SOSL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SOSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOSL 37 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.056% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.36% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,368 8,262 22,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.59% 28.01% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,381 5,223 16,946
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOSL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SOSL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SOSL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SOSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SOSL

SOSL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOSL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Scotland - 32 - - 1
North of England - 4 £75,000 - 1
North West - 4 £75,000 - 1
South East - 1 - -
SOSL
UK

SOSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (8.11%) Azure
1 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (8.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 3 (8.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (91.89%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 34 (91.89%) GitLab
1 34 (91.89%) Jenkins
1 34 (91.89%) SonarQube
2 3 (8.11%) Git
General
1 34 (91.89%) Games
1 34 (91.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 34 (91.89%) Marketing
2 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (91.89%) Architect
2 33 (89.19%) Salesforce Architect
3 18 (48.65%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 18 (48.65%) Technical Architect
4 10 (27.03%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 10 (27.03%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (13.51%) Systems Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Salesforce Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 1 (2.70%) CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 37 (100.00%) REST
1 37 (100.00%) SOAP
1 37 (100.00%) Visualforce
2 3 (8.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Agile
1 37 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (91.89%) Community of Practice
2 34 (91.89%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 34 (91.89%) Continuous Delivery
2 34 (91.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 34 (91.89%) Continuous Integration
2 34 (91.89%) Design Patterns
2 34 (91.89%) Event-Driven
2 34 (91.89%) OO
2 34 (91.89%) PLM
2 34 (91.89%) Roadmaps
2 34 (91.89%) Scrum
2 34 (91.89%) Static Code Analysis
2 34 (91.89%) Technical Analysis
2 34 (91.89%) Technology Roadmap
2 34 (91.89%) TOGAF
3 3 (8.11%) Release Management
3 3 (8.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 37 (100.00%) SOQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 34 (91.89%) Splunk