SOQL Contracts in England

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SOQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOQL over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 643 763
Rank change year-on-year +121 +120 -168
Contract jobs citing SOQL 14 17 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.033% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.13% 0.094% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 18
10th Percentile £421 £500 £363
25th Percentile £425 £503 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £477
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +17.92% +1.49%
75th Percentile £647 £617 £638
90th Percentile £675 £634 £820
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
England

SOQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,869 18,042 26,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.20% 35.50% 36.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 13,176 19,455
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 444 461
10th Percentile £35.50 £26.16 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.31 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.43 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.12% +25.00% +16.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +22.35% +14.94%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +102 6 £438 -27.84% 4
Midlands +32 2 £650 +18.18%
West Midlands +26 2 £650 +18.18%
South West - 2 £500 -
South East +12 1 £625 +19.05%
North East - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 -
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:

Business Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) Boomi
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Sourcetree
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
1 10 (71.43%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Lightning Web Components
2 7 (50.00%) JSON
3 6 (42.86%) XML
4 5 (35.71%) REST
5 4 (28.57%) jQuery
5 4 (28.57%) SOAP
5 4 (28.57%) Visualforce
6 3 (21.43%) CSS
7 2 (14.29%) HTML
7 2 (14.29%) OAuth
7 2 (14.29%) SAML
8 1 (7.14%) COM+
8 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
1 8 (57.14%) CRM
2 5 (35.71%) User Experience
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 3 (21.43%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 3 (21.43%) Refactoring
4 3 (21.43%) Release Management
4 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
5 2 (14.29%) API Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 2 (14.29%) ITSM
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Business Process Analysis
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (7.14%) Marketing Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.14%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Apex Code
2 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) Marketo
3 1 (7.14%) Pardot