Apex Code Job Trends in the South East

Salesforce Apex
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Apex Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 253 376
Rank change year-on-year -34 +123 0
Permanent jobs citing Apex Code 11 28 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.076% 0.36% 0.085%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.44% 1.44% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile - £43,375 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -2.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,563 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +1.69% -21.33%

All Programming Languages
South East

Apex Code 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,482 1,945 4,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.12% 24.70% 29.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,859 1,345 3,992
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Apex Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apex Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Apex Code job vacancy trend in the South East

Apex Code
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Apex Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Apex Code

Apex Code
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apex Code within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley -14 5 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Kent - 5 £70,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 5 £60,000 - 1
Hampshire -30 1 - -
Apex Code
England

Apex Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (54.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 5 (45.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Games
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
1 6 (54.55%) Salesforce Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 10 (90.91%) Visualforce
3 8 (72.73%) .NET
4 6 (54.55%) REST
4 6 (54.55%) SOAP
5 4 (36.36%) Middleware
6 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 1 (9.09%) OAuth
6 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Community of Practice
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) Static Code Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Clean Code
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (36.36%) Sprint Retrospective
4 4 (36.36%) Sprint Review
4 4 (36.36%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) Ruby
4 2 (18.18%) SOQL
5 1 (9.09%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
2 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (36.36%) MuleSoft
3 1 (9.09%) Sage
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk