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 20 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
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 152 185
Rank change year-on-year +17 +33 -10
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,122 942 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.64% 1.93% 1.67%
As % of the Vendors category 5.58% 4.96% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 660 452 961
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £32,000
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 £91,500 £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 20,107 19,002 28,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.32% 38.85% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,157 9,807 22,240
10th Percentile £27,750 £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 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%

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 20 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 20 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 +18 932 £58,500 -2.50% 1,219
UK excluding London +54 646 £52,500 -1.04% 987
Work from Home +37 370 £54,500 -9.17% 482
London +7 369 £70,000 - 354
North of England +55 189 £52,500 -8.70% 206
South East +36 129 £55,000 -4.35% 329
North West +34 121 £53,750 -7.73% 99
Midlands -11 116 £39,000 +35.31% 140
South West +12 73 £52,500 -12.50% 118
Yorkshire +7 61 £50,000 -16.67% 89
West Midlands -28 60 £34,750 +20.57% 51
East Midlands +16 55 £40,000 -37.25% 86
Scotland +26 54 £35,000 -68.18% 32
East of England -2 46 £55,000 -47.62% 134
Wales +27 30 £55,000 +10.00% 28
Northern Ireland -20 9 - - 14
North East -9 7 £46,250 +8.35% 22

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
3 19 (1.69%) WordPress
4 10 (0.89%) IIS
5 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.53%) Apache
6 6 (0.53%) Moodle
7 4 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.27%) Appian
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.089%) Drupal
10 1 (0.089%) Strapi
Applications
1 51 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.16%) 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
1 101 (9.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 67 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (2.58%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.36%) SAP CX
5 4 (0.36%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.18%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle CRM
7 1 (0.089%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 131 (11.68%) SaaS
2 116 (10.34%) Azure
3 107 (9.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 72 (6.42%) Power Platform
5 63 (5.61%) AWS
6 61 (5.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 51 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (4.10%) GitHub
9 43 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (2.67%) GCP
11 29 (2.58%) Google Analytics
12 24 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
14 19 (1.69%) 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 (1.60%) Internet
4 11 (0.98%) VPN
5 8 (0.71%) VoIP
6 7 (0.62%) IP Telephony
6 7 (0.62%) PSTN
7 6 (0.53%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.53%) 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 (4.72%) 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
10 3 (0.27%) Looker
10 3 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
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%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 1 (0.089%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 81 (7.22%) JIRA
2 38 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.58%) GitLab
4 28 (2.50%) SonarQube
5 26 (2.32%) 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%) Selenium
General
1 413 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 407 (36.27%) Marketing
3 271 (24.15%) Finance
4 162 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (7.93%) Retail
6 86 (7.66%) Presentation Skills
7 61 (5.44%) Public Sector
8 58 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
9 57 (5.08%) Law
10 44 (3.92%) Legal
11 41 (3.65%) Games
12 30 (2.67%) Banking
13 29 (2.58%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.14%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.25%) Advertising
16 14 (1.25%) Publishing
17 10 (0.89%) Billing
17 10 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 172 (15.33%) Senior
2 152 (13.55%) Developer
3 127 (11.32%) Salesforce Developer
4 123 (10.96%) Analyst
5 95 (8.47%) Architect
6 86 (7.66%) Lead
7 64 (5.70%) Salesforce Architect
8 57 (5.08%) Administrator
9 49 (4.37%) Business Analyst
10 46 (4.10%) Sales Executive
11 44 (3.92%) Marketing Manager
12 42 (3.74%) Development Manager
12 42 (3.74%) Salesforce Administrator
13 41 (3.65%) Senior Developer
14 40 (3.57%) Business Manager
15 39 (3.48%) Project Manager
16 38 (3.39%) Business Development Manager
16 38 (3.39%) Senior Salesforce Developer
17 36 (3.21%) Data Analyst
18 35 (3.12%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (11.94%) Lightning Web Components
2 122 (10.87%) REST
3 109 (9.71%) 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 11 (0.98%) OAuth
11 11 (0.98%) Web Services
12 10 (0.89%) LAMP
13 9 (0.80%) JSON
14 7 (0.62%) OAuth2
14 7 (0.62%) React
15 4 (0.36%) Kafka
15 4 (0.36%) SAML
15 4 (0.36%) XML
16 3 (0.27%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 103 (9.18%) Product Ownership
2 95 (8.47%) Onboarding
3 65 (5.79%) Management Information System
4 49 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 30 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 28 (2.50%) FMCG
8 25 (2.23%) Social Media
9 22 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.60%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
13 12 (1.07%) Blog
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%) Security Posture
17 8 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.96%) Windows
2 18 (1.60%) 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 (43.23%) CRM
2 193 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
3 192 (17.11%) Agile
3 192 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 187 (16.67%) Analytics
5 158 (14.08%) CI/CD
6 155 (13.81%) DevOps
7 150 (13.37%) Mentoring
8 134 (11.94%) Decision-Making
9 132 (11.76%) Roadmaps
10 128 (11.41%) B2B
11 111 (9.89%) Business Development
12 106 (9.45%) Coaching
13 102 (9.09%) AI
14 99 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
15 98 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 96 (8.56%) Project Management
17 94 (8.38%) Customer Experience
18 86 (7.66%) Lead Generation
19 83 (7.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 142 (12.66%) Apex Code
2 83 (7.40%) SQL
3 68 (6.06%) Python
4 60 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 45 (4.01%) SOQL
6 34 (3.03%) SOSL
7 26 (2.32%) 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 (14.88%) Degree
2 76 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.12%) DBS Check
5 18 (1.60%) 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 (0.53%) HND
11 6 (0.53%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.45%) CITP
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 (4.81%) GDPR
2 43 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.21%) QA
4 24 (2.14%) 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 5 (0.45%) 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 4 (0.36%) Ansible
3 4 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.36%) SCCM
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.089%) CASB
Vendors
1 213 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.20%) HubSpot
3 81 (7.22%) SAP
4 69 (6.15%) Cisco
5 65 (5.79%) MuleSoft
6 52 (4.63%) Google
7 47 (4.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 46 (4.10%) Adobe
9 45 (4.01%) Oracle
9 45 (4.01%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.85%) Pardot
11 29 (2.58%) Splunk
12 18 (1.60%) 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%) NEC