Salesforce Contracts in Scotland

Salesforce
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 123 139
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 +23
Contract jobs citing Salesforce 7 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.23% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 0.98% 0.56% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 17
10th Percentile £407 £183 £305
25th Percentile £410 £255 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% -23.81% +35.48%
75th Percentile £669 £450 £550
90th Percentile £703 £465 -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 714 887 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.24% 39.95% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 543 823
10th Percentile £236 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £467 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -1.27% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 52 16
10th Percentile £16.36 £13.28 £21.26
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £43.86
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%
75th Percentile £24.62 £55.63 £65.39
90th Percentile £28.26 £60.00 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%

Salesforce
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Salesforce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce in Scotland

Salesforce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salesforce in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Salesforce in Scotland

Salesforce
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce in Scotland

Salesforce
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow +6 5 £538 +19.44% 3
Edinburgh +4 1 - - 6
West Lothian - 1 - -
Salesforce
UK

Salesforce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Product Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (57.14%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CRM
2 3 (42.86%) Security Patching
2 3 (42.86%) System Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (14.29%) Community of Practice
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Product Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Identification
4 1 (14.29%) Story Mapping
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Apex Code
2 1 (14.29%) SOQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft