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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 703 876 946
Rank change year-on-year +173 +70 +198
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 9 14 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.014% 0.031%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.054% 0.042% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 16
10th Percentile £52,500 - £48,188
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £52,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +5.22% -17.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,465 £72,188
90th Percentile £72,000 £66,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £92,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year - +64.44% -6.25%

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 16,686 33,216 42,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.25% 43.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,261 24,896 27,477
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +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 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Top 3 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 19 May 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 +142 9 £60,000 -0.83% 41
London +108 8 £60,000 +9.09% 26
Work from Home +125 3 £57,500 -9.01% 28

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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 4 (44.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
3 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Einstein
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 7 (77.78%) Salesforce Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 4 (44.44%) Senior Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (44.44%) REST
2 4 (44.44%) SOAP
3 3 (33.33%) JSON
3 3 (33.33%) Visualforce
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) OAuth
4 2 (22.22%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (11.11%) CSS
5 1 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (11.11%) Sass
5 1 (11.11%) Symfony
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) CRM
2 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Line Management
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (11.11%) BDD
4 1 (11.11%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 1 (11.11%) Load Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Conga
2 1 (11.11%) DocuSign
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAI