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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 741 717
Rank change year-on-year +117 -24 +343
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 28 10 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.015% 0.028%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 0.047% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,750 £46,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -14.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £96,563 £66,313 £72,433
90th Percentile £101,250 £78,050 £72,480
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,288
% change year-on-year +4.17% -0.48% -3.54%

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 12,062 21,256 21,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.04% 31.56% 41.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,477 12,551 17,774
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £108,750 £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 12 November 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 12 November 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
UK excluding London +96 19 £62,500 +4.17% 27
Work from Home +86 19 £62,500 -6.37% 42
Scotland - 15 - -
England +98 13 £70,000 +25.56% 59
London +61 9 £78,750 +52.91% 32
North of England +11 2 - - 18
South East - 2 - - 5
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
Midlands +55 1 £45,000 -34.55% 1
West Midlands +45 1 £45,000 -34.55%
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 6 (21.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 4 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (53.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) MySQL
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (60.71%) Jenkins
2 15 (53.57%) GitLab
2 15 (53.57%) SonarQube
3 6 (21.43%) JIRA
4 2 (7.14%) Git
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 21 (75.00%) Marketing
2 17 (60.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (53.57%) Games
4 6 (21.43%) Finance
5 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 3 (10.71%) Banking
6 3 (10.71%) Law
7 1 (3.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Architect
2 16 (57.14%) Salesforce Architect
3 8 (28.57%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 8 (28.57%) Technical Architect
4 7 (25.00%) Developer
4 7 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior
6 4 (14.29%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Lead
7 2 (7.14%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Salesforce Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Systems Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.57%) CRM Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 25 (89.29%) REST
3 23 (82.14%) SOAP
4 20 (71.43%) Visualforce
5 2 (7.14%) Middleware
5 2 (7.14%) OAuth
6 1 (3.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (60.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Agile
1 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
1 22 (78.57%) DevOps
2 17 (60.71%) Scrum
3 15 (53.57%) Community of Practice
3 15 (53.57%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 15 (53.57%) Continuous Delivery
3 15 (53.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (53.57%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (53.57%) Design Patterns
3 15 (53.57%) Event-Driven
3 15 (53.57%) OO
3 15 (53.57%) PLM
3 15 (53.57%) Roadmaps
3 15 (53.57%) Static Code Analysis
3 15 (53.57%) Technical Analysis
3 15 (53.57%) Technology Roadmap
3 15 (53.57%) TOGAF
4 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.29%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 19 (67.86%) SOSL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 15 (53.57%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle