SOSL Job Trends in the North West

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SOSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOSL 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.019% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% - -
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 - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,345 1,582 2,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.02% 36.41% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 828 2,360
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

SOSL job vacancy trend in the North West

SOSL
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOSL within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Manchester - 1 £75,000 - 1
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
SOSL
England

SOSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
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 2 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Visualforce
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
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 Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 2 (100.00%) SOQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk