SaaS Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SaaS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,694 2,671 5,303
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.01% 6.48% 7.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.59% 13.51% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,371 1,895 3,502
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,613 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

SaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,621 19,766 36,282
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.24% 47.93% 52.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,954 14,487 21,721
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

SaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS.

SaaS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SaaS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

SaaS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 22 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.89%) IIS
6 9 (0.53%) Confluence
7 8 (0.47%) WordPress
8 7 (0.41%) CMS
9 5 (0.30%) Apache
10 4 (0.24%) nginx
10 4 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.12%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.12%) SAS
13 1 (0.059%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.059%) Moodle
13 1 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.059%) Totara
Applications
1 27 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.24%) Notion
7 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.059%) 1Password
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 11 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.24%) Exchequer
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.24%) Sage 200
8 4 (0.24%) Sage 50
8 4 (0.24%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.12%) R3 Corda
10 2 (0.12%) SAP FI-GL
10 2 (0.12%) Workfront
11 1 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.059%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.059%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 578 (34.12%) AWS
2 528 (31.17%) Azure
3 231 (13.64%) GCP
4 165 (9.74%) PaaS
5 156 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
6 139 (8.21%) IaaS
7 71 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (4.19%) Serverless
8 64 (3.78%) Amazon S3
9 60 (3.54%) GitHub
10 47 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
11 43 (2.54%) Entra ID
12 30 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
14 27 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (1.59%) Azure Functions
15 26 (1.53%) Azure AKS
15 26 (1.53%) Lucidchart
15 26 (1.53%) Miro
16 24 (1.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.19%) Firewall
2 35 (2.07%) VPN
3 26 (1.53%) LAN
3 26 (1.53%) WAN
4 22 (1.30%) Network Security
4 22 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (0.94%) Internet
6 15 (0.89%) SSL
7 13 (0.77%) SAN
8 11 (0.65%) VLAN
9 10 (0.59%) VoIP
10 9 (0.53%) DNS
11 8 (0.47%) HTTPS
11 8 (0.47%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.35%) NAS
12 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.30%) MPLS
13 5 (0.30%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.24%) HTTP
15 3 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (6.08%) SQL Server
2 80 (4.72%) MySQL
3 51 (3.01%) Big Data
4 41 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
5 38 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (2.18%) Redis
7 30 (1.77%) Hadoop
7 30 (1.77%) Relational Database
8 23 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 23 (1.36%) Scylla
9 22 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (1.30%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (0.94%) Tableau
12 15 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 15 (0.89%) Power BI
13 13 (0.77%) Data Mining
14 12 (0.71%) MariaDB
14 12 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 142 (8.38%) Git
2 73 (4.31%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.31%) Postman
3 56 (3.31%) Selenium
4 52 (3.07%) JIRA
5 39 (2.30%) Cucumber
6 28 (1.65%) Cypress.io
7 17 (1.00%) JUnit
8 12 (0.71%) JMeter
8 12 (0.71%) REST Assured
9 11 (0.65%) webpack
10 10 (0.59%) SoapUI
10 10 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.53%) GitLab
11 9 (0.53%) Vagrant
11 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 517 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 187 (11.04%) Finance
3 128 (7.56%) Marketing
4 116 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
5 110 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 77 (4.55%) Retail
7 73 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (3.31%) Legal
9 51 (3.01%) Automotive
10 43 (2.54%) Law
11 36 (2.13%) Banking
12 32 (1.89%) Public Sector
13 31 (1.83%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.71%) Games
15 20 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
18 15 (0.89%) Advertising
19 14 (0.83%) Financial Institution
19 14 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 330 (19.48%) Developer
2 323 (19.07%) Senior
3 243 (14.34%) Architect
4 172 (10.15%) Lead
5 126 (7.44%) Software Engineer
6 124 (7.32%) Senior Developer
7 101 (5.96%) Cloud Architect
8 94 (5.55%) Analyst
9 82 (4.84%) PHP Developer
10 81 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
11 59 (3.48%) Full Stack Developer
12 55 (3.25%) Consultant
12 55 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
13 49 (2.89%) Software Developer
14 44 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
15 43 (2.54%) Senior Software Engineer
16 41 (2.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 41 (2.42%) Principal Engineer
17 37 (2.18%) Business Manager
17 37 (2.18%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (9.33%) .NET
2 141 (8.32%) Laravel
3 127 (7.50%) React
4 109 (6.43%) CSS
5 107 (6.32%) HTML
6 98 (5.79%) REST
7 89 (5.25%) Vue
8 83 (4.90%) RESTful
9 77 (4.55%) AngularJS
10 73 (4.31%) Node.js
11 71 (4.19%) Web Services
12 59 (3.48%) .NET Core
13 54 (3.19%) GraphQL
14 42 (2.48%) Kafka
15 40 (2.36%) JSON
15 40 (2.36%) Symfony
16 39 (2.30%) jQuery
17 38 (2.24%) SOAP
18 34 (2.01%) Spring
19 24 (1.42%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 111 (6.55%) Public Cloud
2 95 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
3 83 (4.90%) PKI
4 76 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
5 75 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 67 (3.96%) Data Structures
7 64 (3.78%) Cloud Native
8 59 (3.48%) Mobile App
9 57 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
10 45 (2.66%) Client/Server
11 39 (2.30%) Algorithms
12 38 (2.24%) Management Information System
13 36 (2.13%) Onboarding
14 26 (1.53%) Virtual Team
15 24 (1.42%) Data Centre
16 21 (1.24%) Satnav
17 16 (0.94%) Online Games
18 15 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
19 14 (0.83%) Low-Code
20 13 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 145 (8.56%) Windows
2 84 (4.96%) Linux
3 58 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 28 (1.65%) Unix
5 25 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (1.36%) Android
8 16 (0.94%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.94%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.83%) Mac OS X
10 12 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.53%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.47%) CentOS
14 4 (0.24%) VMS
15 3 (0.18%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.059%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (25.74%) Agile
2 341 (20.13%) DevOps
3 276 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (15.11%) Software Engineering
5 210 (12.40%) CI/CD
6 185 (10.92%) Project Management
7 174 (10.27%) Microservices
8 172 (10.15%) Roadmaps
9 154 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 143 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
11 140 (8.26%) User Experience
12 135 (7.97%) Migration
13 124 (7.32%) Full Stack Development
14 122 (7.20%) Actionable Insight
14 122 (7.20%) Presales
15 121 (7.14%) Mentoring
15 121 (7.14%) Scrum
16 116 (6.85%) TOGAF
17 99 (5.84%) Configuration Management
17 99 (5.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 297 (17.53%) JavaScript
2 192 (11.33%) SQL
3 171 (10.09%) C#
3 171 (10.09%) Python
4 168 (9.92%) PHP
5 166 (9.80%) Java
6 101 (5.96%) TypeScript
7 61 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 40 (2.36%) Go
9 38 (2.24%) C++
10 30 (1.77%) Bash
11 27 (1.59%) Ruby
12 25 (1.48%) C
13 24 (1.42%) Scala
14 18 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.71%) Swift
17 10 (0.59%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.47%) Ada
Qualifications
1 220 (12.99%) Degree
2 75 (4.43%) Security Cleared
3 60 (3.54%) SC Cleared
4 45 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 25 (1.48%) CISSP
7 24 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.42%) CISM
8 18 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 14 (0.83%) AWS Certification
9 14 (0.83%) GCIA
9 14 (0.83%) GCIH
9 14 (0.83%) GREM
10 13 (0.77%) MBA
11 10 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.35%) GIAC
13 6 (0.35%) SANS
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (9.33%) QA
2 30 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (1.42%) SLA
4 21 (1.24%) Software Quality Assurance
5 18 (1.06%) NIST
6 14 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.83%) GDPR
7 12 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.47%) COBIT
9 8 (0.47%) NCSC
9 8 (0.47%) WCAG
10 7 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.41%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.35%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 5 (0.30%) PMO
13 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 188 (11.10%) Docker
2 55 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.30%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.059%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 172 (10.15%) Kubernetes
2 80 (4.72%) Terraform
3 38 (2.24%) Ansible
4 14 (0.83%) vCenter Server
5 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (0.47%) CASB
6 8 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.35%) HP UCMDB
8 5 (0.30%) Puppet
9 4 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.12%) Consul
11 2 (0.12%) Grafana
11 2 (0.12%) Podman
12 1 (0.059%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.059%) Rancher
12 1 (0.059%) Salt
12 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 331 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 186 (10.98%) Google
3 70 (4.13%) Dell
4 43 (2.54%) Oracle
5 38 (2.24%) SAP
6 36 (2.13%) VMware
7 35 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.59%) Adobe
9 22 (1.30%) Cisco
10 21 (1.24%) Apple
11 20 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.00%) Sitecore
13 16 (0.94%) ForgeRock
14 15 (0.89%) HubSpot
15 14 (0.83%) HP
16 12 (0.71%) Sony
17 9 (0.53%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.53%) Snow
18 8 (0.47%) IBM
18 8 (0.47%) Xero