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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 54 50
Rank change year-on-year +28 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,298 802 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.04% 5.55% 4.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.55% 12.83% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 627 1,369
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,375 £46,250 £49,750
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 £97,889 £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 6,997 6,249 13,967
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.97% 43.21% 42.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,806 4,610 11,956
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £83,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,322 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.61% +4.91% -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 10 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 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.00%) WordPress
4 11 (0.85%) CMS
5 10 (0.77%) Confluence
6 7 (0.54%) JBoss
6 7 (0.54%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.46%) SAS
8 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
8 5 (0.39%) Moodle
8 5 (0.39%) Totara
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.077%) Apache
Applications
1 23 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (0.54%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.077%) InDesign
7 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.077%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.077%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.077%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.077%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.077%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 225 (17.33%) AWS
2 214 (16.49%) Azure
3 79 (6.09%) GCP
4 63 (4.85%) Entra ID
5 60 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (3.54%) Serverless
7 40 (3.08%) Power Platform
8 38 (2.93%) GitHub
9 37 (2.85%) PaaS
10 34 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (1.39%) IaaS
15 16 (1.23%) AWS Direct Connect
15 16 (1.23%) Figma
15 16 (1.23%) Mimecast
16 13 (1.00%) Amazon S3
17 12 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.31%) Firewall
2 19 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.31%) VPN
4 14 (1.08%) LAN
4 14 (1.08%) MPLS
4 14 (1.08%) WAN
5 13 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (1.00%) IPsec
5 13 (1.00%) NetScaler
5 13 (1.00%) NX-OS
5 13 (1.00%) SD-WAN
5 13 (1.00%) VXLAN
5 13 (1.00%) WLAN
6 12 (0.92%) BGP
6 12 (0.92%) DNS
7 10 (0.77%) SSL
8 9 (0.69%) OSPF
9 6 (0.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (2.00%) Power BI
4 21 (1.62%) MySQL
5 19 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.46%) Redis
6 15 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.62%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.31%) Big Data
12 4 (0.31%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.23%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.15%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (3.39%) JIRA
2 32 (2.47%) Git
3 28 (2.16%) TeamCity
4 8 (0.62%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.46%) JMeter
6 6 (0.46%) Postman
6 6 (0.46%) Selenium
7 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.39%) Locust
8 4 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.077%) GCC
11 1 (0.077%) MSTest
11 1 (0.077%) SoapUI
General
1 312 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 276 (21.26%) Finance
3 212 (16.33%) Retail
4 211 (16.26%) Marketing
5 150 (11.56%) Law
6 136 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 120 (9.24%) Banking
8 110 (8.47%) Back Office
9 101 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
10 98 (7.55%) Financial Institution
11 77 (5.93%) Legal
12 45 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.16%) Public Sector
15 26 (2.00%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.77%) German Language
17 20 (1.54%) Advertising
18 16 (1.23%) Health Technology
19 15 (1.16%) Polish Language
20 14 (1.08%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 174 (13.41%) Developer
2 173 (13.33%) Senior
3 141 (10.86%) Lead
4 95 (7.32%) Software Engineer
5 85 (6.55%) Account Manager
6 76 (5.86%) Account Executive
7 71 (5.47%) Architect
8 69 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
9 63 (4.85%) Lead Developer
10 54 (4.16%) Support Engineer
11 44 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (3.24%) Development Manager
13 41 (3.16%) Analyst
13 41 (3.16%) Sales Manager
13 41 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (2.93%) Consultant
15 32 (2.47%) .NET Developer
15 32 (2.47%) C# Developer
15 32 (2.47%) Senior Software Engineer
16 30 (2.31%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (8.24%) .NET
2 77 (5.93%) Node.js
3 70 (5.39%) React
4 36 (2.77%) RESTful
5 35 (2.70%) Vue
6 34 (2.62%) REST
7 33 (2.54%) CSS
7 33 (2.54%) HTML
8 25 (1.93%) JSON
9 19 (1.46%) React Native
9 19 (1.46%) Spring
9 19 (1.46%) XML
10 17 (1.31%) GraphQL
11 14 (1.08%) Kafka
11 14 (1.08%) NestJS
11 14 (1.08%) SOAP
12 13 (1.00%) .NET Core
12 13 (1.00%) AngularJS
12 13 (1.00%) Next.js
13 12 (0.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.86%) Onboarding
2 94 (7.24%) Cloud Native
3 69 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (2.00%) Blog
6 26 (2.00%) EPoS
7 23 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 21 (1.62%) PropTech
9 20 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
10 15 (1.16%) Social Media
11 14 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
12 12 (0.92%) Client/Server
13 11 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.85%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.85%) Windows
2 25 (1.93%) Apple iOS
3 24 (1.85%) Android
4 17 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.77%) Linux
6 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.15%) Unix
9 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (16.10%) AI
2 188 (14.48%) Software Engineering
3 178 (13.71%) B2B
4 177 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 170 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 151 (11.63%) Agile
7 148 (11.40%) CRM
8 146 (11.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 131 (10.09%) CI/CD
10 122 (9.40%) DevOps
11 115 (8.86%) Microservices
12 110 (8.47%) Business Development
13 109 (8.40%) Roadmaps
14 101 (7.78%) Fintech
15 94 (7.24%) Analytics
16 92 (7.09%) Mentoring
17 89 (6.86%) Decision-Making
18 80 (6.16%) SDLC
19 75 (5.78%) Project Management
20 70 (5.39%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.86%) SQL
2 115 (8.86%) Python
3 83 (6.39%) C#
3 83 (6.39%) TypeScript
4 81 (6.24%) Java
5 62 (4.78%) JavaScript
6 32 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 26 (2.00%) PHP
8 24 (1.85%) Go
9 16 (1.23%) R
10 10 (0.77%) Bash
11 8 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.31%) Bicep
13 3 (0.23%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.23%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.23%) Swift
14 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.077%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.077%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (6.63%) Degree
2 43 (3.31%) ACCA
3 31 (2.39%) CIMA
4 24 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.69%) Security Cleared
6 20 (1.54%) CISSP
7 18 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.08%) SC Cleared
9 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.77%) CISA
11 9 (0.69%) CRISC
12 7 (0.54%) CISM
12 7 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.46%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.46%) MBA
14 4 (0.31%) CEH
15 3 (0.23%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.23%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (3.54%) QA
3 32 (2.47%) PCI DSS
4 31 (2.39%) SOC 2
5 29 (2.23%) GDPR
6 27 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.54%) IFRS
8 19 (1.46%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (1.00%) WCAG
11 12 (0.92%) SLA
12 11 (0.85%) GRC
12 11 (0.85%) NIST
12 11 (0.85%) PMO
13 9 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.46%) GAAP
16 4 (0.31%) COBIT
16 4 (0.31%) SOC 1
17 3 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 63 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 50 (3.85%) Docker
3 3 (0.23%) Firmware
3 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.077%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 83 (6.39%) Terraform
2 69 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.62%) Grafana
4 27 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.77%) Ansible
7 7 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.15%) CASB
8 2 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.15%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.077%) Graylog
9 1 (0.077%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.077%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.077%) QRadar
Vendors
1 109 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 49 (3.78%) Salesforce
3 41 (3.16%) HubSpot
4 36 (2.77%) Google
5 19 (1.46%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.23%) Pardot
7 16 (1.23%) Sage
7 16 (1.23%) Xero
8 15 (1.16%) SAP
9 14 (1.08%) Adobe
9 14 (1.08%) Cisco
10 13 (1.00%) CheckPoint
10 13 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.00%) Meraki
10 13 (1.00%) SolarWinds
11 12 (0.92%) Databricks
11 12 (0.92%) Oracle
12 9 (0.69%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.46%) Atlassian