SOQL Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SOQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 354 395
Rank change year-on-year -44 +41 +93
Contract jobs citing SOQL 7 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.020% 0.031%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.075% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £420 £361 £465
25th Percentile £438 £369 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -25.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £466 £609
90th Percentile £538 £479 £626
UK median daily rate £463 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,623 4,026 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.61% 26.85% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,989 2,424 3,440
10th Percentile £315 £336 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £570 £580 £600
90th Percentile £644 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 197 318
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.25 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -1.93% -
75th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SOQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SOQL
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SOQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SOQL

SOQL
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 SOQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
North of England - 3 £525 - 3
South West - 2 £438 - 2
Wales - 1 £450 - 1
South East - 1 £500 - 3
SOQL
UK

SOQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (85.71%) Visualforce
3 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Case Management
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Talend