Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK
The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| 6 months to 4 May 2024 |
Same period 2023 | Same period 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 573 | 696 | 824 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +123 | +128 | -174 |
| Contract jobs citing SOQL | 18 | 22 | 30 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK | 0.042% | 0.037% | 0.034% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | 0.14% | 0.11% | 0.093% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 8 | 15 | 23 |
| 10th Percentile | £421 | £500 | £363 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £519 | £369 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £550 | £450 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -9.09% | +22.22% | +12.50% |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £606 | £588 |
| 90th Percentile | £675 | £633 | £805 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £550 | £550 | £440 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +25.14% | +9.88% |
All Programming Languages
UK
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 requirement for coding skills.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills | 12,769 | 20,649 | 32,224 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK | 29.59% | 34.91% | 36.32% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 9,080 | 14,885 | 23,465 |
| 10th Percentile | £350 | £394 | £384 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £463 | £454 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £550 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -4.55% | - | +10.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £650 | £675 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £763 | £775 | £750 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £488 | £500 | £488 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.50% | +2.46% | +14.82% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 487 | 467 | 511 |
| 10th Percentile | £31.70 | £26.20 | £19.91 |
| 25th Percentile | £46.25 | £50.00 | £35.00 |
| Median hourly rate | £61.60 | £60.55 | £50.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.73% | +21.10% | +14.29% |
| 75th Percentile | £70.00 | £70.00 | £60.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £79.50 | £77.40 | £69.05 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £62.50 | £61.84 | £49.75 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.07% | +24.30% | +17.75% |
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Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOQL.
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Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOQL over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOQL.
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Top 9 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | +106 | 13 | £500 | -11.11% | 6 |
| Work from Home | +133 | 12 | £450 | -18.18% | 2 |
| UK excluding London | +59 | 6 | £550 | - | 1 |
| London | +100 | 5 | £438 | -27.08% | 5 |
| Midlands | +23 | 3 | £650 | +18.18% | |
| West Midlands | +19 | 3 | £650 | +18.18% | |
| South West | - | 2 | £500 | - | |
| North East | - | 1 | £450 | - | |
| North of England | - | 1 | £450 | - | 1 |
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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: