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 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 75 64 51
Rank change year-on-year -11 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 3,447 4,524 10,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.28% 4.78% 6.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.55% 11.11% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,669 2,925 5,626
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% - +14.29%

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 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £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 1 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 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
England -10 2,922 £62,500 -4.58% 1,223
UK excluding London -14 2,229 £55,000 -8.33% 655
Work from Home -9 1,670 £65,000 - 700
London -5 956 £80,000 +3.23% 551
North of England +15 589 £55,000 -8.33% 191
South East -63 505 £56,421 -5.97% 167
Midlands +26 422 £60,000 - 112
North West +26 351 £55,000 -4.35% 139
West Midlands +32 293 £60,000 - 74
South West -5 277 £55,000 +0.92% 87
Scotland -56 223 £55,000 -8.33% 36
Yorkshire +15 185 £55,000 -10.20% 41
East Midlands +5 127 £55,000 +4.76% 38
East of England -11 112 £60,000 -7.69% 52
Wales +18 69 £55,000 +46.67% 11
North East +10 53 £55,000 +4.76% 11
Northern Ireland 0 33 £75,000 +66.67% 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 66 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 66 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 26 (0.75%) Confluence
3 23 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.58%) CMS
4 20 (0.58%) IIS
5 18 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.44%) WordPress
7 9 (0.26%) Apache
7 9 (0.26%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.17%) IBM Notes
9 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.15%) Kinematics
10 5 (0.15%) nginx
11 3 (0.087%) SAS
12 2 (0.058%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.058%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.058%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 60 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.12%) Notion
8 3 (0.087%) Sketch
9 2 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.058%) InVision
9 2 (0.058%) 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 21 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 13 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 13 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 13 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 12 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 12 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
5 12 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 12 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.15%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.15%) Shopify
8 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.12%) Exchequer
9 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.12%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (30.08%) Azure
2 890 (25.82%) AWS
3 413 (11.98%) PaaS
4 349 (10.12%) IaaS
5 308 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
6 282 (8.18%) GCP
7 124 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (2.76%) Power Platform
9 86 (2.49%) Serverless
10 75 (2.18%) GitHub
11 71 (2.06%) Entra ID
12 70 (2.03%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
14 42 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
15 40 (1.16%) OpenShift
16 39 (1.13%) OCI
17 36 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
18 33 (0.96%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.83%) Firewall
2 91 (2.64%) WAN
3 84 (2.44%) DNS
4 62 (1.80%) LAN
5 61 (1.77%) VPN
6 54 (1.57%) DHCP
7 52 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 52 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
8 46 (1.33%) HTTP
9 40 (1.16%) Internet
10 39 (1.13%) Network Security
11 32 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 32 (0.93%) VoIP
12 28 (0.81%) SAN
13 24 (0.70%) Unified Communications
14 23 (0.67%) VLAN
15 19 (0.55%) BGP
16 18 (0.52%) MPLS
17 15 (0.44%) NAS
17 15 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (5.89%) SQL Server
2 148 (4.29%) MySQL
3 78 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.83%) Big Data
5 60 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 57 (1.65%) Power BI
8 55 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (1.57%) MongoDB
10 41 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 33 (0.96%) GIS
13 28 (0.81%) Redis
14 26 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
16 21 (0.61%) Hadoop
16 21 (0.61%) Tableau
17 20 (0.58%) Data Lake
18 19 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 205 (5.95%) Git
2 100 (2.90%) JIRA
3 87 (2.52%) Selenium
4 77 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 59 (1.71%) Postman
6 40 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 36 (1.04%) GitLab
8 32 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 23 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 17 (0.49%) JUnit
11 14 (0.41%) JMeter
11 14 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.35%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.35%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.29%) Jasmine
13 10 (0.29%) SoapUI
13 10 (0.29%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 985 (28.58%) Social Skills
2 561 (16.28%) Finance
3 246 (7.14%) Marketing
4 243 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 222 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 184 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
7 175 (5.08%) Law
8 158 (4.58%) Retail
9 128 (3.71%) Legal
10 73 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 70 (2.03%) Public Sector
12 67 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 66 (1.91%) Telecoms
14 63 (1.83%) Banking
15 55 (1.60%) Automotive
16 45 (1.31%) Games
17 40 (1.16%) Tech for Good
18 36 (1.04%) Aerospace
19 34 (0.99%) German Language
20 33 (0.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 737 (21.38%) Senior
2 626 (18.16%) Developer
3 426 (12.36%) Architect
4 318 (9.23%) Lead
5 210 (6.09%) Analyst
6 209 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 160 (4.64%) Consultant
8 151 (4.38%) Software Engineer
9 149 (4.32%) Senior Manager
9 149 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
10 143 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 134 (3.89%) Cloud Architect
12 129 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
13 113 (3.28%) Service Manager
14 111 (3.22%) PHP Developer
14 111 (3.22%) Software Developer
15 108 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
16 106 (3.08%) Project Manager
17 101 (2.93%) Service Delivery Manager
18 95 (2.76%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (9.81%) .NET
2 243 (7.05%) React
3 195 (5.66%) Laravel
4 173 (5.02%) HTML
5 163 (4.73%) CSS
6 131 (3.80%) Vue
7 121 (3.51%) Node.js
8 114 (3.31%) REST
9 112 (3.25%) AngularJS
10 111 (3.22%) .NET Core
11 104 (3.02%) RESTful
12 82 (2.38%) JSON
12 82 (2.38%) Web Services
13 57 (1.65%) GraphQL
14 56 (1.62%) XML
15 55 (1.60%) .NET Framework
16 49 (1.42%) Symfony
17 48 (1.39%) jQuery
18 44 (1.28%) SOAP
19 39 (1.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 142 (4.12%) Public Cloud
2 129 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 113 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 105 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
5 101 (2.93%) Cloud Native
6 100 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 96 (2.79%) Mobile App
8 88 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 87 (2.52%) Management Information System
10 84 (2.44%) PKI
11 78 (2.26%) Data Structures
12 75 (2.18%) Data Centre
13 47 (1.36%) Algorithms
14 45 (1.31%) Client/Server
15 28 (0.81%) Driving Licence
15 28 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
15 28 (0.81%) Social Media
15 28 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 27 (0.78%) Security Posture
17 24 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 293 (8.50%) Windows
2 186 (5.40%) Linux
3 103 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 56 (1.62%) Unix
5 51 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 38 (1.10%) Android
8 33 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 30 (0.87%) Ubuntu
10 26 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (0.70%) Windows 10
12 18 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
13 15 (0.44%) Mac OS X
14 14 (0.41%) CentOS
15 9 (0.26%) Solaris
16 8 (0.23%) VMS
17 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
18 6 (0.17%) Windows 7
18 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
19 4 (0.12%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (20.97%) Agile
2 534 (15.49%) DevOps
3 511 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
4 391 (11.34%) Software Engineering
5 358 (10.39%) Project Management
6 337 (9.78%) Mentoring
7 334 (9.69%) Roadmaps
8 286 (8.30%) CI/CD
9 244 (7.08%) Microservices
10 236 (6.85%) Full Stack Development
11 223 (6.47%) Cybersecurity
12 220 (6.38%) Migration
13 218 (6.32%) Test Automation
14 194 (5.63%) Analytics
15 192 (5.57%) Service Delivery
16 183 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 179 (5.19%) User Experience
18 178 (5.16%) Actionable Insight
19 175 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
19 175 (5.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 449 (13.03%) JavaScript
2 413 (11.98%) SQL
3 350 (10.15%) C#
4 331 (9.60%) Python
5 247 (7.17%) Java
6 231 (6.70%) PHP
7 184 (5.34%) PowerShell
8 177 (5.13%) TypeScript
9 85 (2.47%) Bash
10 55 (1.60%) C++
11 51 (1.48%) Ruby
12 49 (1.42%) Go
13 29 (0.84%) C
14 23 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 16 (0.46%) Scala
16 15 (0.44%) Bicep
17 13 (0.38%) Swift
18 12 (0.35%) R
19 10 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 438 (12.71%) Degree
2 175 (5.08%) Security Cleared
3 107 (3.10%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 50 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 38 (1.10%) CISSP
9 36 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 34 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 27 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 25 (0.73%) MBA
14 24 (0.70%) CISM
15 23 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
16 19 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (0.41%) GCIA
18 14 (0.41%) GCIH
18 14 (0.41%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (7.63%) QA
2 155 (4.50%) SLA
3 58 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (1.16%) GDPR
5 30 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (0.81%) PMO
7 27 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 27 (0.78%) NIST
8 24 (0.70%) Accessibility
9 22 (0.64%) NCSC
10 18 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
11 15 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 14 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.23%) COBIT
14 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.20%) GRC
16 6 (0.17%) WCAG
16 6 (0.17%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 280 (8.12%) Docker
2 147 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 103 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 79 (2.29%) Hyper-V
5 50 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.38%) vSphere
7 10 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.17%) Firmware
9 3 (0.087%) KVM
9 3 (0.087%) QEMU
9 3 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.087%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.087%) Xen
10 2 (0.058%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.029%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.029%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 289 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 164 (4.76%) Terraform
3 98 (2.84%) Ansible
4 53 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 53 (1.54%) Puppet
5 14 (0.41%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.32%) CASB
8 10 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (0.29%) Nessus
9 9 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.17%) NetCrunch
11 6 (0.17%) QRadar
12 4 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (0.12%) Grafana
12 4 (0.12%) HP UCMDB
12 4 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 691 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 193 (5.60%) Google
3 146 (4.24%) Dell
4 128 (3.71%) ServiceNow
5 123 (3.57%) VMware
6 106 (3.08%) Oracle
7 84 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 64 (1.86%) Cisco
9 54 (1.57%) SAP
10 50 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 28 (0.81%) Adobe
11 28 (0.81%) Meraki
12 24 (0.70%) HP
13 23 (0.67%) iManage
13 23 (0.67%) Palo Alto
14 22 (0.64%) Sitecore
15 19 (0.55%) Apple
16 18 (0.52%) Aderant
16 18 (0.52%) HubSpot
16 18 (0.52%) IBM