Apex Code Contracts in the Thames Valley

Salesforce Apex
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Apex Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apex Code over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 126 144
Rank change year-on-year +32 +18 +19
Contract jobs citing Apex Code 7 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.23% 0.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 1.14% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £438 £494 £560
25th Percentile £513 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £634
90th Percentile £600 £647 £655
South East median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +17.07%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Apex Code 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 389 527 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.83% 19.98% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 360 476
10th Percentile £359 £331 £344
25th Percentile £450 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £589 £608 £602
90th Percentile £700 £650 £683
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.20% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 30 20
10th Percentile £25.55 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £35.50 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £58.12 £58.40 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +2.67% -15.57%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £71.40 £67.63 £79.41
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%

Apex Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Apex Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Apex Code in the Thames Valley

Apex Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apex Code in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Apex Code in the Thames Valley

Apex Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apex Code in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apex Code in the Thames Valley

Apex Code
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apex Code within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 June 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 +32 7 £550 -4.30% 54
Apex Code
South East

Apex Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (57.14%) SOAP
3 3 (42.86%) REST
3 3 (42.86%) Visualforce
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 2 (28.57%) API Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Case Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) OOP
4 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) SOQL
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft