Salesforce Administrator Contract Job Trends

Salesforce Administrator
UK

The median Salesforce Administrator daily rate in the UK is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 536 571
Rank change year-on-year -33 +35 +173
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Administrator 18 16 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.047% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.050% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 23
10th Percentile £368 £211 £315
25th Percentile £427 £345 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £468
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -9.09% +16.88%
75th Percentile £556 £558 £500
90th Percentile £599 £582 £535
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% -10.53%

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 33,474 31,919 40,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.77% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,646 27,547
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,966 1,020 1,459
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

Salesforce Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Salesforce Administrator' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Salesforce Administrator job vacancy trend in the UK

Salesforce Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Salesforce Administrator job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Salesforce Administrator job vacancies in the UK

Salesforce Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Administrator over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Administrator in the UK

Salesforce Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Salesforce Administrator job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Salesforce Administrator job vacancies in the UK

Salesforce Administrator
Top 9 Contract Job 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 17 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
England -32 18 £513 +20.59% 16
London 0 15 £513 +20.59% 5
Work from Home 0 8 £513 +3.54% 5
UK excluding London -55 3 £425 +3.03% 15
South West -1 1 £425 -5.56%
Midlands -30 1 - -
West Midlands -33 1 - -
North of England -47 1 - - 9
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Salesforce Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Salesforce Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Salesforce Administrator in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 5 (27.78%) CRM
3 5 (27.78%) JIRA
3 5 (27.78%) Validation
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Apple
4 4 (22.22%) Business Enablement
4 4 (22.22%) Confluence
4 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 4 (22.22%) Slack
5 3 (16.67%) Apex Code
5 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (16.67%) Degree
5 3 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (16.67%) User Stories
6 2 (11.11%) B2B
6 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (5.56%) AI
7 1 (5.56%) Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Azure
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Backlog Refinement

Salesforce Administrator Skill Set
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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 4 (22.22%) Slack
2 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Einstein
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (22.22%) Retail
5 3 (16.67%) Electronics
6 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Marketing
6 1 (5.56%) Military
6 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 5 (27.78%) CRM
2 5 (27.78%) Validation
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Business Enablement
3 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (16.67%) User Stories
5 2 (11.11%) B2B
5 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 1 (5.56%) AI
6 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.56%) Logistics
6 1 (5.56%) Migration
6 1 (5.56%) Predictive Modelling
6 1 (5.56%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (22.22%) Apple
3 1 (5.56%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud