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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 67 59
Rank change year-on-year +37 -8 -13
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,592 810 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.98% 4.88% 4.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.38% 13.57% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 610 867
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,925 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 8,662 5,971 10,039
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.96% 35.95% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,294 4,386 7,813
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,301 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 17 August 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 70 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.82%) Confluence
4 9 (0.57%) CMS
5 7 (0.44%) IIS
6 6 (0.38%) SAS
6 6 (0.38%) WordPress
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.13%) Moodle
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Totara
8 1 (0.063%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.063%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.063%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 28 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.31%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.25%) Moqups
6 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.063%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 22 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.19%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.19%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.19%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.063%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 311 (19.54%) Azure
2 306 (19.22%) AWS
3 97 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (5.46%) Entra ID
5 85 (5.34%) GCP
6 59 (3.71%) Power Platform
7 58 (3.64%) PaaS
8 51 (3.20%) Serverless
9 44 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (1.95%) Mimecast
12 30 (1.88%) Snowflake
13 29 (1.82%) IaaS
14 28 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
15 24 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
16 21 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (1.32%) GitHub
17 20 (1.26%) Figma
17 20 (1.26%) PowerApps
18 18 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.82%) DNS
2 12 (0.75%) VPN
3 11 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (0.63%) Broadband
4 10 (0.63%) Firewall
5 8 (0.50%) DHCP
5 8 (0.50%) Network Security
6 6 (0.38%) 5G
6 6 (0.38%) Internet
6 6 (0.38%) LAN
6 6 (0.38%) SSL
6 6 (0.38%) WAN
7 5 (0.31%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (0.31%) IPsec
7 5 (0.31%) MPLS
7 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.31%) SMS
7 5 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.31%) VXLAN
7 5 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.26%) Redis
4 30 (1.88%) Power BI
5 18 (1.13%) MySQL
6 15 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.31%) Big Data
9 5 (0.31%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.31%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.25%) Metadata
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.25%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.25%) Tableau
11 2 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.13%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 97 (6.09%) JIRA
2 45 (2.83%) Git
3 36 (2.26%) TeamCity
4 12 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 11 (0.69%) Claude Code
5 11 (0.69%) GitLab
5 11 (0.69%) Selenium
6 6 (0.38%) JMeter
6 6 (0.38%) Postman
6 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.31%) Locust
7 5 (0.31%) Storybook
8 4 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.13%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.13%) JUnit
10 2 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 432 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 333 (20.92%) Finance
3 219 (13.76%) Marketing
4 202 (12.69%) Retail
5 185 (11.62%) Law
6 177 (11.12%) Legal
7 137 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 120 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
9 98 (6.16%) Banking
10 92 (5.78%) Back Office
11 75 (4.71%) Financial Institution
12 65 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
13 58 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (2.95%) Public Sector
15 32 (2.01%) Manufacturing
16 30 (1.88%) Advertising
17 24 (1.51%) Health Technology
18 23 (1.44%) German Language
19 21 (1.32%) Billing
20 16 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 219 (13.76%) Senior
2 214 (13.44%) Lead
3 166 (10.43%) Developer
4 103 (6.47%) Account Executive
5 102 (6.41%) Software Engineer
6 93 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 92 (5.78%) Architect
8 82 (5.15%) Consultant
9 75 (4.71%) Senior Manager
10 70 (4.40%) Account Manager
11 68 (4.27%) Lead Developer
12 62 (3.89%) Software Developer
13 59 (3.71%) IT Manager
14 56 (3.52%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 56 (3.52%) Lead Software Developer
15 54 (3.39%) Service Manager
16 51 (3.20%) Analyst
17 49 (3.08%) Testing Manager
18 48 (3.02%) IT Services Manager
18 48 (3.02%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (7.41%) Node.js
2 85 (5.34%) .NET
3 70 (4.40%) React
4 59 (3.71%) Vue
5 55 (3.45%) Middleware
6 53 (3.33%) REST
7 37 (2.32%) RESTful
8 34 (2.14%) CSS
9 29 (1.82%) HTML
10 24 (1.51%) Next.js
11 19 (1.19%) NestJS
11 19 (1.19%) OAuth
12 16 (1.01%) JSON
13 14 (0.88%) Laravel
13 14 (0.88%) OpenID
14 13 (0.82%) AngularJS
15 12 (0.75%) Kafka
16 11 (0.69%) ASP.NET
16 11 (0.69%) Django
16 11 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 116 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 99 (6.22%) Onboarding
3 89 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.83%) Virtual Team
5 49 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (3.02%) Cyber Threat
7 44 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.32%) Management Information System
9 36 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
11 22 (1.38%) PropTech
12 21 (1.32%) Social Media
13 20 (1.26%) Driving Licence
14 18 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
15 17 (1.07%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.07%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.88%) Clustering
17 13 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.82%) Data Structures
17 13 (0.82%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.70%) Windows
2 21 (1.32%) Linux
3 10 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.63%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.57%) Android
5 8 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.19%) Debian
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.063%) Unix
7 1 (0.063%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (17.27%) AI
2 268 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 260 (16.33%) DevOps
4 237 (14.89%) Software Engineering
5 234 (14.70%) Agile
6 229 (14.38%) B2B
7 204 (12.81%) CRM
8 197 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (10.93%) Test Automation
10 172 (10.80%) Mentoring
11 169 (10.62%) CI/CD
12 157 (9.86%) Decision-Making
13 154 (9.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 153 (9.61%) Roadmaps
15 145 (9.11%) Business Development
16 142 (8.92%) Microservices
17 141 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 138 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
19 125 (7.85%) Project Delivery
20 121 (7.60%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 184 (11.56%) TypeScript
2 160 (10.05%) JavaScript
3 157 (9.86%) Python
4 141 (8.86%) C#
5 126 (7.91%) SQL
6 87 (5.46%) PowerShell
7 76 (4.77%) Java
8 33 (2.07%) PHP
9 32 (2.01%) R
10 23 (1.44%) Go
11 15 (0.94%) Bash
12 11 (0.69%) Bicep
13 9 (0.57%) Ruby
14 5 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.19%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.19%) Swift
16 2 (0.13%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.13%) SOQL
16 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (5.72%) Degree
2 77 (4.84%) CISSP
3 70 (4.40%) CISM
4 53 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
5 45 (2.83%) ACCA
6 43 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.14%) CIMA
8 26 (1.63%) Security Cleared
9 19 (1.19%) CRISC
10 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.88%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.88%) CISA
12 11 (0.69%) SC Cleared
13 8 (0.50%) ISACA
13 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.38%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 6 (0.38%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.31%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (7.91%) QA
2 83 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (4.59%) NIST
4 66 (4.15%) GDPR
5 48 (3.02%) ISO 22301
6 31 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.63%) SOC 2
9 21 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (1.26%) IFRS
11 19 (1.19%) SLA
12 17 (1.07%) GRC
13 14 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 12 (0.75%) Data Quality
15 9 (0.57%) COBIT
16 8 (0.50%) WCAG
17 7 (0.44%) GAAP
17 7 (0.44%) SOC 1
18 6 (0.38%) PMO
19 5 (0.31%) JSP 440
System Software
1 75 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.52%) Docker
3 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 96 (6.03%) Terraform
2 76 (4.77%) Kubernetes
3 49 (3.08%) Grafana
4 37 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.94%) Ansible
7 9 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.19%) Argo
9 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.13%) CASB
10 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 2 (0.13%) SCCM
11 1 (0.063%) Graylog
11 1 (0.063%) Packer
11 1 (0.063%) QRadar
Vendors
1 221 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 78 (4.90%) HubSpot
3 66 (4.15%) Salesforce
4 45 (2.83%) Google
5 32 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (1.13%) Sage
7 16 (1.01%) Adobe
8 15 (0.94%) Databricks
8 15 (0.94%) SAP
9 13 (0.82%) Oracle
9 13 (0.82%) Xero
10 11 (0.69%) Workday
11 9 (0.57%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.38%) Pardot
13 5 (0.31%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.31%) Cisco
13 5 (0.31%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.31%) Facebook
13 5 (0.31%) Meraki
13 5 (0.31%) SolarWinds