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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 47 46
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,294 759 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.62% 5.82% 5.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.26% 12.28% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 970 602 1,393
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £102,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.56% -5.19%

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 6,387 6,179 13,776
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.59% 47.36% 45.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,286 4,696 11,944
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,063 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,300 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +7.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 24 March 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 28 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.31%) WordPress
4 11 (0.85%) Confluence
4 11 (0.85%) JBoss
4 11 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 10 (0.77%) CMS
6 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.31%) Moodle
7 4 (0.31%) Totara
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.077%) Apache
Applications
1 32 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (0.77%) InDesign
4 10 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (0.54%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.15%) Sketch
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.077%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 19 (1.47%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.31%) 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%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 249 (19.24%) AWS
2 238 (18.39%) Azure
3 103 (7.96%) GCP
4 60 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (4.48%) Entra ID
6 56 (4.33%) GitHub
7 43 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (3.32%) Serverless
8 40 (3.09%) PaaS
9 35 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (2.24%) IaaS
10 29 (2.24%) Power Platform
11 23 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (1.55%) Amazon S3
14 19 (1.47%) Figma
15 18 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (1.16%) AWS Direct Connect
17 14 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.40%) Firewall
2 23 (1.78%) Remote Desktop
3 17 (1.31%) VPN
4 15 (1.16%) BGP
4 15 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (1.00%) DNS
5 13 (1.00%) LAN
6 12 (0.93%) Unified Communications
6 12 (0.93%) WAN
7 11 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.77%) MPLS
9 9 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (0.70%) IPsec
9 9 (0.70%) NetScaler
9 9 (0.70%) NX-OS
9 9 (0.70%) OSPF
9 9 (0.70%) VXLAN
9 9 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (6.72%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (2.16%) MySQL
4 25 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (1.70%) Power BI
6 20 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 19 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (0.93%) Redis
10 10 (0.77%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.46%) Big Data
12 6 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.46%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.46%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.31%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.31%) Data Vault
15 3 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 43 (3.32%) JIRA
2 40 (3.09%) TeamCity
3 32 (2.47%) Git
4 8 (0.62%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.54%) Postman
5 7 (0.54%) Selenium
6 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.39%) GitBook
7 5 (0.39%) git-flow
8 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.31%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.31%) JMeter
8 4 (0.31%) Locust
8 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.15%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.077%) MSTest
11 1 (0.077%) NUnit
General
1 367 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 295 (22.80%) Finance
3 238 (18.39%) Retail
4 210 (16.23%) Marketing
5 161 (12.44%) Law
6 146 (11.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 139 (10.74%) Banking
8 127 (9.81%) Back Office
9 116 (8.96%) Financial Institution
10 108 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
11 75 (5.80%) Legal
12 58 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (2.63%) Public Sector
15 31 (2.40%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.55%) Polish Language
17 19 (1.47%) Automotive
18 17 (1.31%) French Language
19 16 (1.24%) German Language
19 16 (1.24%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 205 (15.84%) Senior
2 147 (11.36%) Developer
3 146 (11.28%) Lead
4 93 (7.19%) Software Engineer
5 74 (5.72%) Architect
6 71 (5.49%) Account Manager
7 55 (4.25%) Support Engineer
8 54 (4.17%) Lead Developer
9 53 (4.10%) Account Executive
9 53 (4.10%) Analyst
10 50 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (3.25%) Development Manager
13 40 (3.09%) Consultant
14 37 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
15 35 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (2.47%) Marketing Executive
17 30 (2.32%) Sales Manager
18 29 (2.24%) Marketing Manager
19 28 (2.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (9.89%) .NET
2 99 (7.65%) React
3 70 (5.41%) Node.js
4 45 (3.48%) REST
5 39 (3.01%) CSS
5 39 (3.01%) RESTful
6 36 (2.78%) HTML
7 22 (1.70%) React Native
7 22 (1.70%) Spring
8 20 (1.55%) Vue
9 19 (1.47%) Next.js
9 19 (1.47%) SOAP
10 18 (1.39%) GraphQL
11 17 (1.31%) .NET Framework
11 17 (1.31%) JSON
12 16 (1.24%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.16%) Kafka
13 15 (1.16%) Middleware
14 14 (1.08%) Hibernate
14 14 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 150 (11.59%) Onboarding
2 114 (8.81%) Cloud Native
3 80 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 42 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.55%) Social Media
7 31 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 29 (2.24%) Blog
9 27 (2.09%) Web Conferencing
10 24 (1.85%) Data Centre
10 24 (1.85%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.55%) EPoS
12 17 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.31%) PropTech
13 15 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (1.00%) Life Science
15 12 (0.93%) Driving Licence
15 12 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.93%) Security Posture
16 11 (0.85%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.09%) Windows
2 25 (1.93%) Apple iOS
3 24 (1.85%) Android
3 24 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.54%) Linux
5 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.15%) Unix
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.077%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
2 208 (16.07%) Software Engineering
3 206 (15.92%) AI
4 184 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 181 (13.99%) B2B
6 179 (13.83%) CRM
7 167 (12.91%) CI/CD
8 162 (12.52%) Agile
9 139 (10.74%) DevOps
10 133 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 133 (10.28%) Mentoring
11 132 (10.20%) Microservices
12 126 (9.74%) Roadmaps
13 111 (8.58%) Fintech
14 98 (7.57%) Business Development
15 93 (7.19%) Analytics
16 82 (6.34%) Customer Service
17 80 (6.18%) Decision-Making
17 80 (6.18%) Project Management
18 78 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (12.06%) SQL
2 112 (8.66%) Python
3 109 (8.42%) C#
4 89 (6.88%) Java
5 81 (6.26%) TypeScript
6 57 (4.40%) JavaScript
7 31 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 26 (2.01%) PHP
9 18 (1.39%) Go
10 17 (1.31%) Bash
11 11 (0.85%) R
12 8 (0.62%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.46%) Bicep
14 4 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.15%) Ruby
16 1 (0.077%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 109 (8.42%) Degree
2 25 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (1.85%) Master's Degree
4 21 (1.62%) ACCA
5 18 (1.39%) Security Cleared
6 16 (1.24%) CISSP
7 14 (1.08%) SC Cleared
8 13 (1.00%) CIMA
9 9 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.62%) CISA
11 7 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (0.54%) CRISC
11 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.46%) MBA
12 6 (0.46%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.39%) CISM
14 4 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.31%) CEH
15 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.33%) QA
2 67 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (3.09%) SOC 2
4 35 (2.70%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.55%) GDPR
7 17 (1.31%) GRC
8 16 (1.24%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.24%) IFRS
8 16 (1.24%) SLA
9 14 (1.08%) NIST
10 12 (0.93%) ISO 9001
10 12 (0.93%) WCAG
11 11 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.77%) PMO
13 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.31%) GAAP
15 3 (0.23%) PSD2
16 2 (0.15%) SOC 1
System Software
1 62 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 48 (3.71%) Docker
3 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.23%) Firmware
5 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (7.96%) Terraform
2 83 (6.41%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.25%) Grafana
4 21 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.85%) Ansible
7 8 (0.62%) Argo
8 4 (0.31%) Cilium
9 2 (0.15%) CASB
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.077%) Graylog
10 1 (0.077%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.077%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.077%) Puppet
10 1 (0.077%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 112 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.40%) Salesforce
3 40 (3.09%) HubSpot
4 31 (2.40%) Google
5 26 (2.01%) Adobe
6 24 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 22 (1.70%) Databricks
8 19 (1.47%) Cisco
8 19 (1.47%) Oracle
9 15 (1.16%) Pardot
10 12 (0.93%) Sage
11 11 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.70%) CheckPoint
12 9 (0.70%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.70%) Fortinet
12 9 (0.70%) Meraki
12 9 (0.70%) SAP
12 9 (0.70%) SolarWinds
12 9 (0.70%) Zoho
13 8 (0.62%) Xero