Salesforce Architect Job Trends

Salesforce Architect
UK

The median Salesforce Architect salary in the UK is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 665 670
Rank change year-on-year +55 +5 +140
Permanent jobs requiring a Salesforce Architect 43 34 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.064% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.068% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 1 25 27
10th Percentile - £75,000 £76,250
25th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -13.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £103,125
90th Percentile - £105,000 £114,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £82,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +5.81% -13.89%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

Salesforce Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Salesforce Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Salesforce Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Salesforce Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Salesforce Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Salesforce Architect job vacancies in the UK

Salesforce Architect
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 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 +53 25 £95,000 - 9
London +59 24 £95,000 - 8
UK excluding London +58 15 - - 3
Work from Home +69 14 - - 3
Scotland - 14 - -
South East +33 1 - - 2

Salesforce Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Salesforce Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Salesforce Architect in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 30 (69.77%) CI/CD
3 28 (65.12%) Roadmaps
4 25 (58.14%) Technology Roadmap
5 19 (44.19%) Microsoft
6 17 (39.53%) CRM
7 16 (37.21%) Degree
7 16 (37.21%) Integration Patterns
7 16 (37.21%) MuleSoft
8 15 (34.88%) Adobe
8 15 (34.88%) Agile
8 15 (34.88%) Apex Code
8 15 (34.88%) Architectural Patterns
8 15 (34.88%) Boomi
8 15 (34.88%) Customer Experience
8 15 (34.88%) Data Lake
8 15 (34.88%) Dell
8 15 (34.88%) DevOps
8 15 (34.88%) Dynamics CRM
8 15 (34.88%) ERP
8 15 (34.88%) Event-Driven
8 15 (34.88%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (34.88%) Oracle
8 15 (34.88%) REST
8 15 (34.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 15 (34.88%) SAP
8 15 (34.88%) SOAP
8 15 (34.88%) Visualforce
9 14 (32.56%) Broadband
9 14 (32.56%) Business Strategy

Salesforce Architect Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (32.56%) Maya
Business Applications
1 15 (34.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (9.30%) SAP CX
2 4 (9.30%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Boomi
1 15 (34.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 12 (27.91%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.30%) AWS
3 4 (9.30%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (9.30%) GCP
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle CX
4 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (32.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.88%) Data Lake
2 12 (27.91%) Power BI
2 12 (27.91%) Tableau
3 2 (4.65%) Metadata
3 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (32.56%) GitLab
1 14 (32.56%) Jenkins
1 14 (32.56%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (74.42%) Marketing
2 28 (65.12%) Games
3 18 (41.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
5 16 (37.21%) Finance
6 15 (34.88%) Retail
7 14 (32.56%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (32.56%) Law
7 14 (32.56%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (4.65%) Banking
8 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) Lightning Web Components
1 15 (34.88%) REST
1 15 (34.88%) SOAP
1 15 (34.88%) Visualforce
2 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (37.21%) Product Ownership
2 15 (34.88%) Cloud Native
3 14 (32.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (32.56%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (69.77%) CI/CD
2 28 (65.12%) Roadmaps
3 25 (58.14%) Technology Roadmap
4 17 (39.53%) CRM
5 16 (37.21%) Integration Patterns
6 15 (34.88%) Agile
6 15 (34.88%) Architectural Patterns
6 15 (34.88%) Customer Experience
6 15 (34.88%) DevOps
6 15 (34.88%) ERP
6 15 (34.88%) Event-Driven
7 14 (32.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (32.56%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (32.56%) OO
7 14 (32.56%) PLM
7 14 (32.56%) Risk Management
7 14 (32.56%) Scrum
7 14 (32.56%) Service Management
7 14 (32.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (32.56%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Apex Code
2 14 (32.56%) SOQL
2 14 (32.56%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.65%) MBA
4 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 19 (44.19%) Microsoft
3 16 (37.21%) MuleSoft
4 15 (34.88%) Adobe
4 15 (34.88%) Dell
4 15 (34.88%) Oracle
4 15 (34.88%) SAP
5 14 (32.56%) Splunk
6 4 (9.30%) NEC
7 3 (6.98%) Zoho
8 1 (2.33%) Pardot
8 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud