Salesforce Job Trends in Scotland

Salesforce
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of Salesforce products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Salesforce over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Salesforce.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 120 171
Rank change year-on-year +20 +51 +16
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 41 28 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.48% 1.09% 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 3.58% 3.80% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 25
10th Percentile - £68,400 £31,000
25th Percentile - £84,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £110,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -68.18% +55.86% -7.44%
75th Percentile - - £73,000
90th Percentile - - £99,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -18.52%

All Vendors
Scotland

Salesforce falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,144 736 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 41.40% 28.72% 39.20%
Number of salaries quoted 419 338 812
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £27,500 £37,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £40,196
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +24.39% -26.92%
75th Percentile £55,562 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,900 £83,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £51,000 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%

Salesforce
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Salesforce job vacancy trend in Scotland

Salesforce
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Salesforce.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Salesforce

Salesforce
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Edinburgh +11 26 £35,000 - 5
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian - 4 - -
Lanarkshire +3 2 - -
Glasgow +3 1 - - 5
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Salesforce
UK

Salesforce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) Azure
1 22 (53.66%) Azure DevOps
1 22 (53.66%) GitHub
1 22 (53.66%) GitHub Copilot
2 12 (29.27%) Salesforce Einstein
3 11 (26.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 10 (24.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (39.02%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 15 (36.59%) GitLab
1 15 (36.59%) Jenkins
1 15 (36.59%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (60.98%) Marketing
2 24 (58.54%) Social Skills
3 22 (53.66%) Finance
4 15 (36.59%) Games
4 15 (36.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Architect
2 14 (34.15%) Salesforce Architect
3 13 (31.71%) Senior
4 8 (19.51%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 8 (19.51%) Technical Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Business Development Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Business Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Development Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Systems Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.44%) CRM Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Product Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (90.24%) Lightning Web Components
1 37 (90.24%) REST
1 37 (90.24%) SOAP
2 15 (36.59%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 38 (92.68%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.88%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (92.68%) Agile
1 38 (92.68%) DevOps
2 37 (90.24%) CI/CD
3 27 (65.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (53.66%) AI
4 22 (53.66%) Architectural Patterns
4 22 (53.66%) Asset Management
4 22 (53.66%) Clean Code
4 22 (53.66%) Coaching
4 22 (53.66%) Data Modelling
4 22 (53.66%) Observability
4 22 (53.66%) Sprint Planning
4 22 (53.66%) Sprint Retrospective
4 22 (53.66%) Test Automation
5 17 (41.46%) Roadmaps
6 16 (39.02%) Scrum
6 16 (39.02%) Technology Roadmap
7 15 (36.59%) OO
7 15 (36.59%) PLM
7 15 (36.59%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 37 (90.24%) Apex Code
2 15 (36.59%) SOQL
2 15 (36.59%) SOSL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) GxP
1 2 (4.88%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.44%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Splunk