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 28 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 171 143
Rank change year-on-year +28 -28 +24
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,043 1,076 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 1.61% 2.36%
As % of the Vendors category 5.17% 4.70% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 624 554 956
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% +1.88% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +19.57% -22.69%

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 20,186 22,884 21,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.40% 34.25% 41.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,510 11,878 16,565
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,951 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +1.01% -1.00%

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 28 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 28 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 +37 902 £55,000 -8.33% 562
UK excluding London +56 577 £50,000 -9.09% 436
London +44 379 £70,000 - 260
Work from Home +64 339 £52,500 -1.45% 286
North of England +28 168 £54,643 -4.97% 73
Midlands +62 143 £35,500 -1.39% 55
North West +36 101 £60,000 +9.09% 40
South East +44 100 £54,000 -1.12% 232
East Midlands +66 72 £40,000 -20.00% 17
West Midlands +26 69 £34,750 +20.57% 38
Yorkshire +27 58 £43,750 -35.19% 27
East of England +16 50 £50,000 -28.57% 17
South West -4 48 £52,500 -4.55% 25
Wales +38 32 £55,000 -12.59% 9
Scotland +14 30 £35,000 -68.18% 23
North East +8 9 £57,500 -26.28% 6
Northern Ireland -8 7 - - 5

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 20 (1.92%) Confluence
4 17 (1.63%) CMS
5 16 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (1.15%) IIS
7 6 (0.58%) Apache
8 4 (0.38%) Moodle
9 3 (0.29%) Appian
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.096%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.096%) Drupal
11 1 (0.096%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
Applications
1 89 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.34%) Maya
4 12 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.15%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
6 5 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.48%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
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 78 (7.48%) Salesforce CRM
2 77 (7.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (2.49%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.77%) Shopify
5 7 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.48%) Exchequer
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.38%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.29%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.29%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.19%) Sage 1000
9 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
10 1 (0.096%) Changepoint
10 1 (0.096%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.096%) FastStats
10 1 (0.096%) Magento
10 1 (0.096%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.096%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 128 (12.27%) Azure
2 111 (10.64%) SaaS
3 90 (8.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 82 (7.86%) Power Platform
5 58 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (3.45%) AWS
6 36 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 35 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (2.68%) GitHub
9 26 (2.49%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 25 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (2.21%) Boomi
12 20 (1.92%) GCP
13 15 (1.44%) Google Analytics
13 15 (1.44%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.34%) Snowflake
15 12 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
15 12 (1.15%) MailChimp
16 11 (1.05%) Entra ID
16 11 (1.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.26%) Broadband
2 32 (3.07%) SMS
3 18 (1.73%) VoIP
4 15 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (1.34%) Internet
6 13 (1.25%) VPN
7 12 (1.15%) Network Security
8 8 (0.77%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.77%) WPA
9 7 (0.67%) Firewall
9 7 (0.67%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.58%) HTTP
10 6 (0.58%) IP Telephony
10 6 (0.58%) PSTN
11 5 (0.48%) DMZ
11 5 (0.48%) STUN
11 5 (0.48%) VLAN
12 3 (0.29%) AMQP
12 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.62%) Power BI
2 56 (5.37%) SQL Server
3 55 (5.27%) Tableau
4 26 (2.49%) Data Lake
5 17 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.44%) MySQL
7 11 (1.05%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.96%) Looker
9 8 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
10 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.48%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (0.48%) EDRMS
11 5 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.48%) GIS
11 5 (0.48%) Power Query
11 5 (0.48%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 77 (7.38%) JIRA
2 21 (2.01%) Git
3 19 (1.82%) 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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.096%) GCC
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.096%) RStudio
General
1 402 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 386 (37.01%) Marketing
3 266 (25.50%) Finance
4 169 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (10.35%) Retail
6 95 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 69 (6.62%) Presentation Skills
8 60 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
9 57 (5.47%) Law
10 46 (4.41%) Legal
11 39 (3.74%) Public Sector
12 38 (3.64%) Banking
13 35 (3.36%) Games
14 32 (3.07%) Telecoms
15 26 (2.49%) Manufacturing
16 23 (2.21%) Advertising
16 23 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.96%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.86%) Front Office
18 9 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 187 (17.93%) Senior
2 120 (11.51%) Developer
3 106 (10.16%) Analyst
4 97 (9.30%) Architect
5 88 (8.44%) Salesforce Developer
6 75 (7.19%) Lead
7 62 (5.94%) Business Manager
7 62 (5.94%) Development Manager
8 60 (5.75%) Administrator
8 60 (5.75%) Business Development Manager
9 50 (4.79%) Senior Developer
10 47 (4.51%) Salesforce Architect
11 43 (4.12%) Salesforce Administrator
12 40 (3.84%) Senior Salesforce Developer
13 39 (3.74%) Business Analyst
14 38 (3.64%) Support Engineer
15 35 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.88%) CRM Executive
17 27 (2.59%) Sales Executive
17 27 (2.59%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (9.59%) Lightning Web Components
2 85 (8.15%) REST
3 67 (6.42%) SOAP
4 39 (3.74%) Visualforce
5 36 (3.45%) .NET
6 33 (3.16%) HTML
7 28 (2.68%) CSS
8 26 (2.49%) Middleware
9 11 (1.05%) Web Services
10 10 (0.96%) LAMP
10 10 (0.96%) Node.js
11 9 (0.86%) OAuth
12 8 (0.77%) GraphQL
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%) OAuth2
15 5 (0.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 79 (7.57%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.75%) Management Information System
4 47 (4.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 39 (3.74%) Cloud Native
5 39 (3.74%) Social Media
6 32 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.01%) FMCG
8 19 (1.82%) Blog
8 19 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.25%) Driving Licence
12 11 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.05%) NHS
13 10 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
15 8 (0.77%) Satnav
15 8 (0.77%) Web Conferencing
16 7 (0.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.36%) Windows
2 26 (2.49%) Linux
3 16 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.05%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.48%) Debian
6 2 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (47.75%) CRM
2 185 (17.74%) Analytics
2 185 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
3 175 (16.78%) Agile
4 163 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 161 (15.44%) Roadmaps
6 131 (12.56%) Decision-Making
7 123 (11.79%) B2B
8 121 (11.60%) DevOps
9 116 (11.12%) Business Development
10 114 (10.93%) Mentoring
11 110 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 108 (10.35%) CI/CD
13 107 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
14 101 (9.68%) Project Management
15 89 (8.53%) Customer Experience
16 85 (8.15%) Customer Engagement
17 84 (8.05%) AI
17 84 (8.05%) ERP
18 82 (7.86%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 102 (9.78%) Apex Code
2 98 (9.40%) SQL
3 52 (4.99%) Python
4 43 (4.12%) JavaScript
5 26 (2.49%) SOQL
6 19 (1.82%) PowerShell
7 18 (1.73%) SOSL
8 13 (1.25%) PHP
9 11 (1.05%) Java
10 9 (0.86%) C#
10 9 (0.86%) R
11 6 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.48%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.19%) Ada
13 2 (0.19%) VB
13 2 (0.19%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.19%) VBA
14 1 (0.096%) Bash
14 1 (0.096%) Ruby
14 1 (0.096%) Scala
Qualifications
1 165 (15.82%) Degree
2 71 (6.81%) DBS Check
3 36 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 32 (3.07%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 10 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (0.77%) HND
9 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.58%) MBA
11 4 (0.38%) A+ Certification
11 4 (0.38%) ISEB
12 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.29%) CIMA
12 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.19%) PMP
13 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (7.67%) GDPR
2 37 (3.55%) SLA
3 27 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.11%) QA
5 11 (1.05%) 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 27 (2.59%) 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%) SCCM
4 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.19%) Ansible
7 1 (0.096%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 200 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 99 (9.49%) SAP
3 88 (8.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 82 (7.86%) HubSpot
5 54 (5.18%) Adobe
6 52 (4.99%) Google
7 51 (4.89%) MuleSoft
8 50 (4.79%) Oracle
9 32 (3.07%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.78%) Cisco
11 27 (2.59%) Pardot
12 18 (1.73%) Dell
12 18 (1.73%) Zoho
13 15 (1.44%) Splunk
14 9 (0.86%) Alteryx
15 8 (0.77%) Facebook
15 8 (0.77%) VMware
16 7 (0.67%) Capita
16 7 (0.67%) Civica
16 7 (0.67%) NEC