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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 48 51
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 -10
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,321 733 1,610
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.63% 5.64% 5.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.75% 12.19% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 598 1,379
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,749
% change year-on-year - +1.96% -5.56%

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 6,688 6,011 13,920
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.65% 46.29% 43.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,513 4,695 12,065
10th Percentile £33,585 £33,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 10 April 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 34 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.98%) WordPress
4 11 (0.83%) JBoss
4 11 (0.83%) WebSphere
5 10 (0.76%) CMS
6 9 (0.68%) Confluence
7 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.38%) Moodle
7 5 (0.38%) Totara
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.076%) Apache
9 1 (0.076%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (0.53%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
5 6 (0.45%) InDesign
5 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.15%) Sketch
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (1.67%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 246 (18.62%) AWS
2 228 (17.26%) Azure
3 97 (7.34%) GCP
4 62 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (4.62%) Entra ID
6 52 (3.94%) GitHub
7 46 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
8 41 (3.10%) Serverless
9 36 (2.73%) PaaS
10 31 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (2.27%) Power Platform
12 25 (1.89%) IaaS
13 22 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (1.36%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.36%) Figma
15 18 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (1.21%) Mimecast
17 15 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (1.14%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.42%) Firewall
2 17 (1.29%) VPN
3 16 (1.21%) Remote Desktop
4 15 (1.14%) BGP
4 15 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (0.98%) LAN
6 12 (0.91%) DNS
6 12 (0.91%) WAN
7 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.76%) MPLS
8 10 (0.76%) SSL
9 9 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (0.68%) IPsec
9 9 (0.68%) NetScaler
9 9 (0.68%) NX-OS
9 9 (0.68%) OSPF
9 9 (0.68%) Unified Communications
9 9 (0.68%) VXLAN
9 9 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.20%) MySQL
4 23 (1.74%) Power BI
5 22 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (1.14%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.14%) Redis
9 13 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.45%) Big Data
12 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.38%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.30%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
15 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (3.26%) JIRA
2 41 (3.10%) TeamCity
3 32 (2.42%) Git
4 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.45%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.45%) Postman
5 6 (0.45%) Selenium
6 5 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.38%) JMeter
6 5 (0.38%) Locust
7 4 (0.30%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.30%) GitBook
7 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.23%) git-flow
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.076%) JUnit
9 1 (0.076%) NUnit
General
1 347 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 320 (24.22%) Finance
3 248 (18.77%) Retail
4 219 (16.58%) Marketing
5 168 (12.72%) Law
6 156 (11.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 145 (10.98%) Banking
8 132 (9.99%) Back Office
9 121 (9.16%) Financial Institution
10 108 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
11 80 (6.06%) Legal
12 57 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (2.80%) Public Sector
15 33 (2.50%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.44%) German Language
16 19 (1.44%) Polish Language
17 18 (1.36%) Automotive
18 17 (1.29%) French Language
19 16 (1.21%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 194 (14.69%) Senior
2 160 (12.11%) Developer
3 146 (11.05%) Lead
4 98 (7.42%) Software Engineer
5 77 (5.83%) Account Manager
6 72 (5.45%) Architect
7 60 (4.54%) Support Engineer
8 57 (4.31%) Account Executive
8 57 (4.31%) Lead Developer
9 54 (4.09%) Analyst
10 52 (3.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 52 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (3.26%) Development Manager
12 39 (2.95%) Consultant
13 37 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
15 31 (2.35%) Sales Manager
16 30 (2.27%) C# Developer
16 30 (2.27%) Marketing Manager
17 27 (2.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (9.01%) .NET
2 89 (6.74%) React
3 71 (5.37%) Node.js
4 43 (3.26%) REST
5 40 (3.03%) CSS
6 38 (2.88%) HTML
6 38 (2.88%) RESTful
7 27 (2.04%) Vue
8 24 (1.82%) React Native
9 22 (1.67%) JSON
9 22 (1.67%) Spring
10 19 (1.44%) GraphQL
11 18 (1.36%) Next.js
11 18 (1.36%) SOAP
12 17 (1.29%) XML
13 15 (1.14%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.14%) Kafka
13 15 (1.14%) Middleware
14 14 (1.06%) Hibernate
14 14 (1.06%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 132 (9.99%) Onboarding
2 114 (8.63%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (2.35%) Blog
6 31 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.97%) Mobile App
8 24 (1.82%) EPoS
9 23 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 23 (1.74%) Social Media
10 22 (1.67%) Web Conferencing
11 20 (1.51%) PropTech
12 16 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
13 15 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
14 14 (1.06%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.98%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.98%) Educational Technology
16 12 (0.91%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.10%) Windows
2 29 (2.20%) Apple iOS
3 28 (2.12%) Android
4 24 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.45%) Linux
5 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.15%) Unix
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (16.35%) AI
2 206 (15.59%) Software Engineering
3 202 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
4 185 (14.00%) B2B
5 182 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 162 (12.26%) CRM
7 161 (12.19%) CI/CD
8 150 (11.36%) Agile
9 136 (10.30%) DevOps
9 136 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 126 (9.54%) Microservices
11 119 (9.01%) Mentoring
12 118 (8.93%) Roadmaps
13 111 (8.40%) Fintech
14 99 (7.49%) Business Development
15 94 (7.12%) Analytics
16 88 (6.66%) Decision-Making
17 80 (6.06%) SDLC
18 78 (5.90%) Project Management
19 74 (5.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 145 (10.98%) SQL
2 111 (8.40%) Python
3 98 (7.42%) C#
4 93 (7.04%) Java
5 78 (5.90%) TypeScript
6 57 (4.31%) JavaScript
7 28 (2.12%) PHP
7 28 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 22 (1.67%) Go
9 16 (1.21%) R
10 15 (1.14%) Bash
11 8 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.45%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.38%) Bicep
14 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.15%) Ruby
14 2 (0.15%) Swift
15 1 (0.076%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 95 (7.19%) Degree
2 41 (3.10%) ACCA
3 30 (2.27%) CIMA
4 22 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 17 (1.29%) CISSP
7 15 (1.14%) Security Cleared
8 14 (1.06%) SC Cleared
9 9 (0.68%) CISA
10 8 (0.61%) CRISC
11 7 (0.53%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.45%) CISM
12 6 (0.45%) MBA
12 6 (0.45%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.30%) CEH
14 3 (0.23%) CIPD
14 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (4.54%) QA
3 41 (3.10%) SOC 2
4 38 (2.88%) PCI DSS
5 31 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.59%) GDPR
7 18 (1.36%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.36%) IFRS
8 17 (1.29%) GRC
8 17 (1.29%) SLA
9 15 (1.14%) NIST
10 14 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.98%) WCAG
12 10 (0.76%) PMO
13 8 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.61%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.30%) GAAP
16 3 (0.23%) COBIT
16 3 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 63 (4.77%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.56%) Docker
3 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.23%) Firmware
5 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (7.80%) Terraform
2 82 (6.21%) Kubernetes
3 43 (3.26%) Grafana
4 26 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.83%) Ansible
5 11 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.53%) Argo
7 4 (0.30%) Cilium
8 2 (0.15%) CASB
8 2 (0.15%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.076%) Graylog
9 1 (0.076%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.076%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.076%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 111 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.16%) Salesforce
3 36 (2.73%) HubSpot
4 35 (2.65%) Google
5 22 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 19 (1.44%) Adobe
6 19 (1.44%) Databricks
7 17 (1.29%) Pardot
8 16 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
9 15 (1.14%) Cisco
9 15 (1.14%) Oracle
9 15 (1.14%) Sage
9 15 (1.14%) Xero
10 9 (0.68%) CheckPoint
10 9 (0.68%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.68%) Fortinet
10 9 (0.68%) Meraki
10 9 (0.68%) SAP
10 9 (0.68%) SolarWinds
11 6 (0.45%) Dell