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 15 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
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 140 185
Rank change year-on-year +7 +45 -6
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,171 939 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.14% 1.60%
As % of the Vendors category 5.64% 5.42% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 699 451 1,023
10th Percentile £31,116 £28,822 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +33.33% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,750 £98,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +25.00% -37.60%

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 20,748 17,309 32,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.89% 39.47% 38.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,415 9,981 24,375
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £26,650
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,196 £46,000
% change year-on-year -12.10% +11.30% -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 15 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 15 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 -6 962 £57,500 -4.17% 533
UK excluding London +25 662 £50,000 +5.26% 330
London +16 395 £70,000 - 280
Work from Home +35 384 £54,000 -10.00% 251
North of England +29 188 £40,000 -30.43% 98
South East +37 145 £54,000 -13.60% 136
North West +31 115 £40,000 -30.43% 52
Midlands -43 105 £40,000 +30.80% 41
South West +6 69 £50,000 -16.67% 23
Scotland +42 67 £75,000 +114.29% 6
Yorkshire +3 67 £40,000 -27.27% 34
West Midlands -44 53 £37,500 +30.11% 28
East of England -5 52 £55,000 +29.41% 24
East Midlands -20 52 £40,000 -38.46% 13
Wales +15 27 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland -24 9 - -
North East -9 6 £35,000 -18.00% 15

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 26 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.88%) CMS
3 21 (1.79%) Confluence
4 17 (1.45%) WordPress
5 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.60%) Moodle
6 5 (0.43%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) IIS
8 3 (0.26%) Appian
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.085%) Drupal
10 1 (0.085%) Strapi
Applications
1 46 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.60%) 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%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.085%) InDesign
7 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 104 (8.88%) Salesforce CRM
2 65 (5.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (2.31%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.34%) SAP CX
5 4 (0.34%) Shopify
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
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%) 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%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 122 (10.42%) SaaS
2 119 (10.16%) Azure
3 115 (9.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 72 (6.15%) AWS
5 69 (5.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 67 (5.72%) Power Platform
7 52 (4.44%) GitHub
7 52 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (2.82%) GCP
10 27 (2.31%) Google Analytics
11 26 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
12 21 (1.79%) Snowflake
13 15 (1.28%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 14 (1.20%) Salesforce Einstein
15 13 (1.11%) Google Workspace
16 12 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 10 (0.85%) Boomi
18 9 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.21%) Broadband
2 19 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (1.54%) Internet
4 11 (0.94%) VPN
5 7 (0.60%) VoIP
6 6 (0.51%) IP Telephony
6 6 (0.51%) LAN
6 6 (0.51%) PSTN
6 6 (0.51%) Wireless
7 4 (0.34%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.34%) Firewall
7 4 (0.34%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.26%) Network Security
8 3 (0.26%) PBX
8 3 (0.26%) SCCP
9 2 (0.17%) AMQP
9 2 (0.17%) SMS
9 2 (0.17%) WAN
9 2 (0.17%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.36%) Power BI
2 43 (3.67%) Tableau
3 21 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.85%) 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%) Looker
11 3 (0.26%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.26%) QlikView
12 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.17%) KNIME
12 2 (0.17%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (7.00%) JIRA
2 51 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.50%) GitLab
4 40 (3.42%) SonarQube
5 34 (2.90%) Git
6 3 (0.26%) JUnit
6 3 (0.26%) Mockito
6 3 (0.26%) Snyk
7 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.085%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.085%) git-flow
8 1 (0.085%) Postman
8 1 (0.085%) Selenium
General
1 417 (35.61%) Marketing
2 415 (35.44%) Social Skills
3 256 (21.86%) Finance
4 183 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
7 68 (5.81%) Public Sector
8 66 (5.64%) Retail
9 57 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (4.61%) Law
11 48 (4.10%) Games
12 45 (3.84%) Legal
13 27 (2.31%) Banking
14 25 (2.13%) Manufacturing
14 25 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.28%) Advertising
17 13 (1.11%) Publishing
18 11 (0.94%) Billing
18 11 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 159 (13.58%) Developer
2 156 (13.32%) Senior
3 131 (11.19%) Salesforce Developer
4 124 (10.59%) Analyst
5 116 (9.91%) Architect
6 82 (7.00%) Salesforce Architect
7 71 (6.06%) Administrator
7 71 (6.06%) Lead
8 58 (4.95%) Business Analyst
9 53 (4.53%) Sales Executive
10 52 (4.44%) Salesforce Administrator
11 43 (3.67%) Marketing Manager
12 40 (3.42%) Senior Developer
13 38 (3.25%) Project Manager
14 37 (3.16%) Development Manager
14 37 (3.16%) Senior Salesforce Developer
14 37 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
15 36 (3.07%) Business Manager
16 35 (2.99%) Consultant
17 34 (2.90%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (13.66%) Lightning Web Components
2 138 (11.78%) REST
3 126 (10.76%) SOAP
4 82 (7.00%) Visualforce
5 40 (3.42%) Middleware
6 36 (3.07%) .NET
7 25 (2.13%) HTML
8 23 (1.96%) CSS
9 20 (1.71%) EDI
10 14 (1.20%) Node.js
11 13 (1.11%) Web Services
12 11 (0.94%) OAuth
13 8 (0.68%) OAuth2
13 8 (0.68%) React
14 6 (0.51%) JSON
14 6 (0.51%) RESTful
15 5 (0.43%) Kafka
15 5 (0.43%) SAML
16 4 (0.34%) LAMP
16 4 (0.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 103 (8.80%) Onboarding
3 54 (4.61%) Management Information System
4 48 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 23 (1.96%) Social Media
6 22 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.54%) FMCG
8 18 (1.54%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.37%) Web Conferencing
10 14 (1.20%) Blog
11 13 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
13 11 (0.94%) Driving Licence
13 11 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.85%) Podcast
15 9 (0.77%) NHS
16 8 (0.68%) Security Posture
17 6 (0.51%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.13%) Windows
2 8 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 8 (0.68%) Linux
2 8 (0.68%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (41.76%) CRM
2 214 (18.27%) Agile
3 202 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 177 (15.12%) Analytics
4 177 (15.12%) CI/CD
5 175 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
6 170 (14.52%) DevOps
7 149 (12.72%) Mentoring
8 137 (11.70%) B2B
9 132 (11.27%) Roadmaps
10 124 (10.59%) Decision-Making
11 112 (9.56%) Business Development
12 111 (9.48%) Coaching
13 97 (8.28%) Data Modelling
14 96 (8.20%) AI
15 91 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 90 (7.69%) Lead Generation
17 87 (7.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 84 (7.17%) Customer Experience
19 82 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 166 (14.18%) Apex Code
2 73 (6.23%) SQL
3 68 (5.81%) Python
4 65 (5.55%) SOQL
5 53 (4.53%) JavaScript
6 50 (4.27%) SOSL
7 32 (2.73%) Java
8 13 (1.11%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.51%) C#
10 6 (0.51%) PHP
11 5 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
12 4 (0.34%) DataWeave
12 4 (0.34%) Ruby
12 4 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.26%) R
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
15 1 (0.085%) Bicep
15 1 (0.085%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (12.81%) Degree
2 78 (6.66%) Security Cleared
3 64 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 36 (3.07%) DBS Check
5 18 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (0.94%) CIMA
8 10 (0.85%) ACCA
9 7 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (0.51%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.43%) CITP
11 5 (0.43%) HND
11 5 (0.43%) PMP
12 4 (0.34%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.34%) HNC
12 4 (0.34%) MBA
13 3 (0.26%) CBAP
13 3 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.36%) Data Quality
1 51 (4.36%) GDPR
2 35 (2.99%) QA
3 20 (1.71%) SLA
4 12 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.60%) IFRS
7 7 (0.60%) PMO
8 4 (0.34%) NIST
9 3 (0.26%) GRC
9 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.26%) PERC
9 3 (0.26%) WCAG
10 2 (0.17%) GxP
10 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.17%) ITGC
11 1 (0.085%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.085%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.085%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.085%) Firmware
3 1 (0.085%) VMware Infrastructure
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 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.085%) CASB
6 1 (0.085%) Grafana
Vendors
1 200 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.86%) HubSpot
3 68 (5.81%) Cisco
4 64 (5.47%) MuleSoft
4 64 (5.47%) SAP
5 50 (4.27%) Google
6 46 (3.93%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.50%) Splunk
8 36 (3.07%) Oracle
8 36 (3.07%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 32 (2.73%) Adobe
10 24 (2.05%) Pardot
11 23 (1.96%) BMC
12 12 (1.02%) Dell
12 12 (1.02%) Zoho
13 9 (0.77%) NEC
14 8 (0.68%) Informatica
15 7 (0.60%) Genesys
15 7 (0.60%) Pega
15 7 (0.60%) Sage