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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 47 58
Rank change year-on-year -51 +11 -4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 242 265 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.61% 5.77% 4.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.27% 16.07% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 146 114 222
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,063 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +23.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £71,825 £82,500 £77,530
90th Percentile £91,592 £97,328 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +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 2,927 1,649 2,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.64% 35.90% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,013 905 1,326
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.61%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,538 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 20 May 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 20 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
Edinburgh +25 146 £55,000 -24.14% 22
Glasgow -149 48 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Aberdeen 0 21 £38,500 -9.41% 3
Fife - 8 - -
Dundee -7 6 £45,000 -7.46% 1
South Lanarkshire - 3 £105,000 -
Perthshire - 2 £35,000 -
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 6
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 22 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (40.50%) AWS
2 63 (26.03%) Azure
3 54 (22.31%) GCP
4 29 (11.98%) Amazon S3
5 25 (10.33%) Miro
6 22 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (9.09%) Google Docs
6 22 (9.09%) Lucidchart
6 22 (9.09%) Slack
7 19 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (7.02%) IaaS
9 16 (6.61%) PaaS
10 7 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.89%) Serverless
11 6 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.07%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.07%) GitHub
13 4 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.65%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.13%) Firewall
2 9 (3.72%) LAN
2 9 (3.72%) WAN
3 3 (1.24%) DHCP
3 3 (1.24%) DNS
3 3 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.24%) Wireless
4 1 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.98%) Elasticsearch
2 26 (10.74%) Big Data
3 22 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 22 (9.09%) Redis
3 22 (9.09%) Scylla
4 10 (4.13%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.72%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.89%) MySQL
8 5 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.65%) GIS
9 4 (1.65%) Power BI
9 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.24%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 7 (2.89%) Git
2 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.65%) Maven
2 4 (1.65%) Selenium
3 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.83%) JIRA
5 1 (0.41%) Jasmine
General
1 77 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (11.57%) Finance
4 22 (9.09%) Marketing
5 16 (6.61%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.79%) Military
7 11 (4.55%) Banking
8 10 (4.13%) Legal
9 9 (3.72%) Games
10 8 (3.31%) Retail
11 6 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.48%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (20.66%) Software Engineer
2 49 (20.25%) Developer
3 46 (19.01%) Senior
4 28 (11.57%) Principal Engineer
5 27 (11.16%) Principal Software Engineer
6 26 (10.74%) Analyst
6 26 (10.74%) Architect
7 19 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (7.02%) Software Developer
9 16 (6.61%) Cloud Architect
9 16 (6.61%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.79%) Support Analyst
10 14 (5.79%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 13 (5.37%) Senior Software Developer
12 10 (4.13%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.72%) Lead
13 9 (3.72%) PHP Developer
13 9 (3.72%) Software Tester
13 9 (3.72%) Tester
14 8 (3.31%) Senior .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.29%) Kafka
2 26 (10.74%) .NET
3 22 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 17 (7.02%) AngularJS
5 16 (6.61%) RESTful
6 14 (5.79%) React
7 12 (4.96%) Laravel
8 11 (4.55%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.13%) REST
10 9 (3.72%) .NET Framework
10 9 (3.72%) CSS
10 9 (3.72%) HTML
11 8 (3.31%) Spring
11 8 (3.31%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.89%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (2.07%) JSON
13 5 (2.07%) Web Services
14 4 (1.65%) Blazor
14 4 (1.65%) Vue
14 4 (1.65%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.74%) Data Structures
2 22 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 14 (5.79%) PKI
3 14 (5.79%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.96%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.31%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.89%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.89%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.89%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.48%) Video\Live Streaming
9 5 (2.07%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.65%) Robotics
10 4 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.24%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.57%) Windows
2 23 (9.50%) Linux
3 19 (7.85%) Unix
4 14 (5.79%) Mac OS X
5 5 (2.07%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.65%) Android
6 4 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (30.17%) Agile
2 61 (25.21%) Software Engineering
3 51 (21.07%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (16.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 41 (16.94%) DevOps
4 41 (16.94%) Threat Intelligence
5 40 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (15.29%) User Experience
7 32 (13.22%) Actionable Insight
8 31 (12.81%) Migration
9 29 (11.98%) Data Science
9 29 (11.98%) Project Management
10 27 (11.16%) Computer Security
10 27 (11.16%) High Availability
10 27 (11.16%) Microservices
10 27 (11.16%) Test Automation
11 24 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.50%) Incident Response
13 22 (9.09%) UX Research
14 21 (8.68%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.66%) Java
2 44 (18.18%) Python
3 39 (16.12%) C#
4 31 (12.81%) Go
5 30 (12.40%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.16%) TypeScript
7 23 (9.50%) Bash
7 23 (9.50%) SQL
8 22 (9.09%) Scala
9 14 (5.79%) C++
9 14 (5.79%) PHP
10 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.65%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.65%) Swift
12 3 (1.24%) Ruby
12 3 (1.24%) Rust
13 1 (0.41%) R
13 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (14.88%) Degree
2 16 (6.61%) CISM
2 16 (6.61%) CISSP
3 14 (5.79%) GCIA
3 14 (5.79%) GCIH
3 14 (5.79%) GREM
4 10 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.48%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.85%) QA
2 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.07%) NIST
3 4 (1.65%) GDPR
3 4 (1.65%) SEPA
4 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 16 (6.61%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (15.70%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.24%) Autotask
3 2 (0.83%) Ansible
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.83%) Puppet
3 2 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (16.94%) Dell
1 41 (16.94%) Google
2 34 (14.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.48%) Oracle
4 4 (1.65%) IBM
5 3 (1.24%) Apple
5 3 (1.24%) Facebook
5 3 (1.24%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.41%) Aruba
6 1 (0.41%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco
6 1 (0.41%) EMC
6 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.41%) VMware