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 12 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
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 146 192
Rank change year-on-year +14 +46 -15
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,155 918 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.10% 1.59%
As % of the Vendors category 5.59% 5.34% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 690 451 1,013
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +33.33% -32.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,625 £98,750 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +26.32% -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 20,656 17,197 31,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.09% 39.36% 38.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,257 9,847 24,314
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,241
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 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +13.04% -8.00%

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 12 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 12 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 -3 949 £57,000 -5.00% 520
UK excluding London +37 657 £50,000 +4.17% 315
London +21 387 £70,000 - 279
Work from Home +29 379 £54,500 -9.17% 241
North of England +42 186 £40,000 -30.43% 89
South East +28 144 £54,000 -16.92% 127
North West +30 114 £40,000 -30.43% 50
Midlands -42 106 £40,000 +30.80% 41
South West +5 68 £50,000 -16.67% 24
Scotland +45 66 £100,000 +185.71% 10
Yorkshire -1 66 £40,000 -28.89% 29
West Midlands -42 55 £39,000 +35.31% 25
East of England -6 51 £55,000 +29.41% 23
East Midlands -15 51 £40,000 -38.46% 16
Wales +13 27 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland -18 9 - -
North East -14 6 £35,000 -18.00% 12

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 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.90%) CMS
3 21 (1.82%) Confluence
4 17 (1.47%) WordPress
5 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.61%) Moodle
6 6 (0.52%) Apache
6 6 (0.52%) IIS
7 5 (0.43%) Anypoint
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 (0.087%) Drupal
10 1 (0.087%) Strapi
Applications
1 45 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.61%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.087%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.087%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.087%) InDesign
7 1 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 101 (8.74%) Salesforce CRM
2 64 (5.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (2.34%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.35%) SAP CX
5 4 (0.35%) Shopify
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
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 (0.087%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.087%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 122 (10.56%) SaaS
2 116 (10.04%) Azure
3 112 (9.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 71 (6.15%) AWS
5 68 (5.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 66 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 51 (4.42%) GitHub
7 51 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (2.77%) GCP
10 27 (2.34%) Google Analytics
11 25 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
12 21 (1.82%) Snowflake
13 15 (1.30%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 14 (1.21%) Salesforce Einstein
15 13 (1.13%) Google Workspace
16 11 (0.95%) Power Automate
17 10 (0.87%) Boomi
18 9 (0.78%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.19%) Broadband
2 19 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (1.56%) Internet
4 11 (0.95%) VPN
5 8 (0.69%) VoIP
6 7 (0.61%) IP Telephony
6 7 (0.61%) PSTN
7 6 (0.52%) LAN
7 6 (0.52%) Wireless
8 4 (0.35%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.35%) Firewall
8 4 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.26%) HTTP
9 3 (0.26%) Network Security
9 3 (0.26%) PBX
9 3 (0.26%) SCCP
10 2 (0.17%) AMQP
10 2 (0.17%) SMS
10 2 (0.17%) WAN
10 2 (0.17%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.42%) Power BI
2 43 (3.72%) Tableau
3 22 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.21%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.69%) MySQL
8 7 (0.61%) Metadata
9 5 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.43%) Power Query
10 4 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.26%) Looker
11 3 (0.26%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.26%) QlikView
12 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.17%) KNIME
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.17%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.087%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 81 (7.01%) JIRA
2 51 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.55%) GitLab
4 40 (3.46%) SonarQube
5 34 (2.94%) Git
6 3 (0.26%) JUnit
6 3 (0.26%) Mockito
6 3 (0.26%) Snyk
7 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.087%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.087%) git-flow
8 1 (0.087%) Postman
8 1 (0.087%) Selenium
General
1 413 (35.76%) Marketing
2 411 (35.58%) Social Skills
3 253 (21.90%) Finance
4 181 (15.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 139 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (6.84%) Presentation Skills
7 67 (5.80%) Public Sector
8 66 (5.71%) Retail
9 57 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
10 53 (4.59%) Law
11 48 (4.16%) Games
12 45 (3.90%) Legal
13 27 (2.34%) Banking
14 26 (2.25%) Telecoms
15 25 (2.16%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (1.21%) Advertising
18 13 (1.13%) Publishing
19 11 (0.95%) Front Office
19 11 (0.95%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 158 (13.68%) Developer
2 156 (13.51%) Senior
3 131 (11.34%) Salesforce Developer
4 123 (10.65%) Analyst
5 114 (9.87%) Architect
6 80 (6.93%) Salesforce Architect
7 71 (6.15%) Lead
8 66 (5.71%) Administrator
9 57 (4.94%) Business Analyst
10 52 (4.50%) Sales Executive
11 50 (4.33%) Salesforce Administrator
12 42 (3.64%) Marketing Manager
13 40 (3.46%) Senior Developer
14 38 (3.29%) Project Manager
15 37 (3.20%) Senior Salesforce Developer
15 37 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (3.12%) Business Manager
16 36 (3.12%) Development Manager
17 34 (2.94%) Account Manager
17 34 (2.94%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (13.42%) Lightning Web Components
2 137 (11.86%) REST
3 127 (11.00%) SOAP
4 81 (7.01%) Visualforce
5 39 (3.38%) Middleware
6 35 (3.03%) .NET
7 24 (2.08%) HTML
8 22 (1.90%) CSS
9 20 (1.73%) EDI
10 14 (1.21%) Web Services
11 12 (1.04%) Node.js
12 11 (0.95%) OAuth
13 8 (0.69%) OAuth2
14 7 (0.61%) React
15 6 (0.52%) LAMP
16 5 (0.43%) JSON
16 5 (0.43%) Kafka
16 5 (0.43%) RESTful
16 5 (0.43%) SAML
17 4 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.30%) Product Ownership
2 102 (8.83%) Onboarding
3 54 (4.68%) Management Information System
4 48 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (1.90%) Cloud Native
5 22 (1.90%) Social Media
6 20 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.56%) FMCG
7 18 (1.56%) Low-Code
8 16 (1.39%) Web Conferencing
9 14 (1.21%) Blog
10 13 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
12 11 (0.95%) Driving Licence
12 11 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.87%) Podcast
14 9 (0.78%) NHS
15 8 (0.69%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.61%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.08%) Windows
2 10 (0.87%) Linux
3 8 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 8 (0.69%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.087%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (41.82%) CRM
2 212 (18.35%) Agile
3 199 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 176 (15.24%) Analytics
5 173 (14.98%) CI/CD
5 173 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (14.55%) DevOps
7 148 (12.81%) Mentoring
8 134 (11.60%) B2B
9 129 (11.17%) Roadmaps
10 121 (10.48%) Decision-Making
11 111 (9.61%) Business Development
11 111 (9.61%) Coaching
12 93 (8.05%) AI
13 92 (7.97%) Data Modelling
13 92 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
14 89 (7.71%) Lead Generation
15 86 (7.45%) Customer Experience
16 85 (7.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 82 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 163 (14.11%) Apex Code
2 75 (6.49%) SQL
3 67 (5.80%) Python
4 65 (5.63%) SOQL
5 53 (4.59%) JavaScript
6 50 (4.33%) SOSL
7 32 (2.77%) Java
8 12 (1.04%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.61%) PHP
9 7 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.43%) C#
10 5 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (0.35%) DataWeave
11 4 (0.35%) Ruby
11 4 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.26%) R
13 2 (0.17%) Scala
14 1 (0.087%) Bicep
14 1 (0.087%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (12.81%) Degree
2 78 (6.75%) Security Cleared
3 64 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 34 (2.94%) DBS Check
5 17 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 11 (0.95%) CIMA
6 11 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (0.87%) ACCA
8 7 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
9 6 (0.52%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.43%) CITP
10 5 (0.43%) HND
10 5 (0.43%) PMP
11 4 (0.35%) A+ Certification
11 4 (0.35%) HNC
11 4 (0.35%) MBA
12 3 (0.26%) CBAP
12 3 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.24%) GDPR
3 34 (2.94%) QA
4 20 (1.73%) SLA
5 12 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.61%) IFRS
8 7 (0.61%) PMO
9 4 (0.35%) NIST
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
11 2 (0.17%) PERC
12 1 (0.087%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.087%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.78%) Docker
3 1 (0.087%) Firmware
3 1 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (1.13%) Terraform
2 11 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.61%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.35%) Ansible
4 4 (0.35%) SCCM
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.087%) CASB
6 1 (0.087%) Grafana
Vendors
1 199 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.79%) HubSpot
3 69 (5.97%) Cisco
4 64 (5.54%) SAP
5 63 (5.45%) MuleSoft
6 49 (4.24%) Google
7 45 (3.90%) ServiceNow
8 41 (3.55%) Splunk
9 38 (3.29%) Oracle
10 35 (3.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 32 (2.77%) Adobe
12 24 (2.08%) Pardot
13 22 (1.90%) BMC
14 12 (1.04%) Dell
14 12 (1.04%) Zoho
15 8 (0.69%) Genesys
15 8 (0.69%) Informatica
15 8 (0.69%) NEC
16 7 (0.61%) Avaya
16 7 (0.61%) Pega