SOSL Contracts

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SOSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOSL over the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 562 650
Rank change year-on-year +16 +88 +203
Contract jobs citing SOSL 6 2 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.005% 0.037%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.055% 0.016% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £453 - £543
25th Percentile £456 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £519 - £638
90th Percentile £538 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

SOSL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,862 12,229 17,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.95% 31.27% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,304 8,594 12,579
10th Percentile £340 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 409 439
10th Percentile £27.99 £27.00 £30.60
25th Percentile £35.75 £46.00 £47.88
Median hourly rate £57.13 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.11 £77.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +4.00% +13.64%

SOSL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOSL in the UK

SOSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SOSL in the UK

SOSL
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOSL within the UK over the 6 months to 6 August 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 +7 4 £513 -6.82% 4
London 0 3 £550 - 2
Work from Home - 3 £475 - 5
UK excluding London - 1 £450 - 4
Wales - 1 £450 -

SOSL
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 3 (50.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceMax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Billing
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Sales Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 6 (100.00%) Visualforce
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 3 (50.00%) CRM
1 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Quote-to-Cash
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Contract Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Sharing
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 6 (100.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft