SOSL Job Trends in England

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SOSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 - 685
Rank change year-on-year - - +350
Permanent jobs citing SOSL 4 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.009% - 0.008%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.037% - 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £46,625
25th Percentile £93,750 - £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.14%
75th Percentile £101,250 - £63,125
90th Percentile - - £68,750
UK median annual salary £97,500 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -17.24%

All Programming Languages
England

SOSL 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,928 19,375 19,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.07% 31.91% 41.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,602 11,553 16,329
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,050 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOSL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SOSL job vacancy trend in England

SOSL
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOSL

SOSL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOSL within the England region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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
London - 4 £97,500 - 6
SOSL
UK

SOSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Visualforce
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 4 (100.00%) SOQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle