Salesforce Consultant Contract Job Trends

Salesforce Consultant
UK

The median Salesforce Consultant daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 528 593
Rank change year-on-year -5 +65 +194
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Consultant 30 23 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.063% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.068% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 23
10th Percentile £403 £393 £453
25th Percentile £425 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% +6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £694
90th Percentile £865 £598 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -19.78% -11.54% +30.00%

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 31,114 33,947 44,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.88% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,696 20,467 30,059
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,755 1,285 1,535
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.04 £14.88
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +85.42%

Salesforce Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Salesforce Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Salesforce Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Salesforce Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Consultant over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Consultant in the UK

Salesforce Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Salesforce Consultant
Top 11 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 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 2 November 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 -4 22 £475 -7.32% 12
London +15 16 £500 - 5
Work from Home +5 14 £508 -3.33% 9
UK excluding London -26 8 £461 -19.78% 10
South East +4 2 £436 -25.74% 2
South West - 2 £425 -
Midlands -22 1 £450 -5.26% 3
West Midlands -26 1 £450 -5.26% 2
East of England - 1 £500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £475 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, Salesforce Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 12 (40.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 11 (36.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (20.00%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) Apex Code
6 5 (16.67%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 5 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (13.33%) Change Management
7 4 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (13.33%) Middleware
7 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) Azure
8 3 (10.00%) DevOps
8 3 (10.00%) JIRA
8 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 3 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.00%) User Stories
9 2 (6.67%) API Testing
9 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.67%) Business Transformation
9 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 2 (6.67%) CRM
9 2 (6.67%) Data Governance
9 2 (6.67%) Data Management
9 2 (6.67%) Data Migration

Salesforce Consultant 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 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 11 (36.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Coach
5 1 (3.33%) Responsys
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Einstein
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Postman
2 2 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) JMeter
3 1 (3.33%) Locust
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Marketing
4 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Billing
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (13.33%) Middleware
2 2 (6.67%) Visualforce
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (16.67%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 5 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (13.33%) Change Management
4 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.00%) DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.00%) User Stories
6 2 (6.67%) API Testing
6 2 (6.67%) Business Transformation
6 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.67%) Data Governance
6 2 (6.67%) Data Migration
6 2 (6.67%) Revenue Recognition
6 2 (6.67%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.67%) Pardot
3 1 (3.33%) Cvent
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) SAP