Salesforce Contracts

Salesforce
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Salesforce products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Salesforce over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Salesforce.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 151 136
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 -53
Contract jobs citing Salesforce 720 989 1,734
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.67% 1.76% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 3.94% 4.06% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 614 1,155
10th Percentile £313 £386 £375
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £721 £737 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 30 8
10th Percentile £15.00 £11.25 £17.44
25th Percentile £22.61 £15.91 £20.40
Median hourly rate £26.00 £26.75 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -29.14% +84.15%
75th Percentile £27.96 £50.00 £49.38
90th Percentile £35.30 £63.88 £54.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.22 £22.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +12.07% -44.44% +211.54%

All Vendors
UK

Salesforce is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

Salesforce
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Salesforce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Salesforce over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Salesforce in the UK

Salesforce
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce 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 +17 619 £530 -3.64% 614
London +2 354 £540 -6.09% 306
Work from Home +3 268 £535 -2.73% 242
UK excluding London +54 249 £525 -4.55% 283
South East +2 72 £500 -9.09% 74
Midlands +40 61 £600 +5.49% 57
North of England +41 58 £500 - 84
West Midlands +23 47 £650 +10.64% 36
North West +46 40 £463 -15.91% 51
South West +17 28 £488 -17.02% 30
East of England +15 26 £500 +11.11% 29
East Midlands +19 11 £533 +56.62% 21
Yorkshire +7 10 £525 +7.69% 25
North East +16 8 £533 - 9
Scotland +17 3 £425 -15.00% 4
Wales +17 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland +1 1 £95 -84.80% 6

Salesforce
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.22%) Anypoint
2 15 (2.08%) WordPress
3 13 (1.81%) CMS
3 13 (1.81%) Confluence
3 13 (1.81%) Drupal
4 10 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.69%) Mule
5 5 (0.69%) Mule ESB
6 4 (0.56%) Appian
6 4 (0.56%) SAS
7 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 33 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.25%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.14%) InVision
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (4.31%) Salesforce CRM
2 27 (3.75%) Shopify
3 20 (2.78%) NetSuite
4 16 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.83%) Magento
7 5 (0.69%) Maximo
8 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.56%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.42%) Endur
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.42%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.42%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.14%) Aligne
11 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.14%) FastStats
11 1 (0.14%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 73 (10.14%) Azure
2 66 (9.17%) AWS
3 57 (7.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 54 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 44 (6.11%) SaaS
6 39 (5.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 26 (3.61%) BigCommerce
8 25 (3.47%) GitHub
8 25 (3.47%) Serverless
9 24 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.50%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 17 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (2.36%) IaaS
13 17 (2.36%) PaaS
14 16 (2.22%) GCP
14 16 (2.22%) Google Workspace
15 14 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.97%) Firewall
2 5 (0.69%) DNS
3 3 (0.42%) SSL
3 3 (0.42%) VoIP
3 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.28%) FTP
4 2 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.14%) DHCP
5 1 (0.14%) DMZ
5 1 (0.14%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.14%) VLAN
5 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.36%) Power BI
2 28 (3.89%) Tableau
3 21 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (2.64%) NoSQL
5 18 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 17 (2.36%) MySQL
7 15 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.53%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.11%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.97%) Big Data
12 5 (0.69%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.69%) Metadata
12 5 (0.69%) PowerPivot
12 5 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.69%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.56%) SAP HANA
14 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 40 (5.56%) JIRA
2 33 (4.58%) Git
3 27 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.53%) Maven
4 11 (1.53%) TeamCity
5 8 (1.11%) GitLab
5 8 (1.11%) Selenium
6 7 (0.97%) ERwin
6 7 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.69%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.42%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.42%) Subversion
9 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.28%) Gradle
10 2 (0.28%) SoapUI
General
1 207 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 114 (15.83%) Marketing
3 108 (15.00%) Finance
4 66 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (7.22%) Retail
6 23 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 21 (2.92%) Banking
8 20 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.81%) Legal
12 12 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.53%) Billing
13 11 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.25%) Back Office
15 9 (1.25%) Front Office
16 5 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.69%) Games
17 4 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 138 (19.17%) Developer
2 133 (18.47%) Architect
3 100 (13.89%) Analyst
4 87 (12.08%) Salesforce Developer
5 82 (11.39%) Salesforce Architect
6 51 (7.08%) Business Analyst
7 50 (6.94%) Lead
8 47 (6.53%) Project Manager
8 47 (6.53%) Solutions Architect
9 43 (5.97%) Senior
10 37 (5.14%) Consultant
11 35 (4.86%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 30 (4.17%) Salesforce Analyst
13 25 (3.47%) Administrator
14 24 (3.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
15 23 (3.19%) Data Analyst
15 23 (3.19%) Salesforce Administrator
15 23 (3.19%) Salesforce Project Manager
16 22 (3.06%) Cloud Developer
16 22 (3.06%) Salesforce Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (9.58%) Lightning Web Components
2 51 (7.08%) Visualforce
3 44 (6.11%) REST
4 32 (4.44%) HTML
5 27 (3.75%) CSS
6 26 (3.61%) SOAP
7 22 (3.06%) VML
7 22 (3.06%) XML
8 19 (2.64%) Spring
8 19 (2.64%) Web Services
9 17 (2.36%) Node.js
10 15 (2.08%) JSON
11 12 (1.67%) React
12 11 (1.53%) Middleware
13 10 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (1.25%) .NET
14 9 (1.25%) RAML
14 9 (1.25%) Swagger
15 8 (1.11%) jQuery
15 8 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 20 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (2.08%) Virtual Team
5 14 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.53%) Life Science
7 11 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.97%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.83%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.83%) FMCG
13 5 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.69%) Social Media
14 4 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.39%) Windows
2 4 (0.56%) Linux
3 3 (0.42%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (22.22%) Agile
2 144 (20.00%) CRM
3 104 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (10.56%) DevOps
5 69 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 64 (8.89%) Scrum
7 63 (8.75%) Migration
8 58 (8.06%) Project Management
9 52 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
10 51 (7.08%) B2B
11 50 (6.94%) CI/CD
11 50 (6.94%) Data Modelling
12 48 (6.67%) Analytics
13 45 (6.25%) E-Commerce
14 39 (5.42%) Requirements Gathering
15 37 (5.14%) Data Analysis
16 35 (4.86%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
17 33 (4.58%) Customer Experience
17 33 (4.58%) Data Migration
17 33 (4.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 87 (12.08%) SQL
2 74 (10.28%) Apex Code
3 53 (7.36%) JavaScript
4 49 (6.81%) Python
5 30 (4.17%) Java
6 17 (2.36%) C#
7 12 (1.67%) SOQL
8 10 (1.39%) Go
9 9 (1.25%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.56%) ABAP
10 4 (0.56%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.42%) Bash
12 2 (0.28%) Bicep
12 2 (0.28%) C
12 2 (0.28%) Ruby
12 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.14%) Groovy
13 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.14%) R
13 1 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (9.58%) Degree
2 28 (3.89%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.06%) PMP
5 19 (2.64%) PMI Certification
6 18 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.67%) APMP
8 10 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.28%) MBA
11 2 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) CCNP
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.14%) CISM
12 1 (0.14%) CISSP
12 1 (0.14%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.00%) QA
2 31 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.06%) GDPR
4 11 (1.53%) PMO
5 6 (0.83%) SLA
6 5 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.56%) GxP
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) GAMP
System Software
1 15 (2.08%) Docker
2 5 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (3.33%) Terraform
2 14 (1.94%) Ansible
3 13 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.53%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.69%) CloudHub
5 5 (0.69%) Opsgenie
6 3 (0.42%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.28%) Control-M
7 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.14%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 138 (19.17%) SAP
2 132 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 90 (12.50%) Oracle
4 50 (6.94%) Google
5 46 (6.39%) MuleSoft
6 40 (5.56%) Adobe
7 36 (5.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 28 (3.89%) Sitecore
9 19 (2.64%) ServiceNow
10 16 (2.22%) Pardot
11 14 (1.94%) Dell
12 12 (1.67%) Intel
13 11 (1.53%) Databricks
14 10 (1.39%) IBM
14 10 (1.39%) Marketo
15 9 (1.25%) DocuSign
15 9 (1.25%) Informatica
16 8 (1.11%) Splunk
16 8 (1.11%) Virgin Media
17 7 (0.97%) WSO2