SOQL Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
England > North of England

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 - 179
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOQL 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.015% - 0.021%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.055% - 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £450
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £447 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.60% - -16.67%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,810 939 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.01% 27.98% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 695 851
10th Percentile £350 £346 £320
25th Percentile £413 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £609 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.29% -2.87% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 9 55
10th Percentile £36.30 £31.70 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +47.37% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.30 £95.71 £73.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% -

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SOQL job vacancy trend in the North of England

SOQL
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SOQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SOQL

SOQL
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
North West - 1 £447 - 1
SOQL
England

SOQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) Visualforce
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SOSL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce