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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 73 55
Rank change year-on-year +47 -18 -9
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,590 799 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.18% 4.85% 4.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.51% 13.20% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 610 968
10th Percentile £35,900 £33,225 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 8,589 6,051 10,933
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.77% 36.72% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,190 4,465 8,790
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 31 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 58 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.88%) Confluence
4 11 (0.69%) CMS
4 11 (0.69%) WordPress
5 6 (0.38%) SAS
6 5 (0.31%) IIS
7 4 (0.25%) Moodle
7 4 (0.25%) Totara
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.063%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.063%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.063%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 26 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.44%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Moqups
9 2 (0.13%) Trello
10 1 (0.063%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 24 (1.51%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.19%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.19%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.19%) 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 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.063%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 302 (18.99%) Azure
2 296 (18.62%) AWS
3 96 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (5.79%) Entra ID
5 81 (5.09%) GCP
6 58 (3.65%) PaaS
7 57 (3.58%) Power Platform
8 51 (3.21%) Serverless
9 47 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.76%) IaaS
11 28 (1.76%) Mimecast
12 27 (1.70%) Snowflake
13 25 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (1.26%) Figma
15 20 (1.26%) GitHub
15 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
16 18 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
16 18 (1.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.01%) Firewall
2 14 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (0.75%) DNS
3 12 (0.75%) VPN
4 10 (0.63%) Broadband
5 8 (0.50%) LAN
5 8 (0.50%) Network Security
5 8 (0.50%) WAN
6 7 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (0.44%) DHCP
6 7 (0.44%) Internet
6 7 (0.44%) IPsec
6 7 (0.44%) MPLS
6 7 (0.44%) NetScaler
6 7 (0.44%) NX-OS
6 7 (0.44%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.44%) VXLAN
6 7 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.01%) Power BI
3 32 (2.01%) Redis
4 22 (1.38%) MySQL
5 14 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.38%) Big Data
9 5 (0.31%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.31%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.25%) Metadata
10 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.25%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.25%) Tableau
11 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 93 (5.85%) JIRA
2 43 (2.70%) Git
3 38 (2.39%) TeamCity
4 11 (0.69%) Claude Code
5 9 (0.57%) Cypress.io
5 9 (0.57%) GitLab
5 9 (0.57%) Selenium
6 6 (0.38%) JMeter
7 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.31%) Locust
7 5 (0.31%) Postman
7 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.19%) JUnit
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.13%) MSI
10 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 433 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 351 (22.08%) Finance
3 224 (14.09%) Retail
4 218 (13.71%) Marketing
5 203 (12.77%) Law
6 170 (10.69%) Legal
7 151 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 129 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
9 117 (7.36%) Banking
10 108 (6.79%) Back Office
11 86 (5.41%) Financial Institution
12 62 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
13 56 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (2.26%) Public Sector
15 33 (2.08%) Advertising
16 29 (1.82%) Manufacturing
17 24 (1.51%) German Language
18 22 (1.38%) Health Technology
19 20 (1.26%) Billing
19 20 (1.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 219 (13.77%) Senior
2 205 (12.89%) Lead
3 160 (10.06%) Developer
4 106 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 98 (6.16%) Account Executive
6 86 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 83 (5.22%) Architect
8 82 (5.16%) Consultant
9 78 (4.91%) Account Manager
10 77 (4.84%) Senior Manager
11 62 (3.90%) Lead Developer
12 60 (3.77%) Service Manager
13 59 (3.71%) IT Manager
14 52 (3.27%) Analyst
14 52 (3.27%) Software Developer
15 49 (3.08%) Support Engineer
15 49 (3.08%) Testing Manager
16 48 (3.02%) IT Services Manager
16 48 (3.02%) Resilience Manager
17 47 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.67%) Node.js
2 82 (5.16%) .NET
3 72 (4.53%) React
4 56 (3.52%) Vue
5 51 (3.21%) Middleware
6 49 (3.08%) REST
7 38 (2.39%) CSS
8 37 (2.33%) RESTful
9 35 (2.20%) HTML
10 22 (1.38%) Next.js
11 20 (1.26%) JSON
12 18 (1.13%) OAuth
13 16 (1.01%) AngularJS
13 16 (1.01%) NestJS
13 16 (1.01%) XML
14 14 (0.88%) Laravel
15 12 (0.75%) Kafka
15 12 (0.75%) OpenID
16 11 (0.69%) Django
17 10 (0.63%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 107 (6.73%) Onboarding
3 89 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.84%) Virtual Team
5 48 (3.02%) Cyber Threat
6 42 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.64%) Web Conferencing
10 25 (1.57%) Social Media
11 21 (1.32%) PropTech
12 18 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.13%) Driving Licence
12 18 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
13 17 (1.07%) Blog
13 17 (1.07%) Client/Server
14 15 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (0.88%) Clustering
15 14 (0.88%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.83%) Windows
2 22 (1.38%) Linux
3 11 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.63%) Android
4 10 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.19%) Debian
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.063%) Unix
8 1 (0.063%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (16.73%) AI
2 260 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 253 (15.91%) DevOps
4 240 (15.09%) Software Engineering
5 233 (14.65%) B2B
6 232 (14.59%) Agile
7 209 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
8 198 (12.45%) CRM
9 169 (10.63%) Test Automation
10 168 (10.57%) Mentoring
11 164 (10.31%) CI/CD
12 157 (9.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 153 (9.62%) Roadmaps
14 145 (9.12%) Microservices
15 143 (8.99%) Decision-Making
16 142 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 141 (8.87%) Business Development
18 127 (7.99%) Stakeholder Management
19 115 (7.23%) Enterprise Architecture
20 114 (7.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 171 (10.75%) TypeScript
2 163 (10.25%) Python
3 152 (9.56%) JavaScript
4 135 (8.49%) C#
5 124 (7.80%) SQL
6 91 (5.72%) PowerShell
7 74 (4.65%) Java
8 34 (2.14%) PHP
9 29 (1.82%) R
10 24 (1.51%) Go
11 14 (0.88%) Bash
12 10 (0.63%) Bicep
13 9 (0.57%) Ruby
14 6 (0.38%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.19%) Swift
17 1 (0.063%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.063%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.063%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 96 (6.04%) Degree
2 81 (5.09%) CISSP
3 70 (4.40%) CISM
4 50 (3.14%) ITIL Certification
5 47 (2.96%) ACCA
6 37 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.14%) CIMA
8 28 (1.76%) Security Cleared
9 21 (1.32%) CRISC
10 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.01%) CISA
11 16 (1.01%) SC Cleared
12 14 (0.88%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.50%) ISACA
15 7 (0.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.31%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.31%) DV Cleared
16 5 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (7.48%) QA
2 85 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (4.72%) NIST
4 69 (4.34%) GDPR
5 48 (3.02%) ISO 22301
6 35 (2.20%) PCI DSS
7 30 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.70%) SOC 2
9 24 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.38%) IFRS
11 19 (1.19%) Data Quality
11 19 (1.19%) GRC
12 14 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.82%) SLA
14 9 (0.57%) COBIT
15 8 (0.50%) PMO
16 7 (0.44%) GAAP
16 7 (0.44%) SOC 1
16 7 (0.44%) WCAG
17 5 (0.31%) JSP 440
System Software
1 78 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.40%) Docker
3 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (6.10%) Terraform
2 78 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 51 (3.21%) Grafana
4 36 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.69%) Ansible
7 9 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.19%) Argo
9 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.13%) CASB
10 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.13%) Puppet
11 1 (0.063%) Graylog
11 1 (0.063%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.063%) Packer
11 1 (0.063%) QRadar
11 1 (0.063%) SCCM
Vendors
1 206 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 68 (4.28%) HubSpot
3 58 (3.65%) Salesforce
4 42 (2.64%) Google
5 29 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (1.13%) Sage
7 15 (0.94%) Adobe
7 15 (0.94%) Databricks
7 15 (0.94%) Oracle
8 13 (0.82%) Xero
9 12 (0.75%) SAP
9 12 (0.75%) ServiceNow
10 11 (0.69%) Workday
11 10 (0.63%) Pardot
12 8 (0.50%) Cisco
13 7 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.44%) CheckPoint
13 7 (0.44%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.44%) Meraki
13 7 (0.44%) SolarWinds