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One in three Salesforce specialists want new jobs

One in three Salesforce professionals are looking for a new job, according to a new report.

The global leader in Salesforce recruitment, Mason Frank, launched its third annual salary survey at Dreamforce in San Francisco earlier this month and released the report to the general public today.

35% of Salesforce professionals told Mason Frank that they don’t expect to be with their current employer in a year’s time – up 5% on 2015.

When asked why they wanted to move jobs, 62% cited their salary as the leading factor, while 60% said that it was the best way to secure a promotion.

Furthermore, 55% of Salesforce professionals said they needed a new challenge; 38% lacked leadership and vision in their current role; 33% cited the work environment; and 32% wanted to switch jobs to work with Salesforce’s latest software and features.

The report was compiled from a total of 16,987 data points.

The top industry sectors in which survey respondents’ employers operate are IT & software (35.8%), consultancy (11.1%) and banking, financial & insurance (8.7%).

85% of those surveyed by Mason Frank were in permanent, full time employment and 1% worked part time. 10% of those surveyed were freelancers, while 4% told Mason Frank that they were not currently working.

The gender gap

Globally, there was a greater proportion of female respondents (33%) compared to last year’s report (27%), when a massive 85% of female respondents said they would like to see more women in the workplace.

Regionally, the US showed the largest percentage of female respondents with 43%.

Earlier this year, in a blog post on its website, Salesforce announced it had spent $3m to correct the wage gaps found between its male and female workers.

“We have made equality a core value for the company, and we are working to increase equality by focusing our efforts on equal pay, equal advancement, and equal opportunity,” said Salesforce EVP of Global Employee Success Cindy Robbins.

“Approximately six percent of employees required a salary adjustment, and roughly the same number of women and men were impacted.

“Salesforce has spent nearly $3 million dollars to eliminate statistically significant differences in pay.”

Certification

This year the number of respondents holding a Salesforce certification dropped to 73%, down 8% on last year. Of those certified:

• 62% had Administrator certification, while 17% were Advanced Administrator certified.
• 35% of respondents were either certified Sales Cloud or Service Cloud Consultants.
• 38% were Force.com Developer certified, while 5% were Advanced Developers.

27% of respondents were not certified.

More than half of respondents had over 10 years work experience, with 7% of respondents having more than 10 years of experience with Salesforce products.

Products

According to the report, Sales Cloud is the most used Salesforce product with 84% of respondents stating they use it.

Chatter (72%) and Salesforce 1 (67%) were also popular, while 66% said they used Force.com.

The top 3 Salesforce products predicted to be in demand for clients’ projects in the next year are Lightning, Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.

Andy Mason, Senior Director at Mason Frank International, said: “Once again our annual salary survey has provided an amazing insight into the careers of Salesforce professionals.

“The printed copies of our report completely sold out at Dreamforce and we couldn’t have asked for better feedback from our presentations at the event.

“My thanks go out to everyone who contributed towards the salary survey.”

On average a mid-level Salesforce developer earns $135,883 a year (£52,838 in the UK) – with freelancers able to bill up to $155 a day.

To download the full report on Salesforce jobs and salaries visit the Mason Frank website.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Andrew Dipper .