SaaS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 50 42
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 775 1,698 2,727
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.03% 5.03% 6.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.98% 11.62% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 622 1,375 1,941
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £42,210
25th Percentile £46,313 £49,875 £51,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.88%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All Cloud 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 5,972 14,615 20,197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.73% 43.25% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,609 11,957 14,815
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,636 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,743 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.64% -11.54% +4.00%

SaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SaaS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SaaS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SaaS.

SaaS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SaaS over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

SaaS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.10%) IIS
3 22 (2.84%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.45%) Confluence
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.26%) Apache
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.26%) WordPress
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Moodle
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Totara
Applications
1 22 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.65%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.39%) InDesign
6 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.13%) Sketch
7 1 (0.13%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 22 (2.84%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.42%) Shopify
3 10 (1.29%) Magento
4 5 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 255 (32.90%) Azure
2 195 (25.16%) AWS
3 84 (10.84%) PaaS
4 77 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
5 66 (8.52%) GCP
6 51 (6.58%) IaaS
7 44 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (5.03%) Entra ID
9 32 (4.13%) Power Platform
10 29 (3.74%) GitHub
11 20 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (2.58%) Serverless
12 13 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (1.68%) OCI
13 11 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.42%) Google Workspace
14 10 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.29%) BigCommerce
14 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (1.16%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.48%) Firewall
2 19 (2.45%) DNS
2 19 (2.45%) Internet
3 15 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.68%) VPN
5 11 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (1.16%) HTTP
7 8 (1.03%) DKIM
7 8 (1.03%) DMARC
7 8 (1.03%) DNSSEC
7 8 (1.03%) SMTP
8 6 (0.77%) DHCP
8 6 (0.77%) VoIP
9 5 (0.65%) SSL
10 4 (0.52%) BGP
10 4 (0.52%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.52%) IPsec
10 4 (0.52%) OSPF
11 3 (0.39%) Network Security
12 2 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (9.81%) SQL Server
2 42 (5.42%) NoSQL
3 30 (3.87%) Power BI
4 17 (2.19%) MySQL
5 14 (1.81%) Data Hub
5 14 (1.81%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.81%) SQL CLR
6 13 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.16%) Metadata
9 9 (1.16%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.65%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.65%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.52%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.52%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 48 (6.19%) Git
2 33 (4.26%) JIRA
3 24 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.97%) Eclipse
5 22 (2.84%) IntelliJ
5 22 (2.84%) Jasmine
5 22 (2.84%) JUnit
5 22 (2.84%) Karma Test Runner
5 22 (2.84%) Mockito
5 22 (2.84%) Protractor
6 13 (1.68%) Selenium
7 12 (1.55%) Visual Studio
8 10 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
9 9 (1.16%) Postman
10 8 (1.03%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.90%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.77%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.52%) MSTest
13 4 (0.52%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.52%) WiX
General
1 277 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 166 (21.42%) Finance
3 90 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.10%) Presentation Skills
5 53 (6.84%) Marketing
6 43 (5.55%) Law
7 36 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 27 (3.48%) Banking
8 27 (3.48%) Retail
9 23 (2.97%) Telecoms
10 21 (2.71%) Back Office
10 21 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.81%) Legal
12 14 (1.81%) Local Government
13 12 (1.55%) Billing
13 12 (1.55%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.42%) Advertising
14 11 (1.42%) Games
15 10 (1.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 185 (23.87%) Senior
2 117 (15.10%) Developer
3 78 (10.06%) Lead
4 47 (6.06%) Senior Developer
5 41 (5.29%) Architect
6 39 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (5.03%) SaaS Developer
7 36 (4.65%) Consultant
8 33 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 30 (3.87%) Analyst
9 30 (3.87%) IT Support
10 29 (3.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 28 (3.61%) IT Manager
12 26 (3.35%) Product Manager
13 25 (3.23%) Java Developer
14 24 (3.10%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.97%) Business Development Manager
15 23 (2.97%) Business Manager
15 23 (2.97%) Development Manager
15 23 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (12.13%) .NET
2 87 (11.23%) React
3 48 (6.19%) AngularJS
3 48 (6.19%) HTML
4 45 (5.81%) CSS
5 43 (5.55%) REST
6 34 (4.39%) Node.js
7 31 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
8 28 (3.61%) .NET Core
9 27 (3.48%) .NET Framework
10 25 (3.23%) Kafka
11 22 (2.84%) Hibernate
11 22 (2.84%) JPA
11 22 (2.84%) Next.js
12 19 (2.45%) Entity Framework
13 16 (2.06%) Flask
13 16 (2.06%) RESTful
14 15 (1.94%) ASP.NET
14 15 (1.94%) Web Services
15 14 (1.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.97%) Management Information System
2 49 (6.32%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.19%) Cloud Native
4 47 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.87%) Private Cloud
6 27 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (3.35%) Algorithms
8 23 (2.97%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.71%) Virtual Team
10 20 (2.58%) Data Centre
11 19 (2.45%) Client/Server
11 19 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (2.45%) Driving Licence
12 16 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.68%) NHS
14 12 (1.55%) IoT
15 11 (1.42%) Social Media
16 10 (1.29%) EPoS
17 9 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (12.26%) Windows
2 82 (10.58%) Linux
3 30 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.39%) Unix
8 3 (0.39%) VMS
8 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.26%) SUSE
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (27.48%) Agile
2 196 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (19.10%) DevOps
4 100 (12.90%) Software Engineering
5 98 (12.65%) Roadmaps
6 94 (12.13%) Mentoring
7 78 (10.06%) CI/CD
8 76 (9.81%) ITIL
9 74 (9.55%) B2B
10 73 (9.42%) Microservices
11 70 (9.03%) Project Management
12 67 (8.65%) Computer Science
13 63 (8.13%) CRM
14 62 (8.00%) Analytics
14 62 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (7.35%) Containerisation
16 56 (7.23%) Customer Service
17 55 (7.10%) Full-Stack Development
18 54 (6.97%) Artificial Intelligence
19 53 (6.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 185 (23.87%) SQL
2 112 (14.45%) C#
3 99 (12.77%) JavaScript
4 85 (10.97%) Python
5 75 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 49 (6.32%) Java
7 40 (5.16%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.58%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.19%) Bash
10 14 (1.81%) PHP
11 9 (1.16%) C++
11 9 (1.16%) F#
12 7 (0.90%) Go
12 7 (0.90%) Haskell
13 6 (0.77%) Bicep
13 6 (0.77%) C
13 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.65%) Delphi
14 5 (0.65%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (14.71%) Degree
2 41 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (3.48%) DBS Check
5 21 (2.71%) Security Cleared
6 19 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.19%) CISSP
7 17 (2.19%) PMI Certification
8 16 (2.06%) PMP
9 15 (1.94%) MCSE
10 14 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (1.81%) MCSA
11 9 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.16%) SC Cleared
12 8 (1.03%) CCNP
12 8 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.03%) MCP
13 6 (0.77%) CCNA
14 5 (0.65%) ACCA
14 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.68%) QA
2 27 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.23%) SLA
4 13 (1.68%) NIST
5 10 (1.29%) NCSC
6 9 (1.16%) GDPR
7 8 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.77%) PMO
9 5 (0.65%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.39%) GRC
11 3 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.39%) PMBOK
12 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.13%) COSO
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 75 (9.68%) Docker
2 36 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 31 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.90%) vSphere
6 5 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (10.19%) Terraform
2 68 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 34 (4.39%) Ansible
4 17 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (0.77%) SCCM
8 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.39%) Grafana
9 3 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.39%) SCOM
10 2 (0.26%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.13%) CASB
11 1 (0.13%) HP UCMDB
11 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 143 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.84%) Oracle
3 42 (5.42%) Google
4 40 (5.16%) VMware
5 32 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 24 (3.10%) IBM
7 23 (2.97%) Cisco
8 16 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.16%) Databricks
9 9 (1.16%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.03%) HubSpot
10 8 (1.03%) IronPort
10 8 (1.03%) Veritas
11 7 (0.90%) SAP
12 6 (0.77%) Adobe
13 5 (0.65%) Xamarin
14 4 (0.52%) Meraki
15 3 (0.39%) Aderant
15 3 (0.39%) iManage
15 3 (0.39%) Intapp