SOQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SOQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOQL over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 447 513
Rank change year-on-year +62 +66 -103
Contract jobs citing SOQL 5 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.050% 0.006%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.10% 0.17% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £435 - £377
25th Percentile £450 £500 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £440
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +22.30% +9.88%
75th Percentile £675 £581 £475
90th Percentile - £600 £492
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

SOQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,881 7,028 8,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.49% 29.11% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 5,029 6,228
10th Percentile £319 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% +14.12%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £654 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 350 341
10th Percentile £37.50 £22.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £50.19 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year - +26.16% +16.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +14.29%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOQL in the UK excluding London

SOQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOQL in the UK excluding London

SOQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOQL in the UK excluding London

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 26 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +25 2 £650 +18.18% 1
Midlands +22 2 £650 +18.18% 1
South West - 2 £500 -
North East - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 -
SOQL
UK

SOQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Boomi
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (60.00%) Visualforce
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth
3 2 (40.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Salesforce