Salesforce Job Trends

Salesforce
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Salesforce products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Salesforce over the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Salesforce.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 132 195
Rank change year-on-year -7 +63 -9
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,173 947 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.50% 2.32% 1.55%
As % of the Vendors category 5.52% 5.93% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 709 457 1,037
10th Percentile £31,116 £28,822 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +31.11% -30.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% +19.48% -36.78%

All Vendors
UK

Salesforce falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,265 15,967 33,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.23% 39.12% 37.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,680 9,873 24,793
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,580 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -8.00%

Salesforce
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Salesforce job vacancy trend in the UK

Salesforce
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salesforce.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salesforce

Salesforce
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Salesforce over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce within the UK over the 6 months to 28 March 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 -19 968 £56,500 -1.74% 555
UK excluding London +2 662 £45,000 -2.17% 347
London +18 399 £70,000 - 269
Work from Home +24 373 £55,000 -6.78% 232
North of England +12 183 £40,000 -27.27% 103
South East -20 148 £54,000 -1.12% 128
North West +18 113 £40,000 -30.43% 48
Midlands -56 103 £40,000 +30.80% 51
South West -14 68 £50,000 -13.04% 23
Scotland +35 67 £50,000 +42.86% 10
Yorkshire -18 64 £40,000 -5.88% 44
East of England -23 59 £60,000 -29.41% 25
West Midlands -55 54 £37,500 +26.26% 29
East Midlands -32 49 £40,000 -38.46% 22
Wales +1 25 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Northern Ireland -31 9 - - 2
North East -21 6 £35,000 -18.00% 14

Salesforce
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 25 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.88%) Confluence
3 19 (1.62%) CMS
4 16 (1.36%) WordPress
5 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.60%) Moodle
6 5 (0.43%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.26%) Apache
7 3 (0.26%) Appian
7 3 (0.26%) IIS
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.085%) Drupal
9 1 (0.085%) Strapi
Applications
1 41 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.43%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.085%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.085%) InDesign
7 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 107 (9.12%) Salesforce CRM
2 62 (5.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (2.13%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.34%) Shopify
6 3 (0.26%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.085%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle CRM
8 1 (0.085%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 123 (10.49%) SaaS
2 116 (9.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 114 (9.72%) Azure
4 74 (6.31%) AWS
5 71 (6.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 62 (5.29%) Power Platform
7 52 (4.43%) GitHub
8 51 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (2.73%) GCP
11 26 (2.22%) Google Analytics
12 24 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (1.71%) Snowflake
14 19 (1.62%) GitHub Copilot
15 15 (1.28%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 13 (1.11%) Google Workspace
16 13 (1.11%) Power Automate
17 12 (1.02%) Salesforce Einstein
18 9 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
18 9 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.20%) Broadband
2 18 (1.53%) Internet
3 16 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.68%) VPN
5 6 (0.51%) LAN
5 6 (0.51%) VoIP
5 6 (0.51%) Wireless
6 5 (0.43%) IP Telephony
6 5 (0.43%) PSTN
7 4 (0.34%) Firewall
8 3 (0.26%) Network Security
8 3 (0.26%) NGN
8 3 (0.26%) SCCP
9 2 (0.17%) PBX
9 2 (0.17%) SMS
9 2 (0.17%) WAN
10 1 (0.085%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.085%) DNS
10 1 (0.085%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.085%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.01%) Power BI
2 36 (3.07%) Tableau
3 21 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.11%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.60%) Metadata
7 7 (0.60%) MySQL
8 6 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.43%) Power Query
10 4 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.17%) KNIME
12 2 (0.17%) Looker
12 2 (0.17%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.17%) QlikView
13 1 (0.085%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 85 (7.25%) JIRA
2 52 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.58%) GitLab
4 41 (3.50%) SonarQube
5 35 (2.98%) Git
6 3 (0.26%) JUnit
6 3 (0.26%) Mockito
7 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.17%) Postman
8 1 (0.085%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.085%) git-flow
8 1 (0.085%) Selenium
General
1 418 (35.64%) Marketing
2 401 (34.19%) Social Skills
3 234 (19.95%) Finance
4 180 (15.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 137 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
6 80 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
7 65 (5.54%) Public Sector
8 56 (4.77%) Retail
9 55 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
10 53 (4.52%) Law
11 48 (4.09%) Games
12 45 (3.84%) Legal
13 26 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (2.13%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.96%) Banking
16 19 (1.62%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.36%) Advertising
18 13 (1.11%) Publishing
19 11 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
19 11 (0.94%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 154 (13.13%) Developer
2 152 (12.96%) Senior
3 129 (11.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 124 (10.57%) Analyst
5 123 (10.49%) Architect
6 84 (7.16%) Salesforce Architect
7 73 (6.22%) Administrator
8 67 (5.71%) Lead
9 60 (5.12%) Business Analyst
10 57 (4.86%) Sales Executive
11 53 (4.52%) Salesforce Administrator
12 48 (4.09%) Marketing Manager
13 44 (3.75%) Consultant
14 40 (3.41%) Senior Developer
15 38 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (3.15%) Project Manager
16 37 (3.15%) Senior Salesforce Developer
17 36 (3.07%) CRM Executive
18 35 (2.98%) Business Manager
19 34 (2.90%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (13.81%) Lightning Web Components
2 136 (11.59%) REST
3 126 (10.74%) SOAP
4 84 (7.16%) Visualforce
5 39 (3.32%) Middleware
6 32 (2.73%) .NET
7 27 (2.30%) HTML
8 25 (2.13%) CSS
9 20 (1.71%) EDI
10 14 (1.19%) Node.js
11 12 (1.02%) Web Services
12 8 (0.68%) OAuth
13 7 (0.60%) React
14 5 (0.43%) JSON
14 5 (0.43%) Kafka
14 5 (0.43%) OAuth2
14 5 (0.43%) RESTful
14 5 (0.43%) SAML
15 4 (0.34%) JMS
15 4 (0.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 118 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 106 (9.04%) Onboarding
3 49 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 21 (1.79%) Social Media
6 18 (1.53%) Cloud Native
6 18 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.45%) Low-Code
8 16 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (1.36%) Web Conferencing
9 14 (1.19%) FMCG
10 13 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
12 11 (0.94%) Blog
13 10 (0.85%) Driving Licence
13 10 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.77%) Podcast
15 8 (0.68%) NHS
15 8 (0.68%) Smart City
16 6 (0.51%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.13%) Windows
2 8 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.51%) Linux
5 2 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (40.92%) CRM
2 213 (18.16%) Agile
3 196 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 178 (15.17%) CI/CD
5 167 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (14.07%) DevOps
7 162 (13.81%) Analytics
8 141 (12.02%) Mentoring
9 137 (11.68%) B2B
10 129 (11.00%) Roadmaps
11 118 (10.06%) Decision-Making
12 116 (9.89%) Business Development
13 109 (9.29%) Coaching
14 99 (8.44%) Data Modelling
15 94 (8.01%) AI
16 88 (7.50%) Lead Generation
17 86 (7.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 85 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
19 77 (6.56%) Customer Experience
20 74 (6.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (14.07%) Apex Code
2 68 (5.80%) SOQL
3 67 (5.71%) SQL
4 64 (5.46%) Python
5 52 (4.43%) JavaScript
6 51 (4.35%) SOSL
7 32 (2.73%) Java
8 12 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.51%) C#
11 5 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
11 5 (0.43%) PHP
11 5 (0.43%) Ruby
12 4 (0.34%) DataWeave
12 4 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.26%) R
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
15 1 (0.085%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 136 (11.59%) Degree
2 72 (6.14%) Security Cleared
3 59 (5.03%) SC Cleared
4 33 (2.81%) DBS Check
5 17 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.02%) CIMA
6 12 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (0.94%) ACCA
8 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.51%) CITP
9 6 (0.51%) HNC
9 6 (0.51%) HND
10 5 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.34%) A+ Certification
11 4 (0.34%) MBA
11 4 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.34%) PMP
12 3 (0.26%) CBAP
12 3 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.35%) GDPR
2 47 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 38 (3.24%) QA
4 21 (1.79%) SLA
5 11 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.60%) IFRS
9 6 (0.51%) PMO
10 5 (0.43%) PERC
11 4 (0.34%) NIST
12 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.26%) WCAG
13 2 (0.17%) GxP
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.17%) ITGC
14 1 (0.085%) GAAP
14 1 (0.085%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.085%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.085%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.77%) Docker
3 2 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.085%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (1.11%) Terraform
2 11 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.60%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.34%) Ansible
4 4 (0.34%) SCCM
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.085%) CASB
6 1 (0.085%) Grafana
Vendors
1 191 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.42%) HubSpot
3 66 (5.63%) Cisco
4 62 (5.29%) MuleSoft
5 56 (4.77%) SAP
6 48 (4.09%) ServiceNow
7 47 (4.01%) Google
8 42 (3.58%) Splunk
9 41 (3.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 28 (2.39%) Oracle
11 27 (2.30%) BMC
12 25 (2.13%) Adobe
13 24 (2.05%) Pardot
14 10 (0.85%) Dell
14 10 (0.85%) Zoho
15 9 (0.77%) NEC
16 8 (0.68%) Informatica
17 7 (0.60%) Pega
17 7 (0.60%) Planon
17 7 (0.60%) Sage