Apex Code Jobs

Salesforce Apex
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Apex Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apex Code over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 761 754
Rank change year-on-year +131 -7 +41
Permanent jobs citing Apex Code 99 122 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.59% 0.37% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 61 98 164
10th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £51,488
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -18.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.80% -10.71% +16.67%

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 16,767 33,193 42,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.94% 33.26% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11,325 24,893 27,483
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,750 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

Apex Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apex Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apex Code in the UK

Apex Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apex Code.

Salary trend for Apex Code in the UK

Apex Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apex Code over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Apex Code in the UK

Apex Code
Top 12 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 18 May 2025. 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 +117 90 £60,000 +1.69% 162
UK excluding London +167 47 £59,500 -4.80% 100
London +100 43 £62,500 +3.31% 93
South East +102 26 £53,750 -2.27% 44
Work from Home +132 19 £60,000 +9.09% 121
South West +115 8 £53,000 -7.83% 4
Midlands +62 5 £72,500 -24.68% 14
North of England +43 5 £47,500 -13.64% 30
East Midlands +25 5 £72,500 -27.50% 4
Yorkshire +68 3 £47,500 - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
North West -2 2 £59,000 -5.60% 23

Apex Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.08%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.02%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 29 (29.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 6 (6.06%) Boomi
3 6 (6.06%) SaaS
4 4 (4.04%) AWS
4 4 (4.04%) Azure
5 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.02%) iPaaS
5 2 (2.02%) Salesforce Einstein
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.01%) GitHub
6 1 (1.01%) Heroku
6 1 (1.01%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.01%) PaaS
6 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.01%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.05%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.01%) Metadata
3 1 (1.01%) MySQL
3 1 (1.01%) Power BI
3 1 (1.01%) Power Query
3 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) JIRA
2 7 (7.07%) Git
3 6 (6.06%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.01%) Ant
6 1 (1.01%) Postman
6 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 35 (35.35%) Marketing
3 22 (22.22%) Law
4 17 (17.17%) Finance
5 10 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.02%) Advertising
8 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Retail
9 1 (1.01%) Aviation
9 1 (1.01%) Electronics
9 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Legal
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (51.52%) Developer
2 48 (48.48%) Salesforce Developer
3 31 (31.31%) Architect
3 31 (31.31%) Salesforce Architect
4 21 (21.21%) Enterprise Architect
5 18 (18.18%) Senior
5 18 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 18 (18.18%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 7 (7.07%) Lead
7 5 (5.05%) Salesforce Expert
7 5 (5.05%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 5 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.03%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.02%) Analyst
9 2 (2.02%) Salesforce Technical Leader
9 2 (2.02%) Technical Leader
10 1 (1.01%) Integration Developer
10 1 (1.01%) IT Analyst
10 1 (1.01%) Junior Salesforce Developer
10 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (86.87%) Lightning Web Components
2 39 (39.39%) SOAP
3 38 (38.38%) REST
4 31 (31.31%) Middleware
5 28 (28.28%) Visualforce
6 5 (5.05%) HTML
6 5 (5.05%) OAuth
7 4 (4.04%) CSS
7 4 (4.04%) Web Services
8 3 (3.03%) .NET
8 3 (3.03%) JSON
8 3 (3.03%) JWT
9 2 (2.02%) HTML5
9 2 (2.02%) jQuery
9 2 (2.02%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.02%) React
9 2 (2.02%) XML
10 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET
10 1 (1.01%) Laravel
10 1 (1.01%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.21%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.01%) IoT
3 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (46.46%) Agile
2 40 (40.40%) DevOps
3 37 (37.37%) Data Modelling
4 30 (30.30%) Data Management
4 30 (30.30%) Design Patterns
5 29 (29.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (28.28%) CI/CD
7 27 (27.27%) Computer Science
8 25 (25.25%) Enterprise Architecture
9 24 (24.24%) Business Strategy
9 24 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
10 23 (23.23%) Thought Leadership
11 22 (22.22%) E-Commerce
11 22 (22.22%) Microservices
11 22 (22.22%) Release Management
12 21 (21.21%) CRM
12 21 (21.21%) Information Security
12 21 (21.21%) Software Delivery
12 21 (21.21%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.19%) JavaScript
2 10 (10.10%) SQL
3 9 (9.09%) SOQL
4 3 (3.03%) Java
5 2 (2.02%) PHP
6 1 (1.01%) C#
6 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.01%) Python
6 1 (1.01%) Scala
6 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.01%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 27 (27.27%) Degree
2 21 (21.21%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (28.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.03%) WCAG
3 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.01%) GDPR
3 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 99 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 23 (23.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 12 (12.12%) MuleSoft
4 6 (6.06%) Dell
5 5 (5.05%) Informatica
6 4 (4.04%) Adobe
7 3 (3.03%) DocuSign
7 3 (3.03%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.03%) Pardot
8 2 (2.02%) Conga
8 2 (2.02%) Jitterbit
9 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.01%) SAP
9 1 (1.01%) Workday
9 1 (1.01%) Zuora