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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 70 51
Rank change year-on-year +43 -19 -7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,350 724 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.13% 4.98% 4.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.74% 12.61% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 553 1,361
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £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 £92,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -10.37%

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 7,205 5,742 14,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 39.46% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,938 4,137 11,984
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,825 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
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 26 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 39 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.11%) WordPress
4 13 (0.96%) CMS
5 9 (0.67%) Confluence
6 6 (0.44%) 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 (0.074%) Apache
9 1 (0.074%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 24 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.074%) InDesign
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.22%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.22%) Orchard Housing
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 228 (16.89%) AWS
2 220 (16.30%) Azure
3 87 (6.44%) GCP
4 71 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 68 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (3.41%) Serverless
7 45 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 43 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
8 43 (3.19%) PaaS
9 28 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (2.07%) GitHub
10 20 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (1.48%) IaaS
11 19 (1.41%) Figma
12 18 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (1.19%) AWS Direct Connect
13 16 (1.19%) Mimecast
14 12 (0.89%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.15%) Firewall
2 22 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
3 20 (1.48%) VPN
4 17 (1.26%) DNS
5 14 (1.04%) LAN
5 14 (1.04%) MPLS
5 14 (1.04%) WAN
6 13 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (0.96%) IPsec
6 13 (0.96%) NetScaler
6 13 (0.96%) NX-OS
6 13 (0.96%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.96%) VXLAN
6 13 (0.96%) WLAN
7 12 (0.89%) BGP
8 10 (0.74%) SSL
9 9 (0.67%) OSPF
10 8 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (2.07%) Power BI
4 17 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (1.26%) MySQL
5 16 (1.19%) Redis
6 12 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.37%) Big Data
10 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
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
12 3 (0.22%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (3.48%) JIRA
2 37 (2.74%) TeamCity
3 30 (2.22%) Git
4 8 (0.59%) Claude Code
4 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.44%) JMeter
6 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
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%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.30%) Selenium
8 3 (0.22%) JUnit
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.15%) Eclipse
General
1 312 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 308 (22.81%) Finance
3 238 (17.63%) Retail
4 221 (16.37%) Marketing
5 173 (12.81%) Law
6 156 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 139 (10.30%) Banking
8 127 (9.41%) Back Office
9 115 (8.52%) Financial Institution
10 106 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
11 85 (6.30%) Legal
12 45 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.30%) Public Sector
15 28 (2.07%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.70%) German Language
17 22 (1.63%) Advertising
18 19 (1.41%) Polish Language
19 18 (1.33%) Health Technology
20 16 (1.19%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 175 (12.96%) Senior
2 166 (12.30%) Developer
3 145 (10.74%) Lead
4 114 (8.44%) Software Engineer
5 91 (6.74%) Account Executive
6 87 (6.44%) Account Manager
7 71 (5.26%) Architect
8 69 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (4.44%) Lead Developer
10 51 (3.78%) Support Engineer
11 44 (3.26%) Analyst
11 44 (3.26%) Consultant
12 41 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 41 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
13 39 (2.89%) Sales Manager
14 38 (2.81%) .NET Software Engineer
15 36 (2.67%) C# Developer
16 34 (2.52%) .NET Developer
16 34 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
17 33 (2.44%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (7.19%) .NET
2 74 (5.48%) Node.js
3 62 (4.59%) React
4 40 (2.96%) Vue
5 38 (2.81%) RESTful
6 36 (2.67%) HTML
7 34 (2.52%) CSS
8 33 (2.44%) REST
9 25 (1.85%) JSON
10 21 (1.56%) XML
11 17 (1.26%) Spring
12 16 (1.19%) React Native
13 15 (1.11%) .NET Core
13 15 (1.11%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.04%) GraphQL
14 14 (1.04%) Next.js
15 13 (0.96%) Kafka
15 13 (0.96%) NestJS
15 13 (0.96%) OAuth
15 13 (0.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 104 (7.70%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.48%) Onboarding
3 80 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.07%) Blog
8 25 (1.85%) EPoS
9 23 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.63%) PropTech
11 21 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.26%) Social Media
14 16 (1.19%) Web Conferencing
15 15 (1.11%) Client/Server
15 15 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
16 11 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.81%) Learning Management System
17 10 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.04%) Windows
2 24 (1.78%) Apple iOS
3 23 (1.70%) Android
4 14 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.81%) Linux
6 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.15%) Unix
9 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (15.56%) AI
2 192 (14.22%) Software Engineering
3 184 (13.63%) B2B
4 180 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 170 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 158 (11.70%) CRM
7 149 (11.04%) Agile
8 139 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 133 (9.85%) CI/CD
10 128 (9.48%) DevOps
11 121 (8.96%) Microservices
12 120 (8.89%) Roadmaps
13 118 (8.74%) Business Development
14 112 (8.30%) Fintech
15 98 (7.26%) Decision-Making
16 97 (7.19%) Analytics
17 94 (6.96%) Mentoring
18 76 (5.63%) SDLC
19 75 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
20 73 (5.41%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 118 (8.74%) SQL
2 112 (8.30%) Python
3 89 (6.59%) Java
4 79 (5.85%) TypeScript
5 78 (5.78%) C#
6 61 (4.52%) JavaScript
7 38 (2.81%) PowerShell
8 25 (1.85%) Go
9 24 (1.78%) PHP
10 17 (1.26%) R
11 13 (0.96%) Bash
12 8 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.30%) Bicep
14 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.22%) Swift
15 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.074%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.074%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (6.52%) Degree
2 41 (3.04%) ACCA
3 29 (2.15%) CIMA
4 24 (1.78%) CISSP
4 24 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (1.78%) Security Cleared
5 16 (1.19%) Master's Degree
5 16 (1.19%) SC Cleared
6 13 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.81%) CISA
8 11 (0.81%) CRISC
9 10 (0.74%) CISM
10 7 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.44%) MBA
12 4 (0.30%) CEH
12 4 (0.30%) ISACA
13 3 (0.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (3.11%) QA
3 37 (2.74%) GDPR
4 34 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 32 (2.37%) SOC 2
6 31 (2.30%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.48%) IFRS
8 18 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (1.11%) WCAG
10 14 (1.04%) NIST
11 12 (0.89%) SLA
12 11 (0.81%) GRC
12 11 (0.81%) PMO
13 9 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.44%) GAAP
16 5 (0.37%) COBIT
16 5 (0.37%) SOC 1
17 3 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 66 (4.89%) Active Directory
2 48 (3.56%) Docker
3 3 (0.22%) Firmware
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (6.74%) Terraform
2 78 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.33%) Grafana
4 26 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.74%) Ansible
7 7 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.15%) CASB
9 2 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.074%) Graylog
10 1 (0.074%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.074%) QRadar
Vendors
1 124 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 41 (3.04%) HubSpot
4 38 (2.81%) Google
5 18 (1.33%) Sage
5 18 (1.33%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.26%) Adobe
6 17 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.19%) Pardot
7 16 (1.19%) Xero
8 15 (1.11%) SAP
9 14 (1.04%) Cisco
10 13 (0.96%) CheckPoint
10 13 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 13 (0.96%) Meraki
10 13 (0.96%) SolarWinds
11 12 (0.89%) Databricks
12 10 (0.74%) Oracle
13 9 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.44%) Atlassian