SOQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SOQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 333 470
Rank change year-on-year +35 +137 +153
Contract jobs citing SOQL 6 12 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.078% 0.027%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% 0.23% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £422 £418 £486
25th Percentile £448 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% +41.94%
75th Percentile £518 £475 £613
90th Percentile £522 £520 £620
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

SOQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SOQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SOQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SOQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOQL
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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceMax
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (16.67%) QA Manager
3 1 (16.67%) QA Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 5 (83.33%) Visualforce
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (16.67%) Data Sharing
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Product Management
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Apex Code
2 2 (33.33%) SOSL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Pardot