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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 70 58
Rank change year-on-year -13 -12 +4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 2,290 2,517 3,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.87% 4.54% 4.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.35% 11.69% 12.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,764 1,542 2,827
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 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +13.21%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,675 £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 24,496 21,530 30,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.71% 38.81% 39.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,934 13,318 19,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £39,438
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 11 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 11 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 +9 593 £55,000 -8.33% 192
South East -55 527 £55,000 -12.00% 163
Midlands +20 439 £60,000 - 121
North West +13 349 £55,250 -3.91% 141
West Midlands +25 300 £60,000 - 80
South West -5 292 £52,500 -6.67% 88
Scotland -55 217 £55,000 -12.00% 30
Yorkshire +9 187 £55,000 -12.00% 39
East Midlands -5 137 £55,000 +4.76% 39
East of England -7 120 £60,000 -7.69% 55
Wales +17 71 £55,000 +46.67% 9
North East +6 57 £55,000 -8.33% 13
Northern Ireland -1 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 50 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.09%) 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%) NetWeaver
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%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.17%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.17%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
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 (29.52%) Azure
2 633 (27.64%) AWS
3 212 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
4 194 (8.47%) GCP
5 181 (7.90%) PaaS
6 149 (6.51%) IaaS
7 79 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (2.14%) Power Platform
9 47 (2.05%) GitHub
9 47 (2.05%) Serverless
10 45 (1.97%) Amazon S3
11 35 (1.53%) OpenShift
12 27 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
12 27 (1.18%) 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 92 (4.02%) Firewall
2 67 (2.93%) DNS
3 63 (2.75%) 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 (1.00%) Network Security
11 22 (0.96%) SAN
12 18 (0.79%) Internet
12 18 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.52%) VLAN
14 10 (0.44%) MPLS
15 9 (0.39%) NAS
16 7 (0.31%) 5G
16 7 (0.31%) Broadband
16 7 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 104 (4.54%) MySQL
3 51 (2.23%) Big Data
3 51 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (1.88%) NoSQL
5 42 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 41 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 40 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (1.35%) GIS
9 27 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
10 26 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (0.96%) Redis
12 21 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
13 20 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (0.79%) Data Mining
15 17 (0.74%) Power BI
16 15 (0.66%) Hadoop
17 13 (0.57%) BigQuery
18 12 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
18 12 (0.52%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 148 (6.46%) Git
2 61 (2.66%) JIRA
3 50 (2.18%) Selenium
4 29 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 17 (0.74%) JUnit
6 17 (0.74%) Postman
7 15 (0.66%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.57%) 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
1 577 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 260 (11.35%) Finance
3 153 (6.68%) Marketing
4 138 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
6 105 (4.59%) Retail
7 101 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
9 60 (2.62%) Manufacturing
10 57 (2.49%) Legal
11 56 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 55 (2.40%) Law
13 44 (1.92%) Public Sector
14 40 (1.75%) Automotive
14 40 (1.75%) Games
15 39 (1.70%) Tech for Good
16 37 (1.62%) Aerospace
16 37 (1.62%) Banking
17 26 (1.14%) Aviation
18 20 (0.87%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 513 (22.40%) Developer
2 411 (17.95%) Senior
3 275 (12.01%) Architect
4 171 (7.47%) Senior Developer
5 164 (7.16%) Lead
6 161 (7.03%) Analyst
7 128 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 114 (4.98%) Software Developer
9 107 (4.67%) PHP Developer
10 105 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 101 (4.41%) Full Stack Developer
12 99 (4.32%) Cloud Architect
13 82 (3.58%) Consultant
14 79 (3.45%) .NET Developer
15 74 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 69 (3.01%) 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
1 266 (11.62%) .NET
2 192 (8.38%) React
3 174 (7.60%) Laravel
4 123 (5.37%) HTML
5 114 (4.98%) CSS
6 103 (4.50%) Vue
7 95 (4.15%) .NET Core
8 87 (3.80%) RESTful
9 86 (3.76%) AngularJS
10 76 (3.32%) Node.js
11 47 (2.05%) JSON
12 46 (2.01%) .NET Framework
13 45 (1.97%) jQuery
13 45 (1.97%) Web Services
14 40 (1.75%) GraphQL
15 38 (1.66%) XML
16 36 (1.57%) Symfony
17 35 (1.53%) REST
18 32 (1.40%) Spring
19 25 (1.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 93 (4.06%) Public Cloud
2 89 (3.89%) Product Ownership
3 77 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
4 72 (3.14%) PKI
5 67 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 61 (2.66%) Mobile App
7 60 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 57 (2.49%) Cloud Native
9 52 (2.27%) Management Information System
10 49 (2.14%) Data Centre
11 48 (2.10%) Data Structures
12 47 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (1.40%) Client/Server
14 26 (1.14%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.09%) Driving Licence
16 22 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
17 19 (0.83%) Low-Code
17 19 (0.83%) NHS
18 18 (0.79%) Security Posture
18 18 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 214 (9.34%) Windows
2 157 (6.86%) Linux
3 78 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.79%) Unix
6 23 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 23 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (0.83%) Android
8 18 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (0.74%) Windows 10
9 17 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.61%) Mac OS X
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 (21.92%) Agile
2 391 (17.07%) DevOps
3 343 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
4 274 (11.97%) Software Engineering
5 221 (9.65%) Project Management
6 195 (8.52%) Full Stack Development
7 188 (8.21%) Roadmaps
8 186 (8.12%) CI/CD
9 178 (7.77%) Mentoring
10 166 (7.25%) Test Automation
11 158 (6.90%) Migration
12 155 (6.77%) Actionable Insight
13 153 (6.68%) Microservices
14 148 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 137 (5.98%) Business Development
16 136 (5.94%) Cybersecurity
17 129 (5.63%) User Experience
18 127 (5.55%) Continuous Improvement
19 122 (5.33%) Analytics
20 121 (5.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 350 (15.28%) JavaScript
2 292 (12.75%) C#
2 292 (12.75%) SQL
3 216 (9.43%) Python
4 198 (8.65%) PHP
5 161 (7.03%) Java
6 134 (5.85%) PowerShell
7 111 (4.85%) TypeScript
8 69 (3.01%) Bash
9 44 (1.92%) C++
10 34 (1.48%) Go
11 26 (1.14%) C
12 23 (1.00%) Ruby
13 14 (0.61%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.52%) Scala
15 12 (0.52%) Swift
16 10 (0.44%) Bicep
17 8 (0.35%) Ada
18 7 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 278 (12.14%) Degree
2 123 (5.37%) Security Cleared
3 58 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (2.49%) SC Cleared
5 48 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 32 (1.40%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 20 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 20 (0.87%) CISSP
9 18 (0.79%) MBA
10 15 (0.66%) CISM
11 13 (0.57%) GCIA
11 13 (0.57%) GCIH
11 13 (0.57%) GREM
11 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.44%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.44%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (8.30%) QA
2 71 (3.10%) 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%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.39%) GRC
10 9 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.22%) SOC 1
13 2 (0.087%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.087%) IASME
13 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 210 (9.17%) Docker
2 90 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 89 (3.89%) Active Directory
4 70 (3.06%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.57%) 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 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 97 (4.24%) Terraform
3 76 (3.32%) Ansible
4 47 (2.05%) Puppet
5 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.26%) NetCrunch
9 5 (0.22%) CASB
9 5 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
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%) Podman
12 2 (0.087%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 412 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 132 (5.76%) Google
3 103 (4.50%) VMware
4 47 (2.05%) Red Hat
5 43 (1.88%) Dell
6 40 (1.75%) Oracle
7 39 (1.70%) SAP
8 35 (1.53%) Cisco
9 33 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.27%) ServiceNow
11 18 (0.79%) Adobe
12 17 (0.74%) Apple
12 17 (0.74%) Meraki
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