Salesforce Architect Contracts

Salesforce Architect
UK

The median Salesforce Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, 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 449 516 639
Rank change year-on-year +67 +123 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Architect 70 84 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 64 49
10th Percentile £470 £470 £510
25th Percentile £525 £568 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -1.85% -6.90%
75th Percentile £688 £752 £738
90th Percentile £740 £906 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £663 £700
% change year-on-year -9.43% -5.36% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £34.30
25th Percentile £84.83 - £39.63
Median hourly rate £91.69 £102.87 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +107.82% -
75th Percentile £98.56 - £59.63
90th Percentile - - £65.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.69 £102.87 -
% change year-on-year -10.87% - -

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 Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Architect in the UK

Salesforce Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Salesforce Architect in the UK

Salesforce Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Architect in the UK

Salesforce Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce Architect in the UK

Salesforce Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Architect 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 +45 60 £600 -9.43% 24
London +31 43 £613 -7.55% 10
Work from Home +45 25 £600 -7.69% 21
UK excluding London +40 15 £600 -9.43% 13
Midlands +21 5 £550 -15.38% 2
East of England +29 4 £675 -10.00%
South East +41 3 £600 +9.09% 2
East Midlands +11 3 £447 -9.05% 2
North of England +24 2 - - 7
West Midlands +12 2 £663 -4.50%
North East 0 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Salesforce Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 26 (37.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
4 17 (24.29%) Roadmaps
4 17 (24.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 14 (20.00%) Apex Code
5 14 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 14 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
6 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.14%) CRM
7 11 (15.71%) Marketing
7 11 (15.71%) CI/CD
8 10 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (14.29%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
9 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (11.43%) Visualforce
10 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (11.43%) B2B
10 8 (11.43%) Finance
11 7 (10.00%) Middleware
12 6 (8.57%) Agile
12 6 (8.57%) User Stories
12 6 (8.57%) DevOps
12 6 (8.57%) Decision-Making
12 6 (8.57%) Customer Experience
13 5 (7.14%) Onboarding
13 5 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
13 5 (7.14%) API Integration

Salesforce Architect 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.43%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.43%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 17 (24.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 4 (5.71%) Azure
3 4 (5.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 3 (4.29%) Salesforce Einstein
4 3 (4.29%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.86%) GitHub
5 2 (2.86%) Heroku
6 1 (1.43%) AWS
6 1 (1.43%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Big Data
1 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) ERwin
General
1 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Marketing
3 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Finance
5 4 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Billing
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 8 (11.43%) Visualforce
3 7 (10.00%) Middleware
4 3 (4.29%) REST
4 3 (4.29%) SOAP
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.71%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.29%) Reference Data
3 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.43%) FMCG
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.29%) Roadmaps
2 14 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 12 (17.14%) CRM
3 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (15.71%) CI/CD
5 10 (14.29%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 10 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.43%) B2B
7 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.57%) Agile
8 6 (8.57%) Customer Experience
8 6 (8.57%) Decision-Making
8 6 (8.57%) DevOps
8 6 (8.57%) User Stories
9 5 (7.14%) API Integration
9 5 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
9 5 (7.14%) Migration
9 5 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.86%) Degree
1 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.29%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (5.71%) DocuSign
2 4 (5.71%) SAP
3 3 (4.29%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.29%) Pardot
3 3 (4.29%) SnapLogic
3 3 (4.29%) Sparx
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle