SOQL Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring SOQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing SOQL 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.03% 0.69% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.49% 1.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile £402 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £356 -
% change year-on-year +12.78% - -

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 86 57 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 29.55% 39.31% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 44 17
10th Percentile £355 £294 £379
25th Percentile £381 £340 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.87% -28.80% +22.25%
75th Percentile £475 £428 £525
90th Percentile £537 £466 £626
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +11.75% -11.11% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
Median % change year-on-year - - +78.20%
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £41.75
% change year-on-year +33.87% -57.58% +9.18%

SOQL
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 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
Northampton -21 3 £402 +12.78% 1
SOQL
East Midlands

SOQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft