Lightning Web Components Contracts

Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Lightning Web Components skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Lightning Web Components over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 545 609
Rank change year-on-year +39 +64 -156
Contract jobs citing Lightning Web Components 69 137 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 1.06% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 87 157
10th Percentile £365 £425 £402
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £675
90th Percentile £695 £700 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £14.14 £42.31 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £54.47 -
Median hourly rate £14.38 £61.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -76.53% - -
75th Percentile £14.66 £67.81 -
90th Percentile £14.71 £69.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.38 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Lightning Web Components is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

Lightning Web Components
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lightning Web Components as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lightning Web Components in the UK

Lightning Web Components
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lightning Web Components.

Daily rate trend for Lightning Web Components in the UK

Lightning Web Components
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lightning Web Components over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lightning Web Components in the UK

Lightning Web Components
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lightning Web Components.

Hourly rate trend for Lightning Web Components in the UK

Lightning Web Components
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lightning Web Components within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +41 62 £530 -11.67% 55
Work from Home +66 31 £538 -2.27% 19
London +47 30 £525 -12.50% 31
UK excluding London +42 30 £540 -1.82% 19
South East +19 11 £560 +24.44% 3
East of England - 10 £488 - 4
North of England +19 4 £500 +5.26% 9
North West +22 3 £550 -13.73% 2
Midlands +15 2 - - 1
South West +7 2 £488 -11.36% 1
West Midlands +6 2 - - 1
Wales - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £450 - 2

Lightning Web Components
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:

Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 16 (23.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 7 (10.14%) SaaS
3 4 (5.80%) AWS
3 4 (5.80%) Azure
3 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.80%) GitHub
4 3 (4.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) OCI
5 2 (2.90%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.45%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) DBAmp
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Visual Studio Code
2 5 (7.25%) GitLab
3 2 (2.90%) Selenium
4 1 (1.45%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Marketing
3 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Finance
4 4 (5.80%) Games
5 2 (2.90%) Front Office
5 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 41 (59.42%) Developer
1 41 (59.42%) Salesforce Developer
2 12 (17.39%) Architect
2 12 (17.39%) Salesforce Architect
3 7 (10.14%) Cloud Developer
3 7 (10.14%) Consultant
3 7 (10.14%) Salesforce Consultant
4 5 (7.25%) Administrator
4 5 (7.25%) Functional Consultant
4 5 (7.25%) Lead
4 5 (7.25%) Salesforce Administrator
4 5 (7.25%) Salesforce Functional Consultant
4 5 (7.25%) Senior
5 4 (5.80%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (5.80%) DevOps Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 2 (2.90%) Sales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (55.07%) Visualforce
2 12 (17.39%) REST
3 10 (14.49%) CSS
4 8 (11.59%) JSON
5 7 (10.14%) HTML
6 5 (7.25%) jQuery
6 5 (7.25%) Web Services
6 5 (7.25%) XML
7 4 (5.80%) Middleware
7 4 (5.80%) SOAP
8 1 (1.45%) Ajax
8 1 (1.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) CRM
2 15 (21.74%) Agile
3 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (13.04%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 9 (13.04%) DevOps
4 9 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (13.04%) User Experience
4 9 (13.04%) Workflow
5 8 (11.59%) B2B
6 6 (8.70%) Change Management
6 6 (8.70%) CI/CD
6 6 (8.70%) Migration
6 6 (8.70%) Product Backlog
6 6 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (8.70%) Web Development
7 5 (7.25%) ITIL
7 5 (7.25%) Process Improvement
7 5 (7.25%) Scrum
7 5 (7.25%) Test Automation
8 4 (5.80%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (73.91%) Apex Code
2 18 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 8 (11.59%) SOQL
4 5 (7.25%) SQL
5 1 (1.45%) C#
5 1 (1.45%) Java
5 1 (1.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) PMP
2 3 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 7 (10.14%) Pardot
3 5 (7.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 5 (7.25%) Virgin Media
4 3 (4.35%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.90%) Conga
5 2 (2.90%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.45%) Informatica
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.45%) SAP