SOQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SOQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 424 502
Rank change year-on-year +32 +78 -60
Contract jobs citing SOQL 9 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.042% 0.026% 0.007%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.18% 0.095% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile - £518 -
25th Percentile £313 £525 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £375
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +60.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 - £388
90th Percentile £675 - -
UK median daily rate £438 £600 £438
% change year-on-year -27.08% +37.14% +25.00%

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 5,046 6,305 8,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 27.78% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,405 6,152
10th Percentile £320 £338 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 323 327
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.68 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £78.00 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +19 6 £438 -27.08% 4
Midlands +18 6 £438 -27.08% 4
North East - 3 £425 -
North of England - 3 £425 - 1
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 3 (33.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Boomi
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Billing
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Billing Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Solution Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Billing Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Visualforce
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) OAuth
3 2 (22.22%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 5 (55.56%) Release Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Kanban
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Conga
2 1 (11.11%) DocuSign