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 5 January 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
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 158 150
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,021 995 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.83% 2.11%
As % of the Vendors category 5.36% 4.97% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 580 485 867
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,693 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year -11.30% +36.90% -29.41%

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 19,039 20,036 21,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.17% 36.94% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10,773 10,259 16,277
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,500 £38,828
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +18 870 £57,500 -8.00% 915
UK excluding London +42 585 £51,000 -11.30% 732
London +17 355 £70,000 - 276
Work from Home +33 306 £52,500 -10.26% 444
North of England +40 181 £55,000 -6.78% 164
Midlands +20 118 £39,000 -8.24% 141
North West +39 114 £58,750 +0.86% 80
South East +23 106 £55,000 +1.44% 216
Yorkshire +15 60 £50,000 -25.93% 70
East Midlands +29 59 £40,000 -38.46% 54
West Midlands -11 57 £34,750 +20.57% 80
South West -2 56 £52,500 +18.64% 77
East of England +10 45 £50,000 -28.57% 94
Scotland +14 41 £35,000 -68.18% 25
Wales +32 32 £57,500 -5.51% 18
North East +1 7 £35,000 -42.00% 15
Northern Ireland -11 7 - - 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 21 (2.06%) WordPress
2 18 (1.76%) Confluence
3 17 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.57%) CMS
5 13 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.98%) IIS
7 6 (0.59%) Apache
8 5 (0.49%) Moodle
9 3 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.29%) Appian
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.098%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.098%) Drupal
10 1 (0.098%) Strapi
Applications
1 72 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.37%) Maya
4 8 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.39%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.098%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.098%) InDesign
9 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.098%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 79 (7.74%) Salesforce CRM
2 72 (7.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (2.15%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.49%) Shopify
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.39%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.29%) Infor M3
6 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.098%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle CRM
8 1 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.098%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 1 (0.098%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 129 (12.63%) Azure
2 118 (11.56%) SaaS
3 100 (9.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 65 (6.37%) Power Platform
5 47 (4.60%) AWS
6 44 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (4.31%) GitHub
6 44 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
7 42 (4.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 25 (2.45%) GCP
8 25 (2.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 23 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (2.15%) GitHub Copilot
11 20 (1.96%) Boomi
12 18 (1.76%) Google Analytics
13 15 (1.47%) Snowflake
14 14 (1.37%) Salesforce Einstein
15 12 (1.18%) Zapier
16 11 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (0.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.23%) Broadband
2 31 (3.04%) SMS
3 18 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (1.47%) VPN
5 14 (1.37%) VoIP
6 13 (1.27%) Internet
7 7 (0.69%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.69%) IP Telephony
7 7 (0.69%) PSTN
7 7 (0.69%) WPA
8 6 (0.59%) HTTP
8 6 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.49%) DMZ
9 5 (0.49%) STUN
9 5 (0.49%) VLAN
10 4 (0.39%) Network Security
11 3 (0.29%) AMQP
11 3 (0.29%) PBX
11 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.58%) Tableau
2 56 (5.48%) Power BI
3 43 (4.21%) SQL Server
4 21 (2.06%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.27%) MySQL
6 9 (0.88%) Looker
6 9 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.49%) Power Query
8 4 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.39%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.39%) Metadata
9 3 (0.29%) Big Data
9 3 (0.29%) QlikView
9 3 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.20%) KNIME
11 1 (0.098%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.098%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 71 (6.95%) JIRA
2 24 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.15%) Git
4 17 (1.67%) GitLab
5 16 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.59%) Snyk
7 4 (0.39%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.39%) Postman
8 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.098%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.098%) GCC
9 1 (0.098%) Selenium
General
1 394 (38.59%) Marketing
2 373 (36.53%) Social Skills
3 262 (25.66%) Finance
4 172 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
5 115 (11.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 103 (10.09%) Retail
7 77 (7.54%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (4.60%) Law
9 46 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (3.62%) Legal
11 36 (3.53%) Banking
11 36 (3.53%) Public Sector
12 35 (3.43%) Games
13 33 (3.23%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.35%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.47%) Advertising
16 12 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.98%) Front Office
18 10 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 182 (17.83%) Senior
2 130 (12.73%) Developer
3 105 (10.28%) Analyst
4 104 (10.19%) Salesforce Developer
5 84 (8.23%) Architect
6 71 (6.95%) Lead
7 50 (4.90%) Development Manager
8 49 (4.80%) Administrator
8 49 (4.80%) Business Development Manager
8 49 (4.80%) Business Manager
9 45 (4.41%) CRM Executive
10 44 (4.31%) Salesforce Architect
11 43 (4.21%) Business Analyst
12 40 (3.92%) Salesforce Administrator
12 40 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 36 (3.53%) Senior Salesforce Developer
13 36 (3.53%) Support Engineer
14 33 (3.23%) Marketing Manager
15 32 (3.13%) Project Manager
15 32 (3.13%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (9.89%) Lightning Web Components
2 91 (8.91%) REST
3 76 (7.44%) SOAP
4 34 (3.33%) Visualforce
5 28 (2.74%) .NET
6 25 (2.45%) HTML
6 25 (2.45%) Middleware
7 24 (2.35%) CSS
8 14 (1.37%) Node.js
8 14 (1.37%) Web Services
9 12 (1.18%) EDI
10 10 (0.98%) LAMP
11 8 (0.78%) GraphQL
12 7 (0.69%) JSON
12 7 (0.69%) OAuth
13 6 (0.59%) OAuth2
14 5 (0.49%) FreeSWITCH
14 5 (0.49%) Kafka
14 5 (0.49%) React
15 4 (0.39%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.89%) Onboarding
2 80 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 53 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 45 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 38 (3.72%) Cloud Native
6 30 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.74%) Social Media
8 26 (2.55%) FMCG
9 18 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.27%) Blog
11 13 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.18%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.18%) NHS
13 11 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.98%) Podcast
15 9 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
16 8 (0.78%) Satnav
16 8 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.55%) Linux
2 25 (2.45%) Windows
3 11 (1.08%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.49%) Debian
6 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.20%) Android
8 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (46.33%) CRM
2 206 (20.18%) Analytics
3 171 (16.75%) Agile
4 169 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
5 157 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 154 (15.08%) Roadmaps
7 136 (13.32%) DevOps
8 133 (13.03%) Mentoring
9 122 (11.95%) CI/CD
10 116 (11.36%) Decision-Making
11 107 (10.48%) B2B
12 99 (9.70%) Business Development
13 98 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 95 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
15 93 (9.11%) AI
16 92 (9.01%) Customer Experience
17 91 (8.91%) Project Management
18 83 (8.13%) Coaching
19 82 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 80 (7.84%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 111 (10.87%) Apex Code
2 86 (8.42%) SQL
3 56 (5.48%) Python
4 47 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 23 (2.25%) SOQL
6 17 (1.67%) SOSL
7 14 (1.37%) Java
7 14 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.08%) PHP
9 7 (0.69%) R
10 6 (0.59%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.49%) C#
12 4 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.20%) Ada
13 2 (0.20%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.20%) VB
14 1 (0.098%) Ruby
14 1 (0.098%) Scala
Qualifications
1 150 (14.69%) Degree
2 68 (6.66%) DBS Check
3 49 (4.80%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 17 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (0.78%) HND
6 8 (0.78%) MBA
6 8 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (0.59%) CIMA
8 5 (0.49%) ACCA
8 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.39%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.29%) CITP
10 3 (0.29%) ISEB
10 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (7.35%) GDPR
2 35 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 29 (2.84%) SLA
4 21 (2.06%) QA
5 11 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.78%) PMO
8 7 (0.69%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.49%) GRC
9 5 (0.49%) IFRS
10 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.29%) PERC
11 2 (0.20%) GxP
11 2 (0.20%) ITGC
12 1 (0.098%) NIST
12 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.49%) Kamailio
3 3 (0.29%) Docker
4 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.18%) Terraform
2 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.39%) SCCM
3 3 (0.29%) Ansible
3 3 (0.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.20%) Autotask
Vendors
1 204 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.72%) HubSpot
3 80 (7.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 78 (7.64%) SAP
5 57 (5.58%) MuleSoft
6 56 (5.48%) Cisco
7 53 (5.19%) Adobe
8 47 (4.60%) Oracle
9 44 (4.31%) Google
10 30 (2.94%) ServiceNow
11 24 (2.35%) Pardot
12 19 (1.86%) Dell
13 17 (1.67%) Zoho
14 15 (1.47%) Splunk
15 9 (0.88%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.88%) BMC
16 8 (0.78%) Informatica
17 7 (0.69%) Avaya
17 7 (0.69%) Facebook
17 7 (0.69%) Genesys