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 10 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
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 157 151
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,023 995 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.85% 2.06%
As % of the Vendors category 5.43% 5.00% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 577 483 879
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,258 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,625 £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 £72,500 £78,000 £74,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £96,250
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 18,856 19,902 21,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.66% 37.09% 39.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,702 10,149 16,694
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +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 £49,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%

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 10 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 10 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 +17 871 £57,500 -8.00% 1,205
UK excluding London +42 590 £50,000 -13.04% 1,121
London +10 352 £70,000 - 211
Work from Home +38 310 £52,500 -11.02% 489
North of England +37 189 £55,000 -6.78% 206
North West +43 119 £57,500 -1.29% 83
Midlands +17 117 £39,000 -8.24% 162
South East +35 104 £55,000 +1.44% 353
Yorkshire +10 63 £50,000 -25.93% 93
East Midlands +37 59 £40,000 -38.46% 97
South West -7 57 £51,250 +11.41% 145
West Midlands -14 56 £36,875 +27.94% 64
East of England -2 43 £50,000 -28.57% 167
Scotland +18 41 £35,000 -68.18% 30
Wales +30 32 £57,500 -5.51% 60
Northern Ireland -14 8 - - 27
North East -1 7 £35,000 -42.00% 31

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 (2.25%) WordPress
2 17 (1.66%) Confluence
2 17 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.56%) CMS
4 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.98%) IIS
6 6 (0.59%) Apache
7 5 (0.49%) Moodle
8 3 (0.29%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.29%) Appian
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.098%) Drupal
9 1 (0.098%) Strapi
Applications
1 73 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.37%) Maya
4 8 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
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 80 (7.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 73 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (2.25%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.49%) Shopify
5 4 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.39%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.29%) Infor M3
6 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
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%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.098%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.098%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 127 (12.41%) Azure
2 119 (11.63%) SaaS
3 103 (10.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 66 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 49 (4.79%) AWS
6 45 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (4.40%) GitHub
7 43 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
7 43 (4.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 26 (2.54%) GCP
9 25 (2.44%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 24 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (2.15%) GitHub Copilot
12 20 (1.96%) Boomi
12 20 (1.96%) Google Analytics
13 14 (1.37%) Salesforce Einstein
13 14 (1.37%) Snowflake
14 12 (1.17%) Zapier
15 11 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.32%) Broadband
2 31 (3.03%) SMS
3 18 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (1.47%) Internet
5 14 (1.37%) VoIP
5 14 (1.37%) VPN
6 7 (0.68%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.68%) IP Telephony
6 7 (0.68%) PSTN
6 7 (0.68%) WPA
7 5 (0.49%) DMZ
7 5 (0.49%) HTTP
7 5 (0.49%) STUN
7 5 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.49%) VLAN
8 4 (0.39%) Firewall
8 4 (0.39%) Network Security
9 3 (0.29%) AMQP
9 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.57%) Tableau
2 56 (5.47%) Power BI
3 41 (4.01%) SQL Server
4 21 (2.05%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.27%) MySQL
6 12 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.88%) 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%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.098%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 71 (6.94%) JIRA
2 24 (2.35%) 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
1 396 (38.71%) Marketing
2 377 (36.85%) Social Skills
3 263 (25.71%) Finance
4 173 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 104 (10.17%) Retail
7 78 (7.62%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (4.59%) Law
9 46 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (3.62%) Legal
10 37 (3.62%) Public Sector
11 36 (3.52%) Banking
12 35 (3.42%) Games
13 33 (3.23%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.35%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.66%) Advertising
16 11 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.08%) Publishing
17 10 (0.98%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 186 (18.18%) Senior
2 133 (13.00%) Developer
3 109 (10.65%) Analyst
4 107 (10.46%) Salesforce Developer
5 76 (7.43%) Architect
6 71 (6.94%) Lead
7 49 (4.79%) Administrator
8 48 (4.69%) Development Manager
9 47 (4.59%) Business Development Manager
9 47 (4.59%) Business Manager
10 46 (4.50%) CRM Executive
11 43 (4.20%) Business Analyst
11 43 (4.20%) Salesforce Architect
12 42 (4.11%) Senior Developer
13 40 (3.91%) Salesforce Administrator
14 38 (3.71%) Senior Salesforce Developer
15 36 (3.52%) Support Engineer
16 34 (3.32%) Marketing Manager
16 34 (3.32%) Project Manager
16 34 (3.32%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (9.78%) Lightning Web Components
2 92 (8.99%) REST
3 77 (7.53%) SOAP
4 33 (3.23%) Visualforce
5 27 (2.64%) .NET
6 25 (2.44%) Middleware
7 24 (2.35%) HTML
8 23 (2.25%) CSS
9 14 (1.37%) Node.js
10 13 (1.27%) EDI
11 12 (1.17%) Web Services
12 10 (0.98%) LAMP
13 8 (0.78%) GraphQL
14 7 (0.68%) JSON
14 7 (0.68%) OAuth
15 6 (0.59%) OAuth2
16 5 (0.49%) FreeSWITCH
16 5 (0.49%) React
17 4 (0.39%) Kafka
17 4 (0.39%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.87%) Onboarding
2 81 (7.92%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.28%) Management Information System
4 44 (4.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 37 (3.62%) Cloud Native
6 32 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.74%) Social Media
8 27 (2.64%) 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%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.17%) NHS
13 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (0.98%) Podcast
14 9 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
14 9 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
15 8 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.54%) Linux
2 25 (2.44%) Windows
3 11 (1.08%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.49%) Debian
6 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.20%) Android
8 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (45.94%) CRM
2 207 (20.23%) Analytics
3 171 (16.72%) Agile
3 171 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
4 162 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 151 (14.76%) Roadmaps
6 139 (13.59%) Mentoring
7 136 (13.29%) DevOps
8 122 (11.93%) CI/CD
9 120 (11.73%) Decision-Making
10 106 (10.36%) B2B
11 98 (9.58%) Business Development
11 98 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 94 (9.19%) Business Intelligence
12 94 (9.19%) Customer Experience
13 93 (9.09%) AI
14 92 (8.99%) Project Management
15 88 (8.60%) Coaching
16 86 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 80 (7.82%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 111 (10.85%) Apex Code
2 87 (8.50%) SQL
3 56 (5.47%) Python
4 46 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 24 (2.35%) SOQL
6 17 (1.66%) SOSL
7 14 (1.37%) Java
7 14 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.08%) PHP
9 7 (0.68%) R
10 6 (0.59%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.49%) C#
12 4 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.20%) Ada
13 2 (0.20%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.20%) VB
14 1 (0.098%) Ruby
14 1 (0.098%) Scala
Qualifications
1 148 (14.47%) Degree
2 69 (6.74%) DBS Check
3 49 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.01%) SC Cleared
5 15 (1.47%) 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 73 (7.14%) GDPR
2 34 (3.32%) Data Quality
3 28 (2.74%) SLA
4 22 (2.15%) QA
5 11 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.78%) PMO
8 7 (0.68%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.49%) IFRS
10 4 (0.39%) GRC
11 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
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 5 (0.49%) Kamailio
3 4 (0.39%) Docker
4 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.20%) 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 2 (0.20%) Autotask
Vendors
1 208 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.80%) HubSpot
3 78 (7.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 76 (7.43%) SAP
5 61 (5.96%) Cisco
6 56 (5.47%) MuleSoft
7 52 (5.08%) Adobe
8 46 (4.50%) Google
8 46 (4.50%) Oracle
9 29 (2.83%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.44%) Pardot
11 19 (1.86%) Dell
12 17 (1.66%) Zoho
13 15 (1.47%) Splunk
14 9 (0.88%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.88%) BMC
15 8 (0.78%) Informatica
16 7 (0.68%) Avaya
16 7 (0.68%) Facebook
16 7 (0.68%) Genesys