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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 69 51
Rank change year-on-year +42 -18 -7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,347 732 1,571
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.13% 5.04% 4.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.77% 12.75% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 561 1,346
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 7,178 5,740 14,012
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.02% 39.55% 43.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,928 4,131 11,921
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,375 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 23 May 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 38 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.04%) WordPress
4 12 (0.89%) CMS
5 9 (0.67%) Confluence
6 6 (0.45%) SAS
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.37%) JBoss
7 5 (0.37%) Moodle
7 5 (0.37%) Totara
7 5 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.074%) Apache
9 1 (0.074%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 24 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.074%) InDesign
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Aareon QL
4 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
4 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.15%) OPENHousing
4 2 (0.15%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 228 (16.93%) AWS
2 220 (16.33%) Azure
3 86 (6.38%) GCP
4 70 (5.20%) Entra ID
5 67 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (3.41%) Power Platform
6 46 (3.41%) Serverless
7 43 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (3.12%) PaaS
9 28 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (2.08%) GitHub
10 20 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (1.48%) IaaS
11 19 (1.41%) Figma
12 18 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (1.19%) AWS Direct Connect
13 16 (1.19%) Mimecast
14 12 (0.89%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.15%) Firewall
2 22 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
3 20 (1.48%) VPN
4 17 (1.26%) DNS
5 14 (1.04%) LAN
5 14 (1.04%) MPLS
5 14 (1.04%) WAN
6 13 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (0.97%) IPsec
6 13 (0.97%) NetScaler
6 13 (0.97%) NX-OS
6 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.97%) VXLAN
6 13 (0.97%) WLAN
7 12 (0.89%) BGP
8 10 (0.74%) SSL
9 9 (0.67%) OSPF
10 8 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.38%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.15%) Power BI
4 17 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (1.26%) MySQL
5 16 (1.19%) Redis
6 13 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.45%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.37%) Big Data
11 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.30%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.30%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.15%) Metadata
13 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (3.49%) JIRA
2 37 (2.75%) TeamCity
3 31 (2.30%) Git
4 8 (0.59%) Claude Code
4 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.45%) JMeter
6 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.37%) Locust
6 5 (0.37%) Postman
7 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.30%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.30%) Selenium
8 3 (0.22%) JUnit
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.15%) Eclipse
General
1 306 (22.72%) Finance
1 306 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 238 (17.67%) Retail
3 221 (16.41%) Marketing
4 172 (12.77%) Law
5 155 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (10.32%) Banking
7 127 (9.43%) Back Office
8 115 (8.54%) Financial Institution
9 104 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
10 84 (6.24%) Legal
11 44 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
12 39 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.30%) Public Sector
14 28 (2.08%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.71%) German Language
16 22 (1.63%) Advertising
17 19 (1.41%) Polish Language
18 18 (1.34%) Health Technology
19 16 (1.19%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 173 (12.84%) Senior
2 166 (12.32%) Developer
3 144 (10.69%) Lead
4 113 (8.39%) Software Engineer
5 91 (6.76%) Account Executive
6 88 (6.53%) Account Manager
7 71 (5.27%) Architect
8 70 (5.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (4.45%) Lead Developer
10 52 (3.86%) Support Engineer
11 44 (3.27%) Consultant
12 43 (3.19%) Analyst
13 42 (3.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 41 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 39 (2.90%) Sales Manager
16 38 (2.82%) .NET Software Engineer
17 36 (2.67%) C# Developer
18 34 (2.52%) .NET Developer
18 34 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
19 33 (2.45%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (7.28%) .NET
2 74 (5.49%) Node.js
3 63 (4.68%) React
4 41 (3.04%) Vue
5 37 (2.75%) HTML
6 36 (2.67%) RESTful
7 35 (2.60%) CSS
8 34 (2.52%) REST
9 25 (1.86%) JSON
10 21 (1.56%) XML
11 17 (1.26%) Spring
12 16 (1.19%) React Native
13 15 (1.11%) .NET Core
14 14 (1.04%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.04%) GraphQL
15 13 (0.97%) NestJS
15 13 (0.97%) Next.js
15 13 (0.97%) OAuth
15 13 (0.97%) SOAP
16 12 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.42%) Onboarding
3 79 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.00%) Blog
8 25 (1.86%) EPoS
9 23 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.63%) PropTech
11 21 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.19%) Social Media
15 15 (1.11%) Client/Server
15 15 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
15 15 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
16 11 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (0.74%) Learning Management System
17 10 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.04%) Windows
2 24 (1.78%) Apple iOS
3 23 (1.71%) Android
4 15 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.82%) Linux
6 7 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.15%) Unix
9 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (15.44%) AI
2 194 (14.40%) Software Engineering
3 182 (13.51%) B2B
4 177 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
5 170 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 157 (11.66%) CRM
7 147 (10.91%) Agile
8 139 (10.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 133 (9.87%) CI/CD
10 128 (9.50%) DevOps
11 119 (8.83%) Microservices
11 119 (8.83%) Roadmaps
12 117 (8.69%) Business Development
13 112 (8.31%) Fintech
14 98 (7.28%) Analytics
14 98 (7.28%) Decision-Making
15 93 (6.90%) Mentoring
16 76 (5.64%) SDLC
17 73 (5.42%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (5.35%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (8.98%) SQL
2 112 (8.31%) Python
3 88 (6.53%) Java
4 78 (5.79%) C#
4 78 (5.79%) TypeScript
5 60 (4.45%) JavaScript
6 38 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 25 (1.86%) Go
7 25 (1.86%) PHP
8 17 (1.26%) R
9 13 (0.97%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.30%) Bicep
12 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.22%) Swift
13 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.074%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.074%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (6.53%) Degree
2 41 (3.04%) ACCA
3 29 (2.15%) CIMA
4 24 (1.78%) CISSP
4 24 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.71%) Security Cleared
6 16 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.11%) SC Cleared
8 13 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.82%) CISA
10 11 (0.82%) CRISC
11 10 (0.74%) CISM
12 7 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.45%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.45%) MBA
14 4 (0.30%) CEH
14 4 (0.30%) ISACA
15 3 (0.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (3.12%) QA
3 36 (2.67%) GDPR
4 34 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 32 (2.38%) SOC 2
6 30 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 20 (1.48%) IFRS
9 18 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.11%) WCAG
11 14 (1.04%) NIST
12 12 (0.89%) SLA
13 11 (0.82%) GRC
13 11 (0.82%) PMO
14 9 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.45%) GAAP
17 5 (0.37%) COBIT
17 5 (0.37%) SOC 1
18 3 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 66 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.41%) Docker
3 3 (0.22%) Firmware
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (6.76%) Terraform
2 77 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.34%) Grafana
4 26 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.74%) Ansible
7 7 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.15%) CASB
9 2 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.074%) Graylog
10 1 (0.074%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.074%) QRadar
Vendors
1 122 (9.06%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.86%) Salesforce
3 41 (3.04%) HubSpot
4 38 (2.82%) Google
5 18 (1.34%) Sage
5 18 (1.34%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.19%) Adobe
7 16 (1.19%) Pardot
7 16 (1.19%) SAP
7 16 (1.19%) Xero
8 14 (1.04%) Cisco
9 13 (0.97%) CheckPoint
9 13 (0.97%) Databricks
9 13 (0.97%) Dynatrace
9 13 (0.97%) Meraki
9 13 (0.97%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.82%) Oracle
11 9 (0.67%) Fortinet
12 6 (0.45%) Atlassian