Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SOQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 691 664 811
Rank change year-on-year -27 +147 +13
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 77 14 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.028% 0.017%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 0.098% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 41 9 15
10th Percentile £61,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% -0.83% +5.22%
75th Percentile £91,250 - £64,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £68,500 £84,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -32.43% +85.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

SOQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18,277 14,268 25,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.71% 28.81% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13,010 9,441 18,690
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SOQL job vacancy trend in the UK

SOQL
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SOQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SOQL

SOQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOQL over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the UK over the 6 months to 1 August 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 -40 47 £87,500 +45.83% 15
London -6 37 £87,500 +45.83% 12
Work from Home +11 36 £65,000 +13.04% 15
UK excluding London -50 34 £75,000 +20.00% 7
Scotland - 25 - - 1
North of England -38 5 £75,000 -
North West - 5 £75,000 -
South East -34 3 - - 5
West Midlands -29 1 £95,000 +111.11%
Midlands -31 1 £95,000 +111.11%

SOQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 31 (40.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 31 (40.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 21 (27.27%) GitHub
3 6 (7.79%) Azure
3 6 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.30%) SaaS
4 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 27 (35.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.60%) MySQL
2 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (38.96%) Jenkins
1 30 (38.96%) SonarQube
2 28 (36.36%) Git
3 27 (35.06%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.60%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.30%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 60 (77.92%) Marketing
2 29 (37.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (35.06%) Games
4 13 (16.88%) Finance
5 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Law
8 1 (1.30%) Billing
8 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (54.55%) Developer
1 42 (54.55%) Salesforce Developer
2 31 (40.26%) Architect
2 31 (40.26%) Salesforce Architect
2 31 (40.26%) Senior
3 28 (36.36%) Senior Developer
3 28 (36.36%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 19 (24.68%) Cloud Developer
5 15 (19.48%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 15 (19.48%) Technical Architect
6 8 (10.39%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 8 (10.39%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.49%) Salesforce Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Lead
8 4 (5.19%) Systems Architect
9 2 (2.60%) Junior
9 2 (2.60%) Junior Developer
9 2 (2.60%) Lead Architect
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (92.21%) Lightning Web Components
2 68 (88.31%) REST
3 65 (84.42%) SOAP
4 42 (54.55%) Visualforce
5 13 (16.88%) Middleware
6 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.30%) CSS
6 1 (1.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
2 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (87.01%) CI/CD
2 60 (77.92%) Agile
3 55 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (48.05%) DevOps
5 31 (40.26%) Scrum
6 30 (38.96%) Roadmaps
7 29 (37.66%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 29 (37.66%) Design Patterns
8 28 (36.36%) Event-Driven
8 28 (36.36%) OO
8 28 (36.36%) Technology Roadmap
9 27 (35.06%) Community of Practice
9 27 (35.06%) Continuous Delivery
9 27 (35.06%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (35.06%) PLM
9 27 (35.06%) Static Code Analysis
9 27 (35.06%) Technical Analysis
9 27 (35.06%) TOGAF
10 26 (33.77%) Unit Testing
11 21 (27.27%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 73 (94.81%) Apex Code
2 51 (66.23%) SOSL
3 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.30%) C#
4 1 (1.30%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.30%) Degree
1 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) QA
Vendors
1 77 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 27 (35.06%) Splunk
3 7 (9.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) Sage