SaaS Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software as a Service (SaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1,685 2,463 5,813
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.74% 6.57% 7.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.11% 13.79% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 1,703 3,578
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £49,938 £51,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

SaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,165 17,867 40,377
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.66% 47.67% 53.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12,150 13,590 22,117
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +4.17%

SaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaaS.

SaaS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SaaS over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

SaaS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 36 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.83%) Confluence
5 12 (0.71%) IIS
6 8 (0.47%) CMS
6 8 (0.47%) WordPress
7 4 (0.24%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) nginx
7 4 (0.24%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.12%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.12%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.059%) SAS
10 1 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.18%) Notion
8 1 (0.059%) 1Password
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.83%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.24%) Exchequer
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.24%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.24%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.24%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.12%) BambooHR
9 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.12%) iTrent
9 2 (0.12%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.12%) Workfront
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.059%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 579 (34.36%) AWS
2 555 (32.94%) Azure
3 202 (11.99%) GCP
4 170 (10.09%) Microsoft 365
5 161 (9.55%) PaaS
6 132 (7.83%) IaaS
7 75 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (4.04%) Serverless
9 54 (3.20%) GitHub
10 53 (3.15%) Amazon S3
11 44 (2.61%) Entra ID
12 35 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (1.84%) Azure AKS
14 30 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (1.54%) Azure Functions
16 26 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
17 25 (1.48%) Power Platform
18 24 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
19 22 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.32%) Firewall
2 31 (1.84%) LAN
2 31 (1.84%) VPN
3 30 (1.78%) WAN
4 23 (1.36%) Network Security
5 18 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (0.95%) Internet
7 14 (0.83%) SAN
8 13 (0.77%) VoIP
9 12 (0.71%) SSL
10 10 (0.59%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.53%) VLAN
12 8 (0.47%) DNS
12 8 (0.47%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.36%) NAS
14 5 (0.30%) MPLS
14 5 (0.30%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.24%) HTTP
16 3 (0.18%) OSPF
16 3 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 80 (4.75%) MySQL
3 40 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (2.08%) Big Data
5 29 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 25 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 25 (1.48%) Redis
7 22 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (1.31%) MongoDB
8 18 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (1.07%) Hadoop
9 16 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (0.89%) Power BI
11 14 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 13 (0.77%) Data Mining
13 12 (0.71%) Scylla
14 11 (0.65%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.59%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 129 (7.66%) Git
2 52 (3.09%) JIRA
3 51 (3.03%) Selenium
4 47 (2.79%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.61%) Postman
6 25 (1.48%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.25%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.95%) JUnit
9 13 (0.77%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.71%) JMeter
11 10 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 10 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.53%) Vagrant
12 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.47%) GitLab
13 8 (0.47%) webpack
14 7 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.42%) SoapUI
14 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 495 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 176 (10.45%) Finance
3 124 (7.36%) Marketing
4 117 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
5 103 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (5.16%) Retail
7 62 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 57 (3.38%) Legal
9 50 (2.97%) Automotive
10 49 (2.91%) Law
11 33 (1.96%) Public Sector
12 32 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.72%) Games
14 26 (1.54%) Banking
15 20 (1.19%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.01%) Advertising
17 17 (1.01%) Aviation
17 17 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 345 (20.47%) Developer
2 306 (18.16%) Senior
3 265 (15.73%) Architect
4 174 (10.33%) Lead
5 124 (7.36%) Senior Developer
6 108 (6.41%) Cloud Architect
7 91 (5.40%) Software Engineer
8 88 (5.22%) Analyst
9 79 (4.69%) PHP Developer
10 76 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
11 63 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
12 58 (3.44%) Software Developer
13 57 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
14 56 (3.32%) Consultant
15 48 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
16 44 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 42 (2.49%) Business Development Manager
17 42 (2.49%) Business Manager
17 42 (2.49%) Development Manager
18 36 (2.14%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (11.16%) .NET
2 145 (8.61%) Laravel
3 120 (7.12%) React
4 100 (5.93%) HTML
5 98 (5.82%) CSS
6 90 (5.34%) Vue
7 76 (4.51%) RESTful
8 71 (4.21%) AngularJS
8 71 (4.21%) Node.js
8 71 (4.21%) REST
9 62 (3.68%) .NET Core
10 59 (3.50%) Web Services
11 41 (2.43%) GraphQL
12 39 (2.31%) Symfony
13 35 (2.08%) jQuery
14 31 (1.84%) Spring
15 29 (1.72%) .NET Framework
15 29 (1.72%) SOAP
16 28 (1.66%) JSON
17 23 (1.36%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 109 (6.47%) Public Cloud
2 88 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
3 83 (4.93%) PKI
4 75 (4.45%) Product Ownership
5 74 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
6 62 (3.68%) Mobile App
7 59 (3.50%) Cloud Native
8 54 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 52 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
10 45 (2.67%) Client/Server
11 40 (2.37%) Management Information System
12 39 (2.31%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.66%) Algorithms
14 23 (1.36%) Data Centre
15 17 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 16 (0.95%) Online Games
16 16 (0.95%) Satnav
17 15 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
18 14 (0.83%) Low-Code
19 13 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (7.30%) Windows
2 85 (5.04%) Linux
3 51 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.60%) Unix
5 25 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.36%) Android
7 22 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (0.83%) Mac OS X
9 13 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 13 (0.77%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.47%) CentOS
14 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.24%) VMS
16 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.059%) Windows 7
17 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (24.63%) Agile
2 346 (20.53%) DevOps
3 255 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
4 227 (13.47%) Software Engineering
5 197 (11.69%) CI/CD
6 183 (10.86%) Project Management
7 177 (10.50%) Roadmaps
8 155 (9.20%) Microservices
9 147 (8.72%) Test Automation
10 131 (7.77%) Migration
11 126 (7.48%) Full Stack Development
12 118 (7.00%) Presales
12 118 (7.00%) User Experience
13 116 (6.88%) Mentoring
14 115 (6.82%) TOGAF
15 113 (6.71%) Actionable Insight
16 107 (6.35%) Scrum
17 105 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
18 98 (5.82%) Configuration Management
19 92 (5.46%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 283 (16.80%) JavaScript
2 200 (11.87%) C#
3 195 (11.57%) SQL
4 167 (9.91%) PHP
5 162 (9.61%) Python
6 137 (8.13%) Java
7 99 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 63 (3.74%) PowerShell
9 34 (2.02%) C++
10 29 (1.72%) Go
11 27 (1.60%) Ruby
12 20 (1.19%) Bash
12 20 (1.19%) C
13 18 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 18 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.71%) Scala
14 12 (0.71%) Swift
15 10 (0.59%) Bicep
16 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.47%) Ada
Qualifications
1 228 (13.53%) Degree
2 66 (3.92%) Security Cleared
3 49 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 28 (1.66%) Master's Degree
6 25 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.25%) CISSP
8 20 (1.19%) CISM
9 19 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 18 (1.07%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.77%) GCIA
12 13 (0.77%) GCIH
12 13 (0.77%) GREM
12 13 (0.77%) MBA
13 12 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.36%) GIAC
15 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.66%) QA
2 31 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (1.42%) SLA
4 18 (1.07%) NIST
5 16 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
6 14 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.83%) GDPR
7 10 (0.59%) NCSC
8 9 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.47%) COBIT
10 7 (0.42%) GRC
10 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.36%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 5 (0.30%) PMO
12 5 (0.30%) WCAG
13 2 (0.12%) IASME
System Software
1 172 (10.21%) Docker
2 54 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 41 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.24%) vSphere
9 1 (0.059%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.059%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 158 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 97 (5.76%) Terraform
3 42 (2.49%) Ansible
4 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.59%) vCenter Server
6 9 (0.53%) CASB
6 9 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.30%) Puppet
10 4 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.24%) HP UCMDB
11 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.12%) Grafana
12 2 (0.12%) Norton AntiVirus
12 2 (0.12%) Podman
12 2 (0.12%) SCCM
13 1 (0.059%) Consul
13 1 (0.059%) Nagios
13 1 (0.059%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 326 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 158 (9.38%) Google
3 48 (2.85%) Dell
4 36 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 35 (2.08%) SAP
6 33 (1.96%) Oracle
6 33 (1.96%) VMware
7 23 (1.36%) Cisco
8 18 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.01%) Sitecore
10 16 (0.95%) Adobe
10 16 (0.95%) BT
10 16 (0.95%) ForgeRock
11 13 (0.77%) HP
11 13 (0.77%) Sony
12 12 (0.71%) HubSpot
13 10 (0.59%) Apple
13 10 (0.59%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.47%) EMC
14 8 (0.47%) Meraki