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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 539 615
Rank change year-on-year 0 +76 +173
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Consultant 29 20 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.052% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.056% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 24
10th Percentile £395 £463 £433
25th Percentile £425 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £531 £588 £688
90th Percentile £580 £600 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +11.11%

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 30,003 35,798 46,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.95% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,960 22,064 31,748
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,684 1,483
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%

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
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 18 September 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 12 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 18 September 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 +25 25 £500 -4.76% 19
London +29 15 £508 -3.33% 15
UK excluding London -4 11 £450 -20.00% 11
Work from Home +28 10 £500 -11.11% 16
South East +18 3 £400 -31.91% 10
Midlands -16 3 £450 -12.20% 1
West Midlands -11 2 £450 -12.20% 1
South West - 2 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £475 -
East of England - 1 £500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 29 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 12 (41.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 9 (31.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
4 7 (24.14%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Migration
5 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (20.69%) Data Migration
5 6 (20.69%) Apex Code
5 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (17.24%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (17.24%) Marketing
6 5 (17.24%) Data Management
6 5 (17.24%) CRM
6 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
6 5 (17.24%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (13.79%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (13.79%) Project Management
7 4 (13.79%) Change Management
7 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (13.79%) User Stories
7 4 (13.79%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 3 (10.34%) DevOps
8 3 (10.34%) Customer Analytics
8 3 (10.34%) Data Transformation
8 3 (10.34%) Marketo
8 3 (10.34%) Marketing Strategy
8 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
8 3 (10.34%) Marketing Automation

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 (3.45%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 9 (31.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 3 (10.34%) Azure
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Coach
5 1 (3.45%) Responsys
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Einstein
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Postman
2 2 (6.90%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) JMeter
3 1 (3.45%) Locust
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Marketing
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (10.34%) Middleware
2 3 (10.34%) Visualforce
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Agile
2 6 (20.69%) Data Migration
2 6 (20.69%) Migration
2 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (17.24%) CRM
3 5 (17.24%) Data Management
3 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
3 5 (17.24%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (13.79%) Change Management
4 4 (13.79%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 4 (13.79%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.79%) Project Management
4 4 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (13.79%) User Stories
5 3 (10.34%) Data Integration
5 3 (10.34%) Marketing Strategy
5 3 (10.34%) Product Marketing
5 3 (10.34%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) PMI Certification
1 3 (10.34%) PMP
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.34%) Marketo
3 1 (3.45%) Criteo
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Pardot
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) SAP