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 19 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
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 151 185
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 -8
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,123 956 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.64% 1.96% 1.67%
As % of the Vendors category 5.57% 5.04% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 659 454 948
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -35.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £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 20,149 18,981 28,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.50% 38.82% 38.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,143 9,774 22,080
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,700
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 £47,500
% 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 19 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 19 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 +9 933 £59,527 -0.79% 625
UK excluding London +50 643 £52,500 -1.04% 363
London +9 373 £70,000 - 336
Work from Home +39 370 £54,500 -9.17% 271
North of England +33 191 £52,500 -8.70% 99
South East +54 128 £55,000 -4.35% 145
North West +31 122 £55,000 -5.58% 60
Midlands -15 114 £39,000 +35.31% 55
South West +18 72 £51,250 -14.58% 29
Yorkshire +7 62 £50,000 -16.67% 35
West Midlands -24 58 £34,750 +20.57% 29
East Midlands +10 55 £40,000 -37.25% 26
Scotland +22 54 £35,000 -68.18% 11
East of England -4 45 £55,000 -46.34% 22
Wales +25 30 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Northern Ireland -21 9 - - 2
North East -7 7 £46,250 +8.35% 8

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 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.98%) Maya
5 7 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 103 (9.17%) Salesforce CRM
2 67 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (2.49%) 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%) 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%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.089%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.089%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 131 (11.67%) SaaS
2 118 (10.51%) Azure
3 108 (9.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 73 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 63 (5.61%) AWS
6 61 (5.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 52 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (4.10%) GitHub
9 45 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (2.67%) GCP
11 27 (2.40%) Google Analytics
12 24 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
14 20 (1.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 15 (1.34%) Salesforce Einstein
15 15 (1.34%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.25%) Boomi
16 14 (1.25%) Google Workspace
17 12 (1.07%) Zapier
18 11 (0.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.45%) Broadband
2 21 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (1.69%) Internet
4 12 (1.07%) VPN
5 8 (0.71%) VoIP
6 7 (0.62%) IP Telephony
6 7 (0.62%) PSTN
6 7 (0.62%) WPA
7 6 (0.53%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.45%) HTTP
8 5 (0.45%) LAN
9 4 (0.36%) Firewall
10 3 (0.27%) AMQP
10 3 (0.27%) Network Security
10 3 (0.27%) PBX
10 3 (0.27%) SCCP
10 3 (0.27%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.27%) Wireless
11 2 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.16%) Power BI
2 54 (4.81%) Tableau
3 27 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.25%) 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%) 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
12 1 (0.089%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 1 (0.089%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 82 (7.30%) JIRA
2 38 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.58%) GitLab
4 28 (2.49%) SonarQube
5 27 (2.40%) Git
6 5 (0.45%) Snyk
7 4 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.18%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.089%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.089%) GCC
9 1 (0.089%) Selenium
General
1 412 (36.69%) Social Skills
2 407 (36.24%) Marketing
3 273 (24.31%) Finance
4 161 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (14.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (8.01%) Retail
6 86 (7.66%) Presentation Skills
7 61 (5.43%) Public Sector
8 59 (5.25%) 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 25 (2.23%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.34%) Advertising
16 15 (1.34%) Publishing
17 10 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 174 (15.49%) Senior
2 153 (13.62%) Developer
3 128 (11.40%) Salesforce Developer
4 124 (11.04%) Analyst
5 94 (8.37%) Architect
6 85 (7.57%) Lead
7 63 (5.61%) Salesforce Architect
8 58 (5.16%) Administrator
9 49 (4.36%) Business Analyst
10 46 (4.10%) Sales Executive
11 43 (3.83%) Marketing Manager
12 42 (3.74%) Development Manager
12 42 (3.74%) Salesforce Administrator
12 42 (3.74%) Senior Developer
13 40 (3.56%) Business Manager
14 39 (3.47%) Project Manager
14 39 (3.47%) Senior Salesforce Developer
15 38 (3.38%) Business Development Manager
16 36 (3.21%) Data Analyst
17 34 (3.03%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (12.11%) Lightning Web Components
2 123 (10.95%) REST
3 110 (9.80%) SOAP
4 59 (5.25%) Visualforce
5 37 (3.29%) Middleware
6 33 (2.94%) .NET
7 28 (2.49%) HTML
8 26 (2.32%) CSS
9 20 (1.78%) EDI
10 14 (1.25%) Node.js
11 12 (1.07%) OAuth
12 11 (0.98%) Web Services
13 10 (0.89%) LAMP
14 9 (0.80%) JSON
15 8 (0.71%) OAuth2
16 7 (0.62%) React
17 4 (0.36%) Kafka
17 4 (0.36%) SAML
17 4 (0.36%) XML
18 3 (0.27%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 95 (8.46%) Onboarding
3 66 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 49 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 31 (2.76%) Cloud Native
7 28 (2.49%) FMCG
8 24 (2.14%) Social Media
9 22 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.60%) Low-Code
11 17 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.16%) NHS
14 12 (1.07%) Blog
14 12 (1.07%) Web Conferencing
15 11 (0.98%) Driving Licence
16 10 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (0.89%) Podcast
16 10 (0.89%) Security Posture
17 8 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.05%) 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%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.089%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (43.28%) CRM
2 195 (17.36%) Agile
3 193 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 193 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
4 186 (16.56%) Analytics
5 160 (14.25%) CI/CD
6 157 (13.98%) DevOps
7 150 (13.36%) Mentoring
8 135 (12.02%) Decision-Making
9 133 (11.84%) Roadmaps
10 127 (11.31%) B2B
11 110 (9.80%) Business Development
12 106 (9.44%) Coaching
13 103 (9.17%) AI
14 99 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
15 98 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 97 (8.64%) Project Management
17 94 (8.37%) Customer Experience
18 85 (7.57%) Lead Generation
19 84 (7.48%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 142 (12.64%) Apex Code
2 85 (7.57%) SQL
3 70 (6.23%) Python
4 61 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 44 (3.92%) SOQL
6 34 (3.03%) SOSL
7 26 (2.32%) Java
8 13 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.07%) PHP
10 7 (0.62%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.45%) C#
11 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.27%) DataWeave
13 3 (0.27%) R
13 3 (0.27%) Ruby
13 3 (0.27%) Scala
14 1 (0.089%) Bash
14 1 (0.089%) Bicep
14 1 (0.089%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (14.87%) Degree
2 76 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.52%) 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%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.81%) GDPR
2 44 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.12%) 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%) PMO
9 6 (0.53%) IFRS
10 4 (0.36%) GRC
10 4 (0.36%) NIST
11 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.27%) PERC
11 3 (0.27%) WCAG
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
12 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.18%) ITGC
13 1 (0.089%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.089%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.089%) Firmware
3 1 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (1.25%) Terraform
2 11 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.45%) Ansible
4 4 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.36%) SCCM
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.089%) CASB
Vendors
1 215 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.10%) HubSpot
3 81 (7.21%) SAP
4 69 (6.14%) Cisco
5 66 (5.88%) MuleSoft
6 52 (4.63%) Google
7 48 (4.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 45 (4.01%) Adobe
8 45 (4.01%) ServiceNow
9 44 (3.92%) Oracle
10 32 (2.85%) Pardot
11 29 (2.58%) Splunk
12 18 (1.60%) BMC
13 16 (1.42%) Dell
14 9 (0.80%) Zoho
15 8 (0.71%) Genesys
16 7 (0.62%) Avaya
16 7 (0.62%) Facebook
16 7 (0.62%) Informatica
16 7 (0.62%) NEC