Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SOQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOQL over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 676 811
Rank change year-on-year +110 +135 -154
Contract jobs citing SOQL 17 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.034% 0.034%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.13% 0.099% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 23
10th Percentile £421 £500 £363
25th Percentile £425 £519 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £588
90th Percentile £675 £633 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £440
% change year-on-year - +25.14% +1.91%

All Programming Languages
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,664 20,218 31,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.62% 34.76% 36.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,004 14,576 23,300
10th Percentile £350 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 464 514
10th Percentile £33.63 £26.16 £19.64
25th Percentile £46.48 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +16.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.96 £78.00 £73.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +21.95%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOQL over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SOQL in the UK

SOQL
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 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 +101 12 £500 -11.11% 10
Work from Home +119 11 £450 -18.18% 5
UK excluding London +65 6 £550 - 4
London +87 4 £438 -27.08% 6
Midlands +27 3 £650 +18.18% 3
West Midlands +17 3 £650 +18.18% 3
South West - 2 £500 -
North East - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 - 1

SOQL
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 12 (70.59%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) GitHub
2 5 (29.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 5 (29.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Boomi
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Visual Studio Code
2 7 (41.18%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
1 13 (76.47%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Billing Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) Lightning Web Components
2 12 (70.59%) JSON
2 12 (70.59%) XML
3 9 (52.94%) jQuery
4 4 (23.53%) Visualforce
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) HTML
5 3 (17.65%) REST
6 2 (11.76%) OAuth
6 2 (11.76%) SAML
7 1 (5.88%) Middleware
7 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 12 (70.59%) CRM
3 9 (52.94%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 9 (52.94%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) ITSM
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Release Management
4 4 (23.53%) Scrum
4 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
6 2 (11.76%) API Integration
6 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (5.88%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (5.88%) Open Source
7 1 (5.88%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (5.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Apex Code
2 15 (88.24%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (17.65%) Pardot
3 2 (11.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.88%) Conga
4 1 (5.88%) DocuSign