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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 49 51
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,318 733 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.54% 5.59% 5.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.65% 12.25% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,002 598 1,381
10th Percentile £35,500 £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 £93,438 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,874
% change year-on-year - +1.76% -5.37%

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 6,706 5,984 13,896
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.38% 45.67% 43.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,509 4,673 12,033
10th Percentile £33,375 £33,199 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £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 15 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 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.99%) WordPress
4 10 (0.76%) CMS
4 10 (0.76%) JBoss
4 10 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.68%) Confluence
6 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.38%) Moodle
6 5 (0.38%) Totara
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.076%) Apache
8 1 (0.076%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (0.53%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
5 6 (0.46%) InDesign
5 6 (0.46%) 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 Financials
Cloud Services
1 241 (18.29%) AWS
2 224 (17.00%) Azure
3 94 (7.13%) GCP
4 63 (4.78%) Entra ID
5 62 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (3.95%) GitHub
7 47 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (3.19%) Serverless
9 35 (2.66%) PaaS
10 31 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (2.28%) Power Platform
12 24 (1.82%) IaaS
13 22 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (1.37%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.37%) Figma
15 18 (1.37%) 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 (2.43%) Firewall
2 17 (1.29%) VPN
3 15 (1.14%) BGP
3 15 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (0.99%) LAN
4 13 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
5 12 (0.91%) DNS
5 12 (0.91%) WAN
6 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.76%) MPLS
7 10 (0.76%) SSL
8 9 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (0.68%) IPsec
8 9 (0.68%) NetScaler
8 9 (0.68%) NX-OS
8 9 (0.68%) OSPF
8 9 (0.68%) Unified Communications
8 9 (0.68%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.05%) MySQL
4 23 (1.75%) Power BI
5 22 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (1.14%) Redis
9 13 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 13 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.46%) Big Data
12 6 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.30%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.30%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (3.19%) JIRA
1 42 (3.19%) TeamCity
2 32 (2.43%) Git
3 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
4 6 (0.46%) Postman
4 6 (0.46%) Selenium
5 5 (0.38%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.38%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.38%) JMeter
5 5 (0.38%) Locust
6 4 (0.30%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.30%) GitBook
6 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.23%) git-flow
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.076%) JUnit
8 1 (0.076%) NUnit
General
1 340 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 321 (24.36%) Finance
3 247 (18.74%) Retail
4 218 (16.54%) Marketing
5 168 (12.75%) Law
6 157 (11.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 146 (11.08%) Banking
8 133 (10.09%) Back Office
9 122 (9.26%) Financial Institution
10 103 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
11 81 (6.15%) Legal
12 57 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.81%) Public Sector
14 36 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (2.50%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.44%) German Language
16 19 (1.44%) Polish Language
17 17 (1.29%) Automotive
17 17 (1.29%) French Language
18 16 (1.21%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 189 (14.34%) Senior
2 161 (12.22%) Developer
3 146 (11.08%) Lead
4 100 (7.59%) Software Engineer
5 78 (5.92%) Account Manager
6 69 (5.24%) Architect
7 62 (4.70%) Support Engineer
8 59 (4.48%) Account Executive
8 59 (4.48%) Lead Developer
9 54 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 52 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 51 (3.87%) Analyst
12 42 (3.19%) Development Manager
13 39 (2.96%) Consultant
14 38 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
15 35 (2.66%) Senior Software Engineer
16 31 (2.35%) C# Developer
16 31 (2.35%) Sales Manager
17 30 (2.28%) Marketing Manager
18 28 (2.12%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (8.80%) .NET
2 84 (6.37%) React
3 72 (5.46%) Node.js
4 41 (3.11%) REST
5 39 (2.96%) CSS
6 38 (2.88%) RESTful
7 37 (2.81%) HTML
8 28 (2.12%) Vue
9 22 (1.67%) JSON
10 21 (1.59%) React Native
10 21 (1.59%) Spring
11 19 (1.44%) GraphQL
12 17 (1.29%) Next.js
12 17 (1.29%) SOAP
12 17 (1.29%) XML
13 15 (1.14%) Kafka
14 14 (1.06%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.06%) Middleware
14 14 (1.06%) NestJS
15 13 (0.99%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 131 (9.94%) Onboarding
2 113 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 39 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (2.35%) Blog
6 31 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 24 (1.82%) EPoS
8 23 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 23 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 23 (1.75%) Social Media
9 22 (1.67%) Web Conferencing
10 20 (1.52%) PropTech
11 16 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
12 15 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.06%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 12 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.91%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.11%) Windows
2 27 (2.05%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.97%) Android
4 24 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.46%) Linux
5 6 (0.46%) 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
1 214 (16.24%) AI
2 204 (15.48%) Software Engineering
3 197 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
4 185 (14.04%) B2B
5 179 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 161 (12.22%) CI/CD
7 157 (11.91%) CRM
8 148 (11.23%) Agile
9 138 (10.47%) DevOps
9 138 (10.47%) Full-Stack Development
10 123 (9.33%) Microservices
11 116 (8.80%) Roadmaps
12 112 (8.50%) Fintech
13 111 (8.42%) Mentoring
14 100 (7.59%) Business Development
15 95 (7.21%) Analytics
16 87 (6.60%) Decision-Making
17 79 (5.99%) Project Management
17 79 (5.99%) SDLC
18 74 (5.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (10.62%) SQL
2 111 (8.42%) Python
3 94 (7.13%) C#
3 94 (7.13%) Java
4 77 (5.84%) TypeScript
5 56 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 28 (2.12%) PowerShell
7 26 (1.97%) PHP
8 24 (1.82%) Go
9 16 (1.21%) R
10 15 (1.14%) Bash
11 8 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.38%) Bicep
12 5 (0.38%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.15%) Ruby
13 2 (0.15%) Swift
14 1 (0.076%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 94 (7.13%) Degree
2 42 (3.19%) ACCA
3 30 (2.28%) 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 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.46%) CISM
12 6 (0.46%) MBA
12 6 (0.46%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.30%) CEH
14 3 (0.23%) CIPD
14 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (4.32%) QA
3 41 (3.11%) SOC 2
4 39 (2.96%) PCI DSS
5 30 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.67%) GDPR
7 19 (1.44%) IFRS
8 18 (1.37%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.29%) GRC
9 17 (1.29%) SLA
10 15 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.14%) NIST
11 13 (0.99%) WCAG
12 10 (0.76%) PMO
13 8 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.61%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.30%) GAAP
15 3 (0.23%) COBIT
15 3 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 65 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.49%) 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
1 104 (7.89%) Terraform
2 83 (6.30%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.34%) 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
1 110 (8.35%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.10%) Salesforce
3 35 (2.66%) Google
3 35 (2.66%) HubSpot
4 22 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 19 (1.44%) Adobe
6 17 (1.29%) Databricks
6 17 (1.29%) Pardot
7 16 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.21%) Sage
7 16 (1.21%) Xero
8 15 (1.14%) Cisco
9 14 (1.06%) Oracle
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 (0.46%) Dell