
14 19 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.18%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
17 12 (1.09%) Azure App Service
17 12 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
18 11 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.35%) Remote Desktop
2 17 (1.54%) Firewall
3 12 (1.09%) VPN
4 9 (0.81%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.72%) BGP
5 8 (0.72%) DNS
5 8 (0.72%) LAN
5 8 (0.72%) WAN
6 7 (0.63%) Network Security
6 7 (0.63%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.54%) MPLS
7 6 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.45%) IPsec
8 5 (0.45%) NetScaler
8 5 (0.45%) NX-OS
8 5 (0.45%) OSPF
8 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 47 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (2.90%) Data Lake
4 23 (2.08%) MySQL
5 22 (1.99%) NoSQL
6 21 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.54%) Power BI
8 14 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 10 (0.90%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.90%) Tableau
10 9 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.72%) Data Mining
11 8 (0.72%) Data Vault
11 8 (0.72%) Looker
11 8 (0.72%) Redis
12 6 (0.54%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.54%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 37 (3.35%) Git
2 32 (2.90%) JIRA
3 20 (1.81%) TeamCity
4 9 (0.81%) Postman
5 8 (0.72%) Selenium
6 7 (0.63%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.54%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.54%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.45%) GitBook
8 5 (0.45%) git-flow
8 5 (0.45%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.27%) Storybook
11 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.090%) GitLab
12 1 (0.090%) MSTest
12 1 (0.090%) NUnit
12 1 (0.090%) Protractor
General
1 352 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 247 (22.35%) Finance
3 185 (16.74%) Marketing
4 175 (15.84%) Retail
5 93 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (8.33%) Law
7 72 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (5.52%) Legal
9 59 (5.34%) Banking
10 57 (5.16%) Financial Institution
11 54 (4.89%) Back Office
12 48 (4.34%) Public Sector
13 29 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.99%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.27%) French Language
17 13 (1.18%) Automotive
17 13 (1.18%) Billing
17 13 (1.18%) Games
17 13 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 166 (15.02%) Senior
2 142 (12.85%) Developer
3 124 (11.22%) Lead
4 63 (5.70%) Architect
5 54 (4.89%) Account Manager
6 53 (4.80%) Software Engineer
7 46 (4.16%) .NET Developer
8 43 (3.89%) Account Executive
9 42 (3.80%) Analyst
9 42 (3.80%) Software Developer
10 41 (3.71%) 2nd Line Support
11 40 (3.62%) Development Manager
12 37 (3.35%) Lead Developer
13 35 (3.17%) Engineering Manager
14 34 (3.08%) Consultant
15 33 (2.99%) Product Manager
16 31 (2.81%) .NET Software Developer
17 29 (2.62%) Data Engineer
17 29 (2.62%) Marketing Executive
18 28 (2.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (13.03%) .NET
2 104 (9.41%) React
3 57 (5.16%) Node.js
4 46 (4.16%) REST
5 29 (2.62%) CSS
6 27 (2.44%) SOAP
7 26 (2.35%) HTML
7 26 (2.35%) RESTful
8 20 (1.81%) .NET Framework
9 18 (1.63%) Kafka
9 18 (1.63%) Spring
10 17 (1.54%) Entity Framework
10 17 (1.54%) Next.js
10 17 (1.54%) React Native
11 16 (1.45%) ASP.NET Web API
11 16 (1.45%) SAML
12 15 (1.36%) Razor View Engine
13 14 (1.27%) Middleware
14 13 (1.18%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 155 (14.03%) Onboarding
2 73 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 71 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.81%) Social Media
5 30 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.17%) Web Conferencing
8 22 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 21 (1.90%) EPoS
10 20 (1.81%) Educational Technology
11 18 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.00%) Driving Licence
13 11 (1.00%) Life Science
14 10 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.81%) Blog
15 9 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.35%) Android
1 26 (2.35%) Apple iOS
1 26 (2.35%) Windows
2 17 (1.54%) Windows Server
3 11 (1.00%) Linux
4 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.090%) Unix
5 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
2 217 (19.64%) Agile
3 206 (18.64%) AI
4 189 (17.10%) Software Engineering
5 188 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 181 (16.38%) Mentoring
7 172 (15.57%) Roadmaps
8 158 (14.30%) CRM
9 133 (12.04%) DevOps
10 127 (11.49%) CI/CD
11 125 (11.31%) B2B
12 105 (9.50%) Microservices
13 95 (8.60%) Full-Stack Development
14 92 (8.33%) Analytics
15 87 (7.87%) Customer Service
16 86 (7.78%) Decision-Making
17 85 (7.69%) Coaching
18 79 (7.15%) SDLC
19 78 (7.06%) Data Privacy
20 77 (6.97%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 193 (17.47%) SQL
2 129 (11.67%) C#
3 105 (9.50%) TypeScript
4 87 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 83 (7.51%) Python
6 47 (4.25%) Java
7 25 (2.26%) PHP
8 20 (1.81%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.27%) Bash
10 11 (1.00%) Go
11 10 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.72%) Bicep
13 4 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.27%) Swift
15 2 (0.18%) C
15 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.090%) ABAP
16 1 (0.090%) Ruby
16 1 (0.090%) VB
Qualifications
1 93 (8.42%) Degree
2 22 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (1.90%) ACCA
4 18 (1.63%) Master's Degree
5 14 (1.27%) CISSP
6 13 (1.18%) Security Cleared
7 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.81%) CRISC
8 8 (0.72%) CIMA
8 8 (0.72%) CISM
9 7 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 7 (0.63%) SC Cleared
10 5 (0.45%) CISA
10 5 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (0.36%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.36%) CEH
11 4 (0.36%) CISMP
12 3 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.78%) QA
2 48 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (2.44%) SOC 2
4 24 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.99%) GDPR
6 18 (1.63%) GRC
6 18 (1.63%) NIST
7 17 (1.54%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.27%) ISO 9001
9 13 (1.18%) SLA
10 9 (0.81%) IFRS
11 8 (0.72%) WCAG
12 7 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.63%) GAAP
13 5 (0.45%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.45%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.36%) JSP 440
14 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.27%) PMO
16 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 33 (2.99%) Docker
2 32 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (6.61%) Terraform
2 60 (5.43%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.72%) Grafana
4 17 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.90%) Ansible
6 8 (0.72%) Argo
7 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.36%) Cilium
9 1 (0.090%) CASB
9 1 (0.090%) Istio
9 1 (0.090%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.090%) Packer
9 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.090%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 92 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.70%) Salesforce
3 46 (4.16%) HubSpot
4 37 (3.35%) Adobe
5 34 (3.08%) Databricks
6 29 (2.62%) Google
7 24 (2.17%) Oracle
8 18 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.54%) Cisco
10 15 (1.36%) Workday
11 13 (1.18%) Zoho
12 9 (0.81%) SAP
13 8 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.63%) Pardot
15 5 (0.45%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.45%) CheckPoint
15 5 (0.45%) Dynatrace
15 5 (0.45%) Fortinet
15 5 (0.45%) Meraki
15 5 (0.45%) SolarWinds