Salesforce Consultant Contract Job Trends

Salesforce Consultant
UK

The median Salesforce Consultant daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 540 593
Rank change year-on-year -15 +53 +185
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Consultant 31 24 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.066% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.071% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 23
10th Percentile £402 £410 £453
25th Percentile £425 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -10.64% +6.82%
75th Percentile £581 £556 £694
90th Percentile £875 £595 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £500 £650
% change year-on-year -7.75% -23.08% +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 32,121 33,965 44,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.87% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,371 20,492 29,993
10th Percentile £278 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £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 £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,875 1,270 1,571
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.10 £15.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.11%

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 16 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 16 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 -14 21 £473 -7.80% 23
London +1 16 £488 -7.14% 15
Work from Home +17 15 £533 +1.43% 15
UK excluding London -27 7 £461 -7.75% 12
South East +1 2 £436 -24.13% 5
East of England -15 1 £500 -
West Midlands -24 1 £450 -5.26% 3
Midlands -34 1 £450 -5.26% 6
Scotland - 1 £475 -
South West - 1 £425 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 31 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 11 (35.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 11 (35.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
5 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
6 5 (16.13%) Apex Code
7 4 (12.90%) Change Management
7 4 (12.90%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (12.90%) Middleware
7 4 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (9.68%) Azure
8 3 (9.68%) Data Modelling
8 3 (9.68%) DevOps
8 3 (9.68%) JIRA
8 3 (9.68%) Pardot
8 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (9.68%) User Stories
9 2 (6.45%) AI
9 2 (6.45%) API Testing
9 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.45%) Business Transformation
9 2 (6.45%) CRM
9 2 (6.45%) Data Governance
9 2 (6.45%) Data Management
9 2 (6.45%) 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 (3.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 11 (35.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Coach
4 1 (3.23%) Responsys
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Einstein
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Postman
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) JMeter
3 1 (3.23%) Locust
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Marketing
4 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Billing
5 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (12.90%) Middleware
2 1 (3.23%) OAuth
2 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) Swagger
2 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (22.58%) Agile
3 6 (19.35%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 4 (12.90%) Change Management
4 4 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (9.68%) Data Modelling
5 3 (9.68%) DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.68%) User Stories
6 2 (6.45%) API Testing
6 2 (6.45%) Business Transformation
6 2 (6.45%) Data Governance
6 2 (6.45%) Data Migration
6 2 (6.45%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.45%) Revenue Recognition
6 2 (6.45%) SDLC
6 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (9.68%) Pardot
3 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Cvent
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) SAP