SOSL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 - 622
Rank change year-on-year - - -149
Contract jobs citing SOSL 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% - 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.039% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - £500 £527
% change year-on-year - -5.12% +5.40%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,102 9,657 16,933
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.39% 37.35% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,679 7,070 12,548
10th Percentile £350 £392 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 213 193
10th Percentile £27.25 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £87.25 £79.20 £66.85
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.25%

SOSL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOSL trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOSL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOSL.

SOSL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce