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 17 March 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
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 143 186
Rank change year-on-year +13 +43 -5
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,174 938 1,345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.18% 1.59%
As % of the Vendors category 5.63% 5.53% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 697 448 1,019
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,438 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +33.33% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £98,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +25.00% -37.60%

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 20,850 16,948 32,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.88% 39.41% 37.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,361 9,916 24,406
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,196 £46,500
% change year-on-year -12.10% +10.10% -7.00%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -4 963 £56,500 -4.24% 542
UK excluding London +29 662 £50,000 +5.26% 338
London +23 397 £70,000 - 283
Work from Home +35 385 £54,000 -10.00% 249
North of England +34 187 £40,000 -30.43% 96
South East +23 147 £54,000 -13.60% 135
North West +27 114 £40,000 -30.43% 51
Midlands -48 102 £40,000 +30.80% 45
South West +5 70 £50,000 -16.67% 26
Scotland +39 68 £50,000 +42.86% 9
Yorkshire +3 67 £40,000 -27.27% 35
West Midlands -45 53 £37,500 +30.11% 31
East of England -14 52 £55,000 +29.41% 24
East Midlands -17 49 £40,000 -38.46% 14
Wales +10 27 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Northern Ireland -27 9 - -
North East -19 6 £35,000 -18.00% 13

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 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.87%) CMS
3 21 (1.79%) Confluence
4 17 (1.45%) WordPress
5 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.60%) Moodle
6 5 (0.43%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) IIS
8 3 (0.26%) Appian
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.085%) Drupal
10 1 (0.085%) Strapi
Applications
1 45 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.60%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.085%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.085%) InDesign
7 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 107 (9.11%) Salesforce CRM
2 64 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (2.21%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.34%) SAP CX
5 4 (0.34%) Shopify
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.085%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.085%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.085%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 122 (10.39%) SaaS
2 120 (10.22%) Azure
3 115 (9.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 73 (6.22%) AWS
5 71 (6.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 66 (5.62%) Power Platform
7 53 (4.51%) GitHub
8 51 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
9 43 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (2.81%) GCP
11 27 (2.30%) Google Analytics
12 25 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
13 21 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
13 21 (1.79%) Snowflake
14 16 (1.36%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 14 (1.19%) Salesforce Einstein
16 13 (1.11%) Google Workspace
17 12 (1.02%) Power Automate
18 10 (0.85%) Boomi
19 9 (0.77%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 62 (5.28%) Broadband
2 19 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (1.53%) Internet
4 11 (0.94%) VPN
5 6 (0.51%) LAN
5 6 (0.51%) VoIP
5 6 (0.51%) Wireless
6 5 (0.43%) IP Telephony
6 5 (0.43%) PSTN
7 4 (0.34%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.34%) Firewall
7 4 (0.34%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.26%) Network Security
8 3 (0.26%) SCCP
9 2 (0.17%) AMQP
9 2 (0.17%) PBX
9 2 (0.17%) SMS
9 2 (0.17%) WAN
9 2 (0.17%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.34%) Power BI
2 42 (3.58%) Tableau
3 22 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.68%) MySQL
8 7 (0.60%) Metadata
9 6 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.43%) Power Query
11 4 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.26%) Looker
12 3 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.26%) QlikView
13 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.17%) KNIME
13 2 (0.17%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 2 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (6.98%) JIRA
2 51 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.49%) GitLab
4 40 (3.41%) SonarQube
5 35 (2.98%) Git
6 3 (0.26%) JUnit
6 3 (0.26%) Mockito
6 3 (0.26%) Snyk
7 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.085%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.085%) git-flow
8 1 (0.085%) Postman
8 1 (0.085%) Selenium
General
1 418 (35.60%) Marketing
2 416 (35.43%) Social Skills
3 252 (21.47%) Finance
4 182 (15.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 66 (5.62%) Public Sector
8 64 (5.45%) Retail
9 59 (5.03%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (4.60%) Law
11 48 (4.09%) Games
12 45 (3.83%) Legal
13 26 (2.21%) Banking
14 25 (2.13%) Manufacturing
15 24 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (1.28%) Advertising
18 13 (1.11%) Publishing
19 11 (0.94%) Health Technology
20 10 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (13.46%) Developer
2 156 (13.29%) Senior
3 131 (11.16%) Salesforce Developer
4 126 (10.73%) Analyst
5 117 (9.97%) Architect
6 82 (6.98%) Salesforce Architect
7 72 (6.13%) Administrator
8 68 (5.79%) Lead
9 61 (5.20%) Business Analyst
10 53 (4.51%) Sales Executive
11 52 (4.43%) Salesforce Administrator
12 44 (3.75%) Marketing Manager
13 40 (3.41%) Senior Developer
14 38 (3.24%) Development Manager
14 38 (3.24%) Project Manager
15 37 (3.15%) Business Manager
15 37 (3.15%) Senior Salesforce Developer
15 37 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
16 34 (2.90%) Consultant
16 34 (2.90%) CRM Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (13.80%) Lightning Web Components
2 138 (11.75%) REST
3 126 (10.73%) SOAP
4 83 (7.07%) Visualforce
5 40 (3.41%) Middleware
6 37 (3.15%) .NET
7 25 (2.13%) HTML
8 23 (1.96%) CSS
9 19 (1.62%) EDI
10 14 (1.19%) Node.js
11 12 (1.02%) Web Services
12 11 (0.94%) OAuth
13 8 (0.68%) OAuth2
13 8 (0.68%) React
14 6 (0.51%) JSON
14 6 (0.51%) RESTful
15 5 (0.43%) Kafka
15 5 (0.43%) SAML
16 4 (0.34%) LAMP
16 4 (0.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.22%) Product Ownership
2 103 (8.77%) Onboarding
3 52 (4.43%) Management Information System
4 48 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.04%) Social Media
6 23 (1.96%) Cloud Native
7 21 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 20 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.45%) Low-Code
10 16 (1.36%) FMCG
10 16 (1.36%) Web Conferencing
11 14 (1.19%) Blog
12 13 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
14 11 (0.94%) Driving Licence
14 11 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.85%) Podcast
16 9 (0.77%) NHS
17 8 (0.68%) Security Posture
18 6 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.04%) Windows
2 8 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 8 (0.68%) Linux
3 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (41.74%) CRM
2 217 (18.48%) Agile
3 201 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 179 (15.25%) CI/CD
5 176 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
6 174 (14.82%) Analytics
7 170 (14.48%) DevOps
8 146 (12.44%) Mentoring
9 139 (11.84%) B2B
10 132 (11.24%) Roadmaps
11 121 (10.31%) Decision-Making
12 112 (9.54%) Business Development
13 111 (9.45%) Coaching
14 98 (8.35%) Data Modelling
15 96 (8.18%) AI
16 90 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 89 (7.58%) Lead Generation
17 89 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 82 (6.98%) Customer Experience
19 79 (6.73%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 168 (14.31%) Apex Code
2 73 (6.22%) SQL
3 68 (5.79%) Python
4 66 (5.62%) SOQL
5 53 (4.51%) JavaScript
6 50 (4.26%) SOSL
7 33 (2.81%) Java
8 12 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.51%) C#
10 6 (0.51%) PHP
11 5 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
11 5 (0.43%) Ruby
12 4 (0.34%) DataWeave
12 4 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.26%) R
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
15 1 (0.085%) Bicep
15 1 (0.085%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (12.61%) Degree
2 77 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 63 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 35 (2.98%) DBS Check
5 18 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (0.94%) CIMA
8 10 (0.85%) ACCA
9 7 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.51%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.43%) CITP
11 5 (0.43%) HND
11 5 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.43%) PMP
12 4 (0.34%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.34%) HNC
12 4 (0.34%) MBA
13 3 (0.26%) CBAP
13 3 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.43%) GDPR
2 51 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 37 (3.15%) QA
4 21 (1.79%) SLA
5 12 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.60%) IFRS
8 7 (0.60%) PMO
9 4 (0.34%) NIST
9 4 (0.34%) PERC
10 3 (0.26%) GRC
10 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.26%) WCAG
11 2 (0.17%) GxP
11 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.17%) ITGC
12 1 (0.085%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.085%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.085%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.085%) Firmware
3 1 (0.085%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (1.11%) Terraform
2 11 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.60%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.34%) Ansible
4 4 (0.34%) SCCM
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.085%) CASB
6 1 (0.085%) Grafana
Vendors
1 201 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.84%) HubSpot
3 67 (5.71%) Cisco
4 64 (5.45%) MuleSoft
5 63 (5.37%) SAP
6 50 (4.26%) Google
7 44 (3.75%) ServiceNow
8 41 (3.49%) Splunk
9 36 (3.07%) Oracle
9 36 (3.07%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 32 (2.73%) Adobe
11 24 (2.04%) Pardot
12 23 (1.96%) BMC
13 12 (1.02%) Dell
13 12 (1.02%) Zoho
14 9 (0.77%) NEC
15 8 (0.68%) Informatica
16 7 (0.60%) Pega
16 7 (0.60%) Sage
17 6 (0.51%) Facebook