SOQL Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SOQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 101 -
Rank change year-on-year -51 - -
Contract jobs citing SOQL 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.032% 0.20% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% 0.74% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £303 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% - -
75th Percentile £308 £525 -
90th Percentile - £540 -
South East median daily rate £328 £500 -
% change year-on-year -34.50% - -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 579 404 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.52% 26.74% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 249 368
10th Percentile £310 £325 £362
25th Percentile £394 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £501 £513
% change year-on-year +2.40% -2.34% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 29
10th Percentile £26.58 £23.67 £35.47
25th Percentile £43.81 £27.90 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £42.00 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -28.19% +6.35%
75th Percentile £82.25 £59.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.16 £71.25
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £62.50
% change year-on-year +9.22% -12.10% +10.91%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

SOQL job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SOQL
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SOQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SOQL

SOQL
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 SOQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Berkshire -31 1 £305 -39.00% 1
SOQL
South East

SOQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce