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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 68 53
Rank change year-on-year +41 -15 -7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,573 795 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.19% 4.83% 4.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.50% 13.16% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,193 607 975
10th Percentile £36,150 £33,150 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,125
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 8,503 6,039 10,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.85% 36.69% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,118 4,456 8,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £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 29 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 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 50 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.89%) Confluence
4 12 (0.76%) WordPress
5 11 (0.70%) CMS
6 6 (0.38%) SAS
7 5 (0.32%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) Moodle
8 4 (0.25%) Totara
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.064%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (0.45%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Moqups
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.064%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 23 (1.46%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.89%) 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 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.064%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 306 (19.45%) Azure
2 292 (18.56%) AWS
3 99 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (5.98%) Entra ID
5 81 (5.15%) GCP
6 59 (3.75%) Power Platform
7 58 (3.69%) PaaS
8 52 (3.31%) Serverless
9 47 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.78%) IaaS
11 28 (1.78%) Mimecast
12 27 (1.72%) Snowflake
13 25 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (1.27%) GitHub
15 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (1.21%) Figma
17 18 (1.14%) Azure Functions
17 18 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.08%) Firewall
2 14 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (0.76%) DNS
3 12 (0.76%) VPN
4 10 (0.64%) Broadband
5 8 (0.51%) LAN
5 8 (0.51%) WAN
6 7 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (0.45%) DHCP
6 7 (0.45%) Internet
6 7 (0.45%) IPsec
6 7 (0.45%) MPLS
6 7 (0.45%) NetScaler
6 7 (0.45%) Network Security
6 7 (0.45%) NX-OS
6 7 (0.45%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.45%) VXLAN
6 7 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.56%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (2.10%) Power BI
4 31 (1.97%) Redis
5 23 (1.46%) MySQL
6 14 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.38%) Big Data
10 5 (0.32%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.32%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.25%) Metadata
11 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.25%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.25%) Tableau
12 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 93 (5.91%) JIRA
2 42 (2.67%) Git
3 38 (2.42%) TeamCity
4 11 (0.70%) Claude Code
5 9 (0.57%) Selenium
6 8 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.51%) GitLab
7 6 (0.38%) JMeter
8 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.32%) Locust
8 5 (0.32%) Postman
8 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.13%) Storybook
General
1 430 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 345 (21.93%) Finance
3 220 (13.99%) Retail
4 214 (13.60%) Marketing
5 204 (12.97%) Law
6 170 (10.81%) Legal
7 149 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 128 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
9 117 (7.44%) Banking
10 108 (6.87%) Back Office
11 86 (5.47%) Financial Institution
12 62 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
13 55 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (2.10%) Advertising
14 33 (2.10%) Public Sector
15 28 (1.78%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.53%) German Language
17 22 (1.40%) Health Technology
18 20 (1.27%) Telecoms
19 18 (1.14%) Billing
Job Titles
1 218 (13.86%) Senior
2 202 (12.84%) Lead
3 159 (10.11%) Developer
4 106 (6.74%) Software Engineer
5 97 (6.17%) Account Executive
6 85 (5.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 83 (5.28%) Architect
8 80 (5.09%) Consultant
9 78 (4.96%) Account Manager
10 76 (4.83%) Senior Manager
11 61 (3.88%) Lead Developer
12 60 (3.81%) Service Manager
13 59 (3.75%) IT Manager
14 52 (3.31%) Analyst
14 52 (3.31%) Support Engineer
15 51 (3.24%) Software Developer
16 49 (3.12%) Testing Manager
17 48 (3.05%) IT Services Manager
17 48 (3.05%) Resilience Manager
18 46 (2.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (6.61%) Node.js
2 82 (5.21%) .NET
3 70 (4.45%) React
4 55 (3.50%) Vue
5 51 (3.24%) Middleware
6 47 (2.99%) REST
7 38 (2.42%) CSS
8 37 (2.35%) RESTful
9 35 (2.23%) HTML
10 21 (1.34%) JSON
10 21 (1.34%) Next.js
11 18 (1.14%) OAuth
12 16 (1.02%) AngularJS
12 16 (1.02%) XML
13 15 (0.95%) NestJS
14 14 (0.89%) Laravel
15 12 (0.76%) Kafka
15 12 (0.76%) OpenID
16 11 (0.70%) .NET Core
17 10 (0.64%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 106 (6.74%) Onboarding
3 88 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.88%) Virtual Team
5 48 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
6 42 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
9 36 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.59%) Social Media
10 25 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
11 21 (1.34%) PropTech
12 19 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.14%) Driving Licence
13 18 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
14 17 (1.08%) Blog
14 17 (1.08%) Client/Server
15 15 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.89%) Clustering
16 14 (0.89%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.99%) Windows
2 22 (1.40%) Linux
3 11 (0.70%) Apple iOS
3 11 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.64%) Android
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 (0.064%) Unix
8 1 (0.064%) VMS
8 1 (0.064%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (16.78%) AI
2 255 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 251 (15.96%) DevOps
4 237 (15.07%) Software Engineering
5 230 (14.62%) Agile
6 227 (14.43%) B2B
7 208 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
8 192 (12.21%) CRM
9 167 (10.62%) Mentoring
9 167 (10.62%) Test Automation
10 163 (10.36%) CI/CD
11 155 (9.85%) Full-Stack Development
12 152 (9.66%) Roadmaps
13 145 (9.22%) Microservices
14 142 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 138 (8.77%) Decision-Making
16 137 (8.71%) Business Development
17 124 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
18 115 (7.31%) Enterprise Architecture
19 114 (7.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 167 (10.62%) TypeScript
2 161 (10.24%) Python
3 150 (9.54%) JavaScript
4 135 (8.58%) C#
5 126 (8.01%) SQL
6 93 (5.91%) PowerShell
7 74 (4.70%) Java
8 34 (2.16%) PHP
9 29 (1.84%) R
10 24 (1.53%) Go
11 14 (0.89%) Bash
12 10 (0.64%) Bicep
13 9 (0.57%) Ruby
14 7 (0.45%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.19%) Swift
17 1 (0.064%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.064%) Google Apps Script
17 1 (0.064%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 96 (6.10%) Degree
2 81 (5.15%) CISSP
3 70 (4.45%) CISM
4 49 (3.12%) ITIL Certification
5 47 (2.99%) ACCA
6 37 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.16%) CIMA
8 28 (1.78%) Security Cleared
9 21 (1.34%) CRISC
10 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.02%) CISA
11 16 (1.02%) SC Cleared
12 15 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.51%) ISACA
15 7 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.32%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.32%) DV Cleared
16 5 (0.32%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (7.44%) QA
2 86 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (4.77%) NIST
4 69 (4.39%) GDPR
5 48 (3.05%) ISO 22301
6 35 (2.23%) PCI DSS
7 30 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.72%) SOC 2
9 25 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.40%) IFRS
11 20 (1.27%) Data Quality
12 19 (1.21%) GRC
13 14 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 13 (0.83%) SLA
15 9 (0.57%) COBIT
15 9 (0.57%) PMO
16 7 (0.45%) GAAP
16 7 (0.45%) SOC 1
16 7 (0.45%) WCAG
17 5 (0.32%) JSP 440
System Software
1 80 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 52 (3.31%) Docker
3 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 95 (6.04%) Terraform
2 78 (4.96%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.18%) Grafana
4 37 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.64%) Ansible
7 8 (0.51%) 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 (0.064%) Graylog
11 1 (0.064%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.064%) Packer
11 1 (0.064%) QRadar
11 1 (0.064%) SCCM
Vendors
1 205 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.13%) HubSpot
3 58 (3.69%) Salesforce
4 43 (2.73%) Google
5 29 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (1.14%) Sage
7 15 (0.95%) Adobe
7 15 (0.95%) Databricks
7 15 (0.95%) Oracle
8 13 (0.83%) Xero
9 12 (0.76%) SAP
9 12 (0.76%) ServiceNow
10 11 (0.70%) Pardot
11 10 (0.64%) Workday
12 8 (0.51%) Cisco
13 7 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.45%) CheckPoint
13 7 (0.45%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.45%) Meraki
13 7 (0.45%) SolarWinds