SOQL Contracts in the City of London

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 173 196
Rank change year-on-year +51 +23 -46
Contract jobs citing SOQL 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.092% 0.028% 0.024%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.27% 0.064% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £416 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +4.55% +26.44%
75th Percentile £466 £613 £575
90th Percentile £471 - -
Central London median daily rate £438 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -23.91% +15.00% +14.94%

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 745 1,559 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.32% 43.00% 44.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 1,021 1,472
10th Percentile £400 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £689 £738 £712
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £617 £600
% change year-on-year -8.86% +2.86% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SOQL in the City of London

SOQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOQL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SOQL in the City of London

SOQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (100.00%) Salesforce CRM
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce