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 27 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
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 155 175
Rank change year-on-year +17 +20 -26
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,053 982 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.88% 1.78%
As % of the Vendors category 5.47% 4.99% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 607 442 927
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £32,300
25th Percentile £38,500 £44,598 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +43.75% -30.43%

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 19,254 19,664 26,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.63% 37.62% 38.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,761 9,871 20,582
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £27,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,238 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.17% +7.87% -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 27 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 27 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 +10 888 £57,500 -8.00% 1,374
UK excluding London +43 596 £52,500 -8.70% 1,327
London +16 367 £70,000 - 220
Work from Home +45 336 £52,500 -12.68% 360
North of England +41 183 £52,500 -8.70% 262
North West +48 119 £55,000 -4.35% 99
Midlands -6 116 £39,000 -8.24% 203
South East +44 108 £55,000 -15.38% 403
South West +1 65 £50,000 -16.67% 165
Yorkshire +9 59 £50,000 -23.08% 130
East Midlands +19 57 £40,000 -38.46% 141
West Midlands -11 57 £34,750 +20.57% 60
Scotland +13 45 £35,000 -68.18% 52
East of England +10 43 £52,500 -47.50% 180
Wales +29 27 £57,500 -2.13% 64
Northern Ireland -18 9 - - 28
North East -8 5 £35,000 -18.00% 35

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 (1.99%) WordPress
2 20 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.71%) CMS
4 16 (1.52%) Confluence
5 10 (0.95%) IIS
5 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.57%) Apache
7 5 (0.47%) Moodle
8 3 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.28%) Appian
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.095%) Drupal
9 1 (0.095%) Strapi
Applications
1 47 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.33%) Maya
4 12 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.38%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.095%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 93 (8.83%) Salesforce CRM
2 74 (7.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (2.47%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.47%) Shopify
4 5 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.38%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.28%) Infor M3
6 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.19%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle CRM
8 1 (0.095%) Pegasus Opera
8 1 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.095%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 1 (0.095%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 128 (12.16%) Azure
2 125 (11.87%) SaaS
3 106 (10.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 71 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 58 (5.51%) AWS
6 53 (5.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 49 (4.65%) GitHub
7 49 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 47 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (3.04%) GCP
10 25 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (2.37%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 22 (2.09%) GitHub Copilot
11 22 (2.09%) Google Analytics
12 19 (1.80%) Boomi
13 15 (1.42%) Salesforce Einstein
13 15 (1.42%) Snowflake
14 12 (1.14%) Zapier
15 11 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.04%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.61%) Broadband
2 19 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.61%) Internet
4 14 (1.33%) VPN
5 9 (0.85%) VoIP
6 7 (0.66%) IP Telephony
6 7 (0.66%) PSTN
6 7 (0.66%) WPA
7 6 (0.57%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.47%) HTTP
9 4 (0.38%) LAN
10 3 (0.28%) AMQP
10 3 (0.28%) Firewall
10 3 (0.28%) Network Security
10 3 (0.28%) PBX
10 3 (0.28%) SCCP
10 3 (0.28%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.19%) STUN
11 2 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.79%) Power BI
2 60 (5.70%) Tableau
3 34 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 22 (2.09%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.23%) MySQL
6 12 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.76%) Looker
8 6 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.47%) Metadata
9 5 (0.47%) Power Query
10 4 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.28%) QlikView
11 3 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.19%) KNIME
13 1 (0.095%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.095%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.095%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 76 (7.22%) JIRA
2 29 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.56%) Git
4 21 (1.99%) GitLab
4 21 (1.99%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.47%) Snyk
6 4 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (0.19%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.095%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.095%) GCC
8 1 (0.095%) Selenium
General
1 393 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 383 (36.37%) Marketing
3 277 (26.31%) Finance
4 150 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (13.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 101 (9.59%) Retail
7 80 (7.60%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (4.84%) Law
9 48 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (4.18%) Public Sector
11 41 (3.89%) Legal
12 40 (3.80%) Games
13 35 (3.32%) Banking
14 30 (2.85%) Telecoms
15 26 (2.47%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.80%) Advertising
17 14 (1.33%) Publishing
18 12 (1.14%) Front Office
19 11 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
20 10 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (15.95%) Senior
2 147 (13.96%) Developer
3 122 (11.59%) Salesforce Developer
4 118 (11.21%) Analyst
5 85 (8.07%) Architect
6 79 (7.50%) Lead
7 54 (5.13%) Administrator
7 54 (5.13%) Salesforce Architect
8 49 (4.65%) Business Analyst
9 47 (4.46%) Development Manager
10 46 (4.37%) Business Development Manager
10 46 (4.37%) Business Manager
11 44 (4.18%) Senior Developer
12 43 (4.08%) Salesforce Administrator
13 41 (3.89%) Senior Salesforce Developer
14 37 (3.51%) Sales Executive
15 36 (3.42%) Marketing Manager
15 36 (3.42%) Project Manager
16 33 (3.13%) Data Analyst
16 33 (3.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (11.02%) Lightning Web Components
2 110 (10.45%) REST
3 93 (8.83%) SOAP
4 43 (4.08%) Visualforce
5 29 (2.75%) .NET
5 29 (2.75%) Middleware
6 25 (2.37%) CSS
6 25 (2.37%) HTML
7 16 (1.52%) EDI
8 14 (1.33%) Node.js
9 11 (1.04%) Web Services
10 10 (0.95%) LAMP
10 10 (0.95%) OAuth
11 8 (0.76%) GraphQL
11 8 (0.76%) JSON
11 8 (0.76%) React
12 6 (0.57%) OAuth2
13 4 (0.38%) Kafka
13 4 (0.38%) Pandas
13 4 (0.38%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.74%) Product Ownership
2 84 (7.98%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.70%) Management Information System
4 44 (4.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 38 (3.61%) Cloud Native
6 36 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (2.85%) FMCG
8 26 (2.47%) Social Media
9 23 (2.18%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.23%) NHS
13 12 (1.14%) Blog
13 12 (1.14%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.95%) Podcast
14 10 (0.95%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.85%) Driving Licence
15 9 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
15 9 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.18%) Linux
2 21 (1.99%) Windows
3 10 (0.95%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Debian
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (43.97%) CRM
2 184 (17.47%) Analytics
2 184 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
3 179 (17.00%) Agile
4 172 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 145 (13.77%) DevOps
5 145 (13.77%) Mentoring
6 140 (13.30%) CI/CD
7 123 (11.68%) Decision-Making
7 123 (11.68%) Roadmaps
8 109 (10.35%) B2B
9 104 (9.88%) Business Development
10 103 (9.78%) AI
11 101 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
12 100 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 98 (9.31%) Customer Experience
14 97 (9.21%) Coaching
15 93 (8.83%) Project Management
16 86 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 82 (7.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 125 (11.87%) Apex Code
2 89 (8.45%) SQL
3 63 (5.98%) Python
4 53 (5.03%) JavaScript
5 34 (3.23%) SOQL
6 24 (2.28%) SOSL
7 18 (1.71%) Java
8 14 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.04%) PHP
10 8 (0.76%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.47%) C#
12 4 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.28%) Scala
13 3 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.19%) Ada
14 2 (0.19%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.19%) R
15 1 (0.095%) Bash
15 1 (0.095%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 158 (15.00%) Degree
2 62 (5.89%) Security Cleared
3 50 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 38 (3.61%) DBS Check
5 16 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (0.95%) CIMA
8 9 (0.85%) ACCA
9 8 (0.76%) HND
9 8 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.66%) MBA
11 6 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.47%) CITP
13 4 (0.38%) A+ Certification
14 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
15 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.65%) GDPR
2 40 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.56%) SLA
4 25 (2.37%) QA
5 9 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.66%) PMO
7 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.47%) GRC
7 5 (0.47%) IFRS
8 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.28%) NIST
9 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) PERC
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.19%) GxP
10 2 (0.19%) ITGC
11 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.47%) Docker
3 2 (0.19%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.095%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (1.42%) Terraform
2 8 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.47%) Ansible
3 5 (0.47%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.38%) SCCM
5 1 (0.095%) CASB
Vendors
1 215 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 88 (8.36%) HubSpot
3 80 (7.60%) SAP
4 66 (6.27%) Cisco
5 60 (5.70%) MuleSoft
6 50 (4.75%) Adobe
7 49 (4.65%) Google
8 45 (4.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 44 (4.18%) Oracle
10 34 (3.23%) ServiceNow
11 28 (2.66%) Pardot
12 20 (1.90%) Splunk
13 19 (1.80%) Dell
14 15 (1.42%) Zoho
15 12 (1.14%) BMC
16 9 (0.85%) Alteryx
16 9 (0.85%) Informatica
17 8 (0.76%) Genesys
18 7 (0.66%) Avaya
18 7 (0.66%) Facebook