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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 176 141
Rank change year-on-year +30 -35 +25
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,043 1,042 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 1.55% 2.36%
As % of the Vendors category 5.12% 4.63% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 632 533 989
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,996 £45,500
% change year-on-year -9.08% +20.87% -23.53%

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 20,352 22,491 21,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 38.15% 33.36% 41.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,629 11,517 16,903
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £49,565
% change year-on-year -15.00% +0.88% -0.87%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +34 900 £54,143 -9.76% 952
UK excluding London +63 579 £50,000 -9.08% 537
London +36 375 £70,000 - 511
Work from Home +67 345 £50,000 -6.54% 481
North of England +36 168 £52,500 -7.89% 116
Midlands +74 146 £35,500 +23.17% 69
North West +38 101 £60,000 +9.09% 69
South East +50 98 £54,000 -0.40% 248
East Midlands +78 74 £40,000 -27.27% 24
West Midlands +29 70 £34,750 +20.57% 45
Yorkshire +24 58 £41,750 -35.77% 43
East of England +10 50 £50,000 -28.57% 33
South West +9 49 £52,500 -4.55% 34
Wales +36 31 £55,000 -10.46% 10
Scotland +15 31 £35,000 -68.18% 26
North East +3 9 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Northern Ireland -1 7 - - 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 31 (2.97%) WordPress
2 26 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.73%) Confluence
4 16 (1.53%) CMS
5 14 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (1.15%) IIS
7 6 (0.58%) Apache
8 3 (0.29%) Appian
8 3 (0.29%) Moodle
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.096%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.096%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.096%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.096%) Drupal
10 1 (0.096%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
Applications
1 93 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (6.62%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.25%) Photoshop
4 12 (1.15%) Maya
4 12 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.77%) Adobe Premiere
6 5 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.48%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.38%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Trello
10 1 (0.096%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.096%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 84 (8.05%) Salesforce CRM
2 75 (7.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (2.40%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.77%) Shopify
5 7 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.48%) Exchequer
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.29%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.29%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.29%) Sage 1000
8 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.29%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.19%) Magento
10 1 (0.096%) Changepoint
10 1 (0.096%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.096%) FastStats
10 1 (0.096%) Maximo
10 1 (0.096%) Pegasus Opera
10 1 (0.096%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 123 (11.79%) Azure
2 110 (10.55%) SaaS
3 88 (8.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 87 (8.34%) Power Platform
5 56 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (3.45%) AWS
7 34 (3.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 33 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (2.40%) GitHub
10 24 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (2.30%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 21 (2.01%) Boomi
12 19 (1.82%) GCP
13 17 (1.63%) Google Analytics
13 17 (1.63%) Google Workspace
14 15 (1.44%) Snowflake
15 13 (1.25%) Power Automate
16 12 (1.15%) MailChimp
16 12 (1.15%) Zapier
17 11 (1.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.26%) Broadband
2 32 (3.07%) SMS
3 18 (1.73%) VoIP
4 14 (1.34%) Internet
5 13 (1.25%) VPN
5 13 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (1.15%) Network Security
7 8 (0.77%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.77%) WPA
8 7 (0.67%) Firewall
8 7 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.58%) HTTP
9 6 (0.58%) IP Telephony
9 6 (0.58%) PSTN
10 5 (0.48%) DMZ
10 5 (0.48%) STUN
10 5 (0.48%) VLAN
11 3 (0.29%) AMQP
11 3 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.09%) Power BI
2 59 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 56 (5.37%) Tableau
4 24 (2.30%) Data Lake
5 19 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.53%) MySQL
7 12 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.96%) Looker
9 9 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
12 5 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.48%) EDRMS
12 5 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.48%) GIS
12 5 (0.48%) Metadata
12 5 (0.48%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 74 (7.09%) JIRA
2 19 (1.82%) Git
3 18 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.53%) GitLab
4 16 (1.53%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.67%) ER Studio
6 6 (0.58%) Snyk
7 4 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.38%) Postman
8 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.19%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.096%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.096%) GCC
9 1 (0.096%) RStudio
General
1 405 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 385 (36.91%) Marketing
3 268 (25.70%) Finance
4 170 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (10.07%) Retail
6 97 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (6.14%) Presentation Skills
8 57 (5.47%) Law
9 46 (4.41%) Legal
10 39 (3.74%) Public Sector
11 35 (3.36%) Banking
12 33 (3.16%) Games
13 32 (3.07%) Telecoms
14 30 (2.88%) Manufacturing
15 24 (2.30%) Advertising
15 24 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.96%) Investment Banking
17 8 (0.77%) Front Office
17 8 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 184 (17.64%) Senior
2 121 (11.60%) Developer
3 115 (11.03%) Analyst
4 95 (9.11%) Architect
5 85 (8.15%) Salesforce Developer
6 73 (7.00%) Lead
7 64 (6.14%) Business Manager
7 64 (6.14%) Development Manager
8 63 (6.04%) Administrator
9 62 (5.94%) Business Development Manager
10 49 (4.70%) Senior Developer
11 45 (4.31%) Salesforce Architect
12 44 (4.22%) Salesforce Administrator
13 40 (3.84%) Business Analyst
14 39 (3.74%) Senior Salesforce Developer
15 37 (3.55%) Support Engineer
16 35 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (2.88%) CRM Executive
18 27 (2.59%) Support Specialist
19 26 (2.49%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (9.78%) Lightning Web Components
2 85 (8.15%) REST
3 64 (6.14%) SOAP
4 41 (3.93%) Visualforce
5 38 (3.64%) .NET
6 34 (3.26%) HTML
7 29 (2.78%) CSS
8 27 (2.59%) Middleware
9 11 (1.05%) Web Services
10 10 (0.96%) LAMP
10 10 (0.96%) Node.js
11 9 (0.86%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.77%) OAuth
13 7 (0.67%) JSON
14 6 (0.58%) EDI
14 6 (0.58%) React
15 5 (0.48%) ADO
15 5 (0.48%) FreeSWITCH
15 5 (0.48%) RESTful
16 4 (0.38%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 96 (9.20%) Onboarding
2 77 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.85%) Management Information System
4 47 (4.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 40 (3.84%) Social Media
6 37 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 37 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.92%) FMCG
8 17 (1.63%) Blog
8 17 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.05%) Driving Licence
10 11 (1.05%) NHS
11 10 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.77%) Satnav
13 8 (0.77%) Video Editing
13 8 (0.77%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.26%) Windows
2 25 (2.40%) Linux
3 16 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.77%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.48%) Debian
7 3 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (48.90%) CRM
2 190 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
3 187 (17.93%) Analytics
4 175 (16.78%) Agile
5 162 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 159 (15.24%) Roadmaps
7 134 (12.85%) Decision-Making
8 120 (11.51%) B2B
9 119 (11.41%) DevOps
10 116 (11.12%) Business Development
11 112 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
11 112 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 106 (10.16%) Mentoring
13 103 (9.88%) Project Management
14 100 (9.59%) CI/CD
15 89 (8.53%) Customer Experience
16 88 (8.44%) ERP
17 86 (8.25%) Customer Engagement
18 84 (8.05%) AI
19 83 (7.96%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 104 (9.97%) SQL
2 101 (9.68%) Apex Code
3 53 (5.08%) Python
4 42 (4.03%) JavaScript
5 26 (2.49%) SOQL
6 19 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 19 (1.82%) SOSL
7 13 (1.25%) PHP
8 11 (1.05%) C#
8 11 (1.05%) Java
9 9 (0.86%) R
10 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.29%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.29%) VBA
13 2 (0.19%) Ada
13 2 (0.19%) VB
14 1 (0.096%) Ruby
14 1 (0.096%) Scala
14 1 (0.096%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 165 (15.82%) Degree
2 72 (6.90%) DBS Check
3 36 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 32 (3.07%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (0.77%) HND
8 6 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.58%) MBA
9 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.38%) ISEB
11 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.19%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.19%) CIMA
12 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.096%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (7.67%) GDPR
2 37 (3.55%) SLA
3 29 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.01%) QA
5 10 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.86%) PMO
7 7 (0.67%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.48%) GRC
9 5 (0.48%) IFRS
10 4 (0.38%) PERC
11 2 (0.19%) GxP
11 2 (0.19%) ITGC
12 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.096%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.48%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.19%) Docker
5 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (0.77%) Terraform
2 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.48%) Autotask
4 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.19%) Ansible
6 2 (0.19%) SCCM
7 1 (0.096%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 195 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 102 (9.78%) SAP
3 86 (8.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 80 (7.67%) HubSpot
5 57 (5.47%) Google
6 52 (4.99%) Adobe
7 51 (4.89%) Oracle
8 49 (4.70%) MuleSoft
9 30 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.68%) Pardot
11 25 (2.40%) Cisco
12 17 (1.63%) Zoho
13 15 (1.44%) Dell
13 15 (1.44%) Splunk
14 9 (0.86%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.86%) Facebook
15 8 (0.77%) VMware
16 7 (0.67%) Capita
16 7 (0.67%) Civica
16 7 (0.67%) NEC