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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 780 757
Rank change year-on-year +122 -23 +375
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 15 12 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.015% 0.028%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.050% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 15
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,250 -
25th Percentile - £50,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile - £69,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £71,250 £96,250 £72,473
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.72% +22.38% -25.00%

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 12,991 24,042 25,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.37% 30.92% 40.75%
Number of salaries quoted 8,348 14,965 20,597
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOQL 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 16 September 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 16 September 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
England +111 13 £60,000 -2.04% 20
London +66 9 £60,000 +16.50% 9
UK excluding London +96 6 £62,500 -2.72% 34
Work from Home +74 6 £62,500 -6.37% 34
North of England +56 2 - - 6
Scotland - 2 - - 16
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
South East - 2 - - 6
Midlands +62 1 £45,000 -51.35%
West Midlands +53 1 £45,000 -51.35%
East of England - 1 £80,000 -

SOQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 6 (40.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
2 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (26.67%) Git
4 2 (13.33%) GitLab
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (66.67%) Marketing
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Law
5 2 (13.33%) Games
5 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
1 8 (53.33%) Salesforce Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Senior
3 6 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Architect
4 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 12 (80.00%) REST
3 10 (66.67%) SOAP
4 5 (33.33%) Visualforce
5 4 (26.67%) OAuth
6 1 (6.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Clean Code
4 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (26.67%) CRM
4 4 (26.67%) Fintech
4 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (26.67%) Line Management
4 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Resource Allocation
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Wealth Management
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
6 2 (13.33%) System Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 4 (26.67%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk