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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 74 48
Rank change year-on-year +46 -26 -3
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,387 728 1,594
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.84% 4.68% 4.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.99% 12.28% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,103 558 1,336
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,850 £41,250
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 £92,500 £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 7,709 5,926 14,617
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.01% 38.11% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,442 4,317 12,145
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,690 £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 22 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 46 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.08%) WordPress
4 13 (0.94%) CMS
5 11 (0.79%) 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 20 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.58%) 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
1 239 (17.23%) Azure
2 233 (16.80%) AWS
3 91 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (6.20%) Entra ID
4 86 (6.20%) GCP
5 55 (3.97%) PaaS
6 53 (3.82%) Power Platform
7 50 (3.60%) Serverless
8 49 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
9 33 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (2.02%) GitHub
11 27 (1.95%) IaaS
12 22 (1.59%) Figma
13 20 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (1.44%) Mimecast
13 20 (1.44%) Snowflake
14 16 (1.15%) Azure Functions
14 16 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.87%) Firewall
2 21 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (1.30%) VPN
4 14 (1.01%) DNS
5 12 (0.87%) LAN
5 12 (0.87%) 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 52 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 36 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (2.24%) Power BI
4 26 (1.87%) MySQL
5 24 (1.73%) Redis
6 18 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.58%) 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%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (4.54%) JIRA
2 38 (2.74%) TeamCity
3 35 (2.52%) 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
1 328 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 320 (23.07%) Finance
3 221 (15.93%) Retail
4 199 (14.35%) Marketing
5 158 (11.39%) Law
6 152 (10.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 131 (9.44%) Banking
8 120 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
9 119 (8.58%) Back Office
10 101 (7.28%) Financial Institution
11 98 (7.07%) Legal
12 46 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (2.16%) Manufacturing
15 28 (2.02%) Advertising
16 24 (1.73%) Public Sector
17 22 (1.59%) Health Technology
18 21 (1.51%) German Language
19 20 (1.44%) Polish Language
20 18 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (12.91%) Senior
2 166 (11.97%) Lead
3 160 (11.54%) Developer
4 109 (7.86%) Software Engineer
5 94 (6.78%) Account Executive
6 78 (5.62%) Architect
7 77 (5.55%) Account Manager
8 72 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 63 (4.54%) Lead Developer
10 54 (3.89%) Consultant
10 54 (3.89%) Support Engineer
11 48 (3.46%) Analyst
12 42 (3.03%) Sales Manager
12 42 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
13 37 (2.67%) Marketing Manager
14 36 (2.60%) .NET Software Engineer
14 36 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.52%) C# Developer
15 35 (2.52%) Software Developer
16 34 (2.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.27%) .NET
2 82 (5.91%) Node.js
3 62 (4.47%) React
4 49 (3.53%) Vue
5 37 (2.67%) RESTful
6 36 (2.60%) REST
7 35 (2.52%) CSS
7 35 (2.52%) 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 (0.94%) .NET Core
13 13 (0.94%) NestJS
13 13 (0.94%) Next.js
13 13 (0.94%) Spring Boot
14 12 (0.87%) GraphQL
14 12 (0.87%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 116 (8.36%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 83 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 42 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 27 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (1.87%) Blog
8 25 (1.80%) EPoS
9 23 (1.66%) PropTech
10 20 (1.44%) Social Media
11 18 (1.30%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.15%) Web Conferencing
13 15 (1.08%) Client/Server
13 15 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
14 14 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.94%) Driving Licence
16 12 (0.87%) Life Science
16 12 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.17%) Windows
2 19 (1.37%) Apple iOS
2 19 (1.37%) Linux
3 18 (1.30%) Android
4 13 (0.94%) 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
1 242 (17.45%) AI
2 196 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
3 192 (13.84%) B2B
4 191 (13.77%) Software Engineering
5 173 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 167 (12.04%) Agile
7 155 (11.18%) CI/CD
8 152 (10.96%) CRM
9 142 (10.24%) Full-Stack Development
10 140 (10.09%) DevOps
11 139 (10.02%) Roadmaps
12 134 (9.66%) Microservices
13 112 (8.07%) Decision-Making
14 111 (8.00%) Business Development
15 108 (7.79%) Fintech
16 104 (7.50%) Mentoring
17 94 (6.78%) Analytics
18 80 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
19 78 (5.62%) Cybersecurity
20 75 (5.41%) Lead Generation
Programming Languages
1 126 (9.08%) SQL
2 125 (9.01%) Python
3 89 (6.42%) Java
3 89 (6.42%) TypeScript
4 74 (5.34%) C#
5 72 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 45 (3.24%) PowerShell
7 31 (2.24%) PHP
8 23 (1.66%) Go
9 21 (1.51%) R
10 16 (1.15%) Bash
11 10 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.65%) Bicep
13 7 (0.50%) Ruby
14 4 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.22%) Swift
16 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.072%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.072%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 98 (7.07%) Degree
2 42 (3.03%) ACCA
3 31 (2.24%) Security Cleared
4 30 (2.16%) CIMA
4 30 (2.16%) CISSP
5 29 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.51%) SC Cleared
7 19 (1.37%) CRISC
8 18 (1.30%) CISM
8 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.08%) CISA
10 14 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.50%) ISACA
11 7 (0.50%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 6 (0.43%) MBA
13 5 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.36%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (3.97%) GDPR
3 48 (3.46%) QA
4 37 (2.67%) PCI DSS
5 31 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 29 (2.09%) SOC 2
7 25 (1.80%) NIST
8 24 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 23 (1.66%) Data Quality
10 20 (1.44%) IFRS
11 16 (1.15%) GRC
12 13 (0.94%) WCAG
13 12 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (0.87%) PMO
14 11 (0.79%) SLA
15 9 (0.65%) COBIT
16 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.58%) SOC 1
17 6 (0.43%) GAAP
18 5 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 76 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.32%) 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 97 (6.99%) Terraform
2 76 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 48 (3.46%) Grafana
4 31 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.30%) 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
1 158 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.39%) Salesforce
3 41 (2.96%) HubSpot
4 34 (2.45%) Google
5 21 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
6 20 (1.44%) Sage
7 19 (1.37%) Adobe
8 17 (1.23%) Databricks
9 16 (1.15%) Pardot
9 16 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.15%) Xero
10 14 (1.01%) SAP
11 13 (0.94%) Oracle
12 12 (0.87%) Cisco
13 11 (0.79%) CheckPoint
13 11 (0.79%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.79%) Meraki
13 11 (0.79%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.50%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.43%) Atlassian