SOQL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SOQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 121 126
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -
Contract jobs citing SOQL 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.084% 0.059% 0.046%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.32% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £343 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -28.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £370 - £475
90th Percentile £372 - -
Central London median daily rate £358 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -28.50% +11.11% -

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 624 684 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.32% 40.28% 35.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 457 540
10th Percentile £355 £405 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -0.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £555
% change year-on-year - -0.81% -11.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £26.32 - -
25th Percentile £32.39 £16.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £17.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.59% -64.95% -7.62%
75th Percentile £56.11 £17.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £23.04 £48.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -52.51% -7.62%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SOQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

SOQL
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SOQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SOQL

SOQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) UiPath