Salesforce Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Salesforce Engineer
England > South East

The median Salesforce Engineer daily rate in the South East is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 - 193
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Engineer 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.050% - 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £409
25th Percentile £225 - £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £435
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.00%
75th Percentile £275 - £453
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £435
% change year-on-year +10.00% +14.94% -25.64%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,511 2,654 5,112
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 91.23% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,408 1,789 3,056
10th Percentile £303 £220 £225
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 161 501
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £24.25 £17.50 £18.32
Median hourly rate £52.21 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.65% -31.58% -3.06%
75th Percentile £80.41 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year +55.17% -22.00% -17.38%

Salesforce Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Salesforce Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Salesforce Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Salesforce Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Salesforce Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Salesforce Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Salesforce Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Hampshire - 2 £250 - 3
Thames Valley - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Salesforce Engineer
England

Salesforce Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 May 2026, Salesforce Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Salesforce Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Conga
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) GoCardless
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured

Salesforce Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) API Testing
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Conga
2 1 (33.33%) GoCardless
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle