Salesforce Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Salesforce Engineer
UK > England

The median Salesforce Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 471 529
Rank change year-on-year -80 +58 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Engineer 29 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.075% 0.033% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.035% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 9
10th Percentile £400 £345 £414
25th Percentile £421 £384 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £445
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +34.83% -15.24%
75th Percentile £581 £700 £593
90th Percentile £625 £725 £698
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £445
% change year-on-year -6.25% +34.83% -15.24%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 35,653 22,632 34,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.88% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,473 15,157 23,256
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,346 840 2,307
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.36%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £76.25 £71.45
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%

Salesforce Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Salesforce Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Salesforce Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Salesforce Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Salesforce Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Salesforce Engineer job vacancies in England

Salesforce Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Engineer in England

Salesforce Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 April 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
London -39 25 £575 -4.17%
North West - 2 £411 -
North of England - 2 £411 -
South West - 1 £375 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £400 -
Salesforce Engineer
UK

Salesforce Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 April 2026, Salesforce Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Salesforce Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
3 16 (55.17%) DevOps
4 14 (48.28%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (48.28%) Test Automation
5 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
6 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
7 7 (24.14%) Agile
8 6 (20.69%) GitLab
8 6 (20.69%) Metadata
8 6 (20.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 5 (17.24%) GitHub
9 5 (17.24%) QA
9 5 (17.24%) Validation
10 4 (13.79%) Apex Code
10 4 (13.79%) AWS
10 4 (13.79%) Azure
10 4 (13.79%) CRM
10 4 (13.79%) Python
10 4 (13.79%) Release Management
10 4 (13.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (10.34%) Code Quality
11 3 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
11 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
11 3 (10.34%) Databricks
11 3 (10.34%) Git
11 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (10.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Salesforce Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 5 (17.24%) GitHub
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.45%) Akamai
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.45%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Metadata
2 2 (6.90%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 3 (10.34%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Selenium
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) git-flow
4 1 (3.45%) Postman
4 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (44.83%) Public Sector
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Marketing
4 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) CSS
1 2 (6.90%) Gherkin
1 2 (6.90%) HTML
1 2 (6.90%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (6.90%) Pandas
1 2 (6.90%) Playwright
1 2 (6.90%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) ADO
2 1 (3.45%) Great Expectations
2 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.45%) Puppeteer
2 1 (3.45%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) Swagger
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 16 (55.17%) DevOps
3 14 (48.28%) Deployment Automation
3 14 (48.28%) Test Automation
4 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (24.14%) Agile
6 5 (17.24%) Validation
7 4 (13.79%) CRM
7 4 (13.79%) Release Management
8 3 (10.34%) Code Quality
8 3 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (6.90%) Customer Experience
9 2 (6.90%) Data Governance
9 2 (6.90%) Kanban
9 2 (6.90%) Observability
9 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (6.90%) Time Management
9 2 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Apex Code
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) Bash
2 1 (3.45%) Go
2 1 (3.45%) Java
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.34%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Veracode