SOQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 378 436 509
Rank change year-on-year +58 +73 -82
Contract jobs citing SOQL 7 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.035% 0.007%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.12% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £380 £508 -
25th Percentile £438 £519 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +46.67% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £388
90th Percentile £675 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% +12.50%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,786 6,604 8,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.58% 28.70% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 4,664 6,104
10th Percentile £314 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 326 332
10th Percentile £37.96 £22.86 £17.03
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £29.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.68
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOQL in the UK excluding London

SOQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOQL in the UK excluding London

SOQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SOQL in the UK excluding London

SOQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOQL within the UK excluding London 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
South West - 2 £500 -
North of England - 1 £450 - 2
North East - 1 £450 -
SOQL
UK

SOQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (28.57%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Boomi
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Solution Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Billing Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Billing Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) Visualforce
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (28.57%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth
4 2 (28.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 3 (42.86%) Release Management
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Conga
2 1 (14.29%) DocuSign