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 21 February 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
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 150 187
Rank change year-on-year +12 +37 -13
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,121 932 1,248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.63% 1.92% 1.66%
As % of the Vendors category 5.56% 4.94% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 658 450 958
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £32,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +33.33% -35.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,183
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,050 £38,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% +39.61% -36.67%

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 20,155 18,848 28,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.29% 38.84% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,142 9,795 22,361
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,050
% change year-on-year -14.29% +11.58% -5.90%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +15 931 £58,000 -3.33% 486
UK excluding London +64 644 £52,500 -1.04% 334
London +15 370 £70,000 - 229
Work from Home +33 369 £54,500 -9.17% 232
North of England +40 189 £52,500 -8.70% 83
South East +40 131 £55,000 -8.33% 141
North West +33 120 £52,500 -9.87% 46
Midlands -7 114 £39,000 +35.31% 54
South West +16 72 £52,500 -12.50% 24
Yorkshire +12 62 £50,000 -13.04% 31
West Midlands -37 59 £34,750 +20.57% 29
East Midlands +7 55 £40,000 -37.25% 25
Scotland +38 54 £35,000 -68.18% 8
East of England -1 45 £55,000 -47.62% 20
Wales +25 30 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Northern Ireland -22 9 - - 2
North East -12 7 £46,250 +8.35% 10

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 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.87%) CMS
3 19 (1.69%) Confluence
4 18 (1.61%) WordPress
5 10 (0.89%) IIS
6 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) Moodle
8 4 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.089%) Drupal
11 1 (0.089%) Strapi
Applications
1 50 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.98%) Maya
5 8 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.089%) InDesign
9 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 99 (8.83%) Salesforce CRM
2 66 (5.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (2.59%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.36%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.27%) Shopify
7 2 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.18%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle CRM
8 1 (0.089%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 130 (11.60%) SaaS
2 116 (10.35%) Azure
3 107 (9.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 72 (6.42%) Power Platform
5 63 (5.62%) AWS
6 62 (5.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 51 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 47 (4.19%) GitHub
9 43 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (2.68%) GCP
11 29 (2.59%) Google Analytics
12 24 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
14 18 (1.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 15 (1.34%) Salesforce Einstein
16 14 (1.25%) Boomi
16 14 (1.25%) Snowflake
17 13 (1.16%) Google Workspace
18 12 (1.07%) Zapier
19 11 (0.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.37%) Broadband
2 21 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (1.61%) Internet
4 11 (0.98%) VPN
5 8 (0.71%) VoIP
6 7 (0.62%) IP Telephony
6 7 (0.62%) PSTN
7 6 (0.54%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.54%) WPA
8 5 (0.45%) LAN
8 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.36%) Firewall
9 4 (0.36%) HTTP
9 4 (0.36%) Wireless
10 3 (0.27%) Network Security
10 3 (0.27%) PBX
10 3 (0.27%) SCCP
10 3 (0.27%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.18%) AMQP
11 2 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.08%) Power BI
2 53 (4.73%) Tableau
3 26 (2.32%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.16%) MySQL
6 11 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.45%) Metadata
8 5 (0.45%) Power Query
9 4 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.27%) Looker
10 3 (0.27%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.27%) QlikView
10 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.18%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.18%) KNIME
11 2 (0.18%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 1 (0.089%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 80 (7.14%) JIRA
2 38 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.59%) GitLab
4 28 (2.50%) SonarQube
5 27 (2.41%) Git
6 4 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.36%) Postman
6 4 (0.36%) Snyk
7 2 (0.18%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.089%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.089%) GCC
8 1 (0.089%) JUnit
8 1 (0.089%) Mockito
8 1 (0.089%) Selenium
General
1 413 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 409 (36.49%) Marketing
3 271 (24.17%) Finance
4 163 (14.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (7.76%) Retail
7 85 (7.58%) Presentation Skills
8 61 (5.44%) Public Sector
9 58 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
10 57 (5.08%) Law
11 44 (3.93%) Legal
12 41 (3.66%) Games
13 30 (2.68%) Banking
14 29 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 24 (2.14%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (1.25%) Advertising
17 14 (1.25%) Publishing
18 10 (0.89%) Brand Awareness
18 10 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 171 (15.25%) Senior
2 152 (13.56%) Developer
3 127 (11.33%) Salesforce Developer
4 123 (10.97%) Analyst
5 95 (8.47%) Architect
6 86 (7.67%) Lead
7 65 (5.80%) Salesforce Architect
8 57 (5.08%) Administrator
9 49 (4.37%) Business Analyst
10 46 (4.10%) Sales Executive
11 44 (3.93%) Marketing Manager
12 42 (3.75%) Salesforce Administrator
13 41 (3.66%) Development Manager
13 41 (3.66%) Senior Developer
14 39 (3.48%) Business Manager
15 38 (3.39%) Project Manager
15 38 (3.39%) Senior Salesforce Developer
16 37 (3.30%) Business Development Manager
17 36 (3.21%) Data Analyst
18 34 (3.03%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (12.04%) Lightning Web Components
2 123 (10.97%) REST
3 110 (9.81%) SOAP
4 59 (5.26%) Visualforce
5 36 (3.21%) Middleware
6 33 (2.94%) .NET
7 27 (2.41%) HTML
8 25 (2.23%) CSS
9 20 (1.78%) EDI
10 14 (1.25%) Node.js
11 12 (1.07%) Web Services
12 11 (0.98%) OAuth
13 10 (0.89%) LAMP
14 9 (0.80%) JSON
15 7 (0.62%) OAuth2
15 7 (0.62%) React
16 4 (0.36%) Kafka
16 4 (0.36%) RESTful
16 4 (0.36%) SAML
16 4 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.28%) Product Ownership
2 96 (8.56%) Onboarding
3 65 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 48 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 29 (2.59%) Cloud Native
7 28 (2.50%) FMCG
8 25 (2.23%) Social Media
9 22 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.16%) Blog
12 13 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
13 12 (1.07%) NHS
14 11 (0.98%) Driving Licence
15 10 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (0.89%) Podcast
16 9 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
16 9 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.96%) Windows
2 17 (1.52%) Linux
3 8 (0.71%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.089%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (43.26%) CRM
2 194 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 193 (17.22%) Agile
4 190 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
5 187 (16.68%) Analytics
6 160 (14.27%) CI/CD
7 155 (13.83%) DevOps
8 151 (13.47%) Mentoring
9 132 (11.78%) Decision-Making
10 131 (11.69%) Roadmaps
11 126 (11.24%) B2B
12 111 (9.90%) Business Development
13 107 (9.55%) Coaching
14 100 (8.92%) AI
15 99 (8.83%) Business Intelligence
15 99 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 96 (8.56%) Project Management
17 94 (8.39%) Customer Experience
18 88 (7.85%) Lead Generation
19 83 (7.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 143 (12.76%) Apex Code
2 83 (7.40%) SQL
3 68 (6.07%) Python
4 60 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 46 (4.10%) SOQL
6 34 (3.03%) SOSL
7 27 (2.41%) Java
8 12 (1.07%) PHP
8 12 (1.07%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.62%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.45%) C#
11 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.27%) DataWeave
12 3 (0.27%) R
12 3 (0.27%) Ruby
12 3 (0.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.089%) Bicep
13 1 (0.089%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (14.90%) Degree
2 76 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.12%) DBS Check
5 18 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (0.98%) CIMA
8 10 (0.89%) ACCA
9 8 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.54%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.45%) CITP
12 5 (0.45%) HND
12 5 (0.45%) PMP
13 4 (0.36%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.36%) MBA
14 3 (0.27%) CBAP
14 3 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.82%) GDPR
2 43 (3.84%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.21%) QA
4 23 (2.05%) SLA
5 11 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.62%) IFRS
8 7 (0.62%) PMO
9 4 (0.36%) GRC
9 4 (0.36%) NIST
10 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.27%) PERC
10 3 (0.27%) WCAG
11 2 (0.18%) GxP
11 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.18%) ITGC
12 1 (0.089%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.089%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.54%) Docker
3 1 (0.089%) Firmware
3 1 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (1.16%) Terraform
2 11 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.36%) Ansible
4 4 (0.36%) SCCM
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.089%) CASB
Vendors
1 212 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.03%) HubSpot
3 80 (7.14%) SAP
4 69 (6.16%) Cisco
5 65 (5.80%) MuleSoft
6 52 (4.64%) Google
7 47 (4.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 45 (4.01%) Oracle
8 45 (4.01%) ServiceNow
9 44 (3.93%) Adobe
10 33 (2.94%) Pardot
11 29 (2.59%) Splunk
12 18 (1.61%) BMC
13 16 (1.43%) Dell
14 9 (0.80%) Zoho
15 8 (0.71%) Facebook
15 8 (0.71%) Genesys
16 7 (0.62%) Avaya
16 7 (0.62%) Informatica
16 7 (0.62%) Pega