Salesforce Developer Contracts

Salesforce Developer
UK

The median Salesforce Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 492 525
Rank change year-on-year +50 +33 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Developer 88 98 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.24% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 64 128
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £650
90th Percentile £575 £625 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £87.75 - £54.11
25th Percentile £93.09 - £54.47
Median hourly rate £102.00 - £55.69
75th Percentile - - £57.53
90th Percentile - - £58.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £102.00 - -

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 27,097 40,246 56,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 92.78% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,700 26,198 39,189
10th Percentile £300 £277 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,676 1,567
10th Percentile £14.12 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.16
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.26 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
% change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%

Salesforce Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +58 79 £475 -9.52% 105
Work from Home +65 57 £475 -5.00% 85
London +48 55 £488 -2.50% 39
UK excluding London +64 23 £475 -9.52% 74
South East +44 7 £485 -7.62% 22
North of England +14 7 £475 -20.83% 28
Yorkshire +14 4 £300 -45.45% 7
South West +36 3 £450 -10.00% 4
Midlands +15 3 £475 -29.63% 16
North West +9 3 £475 -20.83% 21
Scotland - 3 £425 - 1
East of England +32 2 £450 -1.37% 8
West Midlands +17 2 - - 8
East Midlands +12 1 £475 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Salesforce Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 58 (65.91%) Apex Code
3 47 (53.41%) Lightning Web Components
4 31 (35.23%) Visualforce
5 24 (27.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 22 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 21 (23.86%) Agile
8 19 (21.59%) JavaScript
9 17 (19.32%) Marketing
10 14 (15.91%) REST
11 13 (14.77%) DevOps
11 13 (14.77%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
11 13 (14.77%) HTML
11 13 (14.77%) CSS
11 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
12 12 (13.64%) CRM
12 12 (13.64%) Validation
13 11 (12.50%) Data Management
14 10 (11.36%) Scrum
14 10 (11.36%) Finance
15 9 (10.23%) Data Modelling
15 9 (10.23%) SOAP
15 9 (10.23%) Degree
15 9 (10.23%) Computer Science
15 9 (10.23%) CI/CD
15 9 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (9.09%) Security Cleared
16 8 (9.09%) Migration
17 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared

Salesforce Developer 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 3 (3.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 22 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 3 (3.41%) GitHub
4 2 (2.27%) AWS
4 2 (2.27%) Azure
4 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.27%) Bloomreach
4 2 (2.27%) Figma
4 2 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Boomi
5 1 (1.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) ServiceMax
5 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.14%) Social Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) HTTP
2 1 (1.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.14%) Metadata
2 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.14%) SQLite
2 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 3 (3.41%) Git
3 2 (2.27%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (2.27%) UI Automator
4 1 (1.14%) Ant
4 1 (1.14%) GitLab
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.14%) Postman
4 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (19.32%) Marketing
2 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Automotive
7 1 (1.14%) Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Billing
7 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.14%) Legal
7 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (53.41%) Lightning Web Components
2 31 (35.23%) Visualforce
3 14 (15.91%) REST
4 13 (14.77%) CSS
4 13 (14.77%) HTML
5 9 (10.23%) SOAP
6 3 (3.41%) XML
7 2 (2.27%) Ajax
7 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.27%) JSON
7 2 (2.27%) Node.js
7 2 (2.27%) React
7 2 (2.27%) Semantic HTML
7 2 (2.27%) Vue
8 1 (1.14%) .NET
8 1 (1.14%) Apache Cordova
8 1 (1.14%) Middleware
8 1 (1.14%) RESTful
8 1 (1.14%) Sass
8 1 (1.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.86%) Agile
2 13 (14.77%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 13 (14.77%) DevOps
2 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (13.64%) CRM
3 12 (13.64%) Validation
4 11 (12.50%) Data Management
5 10 (11.36%) Scrum
6 9 (10.23%) CI/CD
6 9 (10.23%) Computer Science
6 9 (10.23%) Data Modelling
7 8 (9.09%) Migration
8 6 (6.82%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (6.82%) Data Migration
8 6 (6.82%) User Experience
8 6 (6.82%) Web Development
9 5 (5.68%) Analytics
10 4 (4.55%) Data Privacy
10 4 (4.55%) Mentoring
10 4 (4.55%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (65.91%) Apex Code
2 19 (21.59%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.95%) SOQL
4 6 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (2.27%) Java
5 2 (2.27%) Python
5 2 (2.27%) SOSL
6 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (10.23%) Degree
2 8 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) Sun Certification
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.27%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 3 (3.41%) MuleSoft
3 3 (3.41%) Pardot
4 2 (2.27%) Conga
5 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.14%) Databricks
5 1 (1.14%) Jitterbit
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle
5 1 (1.14%) Talend