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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 52 52
Rank change year-on-year +22 0 0
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,679 902 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.73% 5.37% 4.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.34% 15.72% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 699 683
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £84,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £93,950
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 8,682 5,737 9,209
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.82% 34.13% 42.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,375 4,053 6,067
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
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 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%

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 7 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 69 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.01%) Confluence
4 13 (0.77%) CMS
5 11 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.54%) Apache
7 8 (0.48%) WordPress
8 7 (0.42%) IIS
9 6 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.060%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.060%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.060%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.42%) Moqups
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.18%) Aareon QL
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%) Dynamics NAV
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 (0.060%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.060%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 336 (20.01%) AWS
2 322 (19.18%) Azure
3 125 (7.44%) GCP
4 103 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 77 (4.59%) Power Platform
7 75 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (3.45%) PaaS
9 47 (2.80%) Serverless
10 45 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (2.38%) GitHub
12 34 (2.03%) IaaS
12 34 (2.03%) Snowflake
13 27 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 27 (1.61%) Mimecast
13 27 (1.61%) Power Automate
14 25 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (1.37%) Figma
16 21 (1.25%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.13%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.13%) VPN
2 14 (0.83%) Network Security
3 13 (0.77%) DNS
3 13 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.71%) AMQP
4 12 (0.71%) SMS
5 10 (0.60%) Broadband
6 9 (0.54%) BGP
6 9 (0.54%) DHCP
6 9 (0.54%) Firewall
6 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.36%) 5G
7 6 (0.36%) Internet
7 6 (0.36%) VLAN
8 5 (0.30%) VoIP
8 5 (0.30%) WAN
9 4 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.24%) LAN
9 4 (0.24%) MPLS
9 4 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 58 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (2.56%) Power BI
4 35 (2.08%) Redis
5 22 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (0.83%) Big Data
8 13 (0.77%) MySQL
9 12 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.60%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.42%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.42%) Looker
11 7 (0.42%) Metadata
12 6 (0.36%) Tableau
13 5 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (0.30%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.24%) Metabase
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 97 (5.78%) JIRA
2 68 (4.05%) TeamCity
3 44 (2.62%) Git
4 15 (0.89%) Cypress.io
4 15 (0.89%) Selenium
5 11 (0.66%) GitLab
6 9 (0.54%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.42%) Postman
7 7 (0.42%) 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%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.12%) MSI
12 2 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 465 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 404 (24.06%) Finance
3 249 (14.83%) Retail
4 238 (14.18%) Law
5 235 (14.00%) Marketing
6 204 (12.15%) Legal
7 172 (10.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 145 (8.64%) Banking
9 139 (8.28%) Back Office
10 128 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
11 125 (7.44%) Financial Institution
12 64 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (3.75%) Public Sector
14 59 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (2.20%) Manufacturing
16 35 (2.08%) German Language
17 30 (1.79%) French Language
18 29 (1.73%) Health Technology
19 27 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
20 23 (1.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 237 (14.12%) Senior
2 227 (13.52%) Lead
3 159 (9.47%) Developer
4 118 (7.03%) Account Executive
5 109 (6.49%) Software Engineer
6 107 (6.37%) Architect
7 85 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 79 (4.71%) Analyst
8 79 (4.71%) Consultant
9 69 (4.11%) Software Developer
10 67 (3.99%) Account Manager
10 67 (3.99%) Lead Developer
11 65 (3.87%) Senior Manager
12 63 (3.75%) IT Manager
12 63 (3.75%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 61 (3.63%) Lead Software Developer
14 57 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
15 49 (2.92%) Testing Manager
16 48 (2.86%) IT Services Manager
16 48 (2.86%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (8.22%) Terraform
2 123 (7.33%) Node.js
3 94 (5.60%) .NET
4 62 (3.69%) React
5 60 (3.57%) Middleware
6 55 (3.28%) REST
7 52 (3.10%) Vue
8 45 (2.68%) RESTful
9 24 (1.43%) OAuth
10 22 (1.31%) CSS
10 22 (1.31%) NestJS
10 22 (1.31%) Next.js
10 22 (1.31%) OpenID
11 20 (1.19%) OAuth2
11 20 (1.19%) OpenAPI
11 20 (1.19%) Swagger
12 18 (1.07%) Spring
12 18 (1.07%) Spring Boot
13 17 (1.01%) HTML
14 16 (0.95%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 135 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 121 (7.21%) Product Ownership
3 104 (6.19%) Onboarding
4 75 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (3.69%) Virtual Team
6 55 (3.28%) Management Information System
7 53 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
9 41 (2.44%) Web Conferencing
10 38 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.49%) Social Media
12 20 (1.19%) AI Agents
13 19 (1.13%) Blog
14 18 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.07%) Driving Licence
15 16 (0.95%) Security Posture
16 14 (0.83%) Clustering
16 14 (0.83%) PropTech
17 13 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.32%) Windows
2 24 (1.43%) Linux
3 16 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.71%) Android
4 12 (0.71%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.18%) Debian
8 1 (0.060%) Unix
8 1 (0.060%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (18.64%) AI
2 269 (16.02%) B2B
3 268 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 268 (15.96%) DevOps
4 258 (15.37%) Software Engineering
5 251 (14.95%) Agile
6 233 (13.88%) CRM
7 212 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
8 203 (12.09%) CI/CD
9 201 (11.97%) Test Automation
10 200 (11.91%) Mentoring
11 190 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 169 (10.07%) Roadmaps
13 167 (9.95%) Decision-Making
14 162 (9.65%) Business Development
15 156 (9.29%) Microservices
15 156 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 146 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
17 144 (8.58%) Fintech
18 140 (8.34%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 189 (11.26%) TypeScript
2 176 (10.48%) JavaScript
3 169 (10.07%) Python
4 158 (9.41%) C#
5 152 (9.05%) SQL
6 114 (6.79%) Java
7 85 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 30 (1.79%) R
9 27 (1.61%) Go
10 25 (1.49%) PHP
11 20 (1.19%) Bash
12 16 (0.95%) Bicep
13 9 (0.54%) Ruby
14 7 (0.42%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.36%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.36%) SOQL
16 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.18%) Scala
17 3 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (5.24%) Degree
2 79 (4.71%) CISSP
3 73 (4.35%) CISM
4 56 (3.34%) ITIL Certification
5 43 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (1.91%) Security Cleared
7 23 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.19%) ACCA
9 19 (1.13%) CRISC
10 18 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.01%) SC Cleared
12 16 (0.95%) CIMA
13 14 (0.83%) CISA
14 8 (0.48%) ISACA
14 8 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.42%) DBS Check
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
1 131 (7.80%) QA
2 88 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 77 (4.59%) NIST
4 75 (4.47%) GDPR
5 48 (2.86%) ISO 22301
6 35 (2.08%) PCI DSS
7 34 (2.03%) Data Quality
8 32 (1.91%) SOC 2
9 24 (1.43%) Accessibility
10 23 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (1.31%) GRC
12 18 (1.07%) SLA
13 13 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.60%) IFRS
15 9 (0.54%) COBIT
16 8 (0.48%) 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 (3.69%) Docker
2 61 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.060%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 107 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 81 (4.82%) Grafana
3 33 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.31%) Ansible
5 19 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.18%) Cilium
8 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
9 2 (0.12%) Argo
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.060%) CASB
10 1 (0.060%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.060%) Packer
10 1 (0.060%) QRadar
Vendors
1 244 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.66%) HubSpot
3 82 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 56 (3.34%) Google
5 31 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (1.49%) Sage
7 22 (1.31%) Databricks
8 17 (1.01%) Adobe
9 15 (0.89%) SAP
10 14 (0.83%) Workday
11 12 (0.71%) Oracle
12 11 (0.66%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.54%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.54%) Splunk
14 7 (0.42%) Facebook
14 7 (0.42%) Instagram
14 7 (0.42%) TikTok
14 7 (0.42%) YouTube
15 6 (0.36%) Freshdesk
15 6 (0.36%) Xero