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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 753 649 739
Rank change year-on-year -104 +90 -3
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 55 28 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.057% 0.014%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% 0.22% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 40 6 8
10th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £65,938 - £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +7.62% +7.73%
75th Percentile £91,250 - £66,313
90th Percentile £112,500 £71,250 £78,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% +20.00%

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 18,453 12,598 22,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.61% 25.52% 31.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,012 8,128 13,543
10th Percentile £39,781 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £45,994 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%
75th Percentile £83,813 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Top 8 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 11 October 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 -99 51 £87,500 +45.83% 50
London -20 43 £87,500 +45.83% 32
Work from Home -40 16 £65,000 +4.00% 29
UK excluding London -134 9 £75,000 +20.00% 26
South East -44 5 - - 13
North of England -66 3 £75,000 - 5
North West - 3 £75,000 - 3
Scotland -3 1 - - 2

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (52.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 28 (50.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 13 (23.64%) GitHub
4 6 (10.91%) SaaS
5 5 (9.09%) Azure
6 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (3.64%) Heroku
8 1 (1.82%) Boomi
8 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.45%) MySQL
2 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (29.09%) Git
2 9 (16.36%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.91%) JIRA
3 6 (10.91%) SonarQube
4 4 (7.27%) IntelliJ
5 3 (5.45%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.45%) GitLab
5 3 (5.45%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.64%) Claude Code
General
1 30 (54.55%) Marketing
2 18 (32.73%) Finance
3 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.45%) Law
5 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.82%) Games
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (72.73%) Developer
1 40 (72.73%) Salesforce Developer
2 24 (43.64%) Senior
3 19 (34.55%) Senior Developer
3 19 (34.55%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 10 (18.18%) Cloud Developer
5 9 (16.36%) Salesforce Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Architect
6 7 (12.73%) Salesforce Architect
7 5 (9.09%) Lead
8 4 (7.27%) Salesforce Software Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Salesforce Software Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Associate Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Technical Architect
10 2 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Lead Architect
11 1 (1.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (89.09%) Lightning Web Components
2 40 (72.73%) REST
3 33 (60.00%) SOAP
4 20 (36.36%) Visualforce
5 10 (18.18%) Middleware
6 3 (5.45%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.82%) CSS
7 1 (1.82%) HTML
7 1 (1.82%) JWT
7 1 (1.82%) OAuth
7 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.82%) SAML
7 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.73%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.73%) AI Agents
3 6 (10.91%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.64%) Housing Association
4 2 (3.64%) Life Science
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (85.45%) CI/CD
2 25 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (41.82%) Agile
4 17 (30.91%) Data Modelling
5 15 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
6 13 (23.64%) AI
6 13 (23.64%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (21.82%) Clean Code
7 12 (21.82%) DevOps
7 12 (21.82%) Translating Business Requirements
7 12 (21.82%) Unit Testing
8 11 (20.00%) Scrum
8 11 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
8 11 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (16.36%) Workflow
11 8 (14.55%) Migration
11 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (14.55%) System Testing
11 8 (14.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (92.73%) Apex Code
2 34 (61.82%) SOSL
3 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.09%) C#
4 5 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (1.82%) Python
5 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) QA
Vendors
1 55 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 9 (16.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 4 (7.27%) Sage
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 3 (5.45%) Splunk
5 2 (3.64%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) Dell
6 1 (1.82%) Informatica
6 1 (1.82%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft