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 13 January 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
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 158 154
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,025 981 1,136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.84% 2.03%
As % of the Vendors category 5.46% 4.95% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 579 467 870
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% -32.77%

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 18,783 19,838 22,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.49% 37.18% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,642 10,023 16,873
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,596 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.23% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 13 January 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 13 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 +13 874 £57,500 -8.00% 1,277
UK excluding London +45 591 £50,000 -13.04% 1,213
London +11 352 £70,000 - 198
Work from Home +46 311 £52,500 -12.50% 482
North of England +44 191 £55,000 -6.78% 225
North West +49 121 £55,000 -5.58% 91
Midlands +17 117 £39,000 -8.24% 173
South East +34 106 £55,000 -8.33% 374
Yorkshire +17 63 £50,000 -25.93% 101
East Midlands +26 59 £40,000 -38.46% 116
South West +2 56 £52,500 +6.60% 158
West Midlands -11 56 £36,875 +27.94% 55
East of England +9 43 £50,000 -32.43% 184
Scotland +15 41 £35,000 -68.18% 35
Wales +30 30 £57,500 -2.13% 66
Northern Ireland -17 8 - - 30
North East -3 7 £35,000 -42.00% 34

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 23 (2.24%) WordPress
2 17 (1.66%) CMS
2 17 (1.66%) Confluence
2 17 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.98%) IIS
5 6 (0.59%) Apache
6 5 (0.49%) Moodle
7 3 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.29%) Appian
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.098%) Drupal
8 1 (0.098%) Strapi
Applications
1 73 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.37%) Maya
4 8 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.39%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.098%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.098%) InDesign
9 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.098%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 81 (7.90%) Salesforce CRM
2 74 (7.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (2.24%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.49%) Shopify
5 4 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.39%) SAP CX
5 4 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.29%) Infor M3
6 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.098%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle CRM
8 1 (0.098%) Pegasus Opera
8 1 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.098%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 126 (12.29%) Azure
2 120 (11.71%) SaaS
3 102 (9.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 67 (6.54%) Power Platform
5 50 (4.88%) AWS
6 45 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (4.39%) GitHub
7 44 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (4.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 27 (2.63%) GCP
10 25 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (2.44%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 22 (2.15%) GitHub Copilot
12 21 (2.05%) Google Analytics
13 20 (1.95%) Boomi
14 15 (1.46%) Salesforce Einstein
15 14 (1.37%) Snowflake
16 12 (1.17%) Zapier
17 11 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.32%) Broadband
2 31 (3.02%) SMS
3 18 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (1.46%) Internet
5 13 (1.27%) VPN
6 12 (1.17%) VoIP
7 7 (0.68%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.68%) IP Telephony
7 7 (0.68%) PSTN
7 7 (0.68%) WPA
8 5 (0.49%) HTTP
8 5 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.39%) DMZ
9 4 (0.39%) STUN
9 4 (0.39%) VLAN
10 3 (0.29%) AMQP
10 3 (0.29%) Firewall
10 3 (0.29%) Network Security
10 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.66%) Tableau
2 57 (5.56%) Power BI
3 39 (3.80%) SQL Server
4 21 (2.05%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.27%) MySQL
6 12 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.78%) Looker
9 5 (0.49%) Power Query
10 4 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.39%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.29%) Metadata
11 3 (0.29%) QlikView
11 3 (0.29%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.20%) Big Data
12 2 (0.20%) KNIME
13 1 (0.098%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.098%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 72 (7.02%) JIRA
2 24 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.15%) Git
4 17 (1.66%) GitLab
5 16 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.49%) Snyk
7 4 (0.39%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.39%) Postman
8 2 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.098%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.098%) GCC
9 1 (0.098%) Selenium
General
1 399 (38.93%) Marketing
2 377 (36.78%) Social Skills
3 263 (25.66%) Finance
4 175 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 101 (9.85%) Retail
7 79 (7.71%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (4.59%) Law
9 46 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (3.61%) Legal
10 37 (3.61%) Public Sector
11 36 (3.51%) Banking
12 35 (3.41%) Games
13 33 (3.22%) Telecoms
14 25 (2.44%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.66%) Advertising
16 11 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.07%) Publishing
17 10 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.98%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 186 (18.15%) Senior
2 132 (12.88%) Developer
3 109 (10.63%) Analyst
4 107 (10.44%) Salesforce Developer
5 76 (7.41%) Architect
6 70 (6.83%) Lead
7 49 (4.78%) Administrator
8 48 (4.68%) CRM Executive
8 48 (4.68%) Development Manager
9 47 (4.59%) Business Development Manager
9 47 (4.59%) Business Manager
10 43 (4.20%) Salesforce Architect
11 42 (4.10%) Business Analyst
12 41 (4.00%) Senior Developer
13 40 (3.90%) Salesforce Administrator
14 38 (3.71%) Senior Salesforce Developer
15 35 (3.41%) Marketing Manager
15 35 (3.41%) Sales Executive
15 35 (3.41%) Support Engineer
16 34 (3.32%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (9.76%) Lightning Web Components
2 93 (9.07%) REST
3 77 (7.51%) SOAP
4 33 (3.22%) Visualforce
5 27 (2.63%) .NET
6 25 (2.44%) Middleware
7 24 (2.34%) HTML
8 23 (2.24%) CSS
9 14 (1.37%) Node.js
10 13 (1.27%) EDI
10 13 (1.27%) Web Services
11 10 (0.98%) LAMP
12 8 (0.78%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.78%) JSON
13 7 (0.68%) OAuth
14 6 (0.59%) OAuth2
15 5 (0.49%) React
16 4 (0.39%) Kafka
16 4 (0.39%) Pandas
16 4 (0.39%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 102 (9.95%) Onboarding
2 80 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.27%) Management Information System
4 44 (4.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 37 (3.61%) Cloud Native
6 32 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.73%) Social Media
8 27 (2.63%) FMCG
9 18 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.27%) Blog
12 12 (1.17%) NHS
13 11 (1.07%) Driving Licence
14 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.98%) Podcast
15 9 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
15 9 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
16 8 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.44%) Linux
2 23 (2.24%) Windows
3 11 (1.07%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.39%) Debian
6 2 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (46.44%) CRM
2 208 (20.29%) Analytics
3 171 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
4 168 (16.39%) Agile
5 161 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 150 (14.63%) Roadmaps
7 138 (13.46%) Mentoring
8 135 (13.17%) DevOps
9 123 (12.00%) Decision-Making
10 122 (11.90%) CI/CD
11 109 (10.63%) B2B
12 99 (9.66%) Business Development
13 98 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 95 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
15 94 (9.17%) AI
15 94 (9.17%) Customer Experience
16 93 (9.07%) Project Management
17 88 (8.59%) Coaching
18 86 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 82 (8.00%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 110 (10.73%) Apex Code
2 87 (8.49%) SQL
3 57 (5.56%) Python
4 46 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 24 (2.34%) SOQL
6 17 (1.66%) SOSL
7 15 (1.46%) Java
8 13 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.07%) PHP
10 7 (0.68%) R
11 6 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.49%) C#
13 4 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.20%) Ada
14 2 (0.20%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.20%) VB
15 1 (0.098%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.098%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 148 (14.44%) Degree
2 70 (6.83%) DBS Check
3 49 (4.78%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 16 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (0.78%) HND
6 8 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
7 7 (0.68%) CIMA
7 7 (0.68%) MBA
8 6 (0.59%) ACCA
8 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.39%) A+ Certification
9 4 (0.39%) CITP
10 3 (0.29%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.29%) ISEB
10 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.22%) GDPR
2 36 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 28 (2.73%) SLA
4 21 (2.05%) QA
5 10 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.78%) PMO
8 6 (0.59%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.49%) IFRS
10 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.39%) GRC
11 3 (0.29%) PERC
12 2 (0.20%) GxP
12 2 (0.20%) ITGC
12 2 (0.20%) NIST
12 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.39%) Docker
2 4 (0.39%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.098%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (1.27%) Terraform
2 4 (0.39%) Ansible
2 4 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.39%) SCCM
3 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.098%) Autotask
Vendors
1 211 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.88%) HubSpot
3 78 (7.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 76 (7.41%) SAP
5 61 (5.95%) Cisco
6 57 (5.56%) MuleSoft
7 53 (5.17%) Adobe
8 47 (4.59%) Google
9 45 (4.39%) Oracle
10 30 (2.93%) ServiceNow
11 26 (2.54%) Pardot
12 19 (1.85%) Dell
13 17 (1.66%) Zoho
14 15 (1.46%) Splunk
15 10 (0.98%) BMC
16 9 (0.88%) Alteryx
17 8 (0.78%) Informatica
18 7 (0.68%) Avaya
18 7 (0.68%) Facebook
18 7 (0.68%) Genesys