Salesforce Apex
UK

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 577 753
Rank change year-on-year -18 +176 -42
Permanent jobs citing Apex Code 158 100 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.90% 0.69% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 86 60 95
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £54,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,625 £88,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £59,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.80% -10.71%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17,623 14,419 32,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.00% 29.46% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,522 9,595 24,220
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Apex Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Apex Code job vacancy trend in the UK

Apex Code
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apex Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apex Code

Apex Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apex Code over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Apex Code in the UK

Apex Code
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apex Code within the UK over the 6 months to 10 July 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
England -67 98 £75,000 +25.00% 38
Work from Home +58 78 £62,500 +4.17% 24
UK excluding London -56 66 £63,750 +7.14% 25
London -3 64 £82,500 +37.50% 18
Scotland - 34 £80,000 - 2
South East -52 15 £62,500 +16.28% 12
North of England -36 10 £67,500 +26.76% 7
North West +4 9 £67,500 +14.41% 3
Midlands -35 6 £62,500 -7.41% 3
West Midlands -12 5 £62,500 +49.70% 2
East Midlands -29 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -35 1 - - 1
South West -60 1 £110,000 +107.55%

Apex Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (42.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 50 (31.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 29 (18.35%) GitHub
4 16 (10.13%) Azure
5 9 (5.70%) AWS
6 8 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.16%) GCP
8 3 (1.90%) Salesforce Einstein
9 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (21.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.63%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.63%) Metadata
1 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (25.32%) Git
2 39 (24.68%) Jenkins
3 38 (24.05%) SonarQube
4 36 (22.78%) GitLab
5 4 (2.53%) JIRA
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (1.90%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) git-flow
7 1 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
General
1 71 (44.94%) Marketing
2 62 (39.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 49 (31.01%) Social Skills
4 34 (21.52%) Games
5 24 (15.19%) Finance
6 14 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (7.59%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.16%) Back Office
8 5 (3.16%) Billing
9 4 (2.53%) Advertising
10 2 (1.27%) Law
11 1 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 80 (50.63%) Developer
2 75 (47.47%) Salesforce Developer
3 44 (27.85%) Architect
4 43 (27.22%) Salesforce Architect
5 40 (25.32%) Senior
5 40 (25.32%) Senior Developer
6 39 (24.68%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 21 (13.29%) Cloud Developer
8 19 (12.03%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 19 (12.03%) Technical Architect
9 15 (9.49%) Salesforce Engineer
10 13 (8.23%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (6.96%) Salesforce Solution Architect
11 11 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.43%) Junior
13 6 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (3.80%) Junior Developer
13 6 (3.80%) Junior Salesforce Developer
13 6 (3.80%) Lead
13 6 (3.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (89.87%) Lightning Web Components
2 98 (62.03%) REST
3 90 (56.96%) SOAP
4 81 (51.27%) Visualforce
5 27 (17.09%) Middleware
6 14 (8.86%) .NET
7 6 (3.80%) React
8 5 (3.16%) CSS
8 5 (3.16%) HTML
9 4 (2.53%) OAuth
10 1 (0.63%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.63%) Kafka
10 1 (0.63%) Node.js
10 1 (0.63%) Playwright
10 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 72 (45.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.53%) Mobile App
3 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.27%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (65.19%) CI/CD
2 96 (60.76%) Agile
3 77 (48.73%) DevOps
4 72 (45.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (31.65%) Roadmaps
6 47 (29.75%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 47 (29.75%) Data Modelling
7 45 (28.48%) Community of Practice
8 41 (25.95%) Event-Driven
9 40 (25.32%) Design Patterns
9 40 (25.32%) Scrum
10 39 (24.68%) Continuous Integration
10 39 (24.68%) OO
10 39 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (24.68%) Static Code Analysis
11 35 (22.15%) Continuous Delivery
11 35 (22.15%) PLM
11 35 (22.15%) Technical Analysis
11 35 (22.15%) TOGAF
12 34 (21.52%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 80 (50.63%) SOQL
2 52 (32.91%) SOSL
3 24 (15.19%) JavaScript
4 19 (12.03%) Python
5 16 (10.13%) Java
6 11 (6.96%) SQL
7 4 (2.53%) Ruby
7 4 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.90%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (14.56%) Degree
2 20 (12.66%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.23%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.16%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.63%) Grafana
1 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 158 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 35 (22.15%) Splunk
3 12 (7.59%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.53%) Oracle
4 4 (2.53%) SAP
5 3 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Conga
6 2 (1.27%) Sage
7 1 (0.63%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.63%) Okta