Salesforce Consultant Contract Job Trends

Salesforce Consultant
UK

The median Salesforce Consultant daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 506 559
Rank change year-on-year -93 +53 +84
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Consultant 31 20 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.069% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.074% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 9 17
10th Percentile £360 £390 £489
25th Percentile £413 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £569 £550 £600
90th Percentile £631 £628 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £400 £540
% change year-on-year +56.25% -25.93% -10.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 44,544 26,886 39,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.37% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,258 17,494 25,719
10th Percentile £325 £293 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,901 1,057 2,674
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.99 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.50% -23.32% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +70.88% -34.16% -5.88%

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 21 May 2026.

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 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 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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 -92 31 £450 -13.46% 13
London -45 26 £450 -14.29% 10
Work from Home -43 14 £450 -12.62% 3
UK excluding London -104 4 £625 +56.25% 5
Midlands -56 3 £625 - 1
West Midlands -56 2 £673 - 1
East Midlands -27 1 £413 -
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2026, 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 31 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 8 (25.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 8 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (19.35%) Apex Code
4 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
4 5 (16.13%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (16.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 5 (16.13%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (12.90%) Agile
5 4 (12.90%) Migration
5 4 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (12.90%) Scrum
5 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (12.90%) Tableau
6 3 (9.68%) Batch Processing
6 3 (9.68%) CRM
6 3 (9.68%) Customer Experience
6 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
6 3 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (6.45%) Change Management
7 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
7 2 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.45%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (6.45%) Data Integration
7 2 (6.45%) Data Migration
7 2 (6.45%) DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) ERP
7 2 (6.45%) ETL
7 2 (6.45%) GIS

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 (3.23%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 5 (16.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Tableau
2 2 (6.45%) GIS
2 2 (6.45%) Tableau Server
3 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (3.23%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Marketing
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (6.45%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.23%) CSS
3 1 (3.23%) HTML
3 1 (3.23%) Playwright
3 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
2 5 (16.13%) Translating Business Requirements
3 4 (12.90%) Agile
3 4 (12.90%) Migration
3 4 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (12.90%) Scrum
3 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (9.68%) Batch Processing
4 3 (9.68%) CRM
4 3 (9.68%) Customer Experience
4 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
5 2 (6.45%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (6.45%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (6.45%) Sprint Review
5 2 (6.45%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) Apex Code
2 2 (6.45%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) SOQL
3 1 (3.23%) SOSL
3 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) QA
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
Vendors
1 31 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.23%) ESRI
2 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) SAP