SOSL Contracts in England

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SOSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOSL over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 529 611
Rank change year-on-year +17 +82 +152
Contract jobs citing SOSL 4 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.009% 0.018%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.044% 0.028% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £471 - £543
25th Percentile £484 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £534 - £638
90th Percentile £544 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
England

SOSL 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 9,056 10,554 14,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.79% 31.66% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,227 7,560 10,879
10th Percentile £347 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £503 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.19% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 361 390
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.00 £27.07
25th Percentile £38.33 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £84.85 £78.75 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% +8.33% +9.09%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOSL in England

SOSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOSL in England

SOSL
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 SOSL within the England region over the 6 months to 8 August 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 +18 3 £550 - 2
SOSL
UK

SOSL
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 3 (75.00%) Salesforce CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (75.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Sales Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (100.00%) Visualforce
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 3 (75.00%) CRM
1 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Quote-to-Cash
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Sharing
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 4 (100.00%) SOQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft