Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SOQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOQL over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 954 1076
Rank change year-on-year +76 +122 -265
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 16 31 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.029% 0.083%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.048% 0.067% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16 14 73
10th Percentile - £46,913 £56,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% -9.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £79,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.74% -4.17% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK

SOQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,181 45,969 82,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.88% 43.56% 53.65%
Number of salaries quoted 25,061 29,204 44,334
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,568 £55,000 £53,925
% change year-on-year -2.60% +1.99% +7.85%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOQL.

Salary trend for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOQL over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +107 14 £60,500 +2.98% 8
London +143 11 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Work from Home +95 3 £70,576 +17.63% 3
UK excluding London +22 3 £70,576 +22.74% 2
Scotland - 2 £70,576 -
Midlands - 1 £92,500 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £92,500 - 1

SOQL
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 6 (37.50%) Confluence
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) Boomi
2 1 (6.25%) Heroku
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) DBAmp
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (75.00%) Oracle APEX
2 8 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) Mocha
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 2 (12.50%) Subversion
3 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Marketing
5 2 (12.50%) Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Advertising
6 1 (6.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 12 (75.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Integration Developer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) REST
1 12 (75.00%) SOAP
2 9 (56.25%) Web Services
3 7 (43.75%) HTML
3 7 (43.75%) Visualforce
3 7 (43.75%) XML
4 6 (37.50%) Ajax
4 6 (37.50%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (37.50%) XHTML
5 1 (6.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
3 7 (43.75%) CRM
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) API Integration
4 6 (37.50%) Change Data Capture
4 6 (37.50%) Data Migration
4 6 (37.50%) ERP
4 6 (37.50%) Migration
4 6 (37.50%) OO
4 6 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (37.50%) SDLC
4 6 (37.50%) Six Sigma
4 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (37.50%) Time Management
4 6 (37.50%) Workflow
5 3 (18.75%) Release Management
6 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Apex Code
1 13 (81.25%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) CloudHub
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) Nagios
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 12 (75.00%) Oracle
3 7 (43.75%) DocuSign
3 7 (43.75%) MuleSoft
4 6 (37.50%) Apttus
4 6 (37.50%) Atlassian
4 6 (37.50%) Sybase
4 6 (37.50%) Zuora
5 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
5 2 (12.50%) New Relic
5 2 (12.50%) Splunk
5 2 (12.50%) Veracode
6 1 (6.25%) Conga