SOQL Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SOQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -64 - -
Contract jobs citing SOQL 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.10% 0.051% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.44% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £397 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% - -
75th Percentile £402 £444 -
90th Percentile £402 - -
England median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 905 507 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.69% 26.08% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 331 442
10th Percentile £359 £311 £260
25th Percentile £413 £381 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £562 £541 £561
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 26
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.72 £17.31
25th Percentile £21.68 £17.00 £18.89
Median hourly rate £58.00 £19.49 £30.44
Median % change year-on-year +197.59% -35.96% -39.13%
75th Percentile £75.63 £27.31 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.45 £45.38 £58.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SOQL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SOQL
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SOQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SOQL

SOQL
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 March 2026. 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
East Midlands - 4 £401 - 1
SOQL
England

SOQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Designer
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware
1 4 (100.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft