Hybrid/Remote SOQL Job Trends

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SOQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 446 460
Rank change year-on-year +96 +14 +248
Permanent jobs citing SOQL 16 2 10
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.10% 0.012% 0.050%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.39% 0.027% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - £65,175 £46,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £65,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +19.85% -5.42% +56.83%
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,938 £72,433
90th Percentile - £69,725 £72,689
UK median annual salary £90,000 £57,500 £70,288
% change year-on-year +56.52% -18.19% -9.31%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

SOQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,155 7,375 9,160
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.16% 42.62% 46.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,173 4,740 7,737
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOQL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SOQL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SOQL
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SOQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SOQL

SOQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 15 (93.75%) GitLab
1 15 (93.75%) Jenkins
1 15 (93.75%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (93.75%) Games
1 15 (93.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 15 (93.75%) Marketing
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Architect
2 14 (87.50%) Salesforce Architect
3 8 (50.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 8 (50.00%) Technical Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.25%) CRM Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 16 (100.00%) REST
1 16 (100.00%) SOAP
2 15 (93.75%) Visualforce
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Agile
2 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 15 (93.75%) Community of Practice
2 15 (93.75%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 15 (93.75%) Continuous Delivery
2 15 (93.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (93.75%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (93.75%) Design Patterns
2 15 (93.75%) DevOps
2 15 (93.75%) Event-Driven
2 15 (93.75%) OO
2 15 (93.75%) PLM
2 15 (93.75%) Roadmaps
2 15 (93.75%) Scrum
2 15 (93.75%) Static Code Analysis
2 15 (93.75%) Technical Analysis
2 15 (93.75%) Technology Roadmap
2 15 (93.75%) TOGAF
3 1 (6.25%) CRM
3 1 (6.25%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 15 (93.75%) SOSL
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 15 (93.75%) Splunk