SOQL Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SOQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Contract jobs citing SOQL 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.32% 0.18% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.74% 0.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile £402 - -
England median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 172 134 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.16% 24.23% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 93 126
10th Percentile £358 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -11.11% +1.12%
75th Percentile £537 £488 £550
90th Percentile £625 £522 £668
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.75 £13.64
25th Percentile £18.84 £15.00 £19.78
Median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% -57.58% +9.18%
75th Percentile £36.72 £21.04 £54.00
90th Percentile £56.69 £22.67 £54.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -6.92%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SOQL job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SOQL
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SOQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SOQL

SOQL
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -19 3 £402 +12.78% 1
SOQL
England

SOQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft