It’s time for another bold Salesforce ecosystem prediction from SF Ben. We believe that 2026 will see Salesforce professionals branch out more and more into other systems, becoming more tech ‘agnostic’, no longer fully comfortable pigeonholing themselves to just one system.
Instead of ‘Salesforce Admin’, resumes and LinkedIn profiles will increasingly see phrases like ‘Low Code Admin’ – while ‘Salesforce Developers’ will also drop the cloud company’s name from their own self-styled career descriptions this year, we predict. With such a loyal and vocal community, perhaps this is a bold statement. Read on below to see our reasoning.
‘This Job Market is Brutal’
We asked CRM advisor Gabie Caballero about our theory that, in 2026, more and more people who previously called themselves ‘Salesforce Admins’ or ‘Salesforce Developers’ will become more system-agnostic, perhaps using the moniker ‘Low Code Admin’ (or just ‘Developer’).
Gabie told SF Ben: “I’m already hearing it in some of the conversations I’ve had recently with the community where people are like, ‘I don’t want to just be Salesforce anymore’. I think we’re going to see AI in a lot of people’s titles, AI is going to be tied in somehow. You have to, right?
“Number one: how are you going to evolve with the market? And number two: I think a lot of people are going to be more agnostic going forward. They’re not going to pigeonhole themselves just to Salesforce. They’re going to say, ‘I can do AI, X, Y, and Z.’ It’s just a smarter play, to be honest with you, because you can pivot. It doesn’t matter what system you work on.”
Gabie said that she is positioning herself in the AI enablement and adoption space, driving the adoption on the user side, making sure users are putting in the correct data, which she says is “pretty niche, but also it’s AI enablement and adoption I can do on anything, it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t have to be Salesforce, it could be Dynamics, it can be SAP, it can be Oracle, it could be anything.”
Gabie also noted that the Salesforce job market has been “brutal” recently, especially for entry-level professionals, but even long-time community members are voicing their desire to diversify beyond just Salesforce.
She said: “This market’s brutal right now. People are getting laid off. You need to be agnostic, so people will pick you up for anything, any project. You’re an adoption person? If you can do it in Salesforce, you can do it in HubSpot. You’re a developer? If you can develop in Salesforce, you can develop in Dynamics.”
Gabie added that she is starting to see several people in the Salesforce ecosystem branch out and not exclusively work with Salesforce – some of whom are MVPs who have been in the community for a long time.
‘It’s Not Wall-to-Wall Salesforce Anymore’
We also asked Salesforce MVP, Marketing Champion, Architect and Certified Instructor, Vicki Moritz-Henry, about a possible blurring of professional identities, and she agreed, saying she and her colleagues were exploring tools like HubSpot and ServiceNow, because modern enterprises rarely use Salesforce in a silo. Doing this is simply a logical way of “future-proofing” your career, Vicki said.
She told SF Ben: “I’ve been looking into other tools as well. I have been Salesforce-specific, and I’ve had a lot of colleagues who are doing the same. In marketing, they’re looking at HubSpot. In CRM, they are looking at ServiceNow.
“I also think that that’s coming from the direction of Salesforce’s tooling, because more and more organizations are no longer using Salesforce in a silo. It’s not Salesforce everything wall-to-wall as we used to hear about, more so organizations are using Salesforce and ServiceNow, and they’re using Salesforce and maybe the Salesforce marketing tools, and HubSpot still, and tools like Data Cloud are helping to break down some of those silos and bring it all together and make that okay.”
Vicki added that Salesforce is more “fitting into” the enterprise landscape now, rather than businesses using the CRM giant’s technology “wall-to-wall”, and that’s having an impact on Salesforce professionals who are being exposed to different products.
She said: “When it was wall-to-wall Salesforce, we could just live in Salesforce and that could be our entire career, whereas now we’re starting to touch those other products, and it’s easier to pick up on them.
“So I do think that there’ll be a little bit more of a spread, and even just future-proofing, because it is going to help future-proof careers if we have more generalists that are in a specific industry like marketing – but can work across different products and are less tech specific, more tech agnostic, and more about the industry and having that industry knowledge instead.”
Final Thoughts
Salesforce-only career identities are becoming less viable, industry knowledge is becoming more important than loyalty to any one tool, and Salesforce’s own tools like Data 360 are designed to integrate disparate systems, reinforcing the idea that the company’s technology is just one piece of an enterprise’s tech stack, rather than an all-encompassing solution.
Bearing all this in mind, 2026 will, we think, see a broadening out of Salesforce professionals’ skills, knowledge, and job titles. If you have years of experience in Salesforce, but a potential employer wants you to work in a similar technology, what sense is there in turning that down, in this turbulent job market?
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