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 13 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
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 149 175
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -11
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,101 1,008 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.65% 2.03% 1.69%
As % of the Vendors category 5.56% 5.23% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 644 444 956
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £60,750 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +32.07% -34.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +44.74% -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 19,814 19,268 28,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.71% 38.71% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,987 9,848 22,126
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 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +12.75% -11.30%
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 13 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 13 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 +9 917 £58,000 -3.33% 476
UK excluding London +33 630 £52,500 -4.55% 338
London +16 368 £70,000 - 214
Work from Home +48 360 £54,000 -10.00% 244
North of England +25 190 £50,000 -13.04% 78
South East +66 120 £55,000 -4.35% 142
North West +34 120 £55,000 -4.35% 38
Midlands -6 116 £39,000 -8.24% 63
South West +1 69 £50,000 -16.67% 22
Yorkshire -4 63 £42,500 -29.17% 35
West Midlands -24 58 £34,750 +20.57% 35
East Midlands +18 56 £40,000 -37.25% 28
Scotland +11 53 £35,000 -68.18% 6
East of England 0 43 £55,000 -45.00% 25
Wales +28 30 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Northern Ireland -22 9 - - 2
North East -11 7 £46,250 +8.35% 9

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 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.91%) CMS
3 19 (1.73%) WordPress
4 18 (1.63%) Confluence
5 10 (0.91%) IIS
6 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
8 5 (0.45%) Moodle
9 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.091%) Drupal
11 1 (0.091%) Strapi
Applications
1 50 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.09%) Maya
5 7 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.091%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 99 (8.99%) Salesforce CRM
2 69 (6.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (2.54%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.45%) Shopify
4 5 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.36%) SAP CX
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 (0.091%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.091%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.091%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 131 (11.90%) SaaS
2 117 (10.63%) Azure
3 105 (9.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 73 (6.63%) Power Platform
5 57 (5.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 56 (5.09%) AWS
7 51 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
8 45 (4.09%) GitHub
9 44 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (2.63%) GCP
11 26 (2.36%) Google Analytics
12 25 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
13 22 (2.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 15 (1.36%) Boomi
14 15 (1.36%) Salesforce Einstein
15 14 (1.27%) Google Workspace
16 12 (1.09%) Zapier
17 11 (1.00%) Snowflake
18 10 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.54%) Broadband
2 21 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (1.73%) Internet
4 12 (1.09%) VPN
5 8 (0.73%) VoIP
6 7 (0.64%) IP Telephony
6 7 (0.64%) PSTN
6 7 (0.64%) WPA
7 6 (0.54%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.54%) 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 (5.27%) Power BI
2 55 (5.00%) Tableau
3 27 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.27%) MySQL
6 11 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.45%) Metadata
8 5 (0.45%) Power Query
9 4 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (0.36%) Looker
9 4 (0.36%) 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
12 1 (0.091%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 1 (0.091%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 79 (7.18%) JIRA
2 37 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.63%) GitLab
4 28 (2.54%) SonarQube
5 26 (2.36%) Git
6 5 (0.45%) Snyk
7 4 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.18%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.091%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.091%) GCC
9 1 (0.091%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.091%) Selenium
General
1 406 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 403 (36.60%) Marketing
3 278 (25.25%) Finance
4 163 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
5 157 (14.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 97 (8.81%) Retail
7 86 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
8 58 (5.27%) Public Sector
9 57 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (4.90%) Law
11 47 (4.27%) Legal
12 43 (3.91%) Games
13 31 (2.82%) Banking
14 29 (2.63%) Telecoms
15 26 (2.36%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.45%) Advertising
17 14 (1.27%) Publishing
18 11 (1.00%) Front Office
18 11 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
19 10 (0.91%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 172 (15.62%) Senior
2 149 (13.53%) Developer
3 125 (11.35%) Salesforce Developer
4 122 (11.08%) Analyst
5 92 (8.36%) Architect
6 83 (7.54%) Lead
7 61 (5.54%) Salesforce Architect
8 57 (5.18%) Administrator
9 49 (4.45%) Business Analyst
10 43 (3.91%) Marketing Manager
10 43 (3.91%) Sales Executive
10 43 (3.91%) Salesforce Administrator
11 42 (3.81%) Development Manager
12 40 (3.63%) Business Manager
12 40 (3.63%) Senior Developer
13 38 (3.45%) Business Development Manager
14 37 (3.36%) Project Manager
14 37 (3.36%) Senior Salesforce Developer
15 36 (3.27%) Data Analyst
16 34 (3.09%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (12.08%) Lightning Web Components
2 121 (10.99%) REST
3 105 (9.54%) SOAP
4 57 (5.18%) Visualforce
5 35 (3.18%) Middleware
6 32 (2.91%) .NET
7 28 (2.54%) HTML
8 27 (2.45%) CSS
9 19 (1.73%) EDI
10 14 (1.27%) Node.js
11 11 (1.00%) OAuth
11 11 (1.00%) Web Services
12 10 (0.91%) LAMP
13 9 (0.82%) JSON
14 7 (0.64%) OAuth2
14 7 (0.64%) React
15 5 (0.45%) GraphQL
16 4 (0.36%) Kafka
17 3 (0.27%) Apollo GraphQL
17 3 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.45%) Product Ownership
2 92 (8.36%) Onboarding
3 66 (5.99%) Management Information System
4 46 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 35 (3.18%) Cloud Native
7 30 (2.72%) FMCG
8 25 (2.27%) Social Media
9 22 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.54%) Low-Code
11 15 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.09%) Blog
12 12 (1.09%) NHS
13 11 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
14 10 (0.91%) Driving Licence
14 10 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.91%) Podcast
14 10 (0.91%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.00%) Windows
2 19 (1.73%) Linux
3 9 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.091%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (43.87%) CRM
2 194 (17.62%) Agile
3 193 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
4 189 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 186 (16.89%) Analytics
6 153 (13.90%) DevOps
7 152 (13.81%) CI/CD
8 150 (13.62%) Mentoring
9 135 (12.26%) Decision-Making
10 132 (11.99%) Roadmaps
11 124 (11.26%) B2B
12 106 (9.63%) Business Development
13 104 (9.45%) Coaching
14 103 (9.36%) AI
15 101 (9.17%) Business Intelligence
16 98 (8.90%) Project Management
17 95 (8.63%) Customer Experience
17 95 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
18 84 (7.63%) Data Modelling
19 81 (7.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 140 (12.72%) Apex Code
2 86 (7.81%) SQL
3 65 (5.90%) Python
4 57 (5.18%) JavaScript
5 43 (3.91%) SOQL
6 34 (3.09%) SOSL
7 22 (2.00%) Java
8 14 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.09%) PHP
10 7 (0.64%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.45%) C#
11 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.27%) Scala
14 2 (0.18%) Ada
14 2 (0.18%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.18%) R
14 2 (0.18%) Ruby
15 1 (0.091%) Bash
15 1 (0.091%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 169 (15.35%) Degree
2 73 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 59 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.36%) DBS Check
5 19 (1.73%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.00%) CIMA
8 10 (0.91%) ACCA
9 8 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.54%) HND
11 6 (0.54%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.45%) CITP
12 5 (0.45%) MBA
12 5 (0.45%) PMP
13 4 (0.36%) A+ Certification
14 3 (0.27%) CBAP
14 3 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.18%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.00%) GDPR
2 42 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.72%) QA
4 25 (2.27%) SLA
5 10 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.64%) PMO
9 6 (0.54%) IFRS
10 5 (0.45%) GRC
11 3 (0.27%) NIST
11 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.27%) PERC
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
12 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.18%) ITGC
12 2 (0.18%) WCAG
13 1 (0.091%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.091%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.091%) Firmware
3 1 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (1.27%) Terraform
2 11 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.45%) Ansible
4 4 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.36%) SCCM
5 1 (0.091%) CASB
Vendors
1 215 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.99%) HubSpot
3 81 (7.36%) SAP
4 69 (6.27%) Cisco
5 62 (5.63%) MuleSoft
6 52 (4.72%) Google
7 48 (4.36%) Adobe
8 47 (4.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 43 (3.91%) Oracle
10 42 (3.81%) ServiceNow
11 33 (3.00%) Pardot
12 29 (2.63%) Splunk
13 17 (1.54%) Dell
14 16 (1.45%) BMC
15 9 (0.82%) Zoho
16 8 (0.73%) Facebook
16 8 (0.73%) Genesys
17 7 (0.64%) Avaya
17 7 (0.64%) Informatica
17 7 (0.64%) Planon