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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 623 764
Rank change year-on-year +86 +141 -133
Contract jobs citing SOQL 13 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.028% 0.033%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.080% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile £313 £523 -
25th Percentile £338 £525 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +33.33% -0.55%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £681
90th Percentile £675 £638 £825
UK median daily rate £438 £600 £438
% change year-on-year -27.08% +37.14% +25.00%

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 11,366 16,181 25,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.30% 34.40% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 11,851 18,996
10th Percentile £350 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 398 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £29.13 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.65 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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
West Midlands +19 6 £438 -27.08% 3
Midlands +18 6 £438 -27.08% 3
North East - 3 £425 -
North of England - 3 £425 - 1
London +77 2 £450 -26.53% 5
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 4 (30.77%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (23.08%) NetSuite
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Boomi
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
3 2 (15.38%) GitLab
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Billing
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Billing Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Billing Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (46.15%) Visualforce
3 4 (30.77%) JSON
3 4 (30.77%) XML
4 3 (23.08%) CSS
4 3 (23.08%) HTML
5 2 (15.38%) OAuth
5 2 (15.38%) REST
5 2 (15.38%) SAML
6 1 (7.69%) jQuery
6 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Release Management
3 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
4 4 (30.77%) CRM
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (23.08%) User Experience
6 2 (15.38%) API Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (7.69%) DevOps
7 1 (7.69%) Open Source
7 1 (7.69%) Static Code Analysis
7 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.69%) Conga
3 1 (7.69%) DocuSign
3 1 (7.69%) Pardot