Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SOQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SOQL over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 720 868 878
Rank change year-on-year +148 +10 +334
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 15 18 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.017% 0.026%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.089% 0.056% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 18
10th Percentile £51,500 - £47,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +5.00% -26.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,465 £64,063
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,250 £83,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £92,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -32.43% +85.00% -23.08%

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 16,797 32,353 34,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.96% 31.36% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,741 23,717 25,237
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOQL.

Salary trend for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOQL over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Top 10 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 July 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 +147 15 £60,000 +3.90% 17
London +108 10 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Work from Home +110 7 £57,500 -9.01% 10
UK excluding London +158 4 £62,500 -32.43% 11
South East - 2 - - 2
North of England - 2 - - 4
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Midlands +72 1 £45,000 -51.35% 2
West Midlands +67 1 £45,000 -51.35%
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 2

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 5 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (6.67%) ChatGPT
5 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Einstein
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 5 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
1 6 (40.00%) Marketing
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Law
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Salesforce Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Senior
4 5 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 5 (33.33%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) IT Operations Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 9 (60.00%) REST
3 7 (46.67%) SOAP
4 4 (26.67%) OAuth
4 4 (26.67%) Visualforce
5 3 (20.00%) JSON
6 2 (13.33%) HTML
6 2 (13.33%) HTML5
7 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 1 (6.67%) CSS
7 1 (6.67%) jQuery
7 1 (6.67%) Node.js
7 1 (6.67%) Sass
7 1 (6.67%) Symfony
7 1 (6.67%) Web Services
7 1 (6.67%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (26.67%) CRM
3 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
3 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (26.67%) Line Management
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Resource Allocation
4 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (20.00%) Fintech
4 3 (20.00%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Wealth Management
5 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
5 2 (13.33%) OOP
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) SOSL
3 1 (6.67%) PHP
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Conga
3 1 (6.67%) DocuSign
3 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.67%) OpenAI