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 22 February 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
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 150 187
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 -14
Permanent jobs citing Salesforce 1,116 925 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 1.91% 1.65%
As % of the Vendors category 5.55% 4.92% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 655 453 957
10th Percentile £30,848 £28,822 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +33.33% -35.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,183
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,050 £38,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% +39.61% -36.67%

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 20,117 18,809 28,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.17% 38.84% 38.35%
Number of salaries quoted 11,113 9,801 22,363
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £36,250
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 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +15 930 £57,500 -4.17% 479
UK excluding London +56 643 £52,500 -1.04% 331
London +16 370 £70,000 - 227
Work from Home +30 368 £54,000 -10.00% 242
North of England +53 189 £51,250 -10.87% 83
South East +50 133 £55,000 -12.00% 140
North West +36 119 £52,500 -9.87% 47
Midlands -17 112 £39,000 +35.31% 52
South West +10 73 £52,500 -12.50% 25
Yorkshire +18 63 £50,000 -13.04% 31
West Midlands -22 58 £34,750 +20.57% 28
Scotland +39 54 £35,000 -68.18% 8
East Midlands +8 54 £40,000 -38.46% 24
East of England +1 45 £55,000 -47.62% 18
Wales +23 28 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Northern Ireland -18 9 - - 2
North East -10 7 £46,250 +8.35% 10

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 24 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.88%) CMS
3 19 (1.70%) Confluence
4 18 (1.61%) WordPress
5 10 (0.90%) IIS
6 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) Moodle
8 4 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.090%) Drupal
11 1 (0.090%) Strapi
Applications
1 49 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.99%) Maya
5 8 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.090%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.090%) InDesign
9 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 99 (8.87%) Salesforce CRM
2 64 (5.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (2.60%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.36%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.18%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.18%) Shopify
7 1 (0.090%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.090%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 130 (11.65%) SaaS
2 112 (10.04%) Azure
3 107 (9.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 70 (6.27%) Power Platform
5 62 (5.56%) AWS
5 62 (5.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 50 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (4.12%) GitHub
8 42 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (2.60%) GCP
9 29 (2.60%) Google Analytics
10 24 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.97%) GitHub Copilot
12 17 (1.52%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 15 (1.34%) Salesforce Einstein
14 14 (1.25%) Boomi
14 14 (1.25%) Snowflake
15 13 (1.16%) Google Workspace
16 12 (1.08%) Zapier
17 10 (0.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.48%) Broadband
2 21 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (1.70%) Internet
4 11 (0.99%) VPN
5 8 (0.72%) VoIP
6 7 (0.63%) IP Telephony
6 7 (0.63%) PSTN
7 6 (0.54%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.54%) WPA
8 5 (0.45%) LAN
8 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.36%) Firewall
9 4 (0.36%) HTTP
9 4 (0.36%) Wireless
10 3 (0.27%) Network Security
10 3 (0.27%) PBX
10 3 (0.27%) SCCP
10 3 (0.27%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.18%) AMQP
11 2 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (5.02%) Power BI
2 52 (4.66%) Tableau
3 25 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.70%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.08%) MySQL
6 10 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.45%) Metadata
8 5 (0.45%) Power Query
9 4 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.27%) Looker
10 3 (0.27%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.27%) QlikView
11 2 (0.18%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.18%) KNIME
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.18%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.090%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.090%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 80 (7.17%) JIRA
2 38 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.60%) GitLab
4 28 (2.51%) SonarQube
5 27 (2.42%) Git
6 4 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.36%) Postman
6 4 (0.36%) Snyk
7 2 (0.18%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.090%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.090%) GCC
8 1 (0.090%) JUnit
8 1 (0.090%) Mockito
8 1 (0.090%) Selenium
General
1 412 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 408 (36.56%) Marketing
3 269 (24.10%) Finance
4 162 (14.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 160 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
6 85 (7.62%) Presentation Skills
6 85 (7.62%) Retail
7 61 (5.47%) Public Sector
8 58 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
9 57 (5.11%) Law
10 44 (3.94%) Legal
11 41 (3.67%) Games
12 30 (2.69%) Banking
13 29 (2.60%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.15%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.25%) Advertising
16 14 (1.25%) Publishing
17 10 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.90%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 171 (15.32%) Senior
2 151 (13.53%) Developer
3 126 (11.29%) Salesforce Developer
4 122 (10.93%) Analyst
5 95 (8.51%) Architect
6 83 (7.44%) Lead
7 66 (5.91%) Salesforce Architect
8 58 (5.20%) Administrator
9 49 (4.39%) Business Analyst
10 46 (4.12%) Sales Executive
11 45 (4.03%) Marketing Manager
12 42 (3.76%) Salesforce Administrator
13 41 (3.67%) Senior Developer
14 40 (3.58%) Development Manager
15 39 (3.49%) Business Manager
16 38 (3.41%) Project Manager
16 38 (3.41%) Senior Salesforce Developer
17 37 (3.32%) Business Development Manager
18 36 (3.23%) Data Analyst
19 34 (3.05%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (12.19%) Lightning Web Components
2 122 (10.93%) REST
3 110 (9.86%) SOAP
4 59 (5.29%) Visualforce
5 35 (3.14%) Middleware
6 31 (2.78%) .NET
7 26 (2.33%) HTML
8 24 (2.15%) CSS
9 20 (1.79%) EDI
10 13 (1.16%) Node.js
11 12 (1.08%) Web Services
12 11 (0.99%) OAuth
13 10 (0.90%) LAMP
14 8 (0.72%) JSON
15 7 (0.63%) OAuth2
15 7 (0.63%) React
16 4 (0.36%) Kafka
16 4 (0.36%) SAML
16 4 (0.36%) XML
17 3 (0.27%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 103 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 96 (8.60%) Onboarding
3 66 (5.91%) Management Information System
4 48 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 28 (2.51%) FMCG
7 27 (2.42%) Cloud Native
8 25 (2.24%) Social Media
9 22 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.25%) Blog
13 13 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
14 12 (1.08%) NHS
15 11 (0.99%) Driving Licence
16 10 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (0.90%) Podcast
17 9 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
17 9 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.97%) Windows
2 17 (1.52%) Linux
3 8 (0.72%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.090%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (43.37%) CRM
2 194 (17.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 190 (17.03%) Agile
4 189 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
5 185 (16.58%) Analytics
6 157 (14.07%) CI/CD
7 150 (13.44%) DevOps
7 150 (13.44%) Mentoring
8 130 (11.65%) Decision-Making
8 130 (11.65%) Roadmaps
9 126 (11.29%) B2B
10 111 (9.95%) Business Development
11 107 (9.59%) Coaching
12 99 (8.87%) AI
12 99 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
13 96 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 94 (8.42%) Project Management
15 93 (8.33%) Customer Experience
16 88 (7.89%) Lead Generation
17 83 (7.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 143 (12.81%) Apex Code
2 82 (7.35%) SQL
3 68 (6.09%) Python
4 59 (5.29%) JavaScript
5 46 (4.12%) SOQL
6 34 (3.05%) SOSL
7 27 (2.42%) Java
8 11 (0.99%) PHP
8 11 (0.99%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.36%) C#
10 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
10 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.27%) DataWeave
11 3 (0.27%) R
11 3 (0.27%) Ruby
11 3 (0.27%) Scala
12 1 (0.090%) Bicep
12 1 (0.090%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 166 (14.87%) Degree
2 76 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.14%) DBS Check
5 17 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 11 (0.99%) CIMA
6 11 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (0.90%) ACCA
8 8 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.54%) HND
10 6 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.45%) CITP
11 5 (0.45%) PMP
12 4 (0.36%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.36%) MBA
13 3 (0.27%) CBAP
13 3 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.48%) GDPR
2 43 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.05%) QA
4 22 (1.97%) SLA
5 11 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.63%) IFRS
8 7 (0.63%) PMO
9 4 (0.36%) GRC
9 4 (0.36%) NIST
10 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.27%) WCAG
11 2 (0.18%) GxP
11 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.18%) ITGC
11 2 (0.18%) PERC
12 1 (0.090%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.090%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.54%) Docker
3 1 (0.090%) Firmware
3 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (1.16%) Terraform
2 11 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.36%) Ansible
4 4 (0.36%) SCCM
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.090%) CASB
Vendors
1 209 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.97%) HubSpot
3 80 (7.17%) SAP
4 69 (6.18%) Cisco
5 65 (5.82%) MuleSoft
6 52 (4.66%) Google
7 45 (4.03%) Oracle
7 45 (4.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 44 (3.94%) ServiceNow
9 43 (3.85%) Adobe
10 32 (2.87%) Pardot
11 29 (2.60%) Splunk
12 18 (1.61%) BMC
13 16 (1.43%) Dell
14 8 (0.72%) Facebook
14 8 (0.72%) Genesys
14 8 (0.72%) Zoho
15 7 (0.63%) Avaya
15 7 (0.63%) Informatica
15 7 (0.63%) Pega