Salesforce Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Salesforce
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring knowledge or experience of Salesforce products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Salesforce over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Salesforce.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +11
Contract jobs citing Salesforce 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.69% 0.57% 1.40%
As % of the Vendors category 5.13% 1.82% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £329 - £628
25th Percentile £353 £381 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £388 £663
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -41.51% +32.50%
75th Percentile £478 £394 £719
90th Percentile £506 - £738
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -5.12% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £39.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% -6.67% -1.64%

All Vendors
Northern Ireland

Salesforce falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 78 55 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 33.05% 31.25% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 21 32
10th Percentile £203 £148 £163
25th Percentile £325 £155 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -12.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £503 £488 £541
90th Percentile £584 £650 £643
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 2
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £16.13
25th Percentile £13.26 - £16.15
Median hourly rate £13.69 £24.18 £16.81
Median % change year-on-year -43.40% +43.84% +10.23%
75th Percentile £17.53 - £18.09
90th Percentile £25.32 £40.25 £18.49
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.11
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.71% +76.74%

Salesforce
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Salesforce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Salesforce job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Salesforce
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Salesforce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Salesforce

Salesforce
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce in Northern Ireland

Salesforce
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
County Antrim -1 4 £413 +6.45% 1
Salesforce
UK

Salesforce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft