SOQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SOQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOQL over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 463 625
Rank change year-on-year +123 +162 -163
Contract jobs citing SOQL 12 7 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.078% 0.027% 0.020%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 0.072% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 8
10th Percentile £418 £486 -
25th Percentile £425 £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £388
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +41.94% -3.13%
75th Percentile £475 £613 £456
90th Percentile £520 £620 £483
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

SOQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,147 9,658 16,961
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.47% 37.35% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,710 7,073 12,579
10th Percentile £350 £393 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.47%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 213 194
10th Percentile £27.50 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.75 £63.00 £49.63
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% +26.95% +10.28%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £86.88 £79.20 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%

SOQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOQL.

SOQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOQL over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

SOQL daily rate histogram 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:

Business Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
1 11 (91.67%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 9 (75.00%) JSON
3 7 (58.33%) jQuery
3 7 (58.33%) XML
4 3 (25.00%) REST
5 2 (16.67%) CSS
5 2 (16.67%) SOAP
6 1 (8.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CRM
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) User Experience
3 6 (50.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 4 (33.33%) ITSM
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Refactoring
6 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 1 (8.33%) API Integration
7 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Release Management
7 1 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Scrum
7 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Apex Code
2 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (8.33%) Pardot