SOSL Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SOSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOSL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.026% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £436 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -14.93% - +2.50%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 904 490 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.51% 25.80% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 322 442
10th Percentile £358 £308 £260
25th Percentile £413 £373 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +2.22% -6.72%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £567
90th Percentile £625 £650 £649
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 26
10th Percentile £13.84 £15.72 £17.31
25th Percentile £22.85 £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 £73.75 £27.31 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.25 £45.38 £58.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SOSL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SOSL
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

SOSL
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 SOSL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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 - 1 £413 - 2
SOSL
England

SOSL
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Technical Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Multichannel Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Order Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) SOQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce