SOSL Job Trends in Manchester

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOSL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.019% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 826 791 1,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.39% 36.40% 33.58%
Number of salaries quoted 654 561 1,388
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SOSL job vacancy trend in Manchester

SOSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) SOQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce