Salesforce Contracts

Salesforce
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Salesforce products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Salesforce over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Salesforce.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 138 153
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 -15
Contract jobs citing Salesforce 648 719 976
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.22% 1.68% 1.74%
As % of the Vendors category 4.65% 3.96% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 446 608
10th Percentile £314 £313 £400
25th Percentile £413 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £628 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £722 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.95% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 32 31
10th Percentile - £15.00 £11.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £22.61 £16.61
Median hourly rate £17.00 £26.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% -1.89% -24.29%
75th Percentile £29.00 £27.96 £48.00
90th Percentile £40.65 £35.58 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.50 £25.22 £22.33
% change year-on-year +36.82% +12.92% -27.38%

All Vendors
UK

Salesforce falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,948 18,154 24,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.83% 42.32% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,628 11,325 16,214
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £405 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £625 £644
90th Percentile £715 £738 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 1,135 650
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.80
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% -47.88% +97.67%
75th Percentile £55.75 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.85% -42.77% +95.64%

Salesforce
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Salesforce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Salesforce over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +18 553 £510 -4.23% 1,869
London +31 360 £525 -2.78% 1,206
Work from Home -1 213 £500 -6.54% 955
UK excluding London +1 181 £494 -5.95% 737
South East +29 58 £475 -5.00% 205
North of England 0 40 £481 -3.75% 215
South West +47 30 £518 +6.15% 66
Midlands -14 30 £450 -25.00% 119
West Midlands -9 21 £400 -38.46% 76
North West -11 19 £538 +16.22% 127
Yorkshire +18 14 £300 -42.86% 76
Scotland +14 12 £538 +26.47% 27
East of England +7 9 £500 - 49
East Midlands +6 8 £475 -10.80% 38
North East 0 7 £450 -15.49% 15
Northern Ireland -10 3 £625 +557.89% 10
Wales +3 1 £450 - 9

Salesforce
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 15 (2.31%) Confluence
2 9 (1.39%) Anypoint
2 9 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.62%) Mule
4 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.46%) CMS
5 2 (0.31%) SAS
5 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.31%) WordPress
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 30 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.31%) Blender
5 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.31%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.31%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.31%) Trello
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (4.48%) Salesforce CRM
2 27 (4.17%) Shopify
3 21 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (1.70%) NetSuite
6 7 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.93%) Magento
8 3 (0.46%) Eloqua
8 3 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.31%) Avolution ABACUS
9 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.31%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.31%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.31%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 78 (12.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 64 (9.88%) Azure
3 62 (9.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 52 (8.02%) AWS
5 27 (4.17%) SaaS
6 23 (3.55%) BigCommerce
6 23 (3.55%) GCP
7 21 (3.24%) Power Platform
8 20 (3.09%) GitHub
9 18 (2.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 17 (2.62%) Serverless
11 12 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.70%) Boomi
13 7 (1.08%) Azure Functions
13 7 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (1.08%) Figma
14 6 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.23%) Firewall
2 6 (0.93%) HTTP
3 5 (0.77%) PSTN
4 4 (0.62%) ADSL
4 4 (0.62%) Broadband
5 3 (0.46%) DNS
5 3 (0.46%) VPN
6 2 (0.31%) BGP
6 2 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.31%) DHCP
6 2 (0.31%) DSL
6 2 (0.31%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.31%) IPsec
6 2 (0.31%) Network Security
6 2 (0.31%) OSPF
6 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.31%) SSL
6 2 (0.31%) TACACS
6 2 (0.31%) VLAN
6 2 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.24%) Power BI
2 12 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 11 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.39%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.39%) Tableau
5 7 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.93%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.77%) Big Data
7 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.77%) MySQL
8 4 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.62%) Metadata
9 3 (0.46%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.31%) NewSQL
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.31%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 36 (5.56%) JIRA
2 15 (2.31%) Git
3 14 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.93%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.93%) Selenium
5 5 (0.77%) Postman
5 5 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.62%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.62%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.62%) GitLab
6 4 (0.62%) webpack
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
7 3 (0.46%) Maven
7 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.31%) Appium
8 2 (0.31%) Grunt
8 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.31%) UI Automator
General
1 204 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 117 (18.06%) Finance
3 103 (15.90%) Marketing
4 87 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.41%) Retail
6 33 (5.09%) Public Sector
7 29 (4.48%) Billing
8 24 (3.70%) Legal
9 20 (3.09%) Banking
10 19 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.85%) Automotive
13 11 (1.70%) Advertising
14 9 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.23%) Front Office
16 6 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 126 (19.44%) Architect
2 120 (18.52%) Developer
3 86 (13.27%) Salesforce Developer
4 78 (12.04%) Analyst
5 75 (11.57%) Salesforce Architect
6 58 (8.95%) Business Analyst
7 52 (8.02%) Solutions Architect
8 47 (7.25%) Lead
9 42 (6.48%) Consultant
10 40 (6.17%) Senior
11 39 (6.02%) Project Manager
12 30 (4.63%) Administrator
13 26 (4.01%) Salesforce Solution Architect
14 24 (3.70%) Salesforce Business Analyst
15 23 (3.55%) Salesforce Administrator
15 23 (3.55%) Salesforce Analyst
16 20 (3.09%) Salesforce Consultant
17 19 (2.93%) Salesforce Project Manager
18 15 (2.31%) Technical Architect
19 12 (1.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (12.96%) Lightning Web Components
2 53 (8.18%) Visualforce
3 52 (8.02%) REST
4 36 (5.56%) SOAP
5 35 (5.40%) HTML
6 30 (4.63%) CSS
7 27 (4.17%) Middleware
8 21 (3.24%) VML
9 20 (3.09%) JSON
10 19 (2.93%) Web Services
11 17 (2.62%) XML
12 16 (2.47%) RESTful
13 13 (2.01%) Kafka
14 12 (1.85%) React
15 11 (1.70%) .NET
16 10 (1.54%) Node.js
17 9 (1.39%) jQuery
18 8 (1.23%) OAuth
18 8 (1.23%) RAML
18 8 (1.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.55%) Product Ownership
2 21 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (3.24%) Onboarding
3 18 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.70%) Data Structures
5 11 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.39%) Life Science
7 8 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.08%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.08%) Social Media
9 6 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.77%) Digital Media
10 5 (0.77%) Frameworx
10 5 (0.77%) TM Forum
11 4 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.62%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.39%) Windows
2 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.46%) Android
3 3 (0.46%) Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (25.77%) Agile
2 122 (18.83%) CRM
3 115 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (9.26%) DevOps
5 60 (9.26%) Project Management
6 56 (8.64%) Migration
7 55 (8.49%) Data Modelling
8 51 (7.87%) CI/CD
9 50 (7.72%) B2B
10 43 (6.64%) Analytics
11 42 (6.48%) E-Commerce
11 42 (6.48%) ERP
12 40 (6.17%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
13 39 (6.02%) Roadmaps
14 38 (5.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 37 (5.71%) Decision-Making
16 36 (5.56%) Test Automation
16 36 (5.56%) User Experience
16 36 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 93 (14.35%) Apex Code
2 61 (9.41%) SQL
3 49 (7.56%) JavaScript
4 32 (4.94%) Java
5 26 (4.01%) Python
6 12 (1.85%) C#
6 12 (1.85%) SOQL
7 7 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.62%) DataWeave
9 4 (0.62%) Ruby
10 3 (0.46%) Bash
10 3 (0.46%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.31%) ABAP
11 2 (0.31%) PHP
11 2 (0.31%) Scala
11 2 (0.31%) SOSL
12 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (10.96%) Degree
2 40 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 32 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.93%) PMP
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.46%) IIBA
10 3 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.31%) CEH
11 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.31%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.31%) OCP
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.31%) SSCP
11 2 (0.31%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.63%) QA
2 10 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.54%) GDPR
3 9 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.77%) PMO
5 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.31%) WCAG
7 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.15%) GxP
7 1 (0.15%) IFRS
7 1 (0.15%) NIST
7 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (1.54%) Docker
2 5 (0.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (2.62%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.85%) Terraform
3 3 (0.46%) Ansible
3 3 (0.46%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.31%) Nagios
4 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.31%) Puppet
4 2 (0.31%) Salt
4 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.15%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 114 (17.59%) SAP
2 102 (15.74%) Microsoft
3 69 (10.65%) Oracle
4 53 (8.18%) ServiceNow
5 42 (6.48%) Adobe
6 37 (5.71%) MuleSoft
7 24 (3.70%) Google
8 23 (3.55%) Sitecore
9 21 (3.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 12 (1.85%) Cisco
11 9 (1.39%) Pardot
12 8 (1.23%) Dell
12 8 (1.23%) DocuSign
13 7 (1.08%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.93%) Conga
14 6 (0.93%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.93%) Workday
15 5 (0.77%) Apple
15 5 (0.77%) Databricks