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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 77 49
Rank change year-on-year +49 -28 -5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,393 730 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.85% 4.69% 4.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.00% 12.31% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 560 1,334
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,950 £41,075
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -0.39% -1.54%
75th Percentile £92,188 £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 7,739 5,931 14,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 38.12% 42.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,461 4,320 12,106
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,735 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 23 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 48 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 47 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.08%) WordPress
4 13 (0.93%) CMS
5 12 (0.86%) Confluence
6 6 (0.43%) SAS
7 5 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.36%) Moodle
7 5 (0.36%) Totara
8 3 (0.22%) JBoss
8 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.072%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.072%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 21 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.57%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.072%) InDesign
9 1 (0.072%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.15%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.65%) 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
4 2 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 244 (17.52%) Azure
2 237 (17.01%) AWS
3 93 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (6.39%) Entra ID
4 89 (6.39%) GCP
5 56 (4.02%) PaaS
6 53 (3.80%) Power Platform
7 52 (3.73%) Serverless
8 51 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
9 35 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (2.01%) GitHub
10 28 (2.01%) IaaS
11 22 (1.58%) Figma
11 22 (1.58%) Mimecast
12 21 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (1.44%) Snowflake
14 17 (1.22%) Azure Functions
15 16 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (1.08%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.87%) Firewall
2 21 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (1.29%) VPN
4 14 (1.01%) DNS
5 12 (0.86%) LAN
5 12 (0.86%) WAN
6 11 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (0.79%) IPsec
6 11 (0.79%) MPLS
6 11 (0.79%) NetScaler
6 11 (0.79%) NX-OS
6 11 (0.79%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.79%) VXLAN
6 11 (0.79%) WLAN
7 10 (0.72%) BGP
7 10 (0.72%) Broadband
8 9 (0.65%) DHCP
9 7 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 38 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (2.23%) Power BI
4 26 (1.87%) MySQL
5 24 (1.72%) Redis
6 18 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.36%) Big Data
12 5 (0.36%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.36%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.29%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.29%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.29%) SAP HANA
14 3 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (4.81%) JIRA
2 39 (2.80%) TeamCity
3 35 (2.51%) Git
4 10 (0.72%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.43%) JMeter
5 6 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.36%) Locust
6 5 (0.36%) Selenium
6 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.29%) GitLab
7 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.29%) Postman
8 3 (0.22%) JUnit
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 333 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 324 (23.26%) Finance
3 223 (16.01%) Retail
4 198 (14.21%) Marketing
5 160 (11.49%) Law
6 155 (11.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 134 (9.62%) Banking
8 122 (8.76%) Back Office
9 120 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
10 103 (7.39%) Financial Institution
11 99 (7.11%) Legal
12 47 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.23%) Manufacturing
15 28 (2.01%) Advertising
16 24 (1.72%) Public Sector
17 22 (1.58%) Health Technology
18 21 (1.51%) German Language
19 20 (1.44%) Polish Language
20 18 (1.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (12.85%) Senior
2 167 (11.99%) Lead
3 161 (11.56%) Developer
4 111 (7.97%) Software Engineer
5 93 (6.68%) Account Executive
6 79 (5.67%) Architect
7 76 (5.46%) Account Manager
8 72 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 63 (4.52%) Lead Developer
10 55 (3.95%) Support Engineer
11 54 (3.88%) Consultant
12 50 (3.59%) Analyst
13 42 (3.02%) Sales Manager
13 42 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
14 37 (2.66%) Marketing Manager
15 36 (2.58%) .NET Software Engineer
15 36 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 35 (2.51%) C# Developer
16 35 (2.51%) Software Developer
17 34 (2.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.25%) .NET
2 82 (5.89%) Node.js
3 62 (4.45%) React
4 49 (3.52%) Vue
5 37 (2.66%) RESTful
6 36 (2.58%) REST
7 35 (2.51%) CSS
7 35 (2.51%) HTML
8 26 (1.87%) JSON
9 20 (1.44%) XML
10 16 (1.15%) Spring
11 15 (1.08%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.01%) OAuth
12 14 (1.01%) React Native
13 13 (0.93%) .NET Core
13 13 (0.93%) NestJS
13 13 (0.93%) Next.js
13 13 (0.93%) Spring Boot
14 12 (0.86%) GraphQL
14 12 (0.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 85 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.87%) Blog
9 25 (1.79%) EPoS
10 23 (1.65%) PropTech
11 20 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.44%) Social Media
12 18 (1.29%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.22%) Client/Server
14 16 (1.15%) Web Conferencing
15 15 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
16 14 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.93%) Driving Licence
18 12 (0.86%) Life Science
18 12 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.16%) Windows
2 19 (1.36%) Apple iOS
2 19 (1.36%) Linux
3 18 (1.29%) Android
4 13 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.22%) Debian
7 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Unix
8 2 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (17.23%) AI
2 198 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
3 195 (14.00%) Software Engineering
4 192 (13.78%) B2B
5 177 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 169 (12.13%) Agile
7 158 (11.34%) CI/CD
8 152 (10.91%) CRM
9 143 (10.27%) DevOps
10 142 (10.19%) Full-Stack Development
11 139 (9.98%) Roadmaps
12 137 (9.83%) Microservices
13 114 (8.18%) Decision-Making
14 111 (7.97%) Business Development
15 108 (7.75%) Fintech
16 104 (7.47%) Mentoring
17 94 (6.75%) Analytics
18 82 (5.89%) Stakeholder Management
19 81 (5.81%) Cybersecurity
20 75 (5.38%) Lead Generation
Programming Languages
1 127 (9.12%) SQL
2 126 (9.05%) Python
3 90 (6.46%) Java
4 89 (6.39%) TypeScript
5 74 (5.31%) C#
6 73 (5.24%) JavaScript
7 45 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.23%) PHP
9 23 (1.65%) Go
9 23 (1.65%) R
10 16 (1.15%) Bash
11 10 (0.72%) Bicep
11 10 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.50%) Ruby
13 4 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.22%) Swift
15 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.072%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.072%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 98 (7.04%) Degree
2 42 (3.02%) ACCA
3 32 (2.30%) CISSP
4 31 (2.23%) Security Cleared
5 30 (2.15%) CIMA
6 29 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.51%) CRISC
7 21 (1.51%) SC Cleared
8 19 (1.36%) CISM
9 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.22%) CISA
11 15 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.57%) ISACA
14 7 (0.50%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (0.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 6 (0.43%) MBA
16 5 (0.36%) DV Cleared
17 4 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (3.95%) GDPR
3 48 (3.45%) QA
4 39 (2.80%) PCI DSS
5 31 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.23%) SOC 2
6 26 (1.87%) NIST
7 25 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (1.65%) Data Quality
9 20 (1.44%) IFRS
10 17 (1.22%) GRC
11 13 (0.93%) WCAG
12 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.86%) PMO
13 11 (0.79%) SLA
14 10 (0.72%) COBIT
15 9 (0.65%) SOC 1
16 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.43%) GAAP
18 5 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 79 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.30%) Docker
3 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.072%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 99 (7.11%) Terraform
2 77 (5.53%) Kubernetes
3 49 (3.52%) Grafana
4 33 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.01%) Ansible
7 5 (0.36%) Argo
7 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.22%) Packer
9 2 (0.14%) CASB
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.14%) Puppet
10 1 (0.072%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.072%) Graylog
10 1 (0.072%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.072%) QRadar
Vendors
1 162 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.37%) Salesforce
3 41 (2.94%) HubSpot
4 34 (2.44%) Google
5 23 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
6 20 (1.44%) Sage
7 19 (1.36%) Adobe
7 19 (1.36%) Databricks
8 16 (1.15%) Pardot
8 16 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.15%) Xero
9 14 (1.01%) SAP
10 13 (0.93%) Oracle
11 12 (0.86%) Cisco
12 11 (0.79%) CheckPoint
12 11 (0.79%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.79%) Meraki
12 11 (0.79%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.50%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.43%) Atlassian