SOQL Contracts in London

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 347 386 487
Rank change year-on-year +39 +101 +89
Contract jobs citing SOQL 6 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.028% 0.022%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.078% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £396 £414 £496
25th Percentile £475 £416 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -27.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £466 £638
90th Percentile £555 £471 -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £563
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.00% +17.92%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOQL in London

SOQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SOQL in London

SOQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SOQL in London

SOQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the London 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
Central London +4 2 £525 +20.00% 4
SOQL
England

SOQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
2 1 (16.67%) QA Manager
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) SOAP
2 3 (50.00%) Visualforce
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Test Management
2 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Case Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Apex Code
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SOSL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Pardot