Salesforce Engineer Contract Job Trends

Salesforce Engineer
UK

The median Salesforce Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 522 589
Rank change year-on-year -80 +67 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Engineer 34 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.027% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.030% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 6 9
10th Percentile £397 £345 £414
25th Percentile £425 £384 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £445
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +34.83% -15.24%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £593
90th Percentile £775 £725 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £416 - £435
% change year-on-year - - -13.00%

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 41,646 27,118 40,940
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.78% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,966 17,841 26,815
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.53% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 956 2,534
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £31.29 £34.61
% change year-on-year +32.63% -9.58% -18.32%

Salesforce Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Salesforce Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Salesforce Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Salesforce Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Engineer over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Engineer in the UK

Salesforce Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 April 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 -80 29 £550 -8.33%
London -39 25 £575 -4.17%
Work from Home -29 7 £400 -42.86%
UK excluding London - 6 £416 -
North of England - 2 £411 -
North West - 2 £411 -
Wales - 2 £750 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Scotland - 1 £750 -
South West - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 2026, Salesforce Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 24 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 21 (61.76%) DevOps
4 18 (52.94%) Deployment Automation
4 18 (52.94%) Test Automation
5 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
6 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
7 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (23.53%) Azure
8 8 (23.53%) Code Quality
8 8 (23.53%) Metadata
9 7 (20.59%) Agile
9 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (20.59%) QA
10 6 (17.65%) GitHub
10 6 (17.65%) GitLab
10 6 (17.65%) Playwright
10 6 (17.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (14.71%) Apex Code
11 5 (14.71%) BrowserStack
11 5 (14.71%) Release Management
11 5 (14.71%) Validation
12 4 (11.76%) AWS
12 4 (11.76%) CRM
12 4 (11.76%) Python
12 4 (11.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 3 (8.82%) ADO
13 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security
13 3 (8.82%) Coaching

Salesforce Engineer 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 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (17.65%) GitHub
3 6 (17.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 5 (14.71%) BrowserStack
5 4 (11.76%) AWS
5 4 (11.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.82%) SonarCloud
7 2 (5.88%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) Akamai
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Metadata
2 2 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) GitLab
2 3 (8.82%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Selenium
3 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
3 2 (5.88%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) git-flow
4 1 (2.94%) Postman
4 1 (2.94%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.94%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Marketing
4 3 (8.82%) Finance
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Playwright
2 3 (8.82%) ADO
3 2 (5.88%) CSS
3 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
3 2 (5.88%) HTML
3 2 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (5.88%) Pandas
3 2 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.94%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.94%) Puppeteer
4 1 (2.94%) PySpark
4 1 (2.94%) RESTful
4 1 (2.94%) Swagger
4 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 21 (61.76%) DevOps
3 18 (52.94%) Deployment Automation
3 18 (52.94%) Test Automation
4 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (23.53%) Code Quality
6 7 (20.59%) Agile
6 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (14.71%) Release Management
7 5 (14.71%) Validation
8 4 (11.76%) CRM
9 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security
9 3 (8.82%) Coaching
9 3 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (5.88%) BDD
10 2 (5.88%) Customer Experience
10 2 (5.88%) Kanban
10 2 (5.88%) Metadata Management
10 2 (5.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) Apex Code
2 4 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) Go
3 1 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Grafana
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) Databricks
2 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk
3 1 (2.94%) Veracode