Senior Salesforce Developer Contracts

Senior Salesforce Developer
UK

The median Senior Salesforce Developer daily rate in the UK is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 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
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 590 681
Rank change year-on-year +65 +91 +150
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Salesforce Developer 9 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.007% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.007% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £450 - £425
25th Percentile £506 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +15.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £575
90th Percentile - - £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

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 27,617 40,796 52,414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 92.91% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,719 26,125 36,530
10th Percentile £289 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.36% -1.70% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,193 3,003 1,492
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.45 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.45% +102.95%

Senior Salesforce Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Salesforce Developer in the UK

Senior Salesforce Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Salesforce Developer in the UK

Senior Salesforce Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Salesforce Developer over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Salesforce Developer in the UK

Senior Salesforce Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Salesforce Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 21 June 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 9 £538 -6.52% 61
UK excluding London +44 7 £613 - 38
South West - 4 £613 - 5
Midlands - 3 £500 - 4
Work from Home +49 2 £525 - 45
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 3
London +50 1 £375 -34.78% 28
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 2025, Senior 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 Senior Salesforce Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (44.44%) Apex Code
2 4 (44.44%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (44.44%) Marketing
3 3 (33.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 3 (33.33%) API Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) CRM
4 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) CSS
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) QA
5 1 (11.11%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Visualforce

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) API Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) API Development
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) Use Case
3 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Apex Code
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Conga
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft