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 18 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
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 147 185
Rank change year-on-year +8 +38 -18
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,116 966 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.64% 1.96% 1.66%
As % of the Vendors category 5.57% 5.06% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 653 450 949
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,962 £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 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,875 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,992 £38,000
% change year-on-year -4.53% +44.71% -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 20,052 19,090 28,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.54% 38.81% 38.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,071 9,724 22,178
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 £76,250 £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 18 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 18 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 +16 929 £59,527 -0.79% 504
UK excluding London +48 637 £52,500 -4.53% 356
London +7 374 £70,000 - 226
Work from Home +46 370 £54,500 -9.17% 226
North of England +30 190 £52,500 -8.70% 85
South East +58 127 £55,000 -4.35% 144
North West +40 121 £53,750 -7.73% 44
Midlands -7 113 £39,000 +35.31% 61
South West +21 72 £51,250 -14.58% 27
Yorkshire +8 62 £50,000 -16.67% 34
West Midlands -26 57 £34,750 +20.57% 35
East Midlands +15 55 £40,000 -37.25% 26
Scotland +24 53 £35,000 -68.18% 12
East of England -4 43 £55,000 -45.00% 23
Wales +27 30 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Northern Ireland -22 9 - - 2
North East -7 7 £46,250 +8.35% 11

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 26 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.88%) CMS
3 20 (1.79%) Confluence
4 19 (1.70%) WordPress
5 10 (0.90%) IIS
6 8 (0.72%) 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%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.090%) Drupal
11 1 (0.090%) Strapi
Applications
1 51 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.99%) Maya
5 7 (0.63%) 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
7 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.090%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 104 (9.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 68 (6.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (2.51%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.54%) 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 (0.090%) Oracle CRM
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.090%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.090%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 131 (11.74%) SaaS
2 118 (10.57%) Azure
3 108 (9.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 73 (6.54%) Power Platform
5 61 (5.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 60 (5.38%) AWS
7 53 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (4.12%) GitHub
9 44 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (2.69%) GCP
11 27 (2.42%) Google Analytics
12 25 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (1.97%) GitHub Copilot
14 20 (1.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 15 (1.34%) Salesforce Einstein
16 14 (1.25%) Boomi
16 14 (1.25%) Google Workspace
17 12 (1.08%) Snowflake
17 12 (1.08%) Zapier
18 11 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.48%) Broadband
2 21 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (1.70%) Internet
4 12 (1.08%) VPN
5 8 (0.72%) VoIP
6 7 (0.63%) IP Telephony
6 7 (0.63%) PSTN
6 7 (0.63%) 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%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.20%) Power BI
2 54 (4.84%) Tableau
3 27 (2.42%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.70%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.25%) MySQL
6 11 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.63%) 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 (0.090%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 1 (0.090%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 82 (7.35%) JIRA
2 37 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.60%) GitLab
4 28 (2.51%) SonarQube
5 27 (2.42%) Git
6 5 (0.45%) Snyk
7 4 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.18%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.090%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.090%) GCC
9 1 (0.090%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.090%) Selenium
General
1 409 (36.65%) Social Skills
2 401 (35.93%) Marketing
3 272 (24.37%) Finance
4 164 (14.70%) Analytical Skills
5 161 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 91 (8.15%) Retail
7 84 (7.53%) Presentation Skills
8 61 (5.47%) Public Sector
9 58 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
10 57 (5.11%) Law
11 44 (3.94%) Legal
12 41 (3.67%) Games
13 31 (2.78%) Banking
14 30 (2.69%) Telecoms
15 25 (2.24%) Manufacturing
16 15 (1.34%) Advertising
16 15 (1.34%) Publishing
17 13 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (0.99%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 175 (15.68%) Senior
2 152 (13.62%) Developer
3 128 (11.47%) Salesforce Developer
4 125 (11.20%) Analyst
5 93 (8.33%) Architect
6 84 (7.53%) Lead
7 63 (5.65%) Salesforce Architect
8 59 (5.29%) Administrator
9 50 (4.48%) Business Analyst
10 43 (3.85%) Marketing Manager
10 43 (3.85%) Sales Executive
10 43 (3.85%) Salesforce Administrator
11 42 (3.76%) Development Manager
11 42 (3.76%) Senior Developer
12 40 (3.58%) Business Manager
13 39 (3.49%) Project Manager
13 39 (3.49%) Senior Salesforce Developer
14 38 (3.41%) Business Development Manager
15 36 (3.23%) Data Analyst
16 34 (3.05%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (12.19%) Lightning Web Components
2 124 (11.11%) REST
3 109 (9.77%) SOAP
4 60 (5.38%) Visualforce
5 37 (3.32%) Middleware
6 34 (3.05%) .NET
7 29 (2.60%) HTML
8 27 (2.42%) CSS
9 20 (1.79%) EDI
10 14 (1.25%) Node.js
11 11 (0.99%) OAuth
11 11 (0.99%) Web Services
12 10 (0.90%) LAMP
13 9 (0.81%) JSON
14 7 (0.63%) OAuth2
14 7 (0.63%) React
15 5 (0.45%) GraphQL
16 4 (0.36%) Kafka
16 4 (0.36%) XML
17 3 (0.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (9.50%) Product Ownership
2 92 (8.24%) Onboarding
3 65 (5.82%) Management Information System
4 47 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 33 (2.96%) Cloud Native
7 28 (2.51%) FMCG
8 24 (2.15%) Social Media
9 22 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.16%) NHS
13 12 (1.08%) Blog
13 12 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
14 10 (0.90%) Driving Licence
14 10 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.90%) Podcast
14 10 (0.90%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.06%) Windows
2 18 (1.61%) Linux
3 9 (0.81%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.090%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (43.37%) CRM
2 200 (17.92%) Agile
3 194 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 182 (16.31%) Analytics
6 158 (14.16%) CI/CD
6 158 (14.16%) DevOps
7 150 (13.44%) Mentoring
8 133 (11.92%) Roadmaps
9 132 (11.83%) Decision-Making
10 124 (11.11%) B2B
11 105 (9.41%) Business Development
11 105 (9.41%) Coaching
12 103 (9.23%) AI
13 99 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
14 97 (8.69%) Project Management
15 96 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
16 94 (8.42%) Customer Experience
17 86 (7.71%) Data Modelling
18 81 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 143 (12.81%) Apex Code
2 86 (7.71%) SQL
3 70 (6.27%) Python
4 60 (5.38%) JavaScript
5 44 (3.94%) SOQL
6 34 (3.05%) SOSL
7 25 (2.24%) Java
8 14 (1.25%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.08%) PHP
10 7 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.45%) C#
11 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.27%) R
13 3 (0.27%) Ruby
13 3 (0.27%) Scala
14 2 (0.18%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.090%) Bash
15 1 (0.090%) Bicep
15 1 (0.090%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 166 (14.87%) Degree
2 76 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.14%) DBS Check
5 18 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (0.99%) CIMA
8 10 (0.90%) ACCA
9 8 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.54%) HND
11 6 (0.54%) 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%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.93%) GDPR
2 42 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.14%) QA
4 24 (2.15%) SLA
5 11 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.63%) PMO
8 6 (0.54%) IFRS
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 (0.090%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.090%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.090%) Firmware
3 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (1.25%) Terraform
2 11 (0.99%) 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 (0.090%) CASB
Vendors
1 215 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.97%) HubSpot
3 80 (7.17%) SAP
4 69 (6.18%) Cisco
5 65 (5.82%) MuleSoft
6 52 (4.66%) Google
7 48 (4.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 45 (4.03%) Adobe
9 43 (3.85%) Oracle
9 43 (3.85%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.87%) Pardot
11 29 (2.60%) Splunk
12 16 (1.43%) BMC
12 16 (1.43%) Dell
13 9 (0.81%) Zoho
14 8 (0.72%) Genesys
15 7 (0.63%) Avaya
15 7 (0.63%) Facebook
15 7 (0.63%) Informatica
15 7 (0.63%) NEC