SOQL Contracts in the South East

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring SOQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOQL 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.085% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
England median daily rate £500 £463 £600
% change year-on-year +8.11% -22.92% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 884 1,220 1,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.17% 24.76% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 830 958
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £408 £407 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% +1.94%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £611
90th Percentile £638 £651 £689
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 65 70
10th Percentile £35.96 £27.00 £21.39
25th Percentile £48.99 £54.00 £43.28
Median hourly rate £54.88 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +18.18% +3.29%
75th Percentile £58.69 £73.75 £63.55
90th Percentile £64.21 £76.50 £73.88
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SOQL in the South East

SOQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOQL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SOQL in the South East

SOQL
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 SOQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Berkshire - 3 £500 -
Thames Valley - 3 £500 -
SOQL
England

SOQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Case Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft