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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 75 50
Rank change year-on-year +47 -25 -5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,409 747 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.80% 4.70% 4.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.77% 12.45% 10.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,118 578 1,309
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,850 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,688 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £93,438 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 7,930 5,998 14,186
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.27% 37.75% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,674 4,404 11,780
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,644 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 1 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 53 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.06%) CMS
3 15 (1.06%) WordPress
4 12 (0.85%) Confluence
5 6 (0.43%) SAS
6 5 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.35%) Moodle
6 5 (0.35%) Totara
7 3 (0.21%) IIS
7 3 (0.21%) JBoss
7 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.071%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 23 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (0.57%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.071%) InDesign
9 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.21%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.21%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.21%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.21%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
4 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 254 (18.03%) Azure
2 238 (16.89%) AWS
3 101 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 89 (6.32%) GCP
6 57 (4.05%) PaaS
7 55 (3.90%) Power Platform
8 52 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (3.48%) Serverless
10 34 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.99%) IaaS
12 25 (1.77%) Mimecast
13 23 (1.63%) GitHub
14 22 (1.56%) Snowflake
15 19 (1.35%) Figma
16 18 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.21%) Azure Functions
18 16 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
19 15 (1.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.77%) Firewall
2 20 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.21%) VPN
4 14 (0.99%) DNS
5 11 (0.78%) LAN
5 11 (0.78%) WAN
6 10 (0.71%) Broadband
6 10 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
6 10 (0.71%) IPsec
6 10 (0.71%) MPLS
6 10 (0.71%) NetScaler
6 10 (0.71%) NX-OS
6 10 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.71%) VXLAN
6 10 (0.71%) WLAN
7 9 (0.64%) BGP
7 9 (0.64%) DHCP
8 7 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 40 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.27%) Power BI
4 26 (1.85%) MySQL
4 26 (1.85%) Redis
5 15 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.35%) Big Data
9 5 (0.35%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.35%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.28%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.28%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.28%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.21%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (5.11%) JIRA
2 40 (2.84%) TeamCity
3 33 (2.34%) Git
4 10 (0.71%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.43%) JMeter
5 6 (0.43%) Selenium
6 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.35%) Locust
6 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.28%) GitLab
7 4 (0.28%) Postman
8 3 (0.21%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.21%) JUnit
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 346 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 338 (23.99%) Finance
3 227 (16.11%) Retail
4 197 (13.98%) Marketing
5 163 (11.57%) Law
6 156 (11.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 135 (9.58%) Banking
8 125 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
9 124 (8.80%) Back Office
10 105 (7.45%) Legal
11 104 (7.38%) Financial Institution
12 52 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (2.13%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.99%) Advertising
16 25 (1.77%) Public Sector
17 21 (1.49%) German Language
17 21 (1.49%) Health Technology
18 20 (1.42%) Polish Language
19 18 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 180 (12.78%) Lead
2 177 (12.56%) Senior
3 158 (11.21%) Developer
4 113 (8.02%) Software Engineer
5 91 (6.46%) Account Executive
6 80 (5.68%) Architect
7 78 (5.54%) Account Manager
8 77 (5.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 66 (4.68%) Lead Developer
10 62 (4.40%) Consultant
11 58 (4.12%) Support Engineer
12 51 (3.62%) Analyst
13 42 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (2.91%) Software Developer
15 37 (2.63%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 37 (2.63%) Lead Software Developer
15 37 (2.63%) Marketing Manager
16 36 (2.56%) .NET Software Engineer
16 36 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 36 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.25%) Node.js
2 85 (6.03%) .NET
3 60 (4.26%) React
4 51 (3.62%) Vue
5 36 (2.56%) CSS
5 36 (2.56%) REST
6 35 (2.48%) HTML
6 35 (2.48%) RESTful
7 25 (1.77%) JSON
8 19 (1.35%) XML
9 16 (1.14%) AngularJS
10 14 (0.99%) Next.js
10 14 (0.99%) OAuth
11 13 (0.92%) .NET Core
11 13 (0.92%) Spring
12 12 (0.85%) GraphQL
12 12 (0.85%) NestJS
12 12 (0.85%) React Native
13 11 (0.78%) ASP.NET
14 10 (0.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.24%) Onboarding
3 84 (5.96%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (2.77%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.85%) Blog
9 23 (1.63%) PropTech
10 21 (1.49%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.42%) Social Media
11 20 (1.42%) Web Conferencing
12 17 (1.21%) Client/Server
12 17 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.21%) EPoS
13 15 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
14 14 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.92%) Driving Licence
15 13 (0.92%) Life Science
16 11 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.19%) Windows
2 19 (1.35%) Linux
3 17 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.14%) Android
5 14 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.21%) Debian
8 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.21%) Unix
9 2 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (17.25%) AI
2 204 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
3 197 (13.98%) B2B
4 196 (13.91%) Software Engineering
5 185 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 169 (11.99%) Agile
7 161 (11.43%) CRM
8 156 (11.07%) CI/CD
9 149 (10.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 143 (10.15%) Roadmaps
11 142 (10.08%) DevOps
12 140 (9.94%) Microservices
13 120 (8.52%) Decision-Making
14 115 (8.16%) Business Development
15 109 (7.74%) Fintech
16 108 (7.67%) Mentoring
17 96 (6.81%) Analytics
17 96 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
18 84 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
18 84 (5.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.08%) SQL
2 123 (8.73%) Python
3 100 (7.10%) TypeScript
4 88 (6.25%) Java
5 82 (5.82%) JavaScript
6 72 (5.11%) C#
7 44 (3.12%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.20%) PHP
9 26 (1.85%) R
10 23 (1.63%) Go
11 15 (1.06%) Bash
12 10 (0.71%) Bicep
12 10 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.50%) Ruby
14 5 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.21%) Swift
16 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.071%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 100 (7.10%) Degree
2 42 (2.98%) ACCA
3 34 (2.41%) CISSP
4 33 (2.34%) Security Cleared
5 32 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.13%) CIMA
7 23 (1.63%) CRISC
8 22 (1.56%) SC Cleared
9 21 (1.49%) CISM
10 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.35%) CISA
12 15 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.57%) ISACA
15 7 (0.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 7 (0.50%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.43%) MBA
17 5 (0.35%) DV Cleared
18 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (4.33%) GDPR
3 49 (3.48%) QA
4 40 (2.84%) PCI DSS
5 33 (2.34%) SOC 2
6 29 (2.06%) NIST
7 28 (1.99%) Accessibility
8 25 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 23 (1.63%) Data Quality
10 20 (1.42%) GRC
10 20 (1.42%) IFRS
11 12 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (0.85%) SLA
12 11 (0.78%) PMO
13 10 (0.71%) COBIT
13 10 (0.71%) WCAG
14 9 (0.64%) SOC 1
15 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.43%) GAAP
17 5 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 82 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.05%) Docker
3 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.21%) Firmware
5 1 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.071%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (6.96%) Terraform
2 77 (5.46%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.55%) Grafana
4 36 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.85%) Ansible
7 5 (0.35%) Argo
7 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.21%) Packer
9 2 (0.14%) CASB
9 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.14%) Puppet
10 1 (0.071%) Graylog
10 1 (0.071%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.071%) QRadar
Vendors
1 179 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 48 (3.41%) Salesforce
3 45 (3.19%) HubSpot
4 32 (2.27%) Google
5 26 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
6 20 (1.42%) Sage
7 19 (1.35%) Adobe
8 17 (1.21%) Databricks
8 17 (1.21%) Oracle
9 16 (1.14%) Pardot
9 16 (1.14%) Xero
10 15 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 14 (0.99%) SAP
12 11 (0.78%) Cisco
13 10 (0.71%) CheckPoint
13 10 (0.71%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.71%) Meraki
13 10 (0.71%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.43%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.43%) Fortinet