Salesforce Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Salesforce Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Salesforce Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £416, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 - 391
Rank change year-on-year - - +64
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Engineer 6 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% - 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% - 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £376 - £409
25th Percentile £393 - £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 - £435
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.00%
75th Percentile £689 - £453
90th Percentile £775 - -
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £445
% change year-on-year -6.25% +34.83% -15.24%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 20,911 11,708 19,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.41% 92.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,420 7,637 12,043
10th Percentile £263 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £585 £585 £595
90th Percentile £675 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 758 2,116
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £41.50 £31.29 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -9.58% -18.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.73 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%

Salesforce Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Salesforce Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Salesforce Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Salesforce Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Salesforce Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Salesforce Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Engineer in the UK excluding London

Salesforce Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 April 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
North West - 2 £411 -
Wales - 2 £750 -
North of England - 2 £411 -
Midlands - 1 £400 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Scotland - 1 £750 -
South West - 1 £375 -
Salesforce Engineer
UK

Salesforce Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring Salesforce Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Playwright
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) ADO
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) BrowserStack
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Metadata
4 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) SonarCloud
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) API Design
5 1 (16.67%) API Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (16.67%) Confluence
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) CRM
5 1 (16.67%) Cucumber

Salesforce Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) BrowserStack
2 2 (33.33%) SonarCloud
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 2 (33.33%) ADO
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) System Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Veracode