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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 66 50
Rank change year-on-year +40 -16 -7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,337 781 1,592
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.11% 5.17% 4.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.80% 12.81% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,053 607 1,357
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,120 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £108,800 £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 7,111 6,097 13,990
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.84% 40.39% 42.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,863 4,452 11,920
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,464 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,717 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 20 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 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.05%) WordPress
4 12 (0.90%) CMS
5 10 (0.75%) Confluence
6 6 (0.45%) SAS
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.37%) JBoss
7 5 (0.37%) Moodle
7 5 (0.37%) Totara
7 5 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.075%) Apache
9 1 (0.075%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 23 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (0.52%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.075%) InDesign
7 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Aareon QL
4 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
4 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.15%) OPENHousing
4 2 (0.15%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 229 (17.13%) AWS
2 217 (16.23%) Azure
3 83 (6.21%) GCP
4 67 (5.01%) Entra ID
5 66 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (3.44%) Serverless
7 44 (3.29%) Power Platform
8 41 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
8 41 (3.07%) PaaS
9 31 (2.32%) GitHub
10 26 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (1.42%) IaaS
12 19 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (1.35%) Figma
14 16 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
14 16 (1.20%) Mimecast
15 13 (0.97%) Amazon S3
16 12 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.17%) Firewall
2 21 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (1.42%) VPN
4 15 (1.12%) DNS
5 14 (1.05%) LAN
5 14 (1.05%) MPLS
5 14 (1.05%) WAN
6 13 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (0.97%) IPsec
6 13 (0.97%) NetScaler
6 13 (0.97%) NX-OS
6 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.97%) VXLAN
6 13 (0.97%) WLAN
7 12 (0.90%) BGP
8 10 (0.75%) SSL
9 9 (0.67%) OSPF
10 7 (0.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.02%) Power BI
4 18 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.35%) MySQL
4 18 (1.35%) Redis
5 13 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.37%) Big Data
11 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.30%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.30%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (3.52%) JIRA
2 35 (2.62%) TeamCity
3 31 (2.32%) Git
4 8 (0.60%) Claude Code
4 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.45%) JMeter
6 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.37%) Locust
6 5 (0.37%) Postman
7 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.30%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.30%) Selenium
7 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.22%) JUnit
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.15%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 303 (22.66%) Finance
1 303 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 236 (17.65%) Retail
3 222 (16.60%) Marketing
4 169 (12.64%) Law
5 154 (11.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (10.17%) Banking
7 125 (9.35%) Back Office
8 114 (8.53%) Financial Institution
9 103 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
10 84 (6.28%) Legal
11 45 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
12 40 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.32%) Public Sector
14 28 (2.09%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.72%) German Language
16 21 (1.57%) Advertising
17 19 (1.42%) Polish Language
18 18 (1.35%) Health Technology
19 15 (1.12%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 173 (12.94%) Senior
2 170 (12.72%) Developer
3 145 (10.85%) Lead
4 108 (8.08%) Software Engineer
5 88 (6.58%) Account Executive
5 88 (6.58%) Account Manager
6 71 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 70 (5.24%) Architect
8 61 (4.56%) Lead Developer
9 52 (3.89%) Support Engineer
10 44 (3.29%) Analyst
11 43 (3.22%) Consultant
12 42 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 41 (3.07%) Sales Manager
13 41 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
14 37 (2.77%) C# Developer
15 36 (2.69%) .NET Software Engineer
16 35 (2.62%) Senior Software Engineer
17 34 (2.54%) .NET Developer
17 34 (2.54%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (7.33%) .NET
2 75 (5.61%) Node.js
3 63 (4.71%) React
4 40 (2.99%) Vue
5 36 (2.69%) HTML
5 36 (2.69%) RESTful
6 35 (2.62%) CSS
6 35 (2.62%) REST
7 25 (1.87%) JSON
8 21 (1.57%) XML
9 17 (1.27%) Spring
10 16 (1.20%) React Native
11 15 (1.12%) GraphQL
12 14 (1.05%) .NET Core
13 13 (0.97%) NestJS
13 13 (0.97%) Next.js
13 13 (0.97%) OAuth
14 12 (0.90%) AngularJS
14 12 (0.90%) Kafka
14 12 (0.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 98 (7.33%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.02%) Blog
7 27 (2.02%) EPoS
8 22 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.65%) PropTech
9 21 (1.57%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.20%) Social Media
12 15 (1.12%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
12 15 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
13 11 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.75%) Learning Management System
14 10 (0.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.92%) Windows
2 24 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 23 (1.72%) Android
4 15 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.82%) Linux
6 6 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.15%) Unix
8 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (15.56%) AI
2 193 (14.44%) Software Engineering
3 182 (13.61%) B2B
4 176 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
5 170 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 154 (11.52%) CRM
7 145 (10.85%) Agile
8 141 (10.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 132 (9.87%) CI/CD
10 122 (9.12%) DevOps
11 117 (8.75%) Microservices
12 116 (8.68%) Business Development
13 113 (8.45%) Roadmaps
14 110 (8.23%) Fintech
15 96 (7.18%) Analytics
16 95 (7.11%) Decision-Making
17 91 (6.81%) Mentoring
18 81 (6.06%) SDLC
19 75 (5.61%) Project Management
20 71 (5.31%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 121 (9.05%) SQL
2 114 (8.53%) Python
3 86 (6.43%) Java
4 78 (5.83%) C#
4 78 (5.83%) TypeScript
5 59 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 37 (2.77%) PowerShell
7 26 (1.94%) PHP
8 25 (1.87%) Go
9 16 (1.20%) R
10 12 (0.90%) Bash
11 8 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.22%) Bicep
12 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.22%) Swift
13 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.075%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.075%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (6.51%) Degree
2 41 (3.07%) ACCA
3 29 (2.17%) CIMA
4 23 (1.72%) CISSP
4 23 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.65%) Security Cleared
6 16 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.05%) SC Cleared
8 12 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.82%) CISA
10 10 (0.75%) CRISC
11 9 (0.67%) CISM
12 7 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.45%) MBA
14 5 (0.37%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.30%) CEH
15 4 (0.30%) ISACA
16 3 (0.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (3.07%) QA
3 35 (2.62%) GDPR
4 33 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 31 (2.32%) SOC 2
6 29 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.50%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.50%) IFRS
8 17 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (1.05%) WCAG
10 12 (0.90%) NIST
10 12 (0.90%) SLA
11 11 (0.82%) PMO
12 10 (0.75%) GRC
13 8 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.45%) GAAP
15 5 (0.37%) COBIT
15 5 (0.37%) SOC 1
16 3 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 64 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.52%) Docker
3 3 (0.22%) Firmware
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.075%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 89 (6.66%) Terraform
2 73 (5.46%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.14%) Grafana
4 26 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.75%) Ansible
7 6 (0.45%) 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%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.075%) Graylog
9 1 (0.075%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.075%) QRadar
Vendors
1 117 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 50 (3.74%) Salesforce
3 42 (3.14%) HubSpot
4 37 (2.77%) Google
5 18 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.20%) Pardot
7 16 (1.20%) Sage
7 16 (1.20%) SAP
7 16 (1.20%) Xero
8 15 (1.12%) Adobe
9 14 (1.05%) Cisco
10 13 (0.97%) CheckPoint
10 13 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 13 (0.97%) Meraki
10 13 (0.97%) SolarWinds
11 12 (0.90%) Databricks
12 11 (0.82%) Oracle
13 9 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.45%) Atlassian