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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 65 59
Rank change year-on-year +36 -6 -13
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,602 816 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.99% 4.93% 4.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.52% 13.72% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,227 615 861
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 8,648 5,948 10,060
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 35.92% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,292 4,361 7,767
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,489 £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 £81,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 August 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 71 (4.43%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.87%) Confluence
4 9 (0.56%) CMS
5 7 (0.44%) IIS
6 6 (0.37%) SAS
7 5 (0.31%) WordPress
8 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.12%) Apache
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.062%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.062%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.062%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.062%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.062%) Moodle
10 1 (0.062%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.062%) Totara
Applications
1 28 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (0.31%) Moqups
5 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.25%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.062%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 22 (1.37%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.19%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.19%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.19%) Orchard Housing
4 2 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.062%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 312 (19.48%) AWS
2 306 (19.10%) Azure
3 98 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (5.62%) GCP
5 86 (5.37%) Entra ID
6 61 (3.81%) PaaS
6 61 (3.81%) Power Platform
7 51 (3.18%) Serverless
8 48 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (2.06%) IaaS
11 30 (1.87%) Mimecast
11 30 (1.87%) Snowflake
12 29 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
14 22 (1.37%) GitHub
15 21 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (1.31%) Figma
15 21 (1.31%) PowerApps
16 18 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.81%) DNS
2 11 (0.69%) VPN
3 10 (0.62%) Broadband
3 10 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (0.56%) Firewall
5 8 (0.50%) DHCP
5 8 (0.50%) Network Security
6 6 (0.37%) 5G
6 6 (0.37%) SSL
7 5 (0.31%) AMQP
7 5 (0.31%) Internet
7 5 (0.31%) LAN
7 5 (0.31%) SMS
7 5 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.31%) WAN
8 4 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.25%) IPsec
8 4 (0.25%) MPLS
8 4 (0.25%) VoIP
8 4 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 42 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.25%) Redis
4 31 (1.94%) Power BI
5 19 (1.19%) MySQL
6 15 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.31%) Big Data
8 5 (0.31%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.31%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.25%) Metadata
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.25%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.25%) Tableau
10 2 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 97 (6.05%) JIRA
2 46 (2.87%) Git
3 40 (2.50%) TeamCity
4 12 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 11 (0.69%) Claude Code
5 11 (0.69%) GitLab
5 11 (0.69%) Selenium
6 7 (0.44%) Postman
7 6 (0.37%) JMeter
7 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.31%) Locust
8 5 (0.31%) Storybook
9 4 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.12%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.12%) JUnit
11 2 (0.12%) MSI
General
1 435 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 339 (21.16%) Finance
3 222 (13.86%) Marketing
4 207 (12.92%) Retail
5 192 (11.99%) Law
6 175 (10.92%) Legal
7 143 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 122 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
9 105 (6.55%) Banking
10 100 (6.24%) Back Office
11 82 (5.12%) Financial Institution
12 65 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
13 59 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
14 51 (3.18%) Public Sector
15 32 (2.00%) Manufacturing
16 29 (1.81%) Advertising
17 25 (1.56%) German Language
18 24 (1.50%) Health Technology
19 21 (1.31%) Billing
20 17 (1.06%) Games
Job Titles
1 221 (13.80%) Senior
2 215 (13.42%) Lead
3 165 (10.30%) Developer
4 105 (6.55%) Software Engineer
5 103 (6.43%) Account Executive
6 97 (6.05%) Architect
7 92 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 82 (5.12%) Consultant
9 73 (4.56%) Senior Manager
10 68 (4.24%) Account Manager
11 67 (4.18%) Lead Developer
12 62 (3.87%) Software Developer
13 59 (3.68%) IT Manager
14 55 (3.43%) Analyst
14 55 (3.43%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 55 (3.43%) Lead Software Developer
15 53 (3.31%) Service Manager
16 49 (3.06%) Testing Manager
17 48 (3.00%) IT Services Manager
17 48 (3.00%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (7.30%) Node.js
2 99 (6.18%) Terraform
3 86 (5.37%) .NET
4 69 (4.31%) React
5 59 (3.68%) Vue
6 56 (3.50%) Middleware
7 53 (3.31%) REST
8 37 (2.31%) RESTful
9 34 (2.12%) CSS
10 29 (1.81%) HTML
11 24 (1.50%) Next.js
12 19 (1.19%) NestJS
13 18 (1.12%) OAuth
14 16 (1.00%) JSON
15 14 (0.87%) Laravel
16 13 (0.81%) AngularJS
16 13 (0.81%) Kafka
16 13 (0.81%) OpenID
17 12 (0.75%) ASP.NET
17 12 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 99 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 97 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.81%) Virtual Team
5 51 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
7 43 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.31%) Management Information System
9 36 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (1.62%) Web Conferencing
11 22 (1.37%) PropTech
12 20 (1.25%) Driving Licence
12 20 (1.25%) Social Media
13 19 (1.19%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
15 17 (1.06%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.87%) Clustering
16 14 (0.87%) Data Structures
17 13 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.81%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.62%) Windows
2 21 (1.31%) Linux
3 10 (0.62%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.62%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.56%) Android
5 8 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.19%) Debian
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.062%) Unix
7 1 (0.062%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (17.60%) AI
2 273 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 261 (16.29%) DevOps
4 243 (15.17%) Software Engineering
5 239 (14.92%) Agile
6 232 (14.48%) B2B
7 203 (12.67%) CRM
8 198 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
9 179 (11.17%) Test Automation
10 176 (10.99%) Mentoring
11 172 (10.74%) CI/CD
12 160 (9.99%) Decision-Making
13 159 (9.93%) Roadmaps
14 155 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 148 (9.24%) Business Development
16 146 (9.11%) Microservices
17 143 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 142 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
19 129 (8.05%) Project Delivery
20 121 (7.55%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 184 (11.49%) TypeScript
2 160 (9.99%) JavaScript
3 159 (9.93%) Python
4 143 (8.93%) C#
5 130 (8.11%) SQL
6 84 (5.24%) PowerShell
7 82 (5.12%) Java
8 34 (2.12%) PHP
9 31 (1.94%) R
10 23 (1.44%) Go
11 14 (0.87%) Bash
12 11 (0.69%) Bicep
13 9 (0.56%) Ruby
14 5 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.19%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.19%) Swift
16 2 (0.12%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.12%) SOQL
16 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (5.49%) Degree
2 75 (4.68%) CISSP
3 69 (4.31%) CISM
4 53 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
5 45 (2.81%) ACCA
6 43 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.12%) CIMA
8 25 (1.56%) Security Cleared
9 19 (1.19%) CRISC
10 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.87%) CISA
12 10 (0.62%) SC Cleared
13 8 (0.50%) ISACA
13 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.37%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (0.31%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.31%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (7.93%) QA
2 83 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (4.62%) NIST
4 66 (4.12%) GDPR
5 48 (3.00%) ISO 22301
6 31 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.69%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.56%) SOC 2
9 22 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (1.25%) IFRS
11 19 (1.19%) SLA
12 18 (1.12%) GRC
13 14 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.87%) Data Quality
14 9 (0.56%) COBIT
15 8 (0.50%) WCAG
16 7 (0.44%) GAAP
16 7 (0.44%) SOC 1
17 6 (0.37%) PMO
18 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 73 (4.56%) Active Directory
2 57 (3.56%) Docker
3 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 53 (3.31%) Grafana
3 36 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (0.94%) Ansible
6 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.19%) Argo
8 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.062%) CASB
10 1 (0.062%) Graylog
10 1 (0.062%) Packer
10 1 (0.062%) QRadar
Vendors
1 222 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 78 (4.87%) HubSpot
3 67 (4.18%) Salesforce
4 47 (2.93%) Google
5 32 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
6 19 (1.19%) Sage
7 16 (1.00%) Adobe
7 16 (1.00%) SAP
8 15 (0.94%) Databricks
9 13 (0.81%) Oracle
9 13 (0.81%) Xero
10 11 (0.69%) Workday
11 7 (0.44%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.37%) Pardot
13 5 (0.31%) Apple
13 5 (0.31%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.31%) Facebook
14 4 (0.25%) CheckPoint
14 4 (0.25%) Cisco
14 4 (0.25%) Hyperion