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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 750 720
Rank change year-on-year +111 -30 +364
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 29 10 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.014% 0.029%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.24% 0.046% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 14
10th Percentile £53,000 £41,750 £46,625
25th Percentile - £48,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,750 £53,375
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% +4.45% -23.75%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,313 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,050 £72,480
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -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 12,061 21,888 22,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.53% 31.62% 40.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8,023 13,127 18,577
10th Percentile £32,675 £37,500 £39,294
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 22 October 2025.

Salary histogram for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Top 11 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 22 October 2025. 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 +82 19 £62,500 -6.37% 11
UK excluding London +78 19 £62,500 +4.17% 9
Scotland - 15 - - 1
England +94 14 £60,000 +7.62% 12
London +59 10 £60,000 +16.50% 8
North of England +10 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South East - 2 - - 3
West Midlands +46 1 £45,000 -34.55% 1
Midlands +35 1 £45,000 -34.55% 1
East of England - 1 £80,000 -

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 8 (27.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 6 (20.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (51.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) MySQL
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (65.52%) Jenkins
2 15 (51.72%) GitLab
2 15 (51.72%) SonarQube
3 8 (27.59%) JIRA
4 4 (13.79%) Git
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle APEX
General
1 23 (79.31%) Marketing
2 17 (58.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (51.72%) Games
4 6 (20.69%) Finance
5 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Law
5 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Architect
2 16 (55.17%) Salesforce Architect
3 8 (27.59%) Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Salesforce Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 8 (27.59%) Technical Architect
4 7 (24.14%) Senior
5 6 (20.69%) Senior Developer
5 6 (20.69%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Systems Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.45%) CRM Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 26 (89.66%) REST
3 24 (82.76%) SOAP
4 19 (65.52%) Visualforce
5 4 (13.79%) OAuth
6 1 (3.45%) JSON
6 1 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (65.52%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) DevOps
2 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 21 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 17 (58.62%) Scrum
4 15 (51.72%) Community of Practice
4 15 (51.72%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 15 (51.72%) Continuous Delivery
4 15 (51.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (51.72%) Continuous Integration
4 15 (51.72%) Design Patterns
4 15 (51.72%) Event-Driven
4 15 (51.72%) OO
4 15 (51.72%) PLM
4 15 (51.72%) Roadmaps
4 15 (51.72%) Static Code Analysis
4 15 (51.72%) Technical Analysis
4 15 (51.72%) Technology Roadmap
4 15 (51.72%) TOGAF
5 6 (20.69%) Data Architecture
6 5 (17.24%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 18 (62.07%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 15 (51.72%) Splunk
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle