Apex Code Contract Job Trends

Salesforce Apex
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apex Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 432 491
Rank change year-on-year -59 +59 +15
Contract jobs citing Apex Code 190 125 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.39% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.18% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 90 45
10th Percentile £360 £363 £364
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.31% -12.92%
75th Percentile £655 £550 £550
90th Percentile £688 £638 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +38.89% -5.26% -19.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Apex Code 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,150 10,627 12,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.00% 32.74% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,188 7,032 8,268
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 535 292 343
10th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £47.75 £37.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.75 £78.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -

Apex Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apex Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apex Code job vacancy trend in the UK

Apex Code
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apex Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apex Code

Apex Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apex Code over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apex Code in the UK

Apex Code
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apex Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apex Code

Apex Code
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apex Code within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 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
England -95 141 £500 - 170
London -48 96 £475 -9.13% 119
Work from Home -40 76 £500 - 77
UK excluding London -103 61 £625 +38.89% 65
South East -68 17 £475 - 12
Northern Ireland - 12 £688 - 5
North of England -66 9 £625 +78.57% 15
Scotland -11 8 £608 +21.60% 9
North West -43 6 £625 +81.82% 11
South West -47 6 £488 +8.33% 2
Midlands -57 6 £625 +38.89% 19
East Midlands -19 3 £575 +27.78% 12
West Midlands -56 3 £688 +43.98% 7
Yorkshire - 3 £700 - 4
East of England -29 2 £650 -3.70% 4
Wales -12 1 £500 +11.11%

Apex Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (4.74%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (3.16%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 56 (29.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 26 (13.68%) Azure
4 20 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.32%) AWS
6 10 (5.26%) GitHub
7 8 (4.21%) Salesforce Einstein
8 6 (3.16%) GCP
8 6 (3.16%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 5 (2.63%) Apigee
10 3 (1.58%) SaaS
11 2 (1.05%) OCI
12 1 (0.53%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (0.53%) Azure Databricks
12 1 (0.53%) Boomi
12 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.53%) iPaaS
12 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.11%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) 5G
2 2 (1.05%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.68%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.11%) Metadata
3 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (12.11%) Git
2 22 (11.58%) JIRA
3 11 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.74%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (3.68%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.68%) Postman
5 7 (3.68%) REST Assured
6 6 (3.16%) Ant
6 6 (3.16%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.58%) Selenium
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.53%) git-flow
General
1 57 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.11%) Public Sector
3 36 (18.95%) Finance
4 19 (10.00%) Marketing
5 12 (6.32%) Banking
6 11 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.74%) Retail
9 8 (4.21%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.11%) Games
11 3 (1.58%) Automotive
11 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.05%) Billing
13 1 (0.53%) Front Office
13 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (62.11%) Developer
2 114 (60.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 33 (17.37%) Architect
4 32 (16.84%) Salesforce Architect
5 27 (14.21%) Senior
6 26 (13.68%) Lead
7 25 (13.16%) Senior Developer
7 25 (13.16%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 16 (8.42%) Salesforce Engineer
9 13 (6.84%) Technical Leader
10 12 (6.32%) Salesforce Technical Architect
10 12 (6.32%) Salesforce Technical Leader
10 12 (6.32%) Technical Architect
11 9 (4.74%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (4.74%) Cloud Developer
12 7 (3.68%) Test Engineer
13 6 (3.16%) Administrator
13 6 (3.16%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.16%) Salesforce Administrator
14 4 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (84.21%) Lightning Web Components
2 53 (27.89%) REST
3 47 (24.74%) SOAP
4 37 (19.47%) Visualforce
5 22 (11.58%) Middleware
6 9 (4.74%) Web Services
7 7 (3.68%) HTML
7 7 (3.68%) Playwright
7 7 (3.68%) React
8 4 (2.11%) FHIR
8 4 (2.11%) JSON
9 1 (0.53%) .NET
9 1 (0.53%) ADO
9 1 (0.53%) CSS
9 1 (0.53%) Kafka
9 1 (0.53%) Node.js
9 1 (0.53%) OAuth
9 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.74%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.21%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.68%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.63%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.53%) Agile
2 79 (41.58%) CI/CD
3 66 (34.74%) DevOps
4 64 (33.68%) Data Modelling
5 34 (17.89%) Integration Patterns
6 32 (16.84%) Validation
7 30 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (15.26%) Release Management
8 29 (15.26%) Scrum
9 28 (14.74%) Technical Leadership
10 27 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (14.21%) Test Automation
11 26 (13.68%) CRM
12 24 (12.63%) AI
13 20 (10.53%) Mentoring
13 20 (10.53%) Migration
14 19 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
14 19 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
15 18 (9.47%) Code Quality
15 18 (9.47%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
Programming Languages
1 27 (14.21%) SOQL
2 16 (8.42%) JavaScript
3 14 (7.37%) SOSL
4 12 (6.32%) Java
5 5 (2.63%) SQL
6 1 (0.53%) Bash
6 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.32%) Degree
4 5 (2.63%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.89%) QA
2 9 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.11%) GDPR
3 4 (2.11%) HL7
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Grafana
1 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 190 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 26 (13.68%) MuleSoft
3 7 (3.68%) Conga
3 7 (3.68%) GoCardless
3 7 (3.68%) Pardot
3 7 (3.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 6 (3.16%) SAP
5 5 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.11%) Talend
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle
7 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.53%) Dell
8 1 (0.53%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.53%) Informatica
8 1 (0.53%) Marketo