Apex Code Job Trends in the South East

Salesforce Apex
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Apex Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 275 326
Rank change year-on-year -50 +51 -24
Permanent jobs citing Apex Code 14 16 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.075% 0.18% 0.062%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.47% 0.90% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile - - £60,000
25th Percentile £50,000 - £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £115,000 - £83,750
90th Percentile - - £85,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -6.67%

All Programming Languages
South East

Apex Code falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,973 1,769 3,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.89% 19.75% 29.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,374 1,199 2,494
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -3.85%

Apex Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apex Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Apex Code job vacancy trend in the South East

Apex Code
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Apex Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Apex Code

Apex Code
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apex Code in the South East over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Apex Code in the South East

Apex Code
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apex Code within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Thames Valley +2 13 £62,500 - 6
Berkshire +6 9 £55,000 - 4
Oxfordshire - 3 £110,000 -
Surrey - 1 £92,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 2
Apex Code
England

Apex Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Einstein
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) IntelliJ
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Front Office
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 5 (35.71%) Software Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Salesforce Technical Leader
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Salesforce Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 11 (78.57%) REST
3 5 (35.71%) React
4 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 2 (14.29%) SOAP
5 2 (14.29%) Visualforce
6 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) AI
2 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
3 8 (57.14%) Clean Code
4 6 (42.86%) Decision-Making
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
5 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven
5 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (35.71%) Microservices
5 5 (35.71%) Workflow
6 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) OO
6 4 (28.57%) OOP
6 4 (28.57%) People Management
6 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
7 3 (21.43%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 3 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (21.43%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) C#
1 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SOQL
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 4 (28.57%) Java
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (28.57%) Sage
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) Okta