Hybrid/Remote Salesforce Engineer Contract Job Trends

Salesforce Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Salesforce Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £400, 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 330 301 354
Rank change year-on-year -29 +53 +124
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Engineer 7 1 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.059% 0.010% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.011% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £354 - £446
25th Percentile £381 - £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +55.56% -41.94%
75th Percentile £469 - £569
90th Percentile £535 - £640
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £445
% change year-on-year -6.25% +34.83% -15.24%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,042 9,517 14,834
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 93.73% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,140 6,502 9,945
10th Percentile £345 £326 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £636
90th Percentile £725 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 221 524
10th Percentile £17.23 £14.00 £14.08
25th Percentile £27.54 £19.00 £20.76
Median hourly rate £57.50 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.41% -17.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%

Salesforce Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Salesforce Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Salesforce Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Salesforce Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Salesforce Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Salesforce Engineer job vacancies

Salesforce Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Salesforce Engineer over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Salesforce Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Salesforce Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Salesforce Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Apex Code
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Git
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (28.57%) Release Management
4 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) Biotechnology
5 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
5 1 (14.29%) Case Management
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree

Salesforce Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Biotechnology
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) System Testing
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk