SOSL Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
England > North of England

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOSL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.015% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.055% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
England median daily rate £450 £513 -
% change year-on-year -12.20% - -

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,825 974 1,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.94% 28.48% 25.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,194 719 867
10th Percentile £350 £331 £323
25th Percentile £413 £385 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £575
90th Percentile £630 £603 £625
England median daily rate £513 £523 £540
% change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 9 54
10th Percentile £36.28 £31.70 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.00 £42.41
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +46.60% +0.53%
75th Percentile £74.70 £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.65 £95.71 £73.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SOSL job vacancy trend in the North of England

SOSL
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

SOSL
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 SOSL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
SOSL
England

SOSL
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%) SOQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce