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 26 October 2025, 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
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 184 134
Rank change year-on-year +33 -50 +31
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 984 1,038 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.99% 1.52% 2.44%
As % of the Vendors category 4.61% 4.61% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 605 547 1,108
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £46,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -1.32% -6.46%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +0.42%

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 21,324 22,532 23,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 43.18% 32.96% 41.91%
Number of salaries quoted 11,219 11,672 17,851
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.68% -0.88%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -

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 26 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Top 16 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 26 October 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 +23 850 £54,000 -10.00% 1,074
UK excluding London +27 521 £50,000 -9.09% 771
London +41 366 £70,000 - 544
Work from Home +41 332 £50,000 -9.08% 520
North of England 0 150 £52,500 -7.08% 176
Midlands +60 142 £39,000 +35.31% 54
South East +14 93 £52,500 -1.04% 430
North West -8 86 £60,000 +6.19% 104
East Midlands +61 72 £40,000 -34.69% 24
West Midlands +21 68 £35,000 +21.44% 28
Yorkshire +21 59 £42,500 -22.72% 65
South West +21 45 £52,500 -4.55% 48
East of England -1 43 £46,250 -33.93% 33
Wales +34 30 £52,000 -14.30% 17
Scotland -1 24 £32,500 -70.45% 18
North East +3 5 £58,750 -5.24% 13

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 29 (2.95%) WordPress
2 25 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.13%) Confluence
4 17 (1.73%) CMS
5 13 (1.32%) IIS
6 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.61%) Apache
8 3 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.30%) Moodle
9 2 (0.20%) Appian
9 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 93 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.32%) Photoshop
5 12 (1.22%) Maya
6 8 (0.81%) Adobe Premiere
7 7 (0.71%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.41%) PlantUML
11 2 (0.20%) Trello
12 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 85 (8.64%) Salesforce CRM
2 71 (7.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (2.54%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.81%) Shopify
5 5 (0.51%) Exchequer
5 5 (0.51%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.41%) Sage 1000
7 3 (0.30%) Infor M3
7 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
7 3 (0.30%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.20%) Magento
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.10%) Changepoint
9 1 (0.10%) FastStats
9 1 (0.10%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.10%) Maximo
9 1 (0.10%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 114 (11.59%) Azure
2 99 (10.06%) SaaS
3 84 (8.54%) Power Platform
3 84 (8.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 54 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (3.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 26 (2.64%) AWS
8 24 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (2.44%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 22 (2.24%) GitHub
10 21 (2.13%) Boomi
10 21 (2.13%) Google Workspace
11 17 (1.73%) GCP
12 14 (1.42%) Google Analytics
13 13 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 11 (1.12%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.12%) Snowflake
15 10 (1.02%) dbt
16 9 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.35%) Broadband
2 32 (3.25%) SMS
3 15 (1.52%) VoIP
4 12 (1.22%) Network Security
4 12 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (1.12%) VPN
6 10 (1.02%) Internet
7 8 (0.81%) WPA
8 7 (0.71%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.71%) Firewall
8 7 (0.71%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.61%) HTTP
10 5 (0.51%) DMZ
10 5 (0.51%) STUN
10 5 (0.51%) VLAN
11 3 (0.30%) AMQP
11 3 (0.30%) IP Telephony
11 3 (0.30%) PSTN
11 3 (0.30%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (7.42%) Power BI
2 60 (6.10%) SQL Server
3 58 (5.89%) Tableau
4 25 (2.54%) Data Lake
5 20 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.63%) MySQL
7 13 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.22%) Looker
9 9 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.71%) Metadata
10 7 (0.71%) SAP Data Services
10 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.61%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.51%) EDRMS
12 5 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.51%) GIS
12 5 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 69 (7.01%) JIRA
2 20 (2.03%) Git
3 19 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.73%) SonarQube
5 16 (1.63%) GitLab
6 7 (0.71%) ER Studio
7 6 (0.61%) Snyk
8 4 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.41%) Postman
8 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.10%) Ant
10 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.10%) GCC
10 1 (0.10%) RStudio
General
1 395 (40.14%) Social Skills
2 366 (37.20%) Marketing
3 259 (26.32%) Finance
4 177 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (10.37%) Retail
6 80 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
8 58 (5.89%) Law
8 58 (5.89%) Presentation Skills
9 45 (4.57%) Public Sector
10 35 (3.56%) Legal
11 34 (3.46%) Banking
12 33 (3.35%) Games
13 32 (3.25%) Manufacturing
14 30 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (2.74%) Telecoms
16 24 (2.44%) Advertising
17 11 (1.12%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.91%) Billing
19 8 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 184 (18.70%) Senior
2 114 (11.59%) Analyst
3 112 (11.38%) Developer
4 89 (9.04%) Architect
5 76 (7.72%) Salesforce Developer
6 69 (7.01%) Administrator
7 67 (6.81%) Lead
8 53 (5.39%) Development Manager
9 52 (5.28%) Business Manager
10 51 (5.18%) Senior Developer
11 50 (5.08%) Business Development Manager
12 48 (4.88%) Salesforce Administrator
13 45 (4.57%) Salesforce Architect
14 41 (4.17%) Business Analyst
14 41 (4.17%) Senior Salesforce Developer
15 31 (3.15%) CRM Executive
15 31 (3.15%) Support Engineer
16 29 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
17 27 (2.74%) Support Specialist
18 26 (2.64%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (10.26%) Lightning Web Components
2 79 (8.03%) REST
3 58 (5.89%) SOAP
4 39 (3.96%) Visualforce
5 36 (3.66%) .NET
6 30 (3.05%) HTML
7 25 (2.54%) CSS
8 21 (2.13%) Middleware
9 11 (1.12%) OAuth
10 10 (1.02%) LAMP
11 8 (0.81%) Web Services
12 7 (0.71%) EDI
12 7 (0.71%) GraphQL
12 7 (0.71%) JSON
12 7 (0.71%) Node.js
13 5 (0.51%) ADO
13 5 (0.51%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.51%) FreeSWITCH
13 5 (0.51%) RESTful
13 5 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.84%) Onboarding
2 76 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.89%) Management Information System
4 48 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 39 (3.96%) Social Media
6 35 (3.56%) Cloud Native
7 33 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (2.03%) FMCG
9 19 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.32%) Blog
11 13 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.12%) NHS
13 10 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.91%) Driving Licence
14 9 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.81%) Educational Technology
15 8 (0.81%) Satnav
16 7 (0.71%) Mobile App
16 7 (0.71%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.25%) Windows
2 23 (2.34%) Linux
3 18 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.51%) Debian
5 4 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.10%) Android
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (50.51%) CRM
2 199 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
3 185 (18.80%) Agile
4 175 (17.78%) Analytics
5 163 (16.57%) Roadmaps
6 149 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 140 (14.23%) Decision-Making
8 120 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 116 (11.79%) DevOps
10 108 (10.98%) Project Management
11 107 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
12 106 (10.77%) Business Development
13 102 (10.37%) B2B
14 89 (9.04%) CI/CD
15 88 (8.94%) ERP
16 84 (8.54%) Mentoring
17 82 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
18 81 (8.23%) Customer Engagement
19 73 (7.42%) AI
20 72 (7.32%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 103 (10.47%) SQL
2 96 (9.76%) Apex Code
3 50 (5.08%) Python
4 38 (3.86%) JavaScript
5 30 (3.05%) SOQL
6 19 (1.93%) SOSL
7 18 (1.83%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.32%) PHP
9 12 (1.22%) C#
10 11 (1.12%) R
11 9 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.61%) Java
14 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.41%) VBA
15 2 (0.20%) Ada
15 2 (0.20%) VB
16 1 (0.10%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.10%) Ruby
16 1 (0.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (16.16%) Degree
2 66 (6.71%) DBS Check
3 26 (2.64%) Security Cleared
4 21 (2.13%) SC Cleared
5 17 (1.73%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (0.81%) HND
9 6 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.61%) MBA
10 5 (0.51%) ISEB
11 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.10%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.13%) GDPR
2 34 (3.46%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.25%) SLA
4 24 (2.44%) QA
5 10 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.91%) PMO
7 7 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.51%) GRC
8 5 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.41%) PERC
10 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.30%) IFRS
11 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) ITGC
12 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.51%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.30%) Docker
6 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (1.02%) Terraform
2 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.51%) Autotask
4 4 (0.41%) Ansible
4 4 (0.41%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.10%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 174 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 104 (10.57%) SAP
3 86 (8.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 76 (7.72%) HubSpot
5 61 (6.20%) Google
6 51 (5.18%) Adobe
6 51 (5.18%) Oracle
7 40 (4.07%) MuleSoft
8 27 (2.74%) Pardot
9 25 (2.54%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.73%) Zoho
11 15 (1.52%) Splunk
12 14 (1.42%) Dell
13 10 (1.02%) Cisco
13 10 (1.02%) Facebook
14 9 (0.91%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.91%) Databricks
14 9 (0.91%) VMware
15 8 (0.81%) Instagram
15 8 (0.81%) Marketo