SOQL Contracts in England

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 478 530 636
Rank change year-on-year +52 +106 +121
Contract jobs citing SOQL 7 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.032% 0.034%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.085% 0.11% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 14
10th Percentile £403 £420 £500
25th Percentile £466 £425 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £523 £613 £609
90th Percentile £550 £675 £634
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SOQL in England

SOQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOQL in England.

Daily rate trend for SOQL in England

SOQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOQL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOQL in England

SOQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOQL in England.

Hourly rate trend for SOQL in England

SOQL
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 SOQL within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 6 £500 +14.29% 16
SOQL
UK

SOQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) QA Manager
2 1 (14.29%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (57.14%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) SOAP
2 4 (57.14%) Visualforce
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) CRM
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Apex Code
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SOSL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Pardot