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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 72 53
Rank change year-on-year +44 -19 -9
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,607 807 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.09% 4.89% 4.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.38% 13.45% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 610 910
10th Percentile £35,850 £32,950 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,313 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year - +6.20% -5.84%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £81,250
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% -8.05%

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 8,742 5,999 10,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.58% 36.38% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,302 4,419 8,083
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 8 August 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 63 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.00%) Confluence
4 9 (0.56%) CMS
5 7 (0.44%) IIS
5 7 (0.44%) WordPress
6 6 (0.37%) SAS
7 3 (0.19%) Moodle
7 3 (0.19%) Totara
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.062%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.062%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.062%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 28 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (0.37%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.25%) Moqups
7 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.062%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 24 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.81%) 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 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.062%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 309 (19.23%) Azure
2 305 (18.98%) AWS
3 96 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 85 (5.29%) GCP
6 60 (3.73%) PaaS
7 57 (3.55%) Power Platform
8 52 (3.24%) Serverless
9 49 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (1.93%) Mimecast
12 30 (1.87%) IaaS
13 29 (1.80%) Snowflake
14 27 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (1.37%) Figma
16 21 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (1.24%) GitHub
17 20 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
17 20 (1.24%) PowerApps
18 18 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.87%) DNS
2 13 (0.81%) Firewall
3 12 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (0.68%) VPN
5 10 (0.62%) Broadband
6 8 (0.50%) DHCP
6 8 (0.50%) Network Security
7 7 (0.44%) Internet
7 7 (0.44%) LAN
7 7 (0.44%) WAN
8 6 (0.37%) 5G
8 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (0.37%) IPsec
8 6 (0.37%) MPLS
8 6 (0.37%) NetScaler
8 6 (0.37%) NX-OS
8 6 (0.37%) SSL
8 6 (0.37%) VXLAN
8 6 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.42%) SQL Server
2 40 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (2.12%) Redis
4 30 (1.87%) Power BI
5 20 (1.24%) MySQL
6 13 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.37%) Big Data
10 5 (0.31%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.31%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.25%) Metadata
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.25%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.25%) Tableau
12 3 (0.19%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 100 (6.22%) JIRA
2 44 (2.74%) Git
3 40 (2.49%) TeamCity
4 11 (0.68%) Claude Code
4 11 (0.68%) Cypress.io
4 11 (0.68%) Selenium
5 9 (0.56%) GitLab
6 6 (0.37%) JMeter
6 6 (0.37%) Postman
6 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.31%) Locust
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 (0.12%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.12%) MSI
10 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 437 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 355 (22.09%) Finance
3 228 (14.19%) Retail
4 222 (13.81%) Marketing
5 204 (12.69%) Law
6 173 (10.77%) Legal
7 154 (9.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 124 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
9 118 (7.34%) Banking
10 110 (6.85%) Back Office
11 88 (5.48%) Financial Institution
12 66 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
13 59 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (2.49%) Public Sector
15 32 (1.99%) Advertising
15 32 (1.99%) Manufacturing
16 25 (1.56%) German Language
17 23 (1.43%) Health Technology
18 21 (1.31%) Billing
19 19 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 223 (13.88%) Senior
2 209 (13.01%) Lead
3 157 (9.77%) Developer
4 109 (6.78%) Software Engineer
5 101 (6.29%) Account Executive
6 85 (5.29%) Architect
6 85 (5.29%) Consultant
6 85 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 77 (4.79%) Senior Manager
8 75 (4.67%) Account Manager
9 62 (3.86%) Lead Developer
10 59 (3.67%) IT Manager
10 59 (3.67%) Service Manager
11 56 (3.48%) Software Developer
12 51 (3.17%) Analyst
13 50 (3.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 50 (3.11%) Lead Software Developer
14 49 (3.05%) Testing Manager
15 48 (2.99%) Resilience Manager
15 48 (2.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (6.85%) Node.js
2 83 (5.16%) .NET
3 70 (4.36%) React
4 58 (3.61%) Vue
5 52 (3.24%) REST
6 51 (3.17%) Middleware
7 38 (2.36%) RESTful
8 35 (2.18%) CSS
9 32 (1.99%) HTML
10 22 (1.37%) Next.js
11 19 (1.18%) OAuth
12 18 (1.12%) AngularJS
12 18 (1.12%) JSON
13 16 (1.00%) NestJS
14 14 (0.87%) Laravel
14 14 (0.87%) OpenID
14 14 (0.87%) XML
15 12 (0.75%) Kafka
16 11 (0.68%) ASP.NET
16 11 (0.68%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 124 (7.72%) Cloud Native
2 104 (6.47%) Onboarding
3 90 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.80%) Virtual Team
5 49 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
7 43 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 38 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.56%) Web Conferencing
11 22 (1.37%) Social Media
12 21 (1.31%) PropTech
13 20 (1.24%) Driving Licence
14 18 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
15 17 (1.06%) Client/Server
16 15 (0.93%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.93%) Life Science
17 14 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (0.87%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.74%) Windows
2 22 (1.37%) Linux
3 11 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.62%) Android
4 10 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.19%) Debian
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.062%) Unix
7 1 (0.062%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
2 264 (16.43%) AI
3 258 (16.05%) DevOps
4 241 (15.00%) Software Engineering
5 234 (14.56%) B2B
6 232 (14.44%) Agile
7 211 (13.13%) CRM
8 207 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (10.83%) Test Automation
10 171 (10.64%) CI/CD
11 168 (10.45%) Mentoring
12 154 (9.58%) Roadmaps
13 152 (9.46%) Decision-Making
13 152 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
14 150 (9.33%) Business Development
15 146 (9.09%) Microservices
16 142 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 129 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 117 (7.28%) Enterprise Architecture
18 117 (7.28%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 176 (10.95%) TypeScript
2 158 (9.83%) JavaScript
2 158 (9.83%) Python
3 136 (8.46%) C#
4 122 (7.59%) SQL
5 91 (5.66%) PowerShell
6 80 (4.98%) Java
7 33 (2.05%) PHP
8 32 (1.99%) R
9 24 (1.49%) Go
10 15 (0.93%) Bash
11 12 (0.75%) Bicep
12 9 (0.56%) Ruby
13 5 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.19%) Swift
16 2 (0.12%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 95 (5.91%) Degree
2 81 (5.04%) CISSP
3 70 (4.36%) CISM
4 51 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
5 47 (2.92%) ACCA
6 39 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.12%) CIMA
8 28 (1.74%) Security Cleared
9 21 (1.31%) CRISC
10 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.00%) CISA
12 15 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.87%) SC Cleared
14 9 (0.56%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.50%) ISACA
16 7 (0.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 7 (0.44%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.37%) DV Cleared
18 5 (0.31%) AWS Certification
18 5 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (7.65%) QA
2 86 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (4.67%) NIST
4 69 (4.29%) GDPR
5 48 (2.99%) ISO 22301
6 35 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 29 (1.80%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.68%) SOC 2
9 23 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.37%) IFRS
11 19 (1.18%) GRC
12 17 (1.06%) Data Quality
13 15 (0.93%) SLA
14 14 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.56%) COBIT
16 7 (0.44%) GAAP
16 7 (0.44%) PMO
16 7 (0.44%) SOC 1
16 7 (0.44%) WCAG
17 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 79 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.48%) Docker
3 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 102 (6.35%) Terraform
2 81 (5.04%) Kubernetes
3 53 (3.30%) Grafana
4 38 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.87%) Ansible
7 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.19%) Argo
9 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.12%) CASB
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.12%) Puppet
11 1 (0.062%) Graylog
11 1 (0.062%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.062%) Packer
11 1 (0.062%) QRadar
11 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 213 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 78 (4.85%) HubSpot
3 60 (3.73%) Salesforce
4 39 (2.43%) Google
5 32 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (1.12%) Sage
7 15 (0.93%) Databricks
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle
8 13 (0.81%) Adobe
8 13 (0.81%) SAP
8 13 (0.81%) Xero
9 11 (0.68%) Workday
10 10 (0.62%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.44%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.44%) Cisco
12 6 (0.37%) Apple
12 6 (0.37%) CheckPoint
12 6 (0.37%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.37%) Meraki
12 6 (0.37%) SolarWinds