Salesforce Consultant Contracts

Salesforce Consultant
UK

The median Salesforce Consultant daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024.

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

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 571 752
Rank change year-on-year +38 +181 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Consultant 25 33 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.074% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.079% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 38
10th Percentile £401 £473 £413
25th Percentile £466 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £566 £700 £597
90th Percentile £600 £713 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -25.00% +18.18% -

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 32,514 41,934 73,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 93.43% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,888 28,262 50,936
10th Percentile £300 £294 £313
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.40% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 1,489 1,726
10th Percentile £15.43 £15.16 £13.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £19.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £33.54 £44.00 £30.87
Median % change year-on-year -23.77% +42.53% +53.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.53 £77.50 £73.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £44.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -26.97% +78.00% +40.85%

Salesforce Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Consultant in the UK

Salesforce Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Salesforce Consultant in the UK

Salesforce Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Consultant over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Consultant in the UK

Salesforce Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce Consultant in the UK

Salesforce Consultant
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 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
England +39 18 £525 -8.70% 22
Work from Home +63 14 £525 -20.75% 13
London +33 13 £525 -4.55% 16
UK excluding London +52 5 £488 -25.00% 7
Midlands +8 2 £475 -19.49% 1
West Midlands +4 2 £475 -32.14%
East of England - 2 £500 - 1
South East +33 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 December 2024, Salesforce Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 8 (32.00%) Apex Code
3 6 (24.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 5 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 4 (16.00%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 4 (16.00%) Finance
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.00%) HTML
6 3 (12.00%) CSS
6 3 (12.00%) CRM
6 3 (12.00%) Visualforce
6 3 (12.00%) User Stories
6 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (12.00%) SOQL
6 3 (12.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 2 (8.00%) Budget Management
7 2 (8.00%) Data Privacy
7 2 (8.00%) Analytics
7 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (8.00%) Requirements Workshops
7 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (8.00%) Marketing

Salesforce Consultant 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 (4.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Maximo
1 1 (4.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 5 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) MailChimp
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Einstein
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
1 4 (16.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Billing
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (12.00%) CSS
2 3 (12.00%) HTML
2 3 (12.00%) Visualforce
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) Migration
2 3 (12.00%) Agile
2 3 (12.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 3 (12.00%) CRM
2 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (12.00%) User Stories
3 2 (8.00%) Analytics
3 2 (8.00%) Budget Management
3 2 (8.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (8.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (8.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (8.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (8.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 2 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (4.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (4.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Apex Code
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) ClickSoftware Technologies
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Pardot
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) SAP