SOQL Job Trends

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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 663 816
Rank change year-on-year +36 +153 +166
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 65 8 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.018% 0.019%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.48% 0.053% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 21 5 16
10th Percentile £67,500 - -
25th Percentile £78,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -0.83% -5.10%
75th Percentile £86,250 £65,000 £66,215
90th Percentile £97,500 £75,500 £72,433
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 - £70,576
% change year-on-year - - +22.74%

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 13,529 15,039 29,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.25% 34.48% 35.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,556 10,269 24,138
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,253 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -1.82%

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 14 March 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 14 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
Work from Home +72 42 £70,000 +21.74% 5
UK excluding London - 42 £82,500 - 4
Scotland - 38 - -
England -20 23 £82,500 +37.50% 8
London +23 17 £82,500 +37.50% 7
South East - 2 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £95,000 -
Midlands - 1 £95,000 - 1
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

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 20 (30.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 19 (29.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 13 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (3.08%) Azure
4 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (61.54%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 40 (61.54%) GitLab
1 40 (61.54%) Jenkins
1 40 (61.54%) SonarQube
2 22 (33.85%) Git
General
1 57 (87.69%) Marketing
2 40 (61.54%) Games
2 40 (61.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 41 (63.08%) Architect
2 39 (60.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 23 (35.38%) Developer
3 23 (35.38%) Salesforce Developer
4 20 (30.77%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 20 (30.77%) Technical Architect
5 19 (29.23%) Senior
5 19 (29.23%) Senior Developer
5 19 (29.23%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 13 (20.00%) Cloud Developer
7 12 (18.46%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 12 (18.46%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (9.23%) Systems Architect
9 4 (6.15%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (3.08%) CRM Architect
10 2 (3.08%) Junior
10 2 (3.08%) Junior Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Junior Salesforce Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Lead
11 1 (1.54%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (98.46%) Lightning Web Components
1 64 (98.46%) REST
1 64 (98.46%) SOAP
2 50 (76.92%) Visualforce
3 10 (15.38%) Middleware
4 4 (6.15%) CSS
4 4 (6.15%) HTML
5 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.54%) OAuth
5 1 (1.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 59 (90.77%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (95.38%) CI/CD
2 60 (92.31%) Agile
2 60 (92.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 48 (73.85%) DevOps
4 41 (63.08%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 40 (61.54%) Community of Practice
5 40 (61.54%) Continuous Delivery
5 40 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
5 40 (61.54%) Design Patterns
5 40 (61.54%) Event-Driven
5 40 (61.54%) OO
5 40 (61.54%) PLM
5 40 (61.54%) Roadmaps
5 40 (61.54%) Scrum
5 40 (61.54%) Static Code Analysis
5 40 (61.54%) Technical Analysis
5 40 (61.54%) Technology Roadmap
5 40 (61.54%) TOGAF
6 17 (26.15%) Unit Testing
7 13 (20.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 50 (76.92%) SOSL
3 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 65 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 40 (61.54%) Splunk
3 1 (1.54%) Sage