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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 65 51
Rank change year-on-year -10 -14 +2
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 3,476 4,517 10,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.25% 4.81% 6.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.54% 11.15% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,672 2,937 5,689
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +13.21%

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 36,434 40,499 83,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.05% 43.14% 48.68%
Number of salaries quoted 27,132 27,203 41,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,140 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +2.62% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 6 June 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 6 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
England -11 2,950 £60,000 -8.40% 1,088
UK excluding London -13 2,262 £55,000 -8.33% 621
Work from Home -9 1,672 £65,000 - 640
London -5 949 £80,000 +3.23% 450
North of England +13 588 £55,000 -8.33% 185
South East -54 516 £55,000 -8.33% 164
Midlands +23 432 £60,000 - 104
North West +17 349 £55,500 -3.48% 137
West Midlands +29 297 £60,000 - 71
South West -6 288 £53,750 -6.52% 87
Scotland -54 222 £55,000 -10.20% 32
Yorkshire +9 183 £55,000 -12.00% 38
East Midlands +3 133 £55,000 +4.76% 33
East of England -22 115 £60,000 -7.69% 42
Wales +16 69 £55,000 +46.67% 10
North East +3 56 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Northern Ireland 0 33 £75,000 +42.86% 4

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 68 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 68 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 27 (0.78%) Confluence
3 23 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.58%) CMS
5 19 (0.55%) IIS
6 18 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.46%) WordPress
8 9 (0.26%) Umbraco
9 8 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.23%) Apache
10 6 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.17%) IBM Notes
10 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
11 5 (0.14%) nginx
12 3 (0.086%) SAS
13 2 (0.058%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.058%) Hyperledger
13 2 (0.058%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 60 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.086%) Notion
6 3 (0.086%) Sketch
7 2 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.058%) InVision
7 2 (0.058%) SPSS
8 1 (0.029%) 1Password
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 14 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 13 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 13 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 12 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
6 12 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
6 12 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
6 12 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.14%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.14%) Shopify
8 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
9 4 (0.12%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (30.06%) Azure
2 892 (25.66%) AWS
3 409 (11.77%) PaaS
4 347 (9.98%) IaaS
5 312 (8.98%) Microsoft 365
6 277 (7.97%) GCP
7 125 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (2.68%) Power Platform
9 86 (2.47%) Serverless
10 73 (2.10%) Entra ID
10 73 (2.10%) GitHub
11 69 (1.99%) Amazon S3
12 56 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
13 41 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
14 40 (1.15%) OpenShift
15 38 (1.09%) OCI
16 36 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
17 34 (0.98%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 131 (3.77%) Firewall
2 93 (2.68%) WAN
3 84 (2.42%) DNS
4 64 (1.84%) LAN
5 62 (1.78%) VPN
6 54 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
7 53 (1.52%) DHCP
8 52 (1.50%) TCP/IP
9 46 (1.32%) HTTP
10 39 (1.12%) Internet
11 38 (1.09%) Network Security
12 33 (0.95%) VoIP
13 32 (0.92%) SD-WAN
14 27 (0.78%) SAN
15 24 (0.69%) Unified Communications
16 23 (0.66%) VLAN
17 20 (0.58%) BGP
18 19 (0.55%) MPLS
19 16 (0.46%) SSL
20 15 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (5.93%) SQL Server
2 149 (4.29%) MySQL
3 79 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.81%) Big Data
5 59 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 58 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 55 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
7 55 (1.58%) MongoDB
7 55 (1.58%) Power BI
8 39 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 33 (0.95%) GIS
11 27 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (0.78%) Redis
12 23 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 23 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
13 21 (0.60%) Hadoop
14 20 (0.58%) Tableau
15 19 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (0.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 206 (5.93%) Git
2 98 (2.82%) JIRA
3 86 (2.47%) Selenium
4 72 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 57 (1.64%) Postman
6 38 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 36 (1.04%) GitLab
8 32 (0.92%) Cypress.io
9 23 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 17 (0.49%) JUnit
11 15 (0.43%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.40%) JMeter
13 12 (0.35%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.35%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.29%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.26%) Jasmine
15 9 (0.26%) Vagrant
15 9 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 990 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 560 (16.11%) Finance
3 246 (7.08%) Marketing
4 241 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 223 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 184 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
7 173 (4.98%) Law
8 158 (4.55%) Retail
9 128 (3.68%) Legal
10 72 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 72 (2.07%) Public Sector
11 67 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 65 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 64 (1.84%) Banking
14 54 (1.55%) Automotive
15 45 (1.29%) Games
15 45 (1.29%) Tech for Good
16 37 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 34 (0.98%) German Language
18 33 (0.95%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 741 (21.32%) Senior
2 642 (18.47%) Developer
3 428 (12.31%) Architect
4 319 (9.18%) Lead
5 212 (6.10%) Senior Developer
6 209 (6.01%) Analyst
7 164 (4.72%) Consultant
8 151 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
9 150 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 148 (4.26%) Senior Manager
11 147 (4.23%) Software Engineer
12 134 (3.86%) Cloud Architect
13 133 (3.83%) Full Stack Developer
14 116 (3.34%) Software Developer
15 113 (3.25%) Service Manager
16 111 (3.19%) PHP Developer
17 108 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
18 104 (2.99%) Project Manager
19 101 (2.91%) Service Delivery Manager
20 95 (2.73%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (9.95%) .NET
2 248 (7.13%) React
3 200 (5.75%) Laravel
4 176 (5.06%) HTML
5 165 (4.75%) CSS
6 129 (3.71%) Vue
7 119 (3.42%) Node.js
8 113 (3.25%) AngularJS
9 112 (3.22%) .NET Core
10 110 (3.16%) REST
11 104 (2.99%) RESTful
12 81 (2.33%) JSON
12 81 (2.33%) Web Services
13 56 (1.61%) .NET Framework
13 56 (1.61%) GraphQL
13 56 (1.61%) XML
14 50 (1.44%) Symfony
15 46 (1.32%) jQuery
16 43 (1.24%) SOAP
17 38 (1.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 143 (4.11%) Public Cloud
2 130 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 103 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
5 101 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 99 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
7 95 (2.73%) Mobile App
8 91 (2.62%) Management Information System
9 89 (2.56%) Onboarding
10 84 (2.42%) PKI
11 82 (2.36%) Data Centre
12 77 (2.22%) Data Structures
13 47 (1.35%) Algorithms
14 45 (1.29%) Client/Server
15 29 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 28 (0.81%) Driving Licence
16 28 (0.81%) Social Media
17 27 (0.78%) Security Posture
18 25 (0.72%) Virtual Team
19 23 (0.66%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 298 (8.57%) Windows
2 193 (5.55%) Linux
3 107 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 54 (1.55%) Unix
5 51 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 38 (1.09%) Android
8 33 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 30 (0.86%) Ubuntu
10 26 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.66%) Windows 10
12 18 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
13 15 (0.43%) Mac OS X
14 14 (0.40%) CentOS
15 9 (0.26%) Solaris
16 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
16 8 (0.23%) VMS
17 6 (0.17%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 726 (20.89%) Agile
2 532 (15.30%) DevOps
3 514 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
4 384 (11.05%) Software Engineering
5 358 (10.30%) Project Management
6 339 (9.75%) Mentoring
7 333 (9.58%) Roadmaps
8 285 (8.20%) CI/CD
9 246 (7.08%) Full Stack Development
10 240 (6.90%) Microservices
11 219 (6.30%) Cybersecurity
12 218 (6.27%) Migration
12 218 (6.27%) Test Automation
13 197 (5.67%) Service Delivery
14 193 (5.55%) Analytics
15 192 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 182 (5.24%) User Experience
17 178 (5.12%) Actionable Insight
18 174 (5.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 174 (5.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 451 (12.97%) JavaScript
2 422 (12.14%) SQL
3 362 (10.41%) C#
4 331 (9.52%) Python
5 244 (7.02%) Java
6 237 (6.82%) PHP
7 186 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 179 (5.15%) TypeScript
9 86 (2.47%) Bash
10 54 (1.55%) C++
11 51 (1.47%) Go
11 51 (1.47%) Ruby
12 29 (0.83%) C
13 23 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.63%) T-SQL
15 16 (0.46%) Scala
16 15 (0.43%) Bicep
17 13 (0.37%) Swift
18 12 (0.35%) R
19 10 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 446 (12.83%) Degree
2 176 (5.06%) Security Cleared
3 105 (3.02%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (1.70%) Master's Degree
6 51 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 38 (1.09%) CISSP
9 36 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 36 (1.04%) ISTQB
10 28 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (0.72%) MBA
13 24 (0.69%) CISM
14 23 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
15 19 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 15 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
17 14 (0.40%) GCIA
17 14 (0.40%) GCIH
17 14 (0.40%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (7.42%) QA
2 157 (4.52%) SLA
3 62 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (1.15%) GDPR
5 31 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (0.81%) NIST
7 27 (0.78%) Data Quality
8 26 (0.75%) PMO
9 24 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 23 (0.66%) NCSC
11 18 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
12 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.40%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) COBIT
15 8 (0.23%) GRC
15 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.17%) WCAG
16 6 (0.17%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 280 (8.06%) Docker
2 147 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 107 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 79 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 51 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.37%) vSphere
7 10 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.17%) Firmware
9 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.086%) KVM
10 3 (0.086%) QEMU
10 3 (0.086%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.086%) Xen
11 2 (0.058%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.029%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.029%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 292 (8.40%) Kubernetes
2 166 (4.78%) Terraform
3 100 (2.88%) Ansible
4 54 (1.55%) Puppet
5 52 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.40%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.32%) CASB
8 11 (0.32%) Nessus
9 10 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.17%) NetCrunch
13 6 (0.17%) QRadar
14 4 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.12%) Grafana
14 4 (0.12%) HP UCMDB
14 4 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 700 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 190 (5.47%) Google
3 147 (4.23%) Dell
4 128 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 127 (3.65%) VMware
6 107 (3.08%) Oracle
7 85 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 71 (2.04%) Cisco
9 55 (1.58%) SAP
10 54 (1.55%) Red Hat
11 29 (0.83%) Adobe
11 29 (0.83%) Meraki
12 28 (0.81%) HP
13 24 (0.69%) Palo Alto
14 22 (0.63%) iManage
14 22 (0.63%) Sitecore
15 20 (0.58%) Apple
16 17 (0.49%) Aderant
16 17 (0.49%) HubSpot
16 17 (0.49%) IBM