SOSL Contract Job Trends in London

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SOSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 376 406
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 +176
Contract jobs citing SOSL 4 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.029% 0.026% 0.050%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.074% 0.066% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £447 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £522 - £450
90th Percentile £539 - -
England median daily rate £488 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.36% - +10.00%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,379 6,053 7,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.51% 39.02% 37.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,616 4,133 5,610
10th Percentile £369 £367 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -2.91% -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £813
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 40 73
10th Percentile £22.99 £34.81 £25.76
25th Percentile £31.83 £40.06 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.63 £63.26 £65.11
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £77.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £64.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.10% +4.03% -0.80%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SOSL job vacancy trend in London

SOSL
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOSL

SOSL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOSL in London over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOSL in London

SOSL
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 SOSL within the London region over the 6 months to 12 November 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 - 1 £425 - 12
SOSL
England

SOSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
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%) Sales Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (75.00%) Visualforce
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%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 4 (100.00%) SOQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Salesforce