SOSL Job Trends in the South East

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SOSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOSL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.009% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.057% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,747 2,768 4,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.66% 32.82% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 1,603 3,397
10th Percentile £33,225 £35,850 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SOSL job vacancy trend in the South East

SOSL
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SOSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SOSL

SOSL
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 SOSL within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Hampshire - 1 - -
SOSL
England

SOSL
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:

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%) Salesforce Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions 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