SOQL Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SOQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 125 176
Rank change year-on-year +8 +51 +15
Contract jobs citing SOQL 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.091% 0.055%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.28% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £503 £414 £476
25th Percentile £506 £416 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £531
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -17.65% -3.41%
75th Percentile £556 £466 £586
90th Percentile £568 £471 £602
Central London median daily rate £525 £438 £531
% change year-on-year +20.00% -17.65% +6.25%

All Programming Languages
City of London

SOQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 706 744 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.21% 33.86% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 530 1,040
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SOSL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft