Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 64 51
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 3,398 4,810 9,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.43% 4.79% 6.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.62% 11.17% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,628 3,126 5,584
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,306 43,046 77,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 28,295 41,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaaS.

Salary trend for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the UK

SaaS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -10 2,857 £63,749 -5.56% 1,156
UK excluding London -11 2,159 £55,000 -8.33% 659
Work from Home -8 1,681 £65,000 -3.70% 656
London -3 982 £80,000 +3.23% 503
North of England +23 569 £55,000 -8.33% 194
South East -60 486 £55,000 -8.33% 181
Midlands +30 396 £57,500 -4.17% 106
North West +27 333 £57,500 -3.40% 131
West Midlands +38 285 £60,000 -2.44% 73
South West 0 256 £57,250 +9.05% 92
Scotland -48 249 £55,000 -15.38% 46
Yorkshire +27 184 £55,000 -12.00% 50
East of England -21 112 £55,000 -12.00% 26
East Midlands +2 109 £52,500 - 33
Wales +22 63 £52,500 +10.53% 12
North East +14 52 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Northern Ireland +6 29 £75,000 +25.00% 7

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 66 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 64 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.71%) Confluence
5 21 (0.62%) IIS
6 18 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.50%) CMS
8 15 (0.44%) WordPress
9 9 (0.26%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.24%) Apache
11 6 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.18%) IBM Notes
11 6 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
12 5 (0.15%) Kinematics
12 5 (0.15%) nginx
13 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
14 3 (0.088%) SAS
15 2 (0.059%) Ethereum
15 2 (0.059%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 60 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.12%) Notion
8 3 (0.088%) Sketch
9 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.059%) InVision
9 2 (0.059%) SPSS
10 1 (0.029%) 1Password
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 16 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 14 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 13 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 13 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
7 12 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
8 11 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
9 7 (0.21%) Elite 3E
9 7 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.12%) Exchequer
11 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 4 (0.12%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,034 (30.43%) Azure
2 880 (25.90%) AWS
3 437 (12.86%) PaaS
4 377 (11.09%) IaaS
5 312 (9.18%) GCP
6 310 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
7 128 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (2.85%) Power Platform
9 87 (2.56%) Serverless
10 80 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 79 (2.32%) GitHub
12 72 (2.12%) Entra ID
13 58 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
14 46 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (1.15%) OCI
17 38 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
18 35 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
18 35 (1.03%) OpenShift
19 33 (0.97%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 130 (3.83%) Firewall
2 85 (2.50%) WAN
3 79 (2.32%) DNS
4 61 (1.80%) VPN
5 60 (1.77%) LAN
6 53 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
7 50 (1.47%) DHCP
8 46 (1.35%) TCP/IP
9 42 (1.24%) HTTP
9 42 (1.24%) Network Security
10 39 (1.15%) Internet
11 32 (0.94%) VoIP
12 31 (0.91%) SAN
13 29 (0.85%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.68%) VLAN
15 19 (0.56%) SSL
15 19 (0.56%) Unified Communications
16 17 (0.50%) MPLS
17 15 (0.44%) NAS
18 14 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 146 (4.30%) MySQL
3 78 (2.30%) Big Data
4 72 (2.12%) NoSQL
4 72 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 63 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
7 58 (1.71%) Power BI
8 55 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
9 51 (1.50%) MongoDB
10 37 (1.09%) Redis
11 36 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 33 (0.97%) GIS
13 31 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 29 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 29 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (0.79%) Tableau
16 23 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
16 23 (0.68%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 204 (6.00%) Git
2 101 (2.97%) JIRA
3 95 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 89 (2.62%) Selenium
5 67 (1.97%) Postman
6 48 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 37 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 37 (1.09%) GitLab
8 20 (0.59%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.53%) JUnit
10 16 (0.47%) JMeter
11 13 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 13 (0.38%) SoapUI
11 13 (0.38%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.35%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.29%) webpack
14 9 (0.26%) Jasmine
14 9 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 1,007 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 578 (17.01%) Finance
3 248 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (7.12%) Marketing
5 238 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 185 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
7 169 (4.97%) Law
8 156 (4.59%) Retail
9 134 (3.94%) Legal
10 81 (2.38%) Banking
11 73 (2.15%) Public Sector
12 72 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.00%) Telecoms
14 66 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 56 (1.65%) Automotive
16 47 (1.38%) Games
17 34 (1.00%) German Language
17 34 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
17 34 (1.00%) Tech for Good
18 33 (0.97%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 711 (20.92%) Senior
2 591 (17.39%) Developer
3 419 (12.33%) Architect
4 310 (9.12%) Lead
5 219 (6.44%) Analyst
6 195 (5.74%) Senior Developer
7 178 (5.24%) Software Engineer
8 158 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 152 (4.47%) Consultant
10 149 (4.38%) Senior Manager
11 129 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 124 (3.65%) Cloud Architect
13 115 (3.38%) Service Manager
14 114 (3.35%) Full Stack Developer
15 111 (3.27%) PHP Developer
16 109 (3.21%) Project Manager
17 108 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
18 101 (2.97%) Service Delivery Manager
19 100 (2.94%) Software Developer
20 95 (2.80%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (9.21%) .NET
2 247 (7.27%) React
3 188 (5.53%) Laravel
4 179 (5.27%) HTML
5 170 (5.00%) CSS
6 128 (3.77%) REST
7 125 (3.68%) Vue
8 119 (3.50%) AngularJS
9 118 (3.47%) Node.js
10 107 (3.15%) RESTful
11 104 (3.06%) .NET Core
12 103 (3.03%) Web Services
13 93 (2.74%) JSON
14 65 (1.91%) GraphQL
15 64 (1.88%) XML
16 53 (1.56%) SOAP
17 50 (1.47%) Kafka
18 49 (1.44%) jQuery
18 49 (1.44%) Symfony
19 47 (1.38%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 146 (4.30%) Public Cloud
2 126 (3.71%) Product Ownership
3 115 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
4 112 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
5 104 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 98 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 93 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 91 (2.68%) Mobile App
9 86 (2.53%) Data Structures
10 84 (2.47%) Onboarding
10 84 (2.47%) PKI
11 64 (1.88%) Data Centre
12 54 (1.59%) Algorithms
13 45 (1.32%) Client/Server
14 36 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 30 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (0.85%) Social Media
17 28 (0.82%) Blockchain
17 28 (0.82%) Driving Licence
18 26 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 302 (8.89%) Windows
2 177 (5.21%) Linux
3 102 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 69 (2.03%) Unix
5 46 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 36 (1.06%) Android
8 31 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 27 (0.79%) Windows 10
10 25 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (0.71%) Ubuntu
12 23 (0.68%) Mac OS
13 17 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
14 14 (0.41%) CentOS
14 14 (0.41%) Mac OS X
15 8 (0.24%) Solaris
15 8 (0.24%) VMS
16 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.12%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (21.81%) Agile
2 530 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
3 523 (15.39%) DevOps
4 409 (12.04%) Software Engineering
5 362 (10.65%) Project Management
6 350 (10.30%) Roadmaps
7 331 (9.74%) Mentoring
8 294 (8.65%) CI/CD
9 275 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
10 264 (7.77%) Microservices
11 227 (6.68%) Test Automation
12 226 (6.65%) Migration
13 214 (6.30%) Full Stack Development
14 194 (5.71%) Analytics
15 191 (5.62%) User Experience
16 185 (5.44%) Artificial Intelligence
17 184 (5.41%) Actionable Insight
17 184 (5.41%) Computer Science
18 183 (5.39%) Scrum
19 182 (5.36%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 449 (13.21%) JavaScript
2 411 (12.10%) SQL
3 335 (9.86%) C#
4 326 (9.59%) Python
5 262 (7.71%) Java
6 224 (6.59%) PHP
7 181 (5.33%) PowerShell
8 174 (5.12%) TypeScript
9 86 (2.53%) Bash
10 59 (1.74%) Go
11 57 (1.68%) C++
12 47 (1.38%) Ruby
13 32 (0.94%) C
14 26 (0.77%) Scala
15 23 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.41%) Bicep
18 13 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.38%) Swift
19 12 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 440 (12.95%) Degree
2 175 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 113 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 103 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 47 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 45 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 41 (1.21%) CISSP
9 34 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 31 (0.91%) ISTQB
11 27 (0.79%) CISM
12 26 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 25 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (0.71%) MBA
15 23 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.41%) GCIA
17 14 (0.41%) GCIH
17 14 (0.41%) GREM
18 13 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (7.77%) QA
2 158 (4.65%) SLA
3 65 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (1.21%) GDPR
5 35 (1.03%) NIST
6 29 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 29 (0.85%) PMO
7 27 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 24 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 21 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
10 19 (0.56%) NCSC
11 17 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.41%) COBIT
14 12 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.24%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.24%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.21%) WCAG
17 6 (0.18%) GRC
17 6 (0.18%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 279 (8.21%) Docker
2 153 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 102 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 74 (2.18%) Hyper-V
5 49 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.38%) vSphere
7 6 (0.18%) Firmware
8 3 (0.088%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.059%) KVM
9 2 (0.059%) QEMU
9 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.059%) Xen
10 1 (0.029%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.029%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.029%) RACF
10 1 (0.029%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 291 (8.56%) Kubernetes
2 153 (4.50%) Terraform
3 87 (2.56%) Ansible
4 53 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (1.38%) Puppet
6 17 (0.50%) vCenter Server
7 14 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.29%) CASB
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
11 8 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.18%) HP UCMDB
12 6 (0.18%) NetCrunch
12 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.15%) QRadar
14 4 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.12%) Grafana
14 4 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 707 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 213 (6.27%) Google
3 165 (4.86%) Dell
4 133 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 125 (3.68%) VMware
6 117 (3.44%) Oracle
7 80 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 56 (1.65%) Cisco
8 56 (1.65%) SAP
9 43 (1.27%) Red Hat
10 36 (1.06%) Adobe
11 28 (0.82%) Apple
12 27 (0.79%) HP
13 25 (0.74%) Meraki
14 24 (0.71%) iManage
15 23 (0.68%) IBM
16 22 (0.65%) Remedy
16 22 (0.65%) Sitecore
17 21 (0.62%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.56%) Aderant