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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 704 707
Rank change year-on-year +82 +3 +257
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 23 9 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.017% 0.023%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.20% 0.049% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile - £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £78,750 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -14.98% +0.82%
75th Percentile £101,250 £65,000 £72,433
90th Percentile - £68,150 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £60,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -14.98% +56.83%

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 11,500 18,369 20,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 33.76% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8,418 10,746 16,876
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,219 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £106,250
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 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Top 5 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 4 January 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 +95 15 - - 1
UK excluding London +75 15 - - 6
Scotland - 15 - -
England +89 8 £82,500 +37.50% 9
London +66 8 £82,500 +50.00% 3

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 5 (21.74%) GitHub
1 5 (21.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 5 (21.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (65.22%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) GitLab
1 15 (65.22%) Jenkins
1 15 (65.22%) SonarQube
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 20 (86.96%) Marketing
2 15 (65.22%) Games
2 15 (65.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Billing
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Architect
2 14 (60.87%) Salesforce Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Technical Architect
4 7 (30.43%) Developer
4 7 (30.43%) Salesforce Developer
5 5 (21.74%) Senior
5 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
5 5 (21.74%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 4 (17.39%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (13.04%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (8.70%) Lead
8 2 (8.70%) Systems Architect
9 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
9 1 (4.35%) CRM Architect
9 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 23 (100.00%) REST
1 23 (100.00%) SOAP
2 18 (78.26%) Visualforce
3 2 (8.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (78.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (86.96%) Agile
3 18 (78.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (78.26%) DevOps
4 15 (65.22%) Community of Practice
4 15 (65.22%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 15 (65.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 15 (65.22%) Continuous Integration
4 15 (65.22%) Design Patterns
4 15 (65.22%) Event-Driven
4 15 (65.22%) OO
4 15 (65.22%) PLM
4 15 (65.22%) Roadmaps
4 15 (65.22%) Scrum
4 15 (65.22%) Static Code Analysis
4 15 (65.22%) Technical Analysis
4 15 (65.22%) Technology Roadmap
4 15 (65.22%) TOGAF
5 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
5 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 17 (73.91%) SOSL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 15 (65.22%) Splunk