SaaS Jobs in Scotland

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 48 62
Rank change year-on-year -56 +14 -8
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 223 253 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.26% 5.81% 4.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.77% 16.42% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 140 104 222
10th Percentile £34,900 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £48,193 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £78,445
90th Percentile £85,500 £97,328 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,869 1,541 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 41.96% 35.42% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 851 1,324
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £41,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £68,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,510 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SaaS in Scotland

SaaS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Edinburgh +19 129 £55,000 -22.81% 21
Glasgow -147 48 £67,500 +22.73% 6
Aberdeen -1 19 £38,500 -3.75% 2
Fife - 8 - -
Dundee -8 6 £45,000 -7.46% 1
South Lanarkshire - 3 £105,000 - 1
Perthshire - 2 £35,000 -
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 8
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 14 (6.28%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (38.57%) AWS
2 57 (25.56%) Azure
3 42 (18.83%) GCP
4 21 (9.42%) Amazon S3
5 17 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (7.62%) Miro
6 14 (6.28%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (6.28%) Google Docs
6 14 (6.28%) Lucidchart
6 14 (6.28%) Slack
7 13 (5.83%) IaaS
8 12 (5.38%) PaaS
9 7 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.14%) Serverless
10 6 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.79%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.35%) Figma
12 3 (1.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.48%) Firewall
2 9 (4.04%) LAN
2 9 (4.04%) WAN
3 3 (1.35%) DHCP
3 3 (1.35%) DNS
3 3 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.35%) Wireless
4 1 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.97%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (7.17%) Big Data
3 14 (6.28%) Hadoop
3 14 (6.28%) Redis
3 14 (6.28%) Scylla
4 9 (4.04%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.14%) MySQL
5 7 (3.14%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.79%) GIS
7 4 (1.79%) Power BI
7 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Git
2 3 (1.35%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.90%) JIRA
3 2 (0.90%) Maven
3 2 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 66 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (9.42%) Finance
3 21 (9.42%) Marketing
4 16 (7.17%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (6.28%) Military
6 9 (4.04%) Games
7 7 (3.14%) Legal
7 7 (3.14%) Retail
8 5 (2.24%) Banking
8 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.24%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (23.32%) Developer
2 42 (18.83%) Senior
3 33 (14.80%) Software Engineer
4 25 (11.21%) Analyst
5 23 (10.31%) Architect
6 20 (8.97%) Software Developer
7 17 (7.62%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.17%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (6.73%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (6.28%) Principal Software Engineer
10 14 (6.28%) Senior Software Developer
10 14 (6.28%) Support Analyst
10 14 (6.28%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 13 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (4.93%) .NET Developer
13 9 (4.04%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (4.04%) PHP Developer
13 9 (4.04%) Senior .NET Developer
13 9 (4.04%) Software Tester
13 9 (4.04%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.11%) .NET
2 24 (10.76%) Kafka
3 16 (7.17%) AngularJS
4 14 (6.28%) GraphQL
4 14 (6.28%) React
5 13 (5.83%) RESTful
6 12 (5.38%) Laravel
7 10 (4.48%) .NET Core
7 10 (4.48%) .NET Framework
8 9 (4.04%) CSS
8 9 (4.04%) HTML
9 8 (3.59%) REST
10 6 (2.69%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (1.79%) Blazor
11 4 (1.79%) Spring
11 4 (1.79%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.79%) Vue
12 3 (1.35%) JSON
12 3 (1.35%) Web Services
13 2 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.07%) Data Structures
2 14 (6.28%) Algorithms
2 14 (6.28%) PKI
2 14 (6.28%) Public Cloud
3 11 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.14%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.69%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (2.24%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.35%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.35%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.90%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.90%) Robotics
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.42%) Windows
2 19 (8.52%) Linux
3 18 (8.07%) Unix
4 14 (6.28%) Mac OS X
5 4 (1.79%) Android
5 4 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.91%) Agile
2 44 (19.73%) Software Engineering
3 40 (17.94%) DevOps
4 34 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (14.35%) Actionable Insight
5 32 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (13.90%) Migration
7 29 (13.00%) Project Management
7 29 (13.00%) User Experience
8 28 (12.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 28 (12.56%) Threat Intelligence
9 24 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (10.31%) Incident Response
11 21 (9.42%) Presales
12 20 (8.97%) Microservices
12 20 (8.97%) Test Automation
13 18 (8.07%) Customer Service
14 17 (7.62%) High Availability
14 17 (7.62%) Open Source
14 17 (7.62%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (17.49%) C#
1 39 (17.49%) Java
2 37 (16.59%) Python
3 30 (13.45%) JavaScript
4 27 (12.11%) TypeScript
5 23 (10.31%) Go
6 22 (9.87%) SQL
7 15 (6.73%) Bash
8 14 (6.28%) C++
8 14 (6.28%) PHP
8 14 (6.28%) Scala
9 5 (2.24%) Ruby
10 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.79%) Swift
11 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.35%) Rust
12 1 (0.45%) Elixir
12 1 (0.45%) Perl
12 1 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (14.80%) Degree
2 14 (6.28%) CISM
2 14 (6.28%) CISSP
2 14 (6.28%) GCIA
2 14 (6.28%) GCIH
2 14 (6.28%) GREM
3 9 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.69%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.97%) QA
2 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.35%) NIST
3 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.90%) GDPR
3 2 (0.90%) SEPA
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 13 (5.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (12.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.35%) Autotask
3 2 (0.90%) Ansible
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.90%) Puppet
3 2 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (13.90%) Google
1 31 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.56%) Dell
3 6 (2.69%) Oracle
4 3 (1.35%) Apple
4 3 (1.35%) Facebook
4 3 (1.35%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.90%) IBM
6 1 (0.45%) Aruba
6 1 (0.45%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco
6 1 (0.45%) EMC
6 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.45%) VMware