SOSL Job Trends in London

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London 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 368 - 465
Rank change year-on-year - - +288
Permanent jobs citing SOSL 4 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.033% - 0.015%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.089% - 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £49,000
25th Percentile £93,750 - £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £101,250 - £66,250
90th Percentile - - £70,000
England median annual salary £97,500 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -24.14%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,494 7,309 8,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.22% 42.37% 45.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,970 4,810 7,690
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SOSL job vacancy trend in London

SOSL
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOSL

SOSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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