SOQL Job Trends in the North of England

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SOQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.012% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.075% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £82,500 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +37.50% -0.83% +0.83%

All Programming Languages
North of England

SOQL 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,671 1,938 4,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.70% 29.64% 29.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,910 1,503 4,124
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £74,987 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SOQL job vacancy trend in the North of England

SOQL
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SOQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SOQL

SOQL
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 April 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
North West - 2 £67,500 - 1
SOQL
England

SOQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) PLM
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (50.00%) SOSL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk