Salesforce Developer Contracts

Salesforce Developer
UK

The median Salesforce Developer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 513 606
Rank change year-on-year +32 +93 -197
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Developer 98 187 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.33% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 132 163
10th Percentile £413 £425 £366
25th Percentile £425 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +7.95% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £653 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £543
% change year-on-year - +1.38% +20.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.69 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Salesforce Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Salesforce Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salesforce Developer.

Daily rate trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Salesforce Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +46 84 £525 -12.50% 42
London +52 50 £500 -15.79% 25
Work from Home +66 36 £500 -16.67% 17
UK excluding London +69 30 £550 - 14
North of England +30 13 £600 - 3
North West +25 12 £600 -4.00% 3
South West - 6 £513 - 1
East of England +17 5 £456 -18.89% 1
South East +20 3 £525 -15.32% 6
Midlands +23 2 £675 +35.00% 2
West Midlands +25 1 £675 +35.00% 1
Yorkshire +17 1 £550 +10.00%
Wales - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Salesforce Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Salesforce Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Salesforce Developer in the job title.

1 98 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 53 (54.08%) Lightning Web Components
3 52 (53.06%) Apex Code
4 33 (33.67%) Marketing
5 31 (31.63%) JavaScript
6 27 (27.55%) Visualforce
7 26 (26.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 26 (26.53%) CRM
8 21 (21.43%) Agile
9 20 (20.41%) Salesforce CRM
9 20 (20.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 19 (19.39%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
10 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
11 17 (17.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (16.33%) CSS
12 16 (16.33%) Product Ownership
13 15 (15.31%) SQL
13 15 (15.31%) Scrum
13 15 (15.31%) JSON
13 15 (15.31%) User Experience
13 15 (15.31%) SOQL
14 14 (14.29%) REST
14 14 (14.29%) Security Cleared
15 13 (13.27%) HTML
16 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
16 12 (12.24%) Visual Studio Code
16 12 (12.24%) API Integration
17 11 (11.22%) XML
17 11 (11.22%) jQuery

Salesforce Developer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 20 (20.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 17 (17.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 9 (9.18%) GitHub
4 5 (5.10%) SaaS
5 4 (4.08%) AWS
6 3 (3.06%) Azure
6 3 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.02%) Boomi
7 1 (1.02%) Heroku
7 1 (1.02%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) Metadata
2 1 (1.02%) DBAmp
2 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Visual Studio Code
2 10 (10.20%) GitLab
3 4 (4.08%) Git
4 1 (1.02%) JIRA
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (33.67%) Marketing
2 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Finance
4 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.08%) Games
6 1 (1.02%) Back Office
6 1 (1.02%) Electronics
6 1 (1.02%) Law
6 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (54.08%) Lightning Web Components
2 27 (27.55%) Visualforce
3 16 (16.33%) CSS
4 15 (15.31%) JSON
5 14 (14.29%) REST
6 13 (13.27%) HTML
7 11 (11.22%) jQuery
7 11 (11.22%) XML
8 7 (7.14%) SOAP
9 5 (5.10%) Web Services
10 2 (2.04%) Middleware
11 1 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
11 1 (1.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.53%) CRM
2 21 (21.43%) Agile
3 19 (19.39%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.31%) Scrum
5 15 (15.31%) User Experience
6 12 (12.24%) API Integration
7 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
8 9 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (7.14%) Change Management
9 7 (7.14%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.14%) Design Patterns
9 7 (7.14%) DevOps
10 6 (6.12%) Migration
10 6 (6.12%) Product Backlog
10 6 (6.12%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (6.12%) Web Development
11 5 (5.10%) Mentoring
12 4 (4.08%) Data Cleansing
12 4 (4.08%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (53.06%) Apex Code
2 31 (31.63%) JavaScript
3 15 (15.31%) SOQL
3 15 (15.31%) SQL
4 3 (3.06%) SOSL
5 1 (1.02%) C#
5 1 (1.02%) Java
5 1 (1.02%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) PMP
4 2 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 20 (20.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 8 (8.16%) Pardot
4 5 (5.10%) Virgin Media
5 3 (3.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle
6 2 (2.04%) Siebel
7 1 (1.02%) Conga
7 1 (1.02%) Dell
7 1 (1.02%) Informatica
7 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow