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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 64 51
Rank change year-on-year -14 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 3,395 4,758 9,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.40% 4.80% 6.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.58% 11.14% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,625 3,093 5,570
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £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 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
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 £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
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 18 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 18 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 2,859 £62,500 -7.41% 1,316
UK excluding London -13 2,165 £55,000 -8.33% 802
Work from Home -8 1,679 £65,000 -3.70% 749
London -3 972 £80,000 +3.23% 629
North of England +20 568 £55,000 -8.33% 214
South East -59 486 £55,000 -8.33% 292
Midlands +30 400 £57,500 -4.17% 111
North West +28 333 £56,500 -5.08% 145
West Midlands +39 287 £60,000 -0.83% 78
South West -1 263 £56,000 +6.67% 93
Scotland -51 246 £55,000 -15.38% 46
Yorkshire +21 182 £55,000 -8.33% 53
East of England -11 113 £57,500 -8.00% 33
East Midlands +9 111 £52,500 - 33
Wales +18 63 £52,500 +10.53% 10
North East +14 53 £55,000 +4.76% 17
Northern Ireland -6 27 £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 67 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.68%) Confluence
5 22 (0.65%) IIS
6 18 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.50%) CMS
8 15 (0.44%) WordPress
9 9 (0.27%) 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 3 (0.088%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.088%) SAS
14 2 (0.059%) Ethereum
14 2 (0.059%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 60 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.74%) 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 14 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 14 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 13 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 13 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 12 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
6 12 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
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 50
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (30.34%) Azure
2 876 (25.80%) AWS
3 431 (12.70%) PaaS
4 371 (10.93%) IaaS
5 310 (9.13%) GCP
6 309 (9.10%) Microsoft 365
7 130 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (2.89%) Power Platform
9 84 (2.47%) Serverless
10 80 (2.36%) Amazon S3
11 76 (2.24%) GitHub
12 72 (2.12%) Entra ID
13 58 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
14 46 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (1.18%) OCI
16 38 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
17 37 (1.09%) OpenShift
18 34 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (0.97%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.89%) Firewall
2 85 (2.50%) WAN
3 83 (2.44%) DNS
4 60 (1.77%) LAN
4 60 (1.77%) VPN
5 55 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
6 53 (1.56%) DHCP
7 48 (1.41%) TCP/IP
8 44 (1.30%) HTTP
9 41 (1.21%) Network Security
10 38 (1.12%) Internet
11 32 (0.94%) VoIP
12 31 (0.91%) SAN
13 29 (0.85%) SD-WAN
14 24 (0.71%) VLAN
15 20 (0.59%) Unified Communications
16 18 (0.53%) MPLS
16 18 (0.53%) SSL
17 15 (0.44%) BGP
17 15 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 142 (4.18%) MySQL
3 76 (2.24%) Big Data
4 72 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
5 65 (1.91%) NoSQL
6 63 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
6 63 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 58 (1.71%) Power BI
8 51 (1.50%) MongoDB
9 50 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (1.09%) Redis
11 33 (0.97%) GIS
12 31 (0.91%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.88%) Hadoop
14 29 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 29 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (0.80%) Tableau
16 23 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
16 23 (0.68%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 206 (6.07%) Git
2 97 (2.86%) JIRA
3 93 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 89 (2.62%) Selenium
5 66 (1.94%) Postman
6 46 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 37 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 37 (1.09%) GitLab
8 22 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.50%) JUnit
10 14 (0.41%) JMeter
11 13 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 13 (0.38%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.35%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.32%) Jasmine
13 11 (0.32%) SoapUI
14 10 (0.29%) webpack
15 9 (0.27%) Vagrant
15 9 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,004 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 577 (17.00%) Finance
3 248 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (7.07%) Marketing
5 236 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 185 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 170 (5.01%) Law
8 155 (4.57%) Retail
9 131 (3.86%) Legal
10 78 (2.30%) Banking
11 72 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 72 (2.12%) Public Sector
12 68 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 65 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.65%) Automotive
15 47 (1.38%) Games
16 34 (1.00%) German Language
17 33 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
17 33 (0.97%) Tech for Good
18 32 (0.94%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 721 (21.24%) Senior
2 594 (17.50%) Developer
3 411 (12.11%) Architect
4 311 (9.16%) Lead
5 220 (6.48%) Analyst
6 201 (5.92%) Senior Developer
7 177 (5.21%) Software Engineer
8 156 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
9 153 (4.51%) Consultant
10 149 (4.39%) Senior Manager
11 132 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 124 (3.65%) Cloud Architect
13 115 (3.39%) Full Stack Developer
14 114 (3.36%) Service Manager
15 110 (3.24%) PHP Developer
16 109 (3.21%) Project Manager
17 108 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
18 104 (3.06%) Software Developer
19 101 (2.97%) Service Delivery Manager
20 95 (2.80%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (9.13%) .NET
2 245 (7.22%) React
3 188 (5.54%) Laravel
4 175 (5.15%) HTML
5 167 (4.92%) CSS
6 127 (3.74%) REST
7 125 (3.68%) Vue
8 118 (3.48%) AngularJS
9 117 (3.45%) Node.js
10 107 (3.15%) RESTful
11 106 (3.12%) .NET Core
12 97 (2.86%) Web Services
13 90 (2.65%) JSON
14 65 (1.91%) GraphQL
15 60 (1.77%) XML
16 50 (1.47%) Kafka
17 49 (1.44%) .NET Framework
18 48 (1.41%) jQuery
18 48 (1.41%) SOAP
19 47 (1.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 146 (4.30%) Public Cloud
2 128 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 115 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 111 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
5 103 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 98 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (2.71%) Management Information System
8 91 (2.68%) Mobile App
9 86 (2.53%) Data Structures
10 85 (2.50%) Onboarding
11 84 (2.47%) PKI
12 67 (1.97%) Data Centre
13 54 (1.59%) Algorithms
14 45 (1.33%) Client/Server
15 35 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 29 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (0.82%) Driving Licence
18 27 (0.80%) Social Media
19 26 (0.77%) Security Posture
20 24 (0.71%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 303 (8.92%) Windows
2 178 (5.24%) Linux
3 102 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 65 (1.91%) Unix
5 48 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 36 (1.06%) Android
8 31 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 27 (0.80%) Windows 10
10 26 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (0.71%) Ubuntu
12 22 (0.65%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
14 15 (0.44%) Mac OS X
15 14 (0.41%) CentOS
16 8 (0.24%) Solaris
16 8 (0.24%) VMS
17 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.12%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (21.53%) Agile
2 527 (15.52%) DevOps
3 526 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
4 411 (12.11%) Software Engineering
5 360 (10.60%) Project Management
6 343 (10.10%) Roadmaps
7 330 (9.72%) Mentoring
8 290 (8.54%) CI/CD
9 271 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
10 258 (7.60%) Microservices
11 226 (6.66%) Migration
11 226 (6.66%) Test Automation
12 216 (6.36%) Full Stack Development
13 193 (5.68%) Analytics
14 192 (5.66%) User Experience
15 184 (5.42%) Actionable Insight
16 183 (5.39%) Service Delivery
17 182 (5.36%) Computer Science
18 181 (5.33%) Scrum
19 180 (5.30%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 444 (13.08%) JavaScript
2 407 (11.99%) SQL
3 333 (9.81%) C#
4 327 (9.63%) Python
5 262 (7.72%) Java
6 224 (6.60%) PHP
7 180 (5.30%) PowerShell
8 173 (5.10%) TypeScript
9 87 (2.56%) Bash
10 58 (1.71%) Go
11 57 (1.68%) C++
12 47 (1.38%) Ruby
13 32 (0.94%) C
14 25 (0.74%) Scala
15 23 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.38%) Bicep
17 13 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.38%) Swift
18 12 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 438 (12.90%) Degree
2 175 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 113 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 102 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 47 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 45 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.18%) CISSP
9 34 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 30 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 26 (0.77%) CISM
11 26 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.71%) MBA
14 23 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.41%) GCIA
16 14 (0.41%) GCIH
16 14 (0.41%) GREM
17 13 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (7.84%) QA
2 158 (4.65%) SLA
3 64 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (1.18%) GDPR
5 35 (1.03%) NIST
6 29 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 28 (0.82%) Data Quality
7 28 (0.82%) PMO
8 24 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 21 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
10 20 (0.59%) NCSC
11 17 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.41%) COBIT
14 13 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.24%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.24%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.21%) GRC
16 7 (0.21%) WCAG
17 6 (0.18%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 285 (8.39%) Docker
2 153 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 104 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 77 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 50 (1.47%) 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%) DFS Replication
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%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.029%) RACF
10 1 (0.029%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 295 (8.69%) Kubernetes
2 153 (4.51%) Terraform
3 89 (2.62%) Ansible
4 54 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (1.44%) 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
9 10 (0.29%) Nessus
10 8 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) NetCrunch
11 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.15%) HP UCMDB
12 5 (0.15%) QRadar
13 4 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.12%) Grafana
13 4 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 703 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.30%) Google
3 163 (4.80%) Dell
4 131 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 126 (3.71%) VMware
6 118 (3.48%) Oracle
7 80 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 58 (1.71%) Cisco
9 56 (1.65%) SAP
10 45 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 36 (1.06%) Adobe
12 28 (0.82%) Apple
13 25 (0.74%) HP
13 25 (0.74%) Meraki
14 24 (0.71%) iManage
15 23 (0.68%) IBM
16 22 (0.65%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.65%) Sitecore
17 20 (0.59%) Remedy
18 19 (0.56%) Aderant