Salesforce Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Salesforce
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 123 121
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -10
Contract jobs citing Salesforce 216 260 521
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.20% 1.72% 2.04%
As % of the Vendors category 4.81% 4.06% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 163 341
10th Percentile £338 £365 £385
25th Percentile £411 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £644
90th Percentile £675 £710 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 10
10th Percentile £39.38 £22.61 £11.31
25th Percentile £68.60 £25.50 £14.88
Median hourly rate £96.85 £26.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +272.48% -2.80% -23.57%
75th Percentile £102.00 £26.50 £34.31
90th Percentile - - £59.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -22.86%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,493 6,398 10,972
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.82% 42.23% 42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,935 3,980 7,370
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 217 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.72 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.58 £16.70 £31.04
Median hourly rate £53.50 £32.12 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.59% -40.53% +54.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £70.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.08 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.82% -48.06% +97.67%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Salesforce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Salesforce trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Salesforce.

Salesforce daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Salesforce over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salesforce daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Salesforce.

Salesforce hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Salesforce over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salesforce hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (1.85%) Anypoint
1 4 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) CMS
2 1 (0.46%) Drupal
2 1 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (2.78%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.46%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.46%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.46%) Shopify
5 1 (0.46%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 29 (13.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 10 (4.63%) AWS
4 9 (4.17%) Azure
4 9 (4.17%) SaaS
5 8 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 3 (1.39%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.39%) GCP
7 3 (1.39%) Serverless
8 2 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.93%) Apple Pay
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.93%) Figma
8 2 (0.93%) Google Pay
8 2 (0.93%) ServiceMax
8 2 (0.93%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.70%) Power BI
2 4 (1.85%) Tableau
3 2 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.93%) Metadata
4 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.46%) Big Data
4 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.46%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.46%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (6.94%) JIRA
2 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.93%) Postman
3 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.46%) Git
3 1 (0.46%) GitLab
3 1 (0.46%) Hudson
3 1 (0.46%) JUnit
3 1 (0.46%) Selenium
3 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.46%) TestNG
3 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.35%) Marketing
3 30 (13.89%) Finance
4 19 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.94%) Billing
6 11 (5.09%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.63%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.24%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.78%) Banking
9 6 (2.78%) Retail
10 5 (2.31%) Automotive
10 5 (2.31%) Legal
10 5 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.93%) Advertising
13 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.93%) German Language
13 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 66 (30.56%) Developer
2 57 (26.39%) Salesforce Developer
3 35 (16.20%) Architect
4 26 (12.04%) Salesforce Architect
5 25 (11.57%) Analyst
6 18 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 15 (6.94%) Administrator
7 15 (6.94%) Consultant
7 15 (6.94%) Lead
8 12 (5.56%) Project Manager
8 12 (5.56%) Salesforce Administrator
8 12 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.63%) Salesforce Business Analyst
10 9 (4.17%) Salesforce Analyst
11 7 (3.24%) Cloud Developer
11 7 (3.24%) Salesforce Project Manager
12 6 (2.78%) Designer
12 6 (2.78%) Salesforce Consultant
12 6 (2.78%) Salesforce Solution Architect
13 5 (2.31%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (19.91%) Lightning Web Components
2 28 (12.96%) Visualforce
3 17 (7.87%) REST
4 8 (3.70%) SOAP
5 7 (3.24%) CSS
5 7 (3.24%) HTML
6 6 (2.78%) Node.js
7 5 (2.31%) Web Services
8 4 (1.85%) JSON
9 3 (1.39%) Middleware
10 2 (0.93%) ADO
10 2 (0.93%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.93%) RAML
10 2 (0.93%) RESTful
10 2 (0.93%) Swagger
11 1 (0.46%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.46%) Hystrix
11 1 (0.46%) Next.js
11 1 (0.46%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (4.63%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.85%) Frameworx
5 4 (1.85%) TM Forum
6 3 (1.39%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.93%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.93%) Social Media
8 1 (0.46%) Derivative
8 1 (0.46%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.46%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.46%) FMCG
8 1 (0.46%) Life Science
8 1 (0.46%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.46%) Linux
1 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (22.22%) CRM
2 43 (19.91%) Agile
3 31 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (8.80%) Data Modelling
5 19 (8.80%) Migration
6 17 (7.87%) ERP
7 16 (7.41%) DevOps
8 14 (6.48%) CI/CD
8 14 (6.48%) Data Migration
8 14 (6.48%) Project Management
9 13 (6.02%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 13 (6.02%) Customer Experience
9 13 (6.02%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (6.02%) User Experience
9 13 (6.02%) Validation
10 12 (5.56%) Change Management
10 12 (5.56%) Data Management
10 12 (5.56%) Process Improvement
10 12 (5.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 49 (22.69%) Apex Code
2 19 (8.80%) SQL
3 9 (4.17%) Python
4 7 (3.24%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.78%) SOQL
6 4 (1.85%) C#
6 4 (1.85%) Java
7 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.93%) SOSL
8 1 (0.46%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.46%) Rust
8 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (5.56%) Degree
2 10 (4.63%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.93%) OCP
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.93%) PMP
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) CISM
6 1 (0.46%) CISSP
6 1 (0.46%) ISSAP
6 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.24%) QA
3 4 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.85%) GDPR
4 3 (1.39%) PMO
5 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (10.65%) SAP
2 17 (7.87%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.41%) Oracle
4 13 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.09%) MuleSoft
6 9 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 5 (2.31%) Google
8 3 (1.39%) Adobe
8 3 (1.39%) Apple
8 3 (1.39%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.39%) Databricks
8 3 (1.39%) Pardot
8 3 (1.39%) Zuora
9 2 (0.93%) Conga
9 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.46%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.46%) Infor
10 1 (0.46%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.46%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.46%) Splunk