SaaS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SaaS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 71 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 2,286 2,512 3,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.85% 4.55% 4.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.30% 11.72% 12.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,757 1,541 2,829
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% +11.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

SaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,574 21,434 30,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.68% 38.79% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 17,944 13,261 19,485
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +4.17%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SaaS in the UK excluding London

SaaS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +11 592 £55,000 -8.33% 193
South East -56 524 £55,000 -12.00% 163
Midlands +12 440 £60,000 - 122
North West +18 350 £55,500 -3.48% 140
West Midlands +23 300 £60,000 - 84
South West -4 294 £52,500 -4.55% 86
Scotland -60 214 £55,000 -12.00% 31
Yorkshire +13 185 £55,000 -12.00% 41
East Midlands -2 138 £55,000 +4.76% 36
East of England -11 120 £60,000 -7.69% 53
Wales +21 71 £55,000 +46.67% 11
North East +6 57 £55,000 -8.33% 13
Northern Ireland 0 33 £75,000 +42.86% 4
SaaS
UK

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 49 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (1.14%) Confluence
4 18 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.61%) IIS
6 10 (0.44%) CMS
7 7 (0.31%) WordPress
8 5 (0.22%) Kinematics
9 4 (0.17%) Apache
9 4 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.087%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.087%) InVision
7 2 (0.087%) Notion
7 2 (0.087%) Sketch
8 1 (0.044%) 1Password
8 1 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.044%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.044%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.79%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 12 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.17%) Exchequer
7 4 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.17%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.17%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.087%) BambooHR
9 2 (0.087%) iTrent
9 2 (0.087%) Maximo
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.044%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.044%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 676 (29.57%) Azure
2 634 (27.73%) AWS
3 210 (9.19%) Microsoft 365
4 194 (8.49%) GCP
5 179 (7.83%) PaaS
6 147 (6.43%) IaaS
7 79 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (2.14%) Power Platform
9 47 (2.06%) GitHub
9 47 (2.06%) Serverless
10 45 (1.97%) Amazon S3
11 35 (1.53%) OpenShift
12 26 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
12 26 (1.14%) Entra ID
13 22 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (0.79%) dbt
16 18 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 90 (3.94%) Firewall
2 67 (2.93%) DNS
3 63 (2.76%) WAN
4 49 (2.14%) DHCP
5 45 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 41 (1.79%) LAN
7 38 (1.66%) HTTP
7 38 (1.66%) VPN
8 29 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (1.09%) VoIP
10 23 (1.01%) Network Security
11 22 (0.96%) SAN
12 18 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 17 (0.74%) Internet
14 12 (0.52%) VLAN
15 10 (0.44%) MPLS
16 9 (0.39%) NAS
17 7 (0.31%) 5G
17 7 (0.31%) Broadband
17 7 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (5.82%) SQL Server
2 105 (4.59%) MySQL
3 51 (2.23%) Big Data
3 51 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (1.84%) NoSQL
5 41 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 41 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 40 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
7 31 (1.36%) GIS
8 27 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (0.96%) Redis
11 21 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
12 20 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.79%) Data Mining
14 17 (0.74%) Power BI
15 15 (0.66%) Hadoop
16 13 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (0.57%) BigQuery
17 12 (0.52%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 149 (6.52%) Git
2 62 (2.71%) JIRA
3 52 (2.27%) Selenium
4 29 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 17 (0.74%) JUnit
6 17 (0.74%) Postman
7 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.61%) JMeter
9 12 (0.52%) GitLab
10 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.39%) Jasmine
11 9 (0.39%) NUnit
12 8 (0.35%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.35%) SoapUI
12 8 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.31%) MSBuild
13 7 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 580 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 257 (11.24%) Finance
3 153 (6.69%) Marketing
4 137 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
6 104 (4.55%) Retail
7 101 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 60 (2.62%) Manufacturing
10 57 (2.49%) Legal
11 56 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 55 (2.41%) Law
13 44 (1.92%) Public Sector
14 40 (1.75%) Games
14 40 (1.75%) Tech for Good
15 39 (1.71%) Automotive
16 37 (1.62%) Aerospace
16 37 (1.62%) Banking
17 26 (1.14%) Aviation
18 20 (0.87%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 515 (22.53%) Developer
2 412 (18.02%) Senior
3 275 (12.03%) Architect
4 173 (7.57%) Senior Developer
5 165 (7.22%) Lead
6 156 (6.82%) Analyst
7 128 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 114 (4.99%) Software Developer
9 107 (4.68%) PHP Developer
10 105 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 101 (4.42%) Full Stack Developer
12 98 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
13 82 (3.59%) Consultant
14 81 (3.54%) .NET Developer
15 74 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 69 (3.02%) Development Manager
17 68 (2.97%) Project Manager
18 67 (2.93%) Business Development Manager
18 67 (2.93%) Business Manager
19 59 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (11.77%) .NET
2 193 (8.44%) React
3 175 (7.66%) Laravel
4 124 (5.42%) HTML
5 115 (5.03%) CSS
6 103 (4.51%) Vue
7 96 (4.20%) .NET Core
8 87 (3.81%) AngularJS
8 87 (3.81%) RESTful
9 76 (3.32%) Node.js
10 46 (2.01%) .NET Framework
10 46 (2.01%) JSON
11 45 (1.97%) jQuery
12 44 (1.92%) Web Services
13 40 (1.75%) GraphQL
14 37 (1.62%) XML
15 36 (1.57%) Symfony
16 35 (1.53%) REST
17 32 (1.40%) Spring
18 25 (1.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 93 (4.07%) Public Cloud
2 86 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 77 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
4 72 (3.15%) PKI
5 67 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 61 (2.67%) Mobile App
7 57 (2.49%) Cloud Native
7 57 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 51 (2.23%) Management Information System
9 49 (2.14%) Data Centre
10 48 (2.10%) Data Structures
11 47 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.40%) Client/Server
13 26 (1.14%) Algorithms
14 25 (1.09%) Driving Licence
15 22 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (0.83%) Low-Code
16 19 (0.83%) NHS
17 18 (0.79%) Security Posture
17 18 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 211 (9.23%) Windows
2 158 (6.91%) Linux
3 75 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.79%) Unix
6 23 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 20 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (0.83%) Android
9 15 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.61%) Mac OS X
10 14 (0.61%) Windows 10
10 14 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.35%) CentOS
11 8 (0.35%) Solaris
12 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (21.96%) Agile
2 391 (17.10%) DevOps
3 345 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
4 275 (12.03%) Software Engineering
5 220 (9.62%) Project Management
6 196 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
7 189 (8.27%) Roadmaps
8 185 (8.09%) CI/CD
9 178 (7.79%) Mentoring
10 168 (7.35%) Test Automation
11 157 (6.87%) Migration
12 155 (6.78%) Actionable Insight
13 153 (6.69%) Microservices
14 148 (6.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 137 (5.99%) Business Development
16 132 (5.77%) Cybersecurity
17 128 (5.60%) User Experience
18 126 (5.51%) Continuous Improvement
19 123 (5.38%) Analytics
20 121 (5.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 352 (15.40%) JavaScript
2 297 (12.99%) C#
3 294 (12.86%) SQL
4 216 (9.45%) Python
5 199 (8.71%) PHP
6 160 (7.00%) Java
7 136 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 111 (4.86%) TypeScript
9 70 (3.06%) Bash
10 44 (1.92%) C++
11 34 (1.49%) Go
12 26 (1.14%) C
13 23 (1.01%) Ruby
14 14 (0.61%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.52%) Scala
16 12 (0.52%) Swift
17 10 (0.44%) Bicep
18 8 (0.35%) Ada
19 7 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 277 (12.12%) Degree
2 123 (5.38%) Security Cleared
3 58 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (2.49%) SC Cleared
5 47 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 34 (1.49%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 21 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 20 (0.87%) CISSP
10 18 (0.79%) MBA
11 15 (0.66%) CISM
12 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.57%) GCIA
13 13 (0.57%) GCIH
13 13 (0.57%) GREM
14 12 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.44%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.44%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (8.36%) QA
2 70 (3.06%) SLA
3 46 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (1.31%) GDPR
5 26 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 16 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
8 13 (0.57%) NIST
8 13 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.48%) NCSC
9 11 (0.48%) PMO
10 9 (0.39%) GRC
10 9 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.35%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.22%) SOC 1
14 2 (0.087%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.087%) IASME
14 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 210 (9.19%) Docker
2 90 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 85 (3.72%) Active Directory
4 70 (3.06%) Hyper-V
5 37 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.52%) vSphere
7 6 (0.26%) Firmware
7 6 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.087%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.087%) KVM
9 2 (0.087%) QEMU
9 2 (0.087%) Xen
10 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 218 (9.54%) Kubernetes
2 98 (4.29%) Terraform
3 76 (3.32%) Ansible
4 47 (2.06%) Puppet
5 28 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.26%) NetCrunch
9 5 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.17%) CASB
10 4 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.17%) Grafana
11 3 (0.13%) Autotask
11 3 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.13%) Nessus
11 3 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.087%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.087%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 409 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 132 (5.77%) Google
3 103 (4.51%) VMware
4 47 (2.06%) Red Hat
5 42 (1.84%) Dell
6 39 (1.71%) SAP
7 38 (1.66%) Oracle
8 35 (1.53%) Cisco
9 33 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 17 (0.74%) Meraki
12 15 (0.66%) Adobe
13 14 (0.61%) Apple
13 14 (0.61%) BT
13 14 (0.61%) HP
14 13 (0.57%) Ericsson
14 13 (0.57%) HubSpot
14 13 (0.57%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.52%) Veeam
16 11 (0.48%) Draytek