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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 48 51
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,111 935 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.28% 5.71% 5.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.00% 12.24% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 864 625 1,064
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -12.86% +1.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,750 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.54% -3.70% -3.57%

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 5,556 7,639 10,658
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.40% 46.64% 46.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,938 4,855 9,232
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 19 January 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 11 (0.99%) WordPress
2 10 (0.90%) JBoss
2 10 (0.90%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.90%) WebSphere
3 8 (0.72%) Confluence
4 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.54%) IIS
6 3 (0.27%) Apache
6 3 (0.27%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.090%) Drupal
8 1 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.090%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 34 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.08%) InDesign
5 9 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.63%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.36%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.36%) Sketch
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.27%) Trello
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.090%) GIMP
11 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.090%) Revit
11 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.26%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.72%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 237 (21.33%) Azure
2 234 (21.06%) AWS
3 115 (10.35%) GCP
4 60 (5.40%) GitHub
5 47 (4.23%) PaaS
6 38 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (3.24%) Serverless
8 34 (3.06%) Entra ID
9 29 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (2.34%) IaaS
11 22 (1.98%) Figma
12 20 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (1.80%) Power Platform
13 18 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (1.08%) Azure App Service
15 12 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (0.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.24%) Remote Desktop
2 17 (1.53%) Firewall
3 12 (1.08%) VPN
4 9 (0.81%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.72%) BGP
5 8 (0.72%) DNS
5 8 (0.72%) LAN
5 8 (0.72%) WAN
6 7 (0.63%) Network Security
6 7 (0.63%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.54%) MPLS
7 6 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.45%) IPsec
8 5 (0.45%) NetScaler
8 5 (0.45%) NX-OS
8 5 (0.45%) OSPF
8 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 47 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (2.88%) Data Lake
4 23 (2.07%) MySQL
5 22 (1.98%) NoSQL
6 21 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (1.44%) Power BI
9 14 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.90%) Tableau
11 9 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.72%) Data Mining
12 8 (0.72%) Data Vault
12 8 (0.72%) Looker
12 8 (0.72%) Redis
13 6 (0.54%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.54%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 36 (3.24%) Git
2 32 (2.88%) JIRA
3 21 (1.89%) TeamCity
4 10 (0.90%) Selenium
5 8 (0.72%) Postman
5 8 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.54%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.45%) GitBook
7 5 (0.45%) git-flow
7 5 (0.45%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.36%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.27%) Storybook
10 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.090%) GitLab
11 1 (0.090%) MSTest
11 1 (0.090%) NUnit
11 1 (0.090%) Protractor
General
1 349 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 252 (22.68%) Finance
3 185 (16.65%) Marketing
4 176 (15.84%) Retail
5 93 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (8.37%) Law
6 74 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (5.58%) Banking
8 60 (5.40%) Financial Institution
9 58 (5.22%) Legal
10 56 (5.04%) Back Office
11 45 (4.05%) Public Sector
12 30 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (2.07%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.26%) French Language
15 14 (1.26%) Health Technology
16 13 (1.17%) Billing
16 13 (1.17%) Local Government
17 12 (1.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 172 (15.48%) Senior
2 144 (12.96%) Developer
3 125 (11.25%) Lead
4 63 (5.67%) Architect
5 57 (5.13%) Software Engineer
6 55 (4.95%) Account Manager
7 46 (4.14%) .NET Developer
8 43 (3.87%) Account Executive
9 42 (3.78%) Analyst
10 41 (3.69%) Software Developer
11 40 (3.60%) 2nd Line Support
11 40 (3.60%) Development Manager
12 38 (3.42%) Lead Developer
13 35 (3.15%) Engineering Manager
14 34 (3.06%) Consultant
15 31 (2.79%) .NET Software Developer
15 31 (2.79%) Product Manager
16 29 (2.61%) Data Engineer
16 29 (2.61%) Marketing Executive
17 28 (2.52%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (13.23%) .NET
2 105 (9.45%) React
3 57 (5.13%) Node.js
4 46 (4.14%) REST
5 29 (2.61%) CSS
6 27 (2.43%) SOAP
7 26 (2.34%) HTML
7 26 (2.34%) RESTful
8 21 (1.89%) .NET Framework
9 20 (1.80%) Spring
10 18 (1.62%) Entity Framework
10 18 (1.62%) Kafka
10 18 (1.62%) React Native
11 17 (1.53%) Next.js
12 16 (1.44%) ASP.NET Web API
12 16 (1.44%) Middleware
12 16 (1.44%) SAML
13 15 (1.35%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.35%) Razor View Engine
14 13 (1.17%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 154 (13.86%) Onboarding
2 75 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 72 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.79%) Social Media
5 29 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.16%) Web Conferencing
8 22 (1.98%) EPoS
8 22 (1.98%) Mobile App
9 20 (1.80%) Educational Technology
10 18 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (0.90%) DataPower
12 10 (0.90%) Driving Licence
12 10 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.90%) Life Science
12 10 (0.90%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.81%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.43%) Android
1 27 (2.43%) Apple iOS
2 26 (2.34%) Windows
3 18 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.99%) Linux
5 2 (0.18%) Unix
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (19.35%) Agile
1 215 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
2 209 (18.81%) AI
3 191 (17.19%) Software Engineering
4 186 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 180 (16.20%) Mentoring
6 170 (15.30%) Roadmaps
7 158 (14.22%) CRM
8 136 (12.24%) DevOps
9 131 (11.79%) CI/CD
10 125 (11.25%) B2B
11 108 (9.72%) Microservices
12 101 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
13 92 (8.28%) Analytics
14 86 (7.74%) Customer Service
15 85 (7.65%) Decision-Making
16 83 (7.47%) Coaching
17 78 (7.02%) SDLC
18 75 (6.75%) Business Development
18 75 (6.75%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 193 (17.37%) SQL
2 126 (11.34%) C#
3 106 (9.54%) TypeScript
4 89 (8.01%) JavaScript
5 83 (7.47%) Python
6 51 (4.59%) Java
7 25 (2.25%) PHP
8 21 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.26%) Bash
10 11 (0.99%) Go
11 10 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 9 (0.81%) Bicep
13 4 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.27%) Swift
15 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.090%) ABAP
16 1 (0.090%) C
16 1 (0.090%) Ruby
16 1 (0.090%) VB
Qualifications
1 93 (8.37%) Degree
2 22 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (1.71%) ACCA
4 18 (1.62%) Master's Degree
5 15 (1.35%) CISSP
6 14 (1.26%) Security Cleared
7 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.81%) CRISC
8 8 (0.72%) CIMA
8 8 (0.72%) CISM
8 8 (0.72%) SC Cleared
9 7 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (0.45%) CISA
10 5 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (0.36%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.36%) CEH
11 4 (0.36%) CISMP
12 3 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.74%) QA
2 46 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (2.43%) SOC 2
4 24 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.89%) GDPR
6 18 (1.62%) GRC
6 18 (1.62%) NIST
7 17 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.17%) ISO 9001
9 12 (1.08%) SLA
10 9 (0.81%) IFRS
10 9 (0.81%) WCAG
11 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.54%) GAAP
12 5 (0.45%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.36%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.36%) PMO
13 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 34 (3.06%) Docker
2 32 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 75 (6.75%) Terraform
2 60 (5.40%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.80%) Grafana
4 17 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.99%) Ansible
6 8 (0.72%) Argo
7 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.36%) Cilium
9 2 (0.18%) Packer
10 1 (0.090%) CASB
10 1 (0.090%) Istio
10 1 (0.090%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.090%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 90 (8.10%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.85%) Salesforce
3 46 (4.14%) HubSpot
4 37 (3.33%) Adobe
5 34 (3.06%) Databricks
6 30 (2.70%) Google
7 25 (2.25%) Oracle
8 18 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.53%) Cisco
10 15 (1.35%) Workday
11 13 (1.17%) Zoho
12 11 (0.99%) SAP
13 8 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.72%) Pardot
14 5 (0.45%) CheckPoint
14 5 (0.45%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.45%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.45%) Meraki
14 5 (0.45%) SolarWinds
15 4 (0.36%) Sage