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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 48 48
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,317 747 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.37% 5.60% 4.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.36% 12.48% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 610 1,372
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £41,025
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £101,250
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 6,801 5,984 13,945
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.07% 44.84% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,569 4,688 11,987
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +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 21 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 35 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.75%) 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%) IIS
7 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.076%) Apache
Applications
1 26 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 13 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (0.53%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.23%) InDesign
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Sketch
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.46%) 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
1 235 (17.84%) AWS
2 220 (16.70%) Azure
3 89 (6.76%) GCP
4 64 (4.86%) Entra ID
5 59 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (3.72%) GitHub
7 46 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
8 41 (3.11%) Serverless
9 34 (2.58%) PaaS
10 32 (2.43%) Power Platform
11 30 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (1.75%) IaaS
13 21 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (1.44%) Figma
16 17 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (1.21%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.21%) Mimecast
18 14 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (1.06%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.43%) Firewall
2 16 (1.21%) VPN
3 15 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (1.06%) BGP
5 13 (0.99%) LAN
5 13 (0.99%) WAN
6 12 (0.91%) DNS
7 11 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.76%) MPLS
8 10 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
8 10 (0.76%) SSL
9 9 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (0.68%) IPsec
9 9 (0.68%) NetScaler
9 9 (0.68%) NX-OS
9 9 (0.68%) OSPF
9 9 (0.68%) VXLAN
9 9 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (1.90%) MySQL
3 25 (1.90%) Power BI
4 21 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.21%) Redis
7 12 (0.91%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.53%) Big Data
12 6 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.30%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.30%) Tableau
14 3 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.23%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (3.19%) JIRA
2 41 (3.11%) TeamCity
3 32 (2.43%) Git
4 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.46%) JMeter
5 6 (0.46%) Postman
5 6 (0.46%) Selenium
6 5 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.38%) Locust
7 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.30%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.23%) GitBook
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.15%) git-flow
10 1 (0.076%) GCC
10 1 (0.076%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 340 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 324 (24.60%) Finance
3 248 (18.83%) Retail
4 216 (16.40%) Marketing
5 167 (12.68%) Law
6 161 (12.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 146 (11.09%) Banking
8 133 (10.10%) Back Office
9 121 (9.19%) Financial Institution
10 102 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
11 80 (6.07%) Legal
12 57 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (2.73%) Public Sector
15 33 (2.51%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.59%) German Language
17 19 (1.44%) Polish Language
18 17 (1.29%) Automotive
19 16 (1.21%) Advertising
19 16 (1.21%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 183 (13.90%) Senior
2 164 (12.45%) Developer
3 148 (11.24%) Lead
4 101 (7.67%) Software Engineer
5 79 (6.00%) Account Manager
6 67 (5.09%) Architect
7 63 (4.78%) Support Engineer
8 60 (4.56%) Account Executive
8 60 (4.56%) Lead Developer
9 55 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 51 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 48 (3.64%) Analyst
12 40 (3.04%) Development Manager
12 40 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
13 38 (2.89%) Consultant
14 34 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
15 33 (2.51%) C# Developer
15 33 (2.51%) Sales Manager
16 32 (2.43%) Marketing Manager
17 30 (2.28%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (8.66%) .NET
2 84 (6.38%) React
3 73 (5.54%) Node.js
4 41 (3.11%) REST
5 39 (2.96%) RESTful
6 37 (2.81%) CSS
7 35 (2.66%) HTML
8 29 (2.20%) Vue
9 24 (1.82%) JSON
10 22 (1.67%) Spring
11 21 (1.59%) React Native
12 20 (1.52%) GraphQL
13 18 (1.37%) XML
14 17 (1.29%) Next.js
14 17 (1.29%) SOAP
15 14 (1.06%) Kafka
15 14 (1.06%) Middleware
15 14 (1.06%) NestJS
16 13 (0.99%) .NET Framework
16 13 (0.99%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.34%) Onboarding
2 111 (8.43%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (2.20%) Blog
8 25 (1.90%) EPoS
9 22 (1.67%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.59%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.52%) PropTech
12 19 (1.44%) Social Media
13 18 (1.37%) Web Conferencing
14 16 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
16 14 (1.06%) Client/Server
17 13 (0.99%) Educational Technology
17 13 (0.99%) Security Posture
18 12 (0.91%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.04%) Windows
2 28 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 27 (2.05%) Android
4 23 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.53%) Linux
6 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.15%) Unix
8 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (15.87%) AI
2 204 (15.49%) Software Engineering
3 197 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
4 183 (13.90%) B2B
5 181 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 158 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 150 (11.39%) CRM
8 148 (11.24%) Agile
9 139 (10.55%) Full-Stack Development
10 137 (10.40%) DevOps
11 122 (9.26%) Microservices
12 116 (8.81%) Roadmaps
13 113 (8.58%) Fintech
14 108 (8.20%) Mentoring
15 100 (7.59%) Business Development
16 91 (6.91%) Analytics
17 86 (6.53%) Decision-Making
18 80 (6.07%) Project Management
19 79 (6.00%) SDLC
20 74 (5.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (10.55%) SQL
2 112 (8.50%) Python
3 94 (7.14%) Java
4 90 (6.83%) C#
5 77 (5.85%) TypeScript
6 55 (4.18%) JavaScript
7 29 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 25 (1.90%) PHP
9 24 (1.82%) Go
10 16 (1.21%) R
11 14 (1.06%) Bash
12 8 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.46%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.38%) Bicep
15 3 (0.23%) Swift
16 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.15%) Ruby
17 1 (0.076%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 92 (6.99%) Degree
2 45 (3.42%) ACCA
3 33 (2.51%) CIMA
4 24 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.37%) CISSP
7 15 (1.14%) Security Cleared
8 14 (1.06%) SC Cleared
9 10 (0.76%) CISA
10 9 (0.68%) CRISC
11 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.53%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.53%) CISM
12 7 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.53%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.46%) MBA
14 4 (0.30%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.30%) CEH
15 3 (0.23%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (4.18%) QA
3 38 (2.89%) PCI DSS
3 38 (2.89%) SOC 2
4 31 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.90%) GDPR
6 21 (1.59%) IFRS
7 17 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (1.29%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.21%) SLA
9 15 (1.14%) GRC
10 14 (1.06%) NIST
11 13 (0.99%) WCAG
12 10 (0.76%) PMO
13 9 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.38%) GAAP
15 5 (0.38%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.30%) COBIT
16 4 (0.30%) SOC 1
System Software
1 66 (5.01%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.57%) Docker
3 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.23%) Firmware
5 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 100 (7.59%) Terraform
2 82 (6.23%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.34%) Grafana
4 26 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.84%) Ansible
5 11 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.53%) Argo
7 3 (0.23%) 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
Vendors
1 107 (8.12%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.02%) Salesforce
3 35 (2.66%) Google
4 34 (2.58%) HubSpot
5 21 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.37%) Xero
7 17 (1.29%) Pardot
7 17 (1.29%) Sage
8 16 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
9 15 (1.14%) Adobe
9 15 (1.14%) Databricks
10 14 (1.06%) Oracle
11 12 (0.91%) Cisco
12 10 (0.76%) SAP
13 9 (0.68%) CheckPoint
13 9 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.68%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.68%) Meraki
13 9 (0.68%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.46%) Dell