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 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 76 64 51
Rank change year-on-year -12 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 3,388 4,797 9,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.39% 4.82% 6.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.56% 11.18% 12.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 3,105 5,596
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,625 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +8.49%

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 35,437 42,898 78,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 43.13% 48.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26,650 28,186 41,598
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
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 20 May 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 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
England -10 2,856 £62,500 -7.41% 1,389
UK excluding London -13 2,160 £55,000 -8.33% 844
Work from Home -6 1,678 £65,000 -3.70% 763
London -4 969 £80,000 +3.23% 662
North of England +20 565 £55,000 -8.33% 235
South East -56 487 £55,000 -8.33% 315
Midlands +26 402 £57,500 -4.17% 115
North West +21 332 £55,500 -6.76% 157
West Midlands +40 286 £60,000 -0.83% 82
South West -3 262 £57,000 +8.57% 91
Scotland -51 242 £55,000 -15.22% 41
Yorkshire +16 180 £55,000 -8.33% 61
East Midlands +4 114 £53,999 +2.86% 33
East of England -9 113 £57,500 -8.00% 34
Wales +18 63 £52,500 +10.53% 9
North East +19 53 £55,000 +4.76% 18
Northern Ireland +3 27 £75,000 +25.00% 9

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 67 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.68%) Confluence
5 22 (0.65%) IIS
6 18 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.50%) CMS
8 15 (0.44%) WordPress
9 9 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.24%) Apache
11 6 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.18%) IBM Notes
11 6 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
12 5 (0.15%) Kinematics
12 5 (0.15%) nginx
13 3 (0.089%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.089%) SAS
14 2 (0.059%) Ethereum
14 2 (0.059%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 60 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.12%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.12%) Notion
8 3 (0.089%) Sketch
9 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.059%) InVision
9 2 (0.059%) SPSS
10 1 (0.030%) 1Password
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 14 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 14 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 13 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 12 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
6 12 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
6 12 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.12%) Exchequer
11 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 4 (0.12%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (30.40%) Azure
2 877 (25.89%) AWS
3 430 (12.69%) PaaS
4 369 (10.89%) IaaS
5 309 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
6 308 (9.09%) GCP
7 131 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (2.89%) Power Platform
9 83 (2.45%) Serverless
10 80 (2.36%) Amazon S3
11 77 (2.27%) GitHub
12 72 (2.13%) Entra ID
13 57 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
14 46 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (1.18%) OCI
17 37 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
17 37 (1.09%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
19 34 (1.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.90%) Firewall
2 84 (2.48%) WAN
3 82 (2.42%) DNS
4 60 (1.77%) LAN
4 60 (1.77%) VPN
5 54 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
6 53 (1.56%) DHCP
7 49 (1.45%) TCP/IP
8 44 (1.30%) HTTP
9 40 (1.18%) Network Security
10 39 (1.15%) Internet
11 31 (0.91%) SAN
11 31 (0.91%) VoIP
12 28 (0.83%) SD-WAN
13 23 (0.68%) VLAN
14 19 (0.56%) Unified Communications
15 18 (0.53%) SSL
16 17 (0.50%) MPLS
17 15 (0.44%) NAS
17 15 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 142 (4.19%) MySQL
3 75 (2.21%) Big Data
4 72 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (1.98%) NoSQL
6 63 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 62 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (1.74%) Power BI
9 53 (1.56%) MongoDB
10 50 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (1.06%) Redis
12 33 (0.97%) GIS
13 31 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
14 29 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (0.86%) Hadoop
15 26 (0.77%) Tableau
16 23 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
17 22 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (0.65%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 208 (6.14%) Git
2 97 (2.86%) JIRA
3 92 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 89 (2.63%) Selenium
5 65 (1.92%) Postman
6 45 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 37 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 37 (1.09%) GitLab
8 22 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.50%) JUnit
10 14 (0.41%) JMeter
11 13 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 13 (0.38%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.35%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.32%) Jasmine
13 11 (0.32%) SoapUI
14 10 (0.30%) webpack
15 9 (0.27%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,000 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 577 (17.03%) Finance
3 248 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (7.08%) Marketing
5 234 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 185 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
7 171 (5.05%) Law
8 154 (4.55%) Retail
9 132 (3.90%) Legal
10 78 (2.30%) Banking
11 73 (2.15%) Public Sector
12 72 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 67 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 64 (1.89%) Manufacturing
15 56 (1.65%) Automotive
16 46 (1.36%) Games
17 34 (1.00%) German Language
18 33 (0.97%) Health Technology
18 33 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
19 32 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 717 (21.16%) Senior
2 592 (17.47%) Developer
3 411 (12.13%) Architect
4 308 (9.09%) Lead
5 221 (6.52%) Analyst
6 202 (5.96%) Senior Developer
7 173 (5.11%) Software Engineer
8 156 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 153 (4.52%) Consultant
10 149 (4.40%) Senior Manager
11 132 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 124 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
13 115 (3.39%) Full Stack Developer
14 114 (3.36%) Service Manager
15 109 (3.22%) PHP Developer
15 109 (3.22%) Project Manager
16 108 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
17 105 (3.10%) Software Developer
18 101 (2.98%) Service Delivery Manager
19 95 (2.80%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (9.18%) .NET
2 241 (7.11%) React
3 187 (5.52%) Laravel
4 173 (5.11%) HTML
5 165 (4.87%) CSS
6 125 (3.69%) REST
6 125 (3.69%) Vue
7 117 (3.45%) AngularJS
7 117 (3.45%) Node.js
8 107 (3.16%) .NET Core
8 107 (3.16%) RESTful
9 97 (2.86%) Web Services
10 89 (2.63%) JSON
11 65 (1.92%) GraphQL
12 60 (1.77%) XML
13 49 (1.45%) .NET Framework
13 49 (1.45%) Kafka
14 48 (1.42%) SOAP
15 47 (1.39%) Middleware
15 47 (1.39%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 146 (4.31%) Public Cloud
2 127 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 115 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 111 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 101 (2.98%) Cloud Native
6 99 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 93 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 91 (2.69%) Mobile App
9 86 (2.54%) Onboarding
10 85 (2.51%) Data Structures
11 84 (2.48%) PKI
12 67 (1.98%) Data Centre
13 53 (1.56%) Algorithms
14 45 (1.33%) Client/Server
15 33 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 29 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (0.83%) Driving Licence
18 27 (0.80%) Social Media
19 26 (0.77%) Security Posture
20 24 (0.71%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 302 (8.91%) Windows
2 178 (5.25%) Linux
3 103 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 65 (1.92%) Unix
5 48 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 36 (1.06%) Android
8 32 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 27 (0.80%) Windows 10
10 26 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
11 25 (0.74%) Ubuntu
12 20 (0.59%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
14 15 (0.44%) Mac OS X
15 14 (0.41%) CentOS
16 8 (0.24%) Solaris
16 8 (0.24%) VMS
17 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.12%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (21.61%) Agile
2 531 (15.67%) DevOps
3 524 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
4 408 (12.04%) Software Engineering
5 361 (10.66%) Project Management
6 342 (10.09%) Roadmaps
7 331 (9.77%) Mentoring
8 288 (8.50%) CI/CD
9 268 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
10 257 (7.59%) Microservices
11 225 (6.64%) Test Automation
12 224 (6.61%) Migration
13 215 (6.35%) Full Stack Development
14 193 (5.70%) User Experience
15 190 (5.61%) Analytics
16 184 (5.43%) Actionable Insight
17 183 (5.40%) Service Delivery
18 182 (5.37%) Computer Science
18 182 (5.37%) Scrum
19 180 (5.31%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 439 (12.96%) JavaScript
2 407 (12.01%) SQL
3 334 (9.86%) C#
4 326 (9.62%) Python
5 260 (7.67%) Java
6 222 (6.55%) PHP
7 178 (5.25%) PowerShell
8 173 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 86 (2.54%) Bash
10 57 (1.68%) C++
10 57 (1.68%) Go
11 47 (1.39%) Ruby
12 32 (0.94%) C
13 24 (0.71%) Scala
14 23 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.56%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.38%) Bicep
16 13 (0.38%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.38%) Swift
17 12 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 438 (12.93%) Degree
2 176 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 113 (3.34%) SC Cleared
4 102 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 47 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 45 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.18%) CISSP
9 34 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 30 (0.89%) ISTQB
11 26 (0.77%) CISM
11 26 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.71%) MBA
14 23 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (0.41%) GCIA
16 14 (0.41%) GCIH
16 14 (0.41%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (7.85%) QA
2 158 (4.66%) SLA
3 64 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (1.18%) GDPR
5 35 (1.03%) NIST
6 29 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 28 (0.83%) Data Quality
7 28 (0.83%) PMO
8 24 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 21 (0.62%) NCSC
9 21 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
10 17 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 14 (0.41%) COBIT
13 13 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.21%) GRC
15 7 (0.21%) WCAG
16 6 (0.18%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 289 (8.53%) Docker
2 152 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 105 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 77 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 50 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.38%) vSphere
7 6 (0.18%) Firmware
8 3 (0.089%) KVM
8 3 (0.089%) QEMU
8 3 (0.089%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.089%) Xen
9 2 (0.059%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.030%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.030%) RACF
10 1 (0.030%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 298 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 154 (4.55%) Terraform
3 91 (2.69%) Ansible
4 52 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (1.45%) Puppet
6 17 (0.50%) vCenter Server
7 14 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.30%) CASB
10 9 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.27%) Nessus
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) NetCrunch
11 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.15%) HP UCMDB
12 5 (0.15%) QRadar
13 4 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.12%) Grafana
13 4 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 702 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 213 (6.29%) Google
3 160 (4.72%) Dell
4 131 (3.87%) ServiceNow
5 127 (3.75%) VMware
6 118 (3.48%) Oracle
7 80 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 57 (1.68%) Cisco
9 56 (1.65%) SAP
10 46 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 36 (1.06%) Adobe
12 28 (0.83%) Apple
13 25 (0.74%) HP
13 25 (0.74%) iManage
13 25 (0.74%) Meraki
14 23 (0.68%) IBM
15 22 (0.65%) Sitecore
16 21 (0.62%) Palo Alto
17 20 (0.59%) Aderant
17 20 (0.59%) Remedy