Salesforce Developer Jobs

Salesforce Developer
UK

The median Salesforce Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 635 772 775
Rank change year-on-year +137 +3 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Salesforce Developer 56 130 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 46 115 145
10th Percentile £44,875 £47,500 £51,450
25th Percentile £51,938 £52,500 £57,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75,625 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,375 £80,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.60% -10.71% +9.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,967 93,227 95,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,330 66,890 59,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Salesforce Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Salesforce Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Salesforce Developer.

Salary trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Developer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +109 49 £60,000 -4.00% 98
London +71 26 £67,500 +3.85% 44
UK excluding London +175 23 £59,000 -5.60% 64
Work from Home +174 18 £59,000 -9.23% 87
South West +120 8 £53,000 +6.00% 4
North of England +86 5 £47,500 -19.15% 27
South East +99 4 £53,750 +9.14% 22
Yorkshire +74 3 £47,500 -13.64% 7
Midlands +61 3 £72,500 +11.54% 9
East Midlands +55 3 £72,500 +11.54% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North West +17 2 £59,000 -7.45% 20

Salesforce Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Salesforce Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Salesforce Developer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 48 (85.71%) Apex Code
3 40 (71.43%) Lightning Web Components
4 19 (33.93%) JavaScript
5 18 (32.14%) Agile
5 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
6 17 (30.36%) Finance
7 14 (25.00%) Marketing
7 14 (25.00%) CRM
7 14 (25.00%) Visualforce
7 14 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 13 (23.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 12 (21.43%) DevOps
10 11 (19.64%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
11 9 (16.07%) JIRA
12 8 (14.29%) Scrum
12 8 (14.29%) Data Modelling
12 8 (14.29%) REST
13 7 (12.50%) Confluence
13 7 (12.50%) SaaS
13 7 (12.50%) SOQL
13 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 7 (12.50%) SOAP
13 7 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
13 7 (12.50%) Customer Experience
14 6 (10.71%) Adobe
14 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
14 6 (10.71%) MuleSoft

Salesforce Developer Skill Set
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 7 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 13 (23.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 7 (12.50%) SaaS
4 3 (5.36%) iPaaS
5 2 (3.57%) AWS
5 2 (3.57%) Azure
5 2 (3.57%) Boomi
5 2 (3.57%) GitHub
5 2 (3.57%) PaaS
5 2 (3.57%) Salesforce Einstein
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.79%) ChatGPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) JIRA
2 4 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (5.36%) Git
4 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.79%) Ant
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (30.36%) Finance
3 14 (25.00%) Marketing
4 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Advertising
7 1 (1.79%) Electronics
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (71.43%) Lightning Web Components
2 14 (25.00%) Visualforce
3 8 (14.29%) REST
4 7 (12.50%) SOAP
5 4 (7.14%) CSS
5 4 (7.14%) HTML
6 3 (5.36%) Web Services
7 2 (3.57%) JSON
7 2 (3.57%) Middleware
7 2 (3.57%) OAuth
8 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.79%) HTML5
8 1 (1.79%) jQuery
8 1 (1.79%) JWT
8 1 (1.79%) Laravel
8 1 (1.79%) Node.js
8 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.79%) Sass
8 1 (1.79%) Symfony
8 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Agile
2 14 (25.00%) CRM
3 12 (21.43%) DevOps
4 11 (19.64%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 8 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 8 (14.29%) Scrum
6 7 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
8 5 (8.93%) Business Transformation
8 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
9 4 (7.14%) API Integration
9 4 (7.14%) ITIL
9 4 (7.14%) Migration
9 4 (7.14%) Process Improvement
9 4 (7.14%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 48 (85.71%) Apex Code
2 19 (33.93%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.50%) SOQL
4 3 (5.36%) SQL
5 2 (3.57%) PHP
6 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.36%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 6 (10.71%) Adobe
2 6 (10.71%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.36%) Conga
3 3 (5.36%) Pardot
4 2 (3.57%) Dell
4 2 (3.57%) Informatica
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.79%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) SAP