SOSL Contracts in England

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SOSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOSL over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 663 773
Rank change year-on-year +119 +110 -165
Contract jobs citing SOSL 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.010% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.037% 0.028% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - £405
25th Percentile £613 - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £527
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.12% +5.40%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £500 £527
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.12% +5.40%

All Programming Languages
England

SOSL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,881 17,994 26,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.23% 35.48% 36.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,904 13,145 19,312
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 440 458
10th Percentile £35.52 £26.12 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £49.57 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +16.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.94%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SOSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SOSL in England

SOSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOSL in England.

Daily rate trend for SOSL in England

SOSL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOSL within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +107 3 - - 1
South East - 1 £625 -
SOSL
UK

SOSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Sourcetree
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) COM+
3 1 (25.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (25.00%) Business Process Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Email Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SOQL
2 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Marketo