Salesforce Administrator Contracts

Salesforce Administrator
UK

The median Salesforce Administrator daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 573 676
Rank change year-on-year +79 +103 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Administrator 25 27 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.062% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.067% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 33
10th Percentile £212 £350 £248
25th Percentile £231 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £549 £488 £488
90th Percentile £579 £500 £520
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £399 £350
% change year-on-year +12.85% +13.93% -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Salesforce Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Salesforce Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Administrator in the UK

Salesforce Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salesforce Administrator.

Daily rate trend for Salesforce Administrator in the UK

Salesforce Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Administrator over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Administrator in the UK

Salesforce Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Salesforce Administrator.

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce Administrator in the UK

Salesforce Administrator
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +62 22 £450 +2.86% 14
Work from Home +49 12 £450 - 9
London +32 11 £450 -1.91% 8
UK excluding London +54 10 £450 +12.85% 5
North of England +33 6 £450 -10.00% 3
North East - 4 £338 -
South West +42 2 £425 +6.25%
Yorkshire +16 2 £550 +10.00% 2
South East - 2 £250 -

Salesforce Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Salesforce Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Salesforce Administrator in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 7 (28.00%) Analytics
3 6 (24.00%) Dashboard Development
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Marketing
3 6 (24.00%) Validation
4 5 (20.00%) Apex Code
4 5 (20.00%) Data Management
4 5 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) Data Quality
5 4 (16.00%) Data Privacy
5 4 (16.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (16.00%) Data Deduplication
5 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (8.00%) User Experience
7 2 (8.00%) Concur
7 2 (8.00%) Marketing Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Finance
7 2 (8.00%) SQL
7 2 (8.00%) CRM
8 1 (4.00%) Data Modelling
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft

Salesforce Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Ant
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (24.00%) Marketing
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Billing
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.00%) CSS
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Analytics
2 6 (24.00%) Dashboard Development
2 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (24.00%) Validation
3 5 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 5 (20.00%) Data Management
4 4 (16.00%) Data Deduplication
4 4 (16.00%) Data Privacy
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) CRM
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Marketing Automation
6 2 (8.00%) User Experience
7 1 (4.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 1 (4.00%) IT Audit
7 1 (4.00%) Marketing Strategy
7 1 (4.00%) People Management
7 1 (4.00%) Process Improvement
7 1 (4.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (4.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.00%) Concur
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) DocuSign
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Pardot