SOSL Job Trends in the North of England

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SOSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOSL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.007% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.045% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,239 1,975 4,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.58% 29.13% 30.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,678 1,460 3,917
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,780 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,598 £73,886 £68,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,318 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +8.33% -7.69%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SOSL job vacancy trend in the North of England

SOSL
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

SOSL
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 SOSL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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 - 1 - - 4
SOSL
England

SOSL
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 (100.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
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%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) PLM
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) SOQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk