Salesforce Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Salesforce
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of Salesforce products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Salesforce over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Salesforce.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 43 55
Rank change year-on-year -23 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing Salesforce 8 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.22% 1.58% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 1.98% 3.04% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £338 £291 £509
25th Percentile £404 £356 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% +0.92% -13.90%
75th Percentile £459 £625 £568
90th Percentile £515 £650 £581
North West median daily rate £500 £388 £538
% change year-on-year +29.03% -27.91% +7.50%

All Vendors
Cheshire

Salesforce falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 404 230 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 61.59% 51.92% 59.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 123 144
10th Percentile £275 £325 £265
25th Percentile £360 £419 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £554
90th Percentile £716 £670 £586
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.61 £16.96
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £21.00 £23.05 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -32.22% +142.86%
75th Percentile £31.50 £26.89 £35.56
90th Percentile £73.85 £81.75 £38.08
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +73.87%

Salesforce
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Salesforce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Salesforce job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Salesforce
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Salesforce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Salesforce

Salesforce
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce in Cheshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce in Cheshire

Salesforce
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
Knutsford -14 6 £414 -
Crewe 0 1 £225 -22.68% 3
Salesforce
North West

Salesforce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Salesforce Analyst
3 4 (50.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (37.50%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Services Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Change Management
1 5 (62.50%) Requirements Gathering
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) B2B Sales
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Business Case
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) Feasibility Study
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Process Management
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Traceability Matrix
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft