The first table below looks at the demand for the Salesforce.com Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Salesforce.com Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Salesforce.com Developer
Rank 481 487 467
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce.com Developer 48 97 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.103% 0.166% 0.192%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.112% 0.180% 0.207%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 62 70
Average daily rate £450 £456 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.36% +7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £340 £373
10% offered a daily rate of more than £565 £573 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £488 £400
% change year-on-year
-15.38% +21.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Salesforce.com Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Salesforce.com Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Salesforce.com Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Salesforce.com Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Salesforce.com Developer within the UK.

Salesforce.com Developer Daily Rate Trend

Salesforce.com Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Salesforce.com Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Salesforce.com Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Salesforce.com Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Salesforce.com Developer within the UK.

Salesforce.com Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Salesforce.com Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce.com Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -2 44 £450 -1.36%
London -1 33 £450 -
City of London +19 19 £475 +7.04%
South East +1 3 £425 -12.82%
South West - 3 £350 -
Surrey +9 2 £425 -12.82%
Bristol - 2 £400 -
Oxfordshire +3 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
Leeds - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £275 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 £475 -
Staines - 1 - -

Salesforce.com Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Salesforce.com Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Salesforce.com Developer in their job title.

1 114 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
2 89 (78.07%) Apex Code
3 77 (67.54%) Visualforce
4 41 (35.96%) Force.com
5 32 (28.07%) Java
6 31 (27.19%) CRM
7 25 (21.93%) Agile Software Development
8 23 (20.18%) Mason
9 21 (18.42%) JavaScript
10 19 (16.67%) .NET
11 13 (11.40%) Web Services
12 12 (10.53%) Migration
12 12 (10.53%) REST
13 11 (9.649%) Data Migration
13 11 (9.649%) Web Development
13 11 (9.649%) Finance
13 11 (9.649%) SOAP
14 10 (8.772%) CSS
14 10 (8.772%) C#
14 10 (8.772%) HTML
14 10 (8.772%) jQuery
15 9 (7.895%) TDD
15 9 (7.895%) SaaS
15 9 (7.895%) SQL Server
15 9 (7.895%) Eclipse
15 9 (7.895%) Publishing
15 9 (7.895%) Scrum
15 9 (7.895%) Asset Management
16 8 (7.018%) SQL
16 8 (7.018%) Ajax

Salesforce.com Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Salesforce.com Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Salesforce.com Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 77 (67.54%) Visualforce
2 23 (20.18%) Mason
3 19 (16.67%) .NET
4 13 (11.40%) Web Services
5 12 (10.53%) REST
6 11 (9.649%) SOAP
7 10 (8.772%) CSS
7 10 (8.772%) HTML
7 10 (8.772%) jQuery
8 8 (7.018%) Ajax
9 5 (4.386%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.754%) soapUI
10 2 (1.754%) Grails
11 1 (0.877%) .NET Remoting
11 1 (0.877%) JPA
11 1 (0.877%) OAuth
11 1 (0.877%) Spring
11 1 (0.877%) DOM
11 1 (0.877%) Struts
11 1 (0.877%) COM
Application Platforms
1 41 (35.96%) Force.com
2 1 (0.877%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (0.877%) Kentico
2 1 (0.877%) CMS
2 1 (0.877%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.877%) Apache
2 1 (0.877%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.877%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.877%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.877%) SalesLogix
1 1 (0.877%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.632%) HTTP
2 1 (0.877%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.895%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.754%) QlikView
3 1 (0.877%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (0.877%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.877%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (0.877%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 9 (7.895%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.632%) Subversion
3 1 (0.877%) JIRA
3 1 (0.877%) Oracle APEX
General
1 11 (9.649%) Finance
2 9 (7.895%) Publishing
3 5 (4.386%) Billing
4 4 (3.509%) Marketing
5 2 (1.754%) Back Office
5 2 (1.754%) German Language
5 2 (1.754%) Banking
6 1 (0.877%) Retail
6 1 (0.877%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.877%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.895%) SaaS
2 7 (6.140%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.386%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.632%) Heroku
5 2 (1.754%) FMCG
5 2 (1.754%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.877%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.877%) PaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.19%) CRM
2 25 (21.93%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (10.53%) Migration
4 11 (9.649%) Data Migration
4 11 (9.649%) Web Development
5 9 (7.895%) TDD
5 9 (7.895%) Scrum
5 9 (7.895%) Asset Management
6 8 (7.018%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (4.386%) Project Management
9 3 (2.632%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (1.754%) Unit Testing
10 2 (1.754%) Kanban
11 1 (0.877%) Business Development
11 1 (0.877%) Investment Management
11 1 (0.877%) Time Management
11 1 (0.877%) Web Application Development
11 1 (0.877%) MVC
11 1 (0.877%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 89 (78.07%) Apex Code
2 32 (28.07%) Java
3 21 (18.42%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.772%) C#
5 8 (7.018%) SQL
6 1 (0.877%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.877%) VB
6 1 (0.877%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (4.386%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.877%) QA
Vendors
1 114 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
2 5 (4.386%) Informatica
3 3 (2.632%) Sitecore
3 3 (2.632%) SAP
3 3 (2.632%) Oracle
4 2 (1.754%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.877%) Twitter
5 1 (0.877%) Sage
5 1 (0.877%) Siebel
City of London
Salesforce Developer - 3 Month Contract - City of London - £ Excellent RateSalesforce Developer required to assist the client in the design and delivery of their technical Salesforce solution... Pioneer Consulting...
Pioneer Consulting
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Experience working in an Agile development environment would be advantageous, as would any Salesforce certifications (DEV401, DEV501) This is a great opportunity to work with a rapidly growing...
ISL
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, South West
Opus have been engaged to appoint a Contract Salesforce Developer to assist a rapidly growing Application Development Consultancy with an ever expanding client base-We require a Software...
OPUS
Rate: GBP300 to GBP400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Opus have been engaged to appoint a Salesforce Developer to assist a rapidly growing Application Development Consultancy. Strong Java/Click Developer skills, exposure to Salesforce in a client...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
You will be tasked with working with the business analysts to transfer technical specifications into code for a high profile and urgent project.
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, North West
You will initially be tasked with analysing the business needs and working with the business analysts to produce both technical and functional specifications.
Mason Frank International
Rate: £375 - £425 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
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Pioneer Consulting
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will work with the Business Analyst team to understand the requirements of the Sales and Marketing departments and then formulate into technical specifications.
Mason Frank International
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
West London
Our client, a Renowned Broadcasting Giant is currently recruiting for a Salesforce Developer for an initial 3 month contract based at their offices in Osterley / West London. Description:...
Experis IT
Rate: £500 - £501 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013