SOQL Contracts in England

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 628 743
Rank change year-on-year +109 +115 -132
Contract jobs citing SOQL 12 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.025% 0.037%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.071% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 19
10th Percentile £393 £513 £363
25th Percentile £425 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -0.55%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £625
90th Percentile £675 £638 £818
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% +12.50%

All Programming Languages
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,885 16,811 25,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.88% 34.89% 36.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,901 12,297 19,045
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 401 450
10th Percentile £37.59 £25.75 £20.23
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% +23.20% +17.65%

SOQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SOQL in England

SOQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOQL in England

SOQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOQL in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOQL in England

SOQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOQL in England.

Hourly rate trend for SOQL in England

SOQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Midlands +20 4 £600 +4.35% 2
West Midlands +20 4 £600 +4.35% 2
London +98 3 £438 -28.57% 5
South West - 2 £500 -
North East - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 - 2
SOQL
UK

SOQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (58.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (8.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Boomi
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Billing
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
1 7 (58.33%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Billing Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Billing Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 7 (58.33%) JSON
2 7 (58.33%) XML
3 4 (33.33%) jQuery
3 4 (33.33%) Visualforce
4 3 (25.00%) CSS
4 3 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (16.67%) OAuth
5 2 (16.67%) REST
5 2 (16.67%) SAML
6 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) CRM
3 5 (41.67%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 5 (41.67%) User Experience
4 4 (33.33%) Release Management
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (16.67%) API Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 2 (16.67%) ITSM
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (8.33%) DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Migration
7 1 (8.33%) Open Source
7 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Static Code Analysis
7 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (16.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Conga
3 1 (8.33%) DocuSign
3 1 (8.33%) Pardot