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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 74 50
Rank change year-on-year +46 -24 -5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,413 744 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.83% 4.71% 4.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.83% 12.45% 10.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 575 1,309
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 7,924 5,975 14,190
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 37.83% 42.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,659 4,384 11,781
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,375 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 30 June 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 53 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.06%) CMS
3 15 (1.06%) WordPress
4 12 (0.85%) Confluence
5 6 (0.42%) SAS
6 5 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.35%) Moodle
6 5 (0.35%) Totara
7 3 (0.21%) IIS
7 3 (0.21%) JBoss
7 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.071%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 23 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (0.57%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.42%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.071%) InDesign
9 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.21%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.21%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.21%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
4 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 254 (17.98%) Azure
2 239 (16.91%) AWS
3 101 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (6.65%) Entra ID
5 90 (6.37%) GCP
6 57 (4.03%) PaaS
7 55 (3.89%) Power Platform
8 52 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (3.54%) Serverless
10 34 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.98%) IaaS
12 25 (1.77%) Mimecast
13 24 (1.70%) GitHub
14 22 (1.56%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.42%) Figma
16 19 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
18 17 (1.20%) Azure Functions
19 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
20 15 (1.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.77%) Firewall
2 20 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.20%) VPN
4 14 (0.99%) DNS
5 11 (0.78%) LAN
5 11 (0.78%) WAN
6 10 (0.71%) Broadband
6 10 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
6 10 (0.71%) IPsec
6 10 (0.71%) MPLS
6 10 (0.71%) NetScaler
6 10 (0.71%) NX-OS
6 10 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.71%) VXLAN
6 10 (0.71%) WLAN
7 9 (0.64%) BGP
7 9 (0.64%) DHCP
8 7 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 40 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.26%) Power BI
4 26 (1.84%) MySQL
4 26 (1.84%) Redis
5 16 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.42%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.35%) Big Data
10 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.35%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.35%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.28%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.28%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.21%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (5.10%) JIRA
2 40 (2.83%) TeamCity
3 34 (2.41%) Git
4 10 (0.71%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.42%) JMeter
5 6 (0.42%) Selenium
6 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.35%) Locust
6 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.28%) GitLab
7 4 (0.28%) Postman
7 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.21%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.21%) JUnit
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 348 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 338 (23.92%) Finance
3 227 (16.07%) Retail
4 198 (14.01%) Marketing
5 163 (11.54%) Law
6 156 (11.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 135 (9.55%) Banking
8 125 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
9 124 (8.78%) Back Office
10 105 (7.43%) Legal
11 104 (7.36%) Financial Institution
12 52 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (2.12%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.98%) Advertising
16 25 (1.77%) Public Sector
17 21 (1.49%) German Language
18 20 (1.42%) Health Technology
18 20 (1.42%) Polish Language
19 18 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 180 (12.74%) Lead
2 178 (12.60%) Senior
3 159 (11.25%) Developer
4 113 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 91 (6.44%) Account Executive
6 81 (5.73%) Architect
7 78 (5.52%) Account Manager
8 77 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 66 (4.67%) Lead Developer
10 62 (4.39%) Consultant
11 58 (4.10%) Support Engineer
12 51 (3.61%) Analyst
13 43 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (2.90%) Software Developer
15 37 (2.62%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 37 (2.62%) Lead Software Developer
15 37 (2.62%) Marketing Manager
16 36 (2.55%) .NET Software Engineer
16 36 (2.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 36 (2.55%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (6.30%) Node.js
2 86 (6.09%) .NET
3 61 (4.32%) React
4 51 (3.61%) Vue
5 36 (2.55%) CSS
5 36 (2.55%) REST
5 36 (2.55%) RESTful
6 35 (2.48%) HTML
7 25 (1.77%) JSON
8 19 (1.34%) XML
9 16 (1.13%) AngularJS
10 14 (0.99%) Next.js
10 14 (0.99%) OAuth
11 13 (0.92%) .NET Core
11 13 (0.92%) Spring
12 12 (0.85%) GraphQL
12 12 (0.85%) NestJS
12 12 (0.85%) React Native
13 11 (0.78%) ASP.NET
13 11 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.22%) Onboarding
3 85 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.84%) Blog
9 23 (1.63%) PropTech
10 21 (1.49%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.42%) Social Media
11 20 (1.42%) Web Conferencing
12 18 (1.27%) EPoS
13 17 (1.20%) Client/Server
13 17 (1.20%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
15 14 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.92%) Driving Licence
16 13 (0.92%) Life Science
17 11 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.18%) Windows
2 19 (1.34%) Linux
3 17 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.13%) Android
5 14 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.21%) Debian
8 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.21%) Unix
9 2 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (17.34%) AI
2 206 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
3 197 (13.94%) B2B
4 196 (13.87%) Software Engineering
5 186 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 170 (12.03%) Agile
7 162 (11.46%) CRM
8 157 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 149 (10.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 143 (10.12%) Roadmaps
11 142 (10.05%) DevOps
12 141 (9.98%) Microservices
13 120 (8.49%) Decision-Making
14 114 (8.07%) Business Development
15 109 (7.71%) Fintech
15 109 (7.71%) Mentoring
16 96 (6.79%) Analytics
16 96 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
17 84 (5.94%) Cybersecurity
17 84 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 129 (9.13%) SQL
2 123 (8.70%) Python
3 100 (7.08%) TypeScript
4 88 (6.23%) Java
5 83 (5.87%) JavaScript
6 73 (5.17%) C#
7 44 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.19%) PHP
9 26 (1.84%) R
10 23 (1.63%) Go
11 15 (1.06%) Bash
12 10 (0.71%) Bicep
12 10 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.50%) Ruby
14 5 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.21%) Swift
16 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.071%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 100 (7.08%) Degree
2 42 (2.97%) ACCA
3 34 (2.41%) CISSP
4 33 (2.34%) Security Cleared
5 32 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.12%) CIMA
7 23 (1.63%) CRISC
8 22 (1.56%) SC Cleared
9 21 (1.49%) CISM
10 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.34%) CISA
12 15 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.57%) ISACA
15 7 (0.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 7 (0.50%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.42%) MBA
17 5 (0.35%) DV Cleared
18 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (4.32%) GDPR
3 49 (3.47%) QA
4 40 (2.83%) PCI DSS
5 33 (2.34%) SOC 2
6 29 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 29 (2.05%) NIST
7 25 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (1.63%) Data Quality
9 20 (1.42%) GRC
9 20 (1.42%) IFRS
10 12 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (0.85%) SLA
11 11 (0.78%) PMO
11 11 (0.78%) WCAG
12 10 (0.71%) COBIT
13 9 (0.64%) SOC 1
14 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.42%) GAAP
16 5 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 82 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.11%) Docker
3 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.21%) Firmware
5 1 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.071%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (6.94%) Terraform
2 77 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.54%) Grafana
4 36 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.85%) Ansible
7 5 (0.35%) Argo
7 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.21%) Packer
9 2 (0.14%) CASB
9 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.14%) Puppet
10 1 (0.071%) Graylog
10 1 (0.071%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.071%) QRadar
Vendors
1 179 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 48 (3.40%) Salesforce
3 45 (3.18%) HubSpot
4 33 (2.34%) Google
5 26 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
6 20 (1.42%) Sage
7 19 (1.34%) Adobe
8 18 (1.27%) Databricks
9 17 (1.20%) Oracle
10 16 (1.13%) Pardot
10 16 (1.13%) Xero
11 15 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.99%) SAP
13 11 (0.78%) Cisco
14 10 (0.71%) CheckPoint
14 10 (0.71%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.71%) Meraki
14 10 (0.71%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.42%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.42%) Fortinet