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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 57 52
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,688 884 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.76% 5.25% 4.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.27% 15.37% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 682 693
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -11.11%

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 8,758 5,753 9,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.10% 34.20% 41.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,425 4,088 6,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 1 October 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 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.89%) Confluence
4 13 (0.77%) CMS
5 12 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.53%) Apache
7 8 (0.47%) WordPress
8 7 (0.41%) IIS
9 6 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.059%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.059%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.41%) Moqups
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Trello
7 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.18%) Aareon QL
4 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
4 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.18%) OPENHousing
4 3 (0.18%) Orchard Housing
4 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.12%) Maximo
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.059%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 335 (19.85%) AWS
2 321 (19.02%) Azure
3 122 (7.23%) GCP
4 102 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (4.74%) Entra ID
6 74 (4.38%) Power Platform
7 72 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (3.44%) PaaS
9 48 (2.84%) Serverless
10 46 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (2.31%) GitHub
12 33 (1.95%) IaaS
12 33 (1.95%) Snowflake
13 27 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 27 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
14 26 (1.54%) Mimecast
15 23 (1.36%) Figma
16 21 (1.24%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.95%) VPN
2 13 (0.77%) Network Security
3 12 (0.71%) DNS
4 11 (0.65%) AMQP
4 11 (0.65%) SMS
5 10 (0.59%) Broadband
5 10 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.53%) Firewall
6 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.47%) DHCP
8 6 (0.36%) 5G
8 6 (0.36%) BGP
8 6 (0.36%) Internet
9 5 (0.30%) VoIP
9 5 (0.30%) WAN
10 4 (0.24%) IPsec
10 4 (0.24%) LAN
10 4 (0.24%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.24%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 54 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (2.43%) Power BI
4 36 (2.13%) Redis
5 21 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.89%) MySQL
7 14 (0.83%) Big Data
8 13 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.41%) Looker
12 6 (0.36%) Tableau
13 5 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (0.30%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.30%) Metadata
14 4 (0.24%) Metabase
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.18%) GIS
Development Applications
1 94 (5.57%) JIRA
2 64 (3.79%) TeamCity
3 45 (2.67%) Git
4 14 (0.83%) Cypress.io
5 13 (0.77%) Selenium
6 11 (0.65%) GitLab
7 7 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.41%) Postman
7 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.36%) JUnit
9 5 (0.30%) Poetry
9 5 (0.30%) Storybook
10 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.24%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
12 2 (0.12%) MSI
12 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.059%) MLflow
13 1 (0.059%) Vite
General
1 461 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 407 (24.11%) Finance
3 250 (14.81%) Retail
4 243 (14.40%) Marketing
5 238 (14.10%) Law
6 206 (12.20%) Legal
7 172 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 144 (8.53%) Banking
9 136 (8.06%) Back Office
10 129 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
11 122 (7.23%) Financial Institution
12 66 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (3.91%) Public Sector
13 56 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (2.13%) Manufacturing
15 34 (2.01%) German Language
16 29 (1.72%) French Language
17 28 (1.66%) Health Technology
18 27 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
19 23 (1.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 232 (13.74%) Lead
1 232 (13.74%) Senior
2 161 (9.54%) Developer
3 114 (6.75%) Account Executive
4 110 (6.52%) Architect
5 109 (6.46%) Software Engineer
6 88 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 80 (4.74%) Consultant
8 78 (4.62%) Analyst
9 74 (4.38%) Software Developer
10 71 (4.21%) Lead Developer
11 70 (4.15%) Account Manager
12 66 (3.91%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 66 (3.91%) Senior Manager
13 65 (3.85%) Lead Software Developer
14 63 (3.73%) IT Manager
15 58 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
16 49 (2.90%) Testing Manager
17 48 (2.84%) IT Services Manager
17 48 (2.84%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (7.88%) Terraform
2 126 (7.46%) Node.js
3 89 (5.27%) .NET
4 64 (3.79%) React
5 60 (3.55%) Middleware
6 55 (3.26%) REST
7 51 (3.02%) Vue
8 42 (2.49%) RESTful
9 24 (1.42%) OAuth
10 23 (1.36%) CSS
11 22 (1.30%) Next.js
11 22 (1.30%) OpenID
12 20 (1.18%) NestJS
13 19 (1.13%) OAuth2
14 18 (1.07%) HTML
14 18 (1.07%) OpenAPI
14 18 (1.07%) Swagger
15 17 (1.01%) Spring
15 17 (1.01%) Spring Boot
16 15 (0.89%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 133 (7.88%) Cloud Native
2 118 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 104 (6.16%) Onboarding
4 71 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (3.67%) Virtual Team
6 52 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (2.84%) Cyber Threat
9 41 (2.43%) Web Conferencing
10 36 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.48%) Social Media
12 20 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.07%) Driving Licence
14 17 (1.01%) Blog
14 17 (1.01%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.95%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.89%) PropTech
17 14 (0.83%) Clustering
18 13 (0.77%) EPoS
18 13 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.31%) Windows
2 24 (1.42%) Linux
3 17 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.77%) Android
4 13 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.18%) Debian
8 1 (0.059%) Unix
8 1 (0.059%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (18.60%) AI
2 272 (16.11%) B2B
3 270 (16.00%) DevOps
4 267 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 258 (15.28%) Software Engineering
6 251 (14.87%) Agile
7 225 (13.33%) CRM
8 210 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
9 199 (11.79%) CI/CD
9 199 (11.79%) Mentoring
10 198 (11.73%) Test Automation
11 187 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 168 (9.95%) Decision-Making
13 167 (9.89%) Roadmaps
14 161 (9.54%) Business Development
15 158 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 155 (9.18%) Microservices
17 149 (8.83%) Full-Stack Development
18 141 (8.35%) Project Delivery
19 135 (8.00%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 192 (11.37%) TypeScript
2 175 (10.37%) JavaScript
3 166 (9.83%) Python
4 152 (9.00%) C#
5 147 (8.71%) SQL
6 110 (6.52%) Java
7 85 (5.04%) PowerShell
8 29 (1.72%) R
9 26 (1.54%) Go
10 25 (1.48%) PHP
11 18 (1.07%) Bash
12 15 (0.89%) Bicep
13 9 (0.53%) Ruby
14 6 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.24%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.24%) SOQL
17 3 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.18%) Scala
17 3 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (5.21%) Degree
2 78 (4.62%) CISSP
3 72 (4.27%) CISM
4 56 (3.32%) ITIL Certification
5 43 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.84%) Security Cleared
7 28 (1.66%) ACCA
8 23 (1.36%) CIMA
9 21 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.13%) CRISC
11 18 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.95%) SC Cleared
13 14 (0.83%) CISA
14 8 (0.47%) ISACA
15 7 (0.41%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.36%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.36%) DV Cleared
16 6 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (7.52%) QA
2 84 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (4.50%) NIST
4 74 (4.38%) GDPR
5 48 (2.84%) ISO 22301
6 34 (2.01%) Data Quality
7 32 (1.90%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.72%) SOC 2
9 26 (1.54%) Accessibility
10 23 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (1.30%) GRC
12 18 (1.07%) SLA
13 13 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.65%) IFRS
15 9 (0.53%) COBIT
16 8 (0.47%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
18 4 (0.24%) GAAP
18 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 62 (3.67%) Docker
2 61 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 105 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.50%) Grafana
3 32 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.30%) Ansible
5 17 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Argo
9 2 (0.12%) Cilium
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 2 (0.12%) SQL Sentry
10 1 (0.059%) CASB
10 1 (0.059%) Kibana
10 1 (0.059%) Packer
10 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.059%) Puppet
10 1 (0.059%) QRadar
Vendors
1 243 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.51%) HubSpot
3 79 (4.68%) Salesforce
4 55 (3.26%) Google
5 31 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
6 26 (1.54%) Sage
7 21 (1.24%) Databricks
8 17 (1.01%) Adobe
9 15 (0.89%) SAP
10 14 (0.83%) Workday
11 13 (0.77%) Oracle
12 10 (0.59%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.53%) Splunk
14 8 (0.47%) Xero
15 7 (0.41%) Facebook
15 7 (0.41%) Instagram
15 7 (0.41%) TikTok
15 7 (0.41%) YouTube
16 6 (0.36%) Freshdesk