Salesforce Solution Architect Contracts

Salesforce Solutions Architect
UK

The median Salesforce Solutions Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 663 797
Rank change year-on-year +95 +134 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Solution Architect 34 32 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.058% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.061% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 38
10th Percentile £533 £504 £593
25th Percentile £613 £550 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -12.50% +12.00%
75th Percentile £756 £697 £772
90th Percentile £890 £760 £865
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £550 £681
% change year-on-year +20.45% -19.27% +6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £102.87 £31.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +226.57% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £102.87 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Salesforce Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Salesforce Solution Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Solution Architect in the UK

Salesforce Solution Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Salesforce Solution Architect in the UK

Salesforce Solution Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Solution Architect over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Solution Architect in the UK

Salesforce Solution Architect
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce Solution Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +102 32 £668 +2.69% 5
London +89 17 £680 -1.09% 4
UK excluding London +44 14 £663 +20.45% 1
Work from Home +108 11 £650 - 3
Midlands +26 5 £650 -
West Midlands +17 5 £650 -
East of England - 4 £713 -
South West - 2 £675 - 1
North of England - 2 £650 -
South East +4 1 - -
North East - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 - -

Salesforce Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Salesforce Solution Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Salesforce Solution Architect in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 7 (20.59%) Agile
4 7 (20.59%) Data Integration
5 6 (17.65%) Scrum
5 6 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (17.65%) Visualforce
5 6 (17.65%) Apex Code
5 6 (17.65%) Finance
5 6 (17.65%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
7 4 (11.76%) HTML
7 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 4 (11.76%) CRM
7 4 (11.76%) Middleware
7 4 (11.76%) Presales
7 4 (11.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 4 (11.76%) Project Delivery
7 4 (11.76%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 3 (8.82%) IaaS
8 3 (8.82%) DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) Boomi
8 3 (8.82%) SDLC
8 3 (8.82%) Process Improvement
8 3 (8.82%) Microservices
8 3 (8.82%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (8.82%) SaaS

Salesforce Solution Architect Skill Set
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 1 (2.94%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 4 (11.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Boomi
3 3 (8.82%) IaaS
3 3 (8.82%) PaaS
3 3 (8.82%) SaaS
3 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) OCI
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Einstein
5 1 (2.94%) AWS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure
5 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) Miro
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Visualforce
2 4 (11.76%) HTML
2 4 (11.76%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (11.76%) Middleware
3 2 (5.88%) CSS
3 2 (5.88%) OAuth
3 2 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) SAML
3 2 (5.88%) Web Services
3 2 (5.88%) XML
4 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.94%) JSON
4 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) CMDB
1 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.94%) Hackathon
1 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
1 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) Agile
1 7 (20.59%) Data Integration
2 6 (17.65%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 6 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (17.65%) Scrum
3 4 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (11.76%) CRM
3 4 (11.76%) Presales
3 4 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 3 (8.82%) Business Development
4 3 (8.82%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) Microservices
4 3 (8.82%) Process Improvement
4 3 (8.82%) SDLC
5 2 (5.88%) Data Migration
5 2 (5.88%) Migration
5 2 (5.88%) Release Management
5 2 (5.88%) SOA
5 2 (5.88%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) Apex Code
2 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.88%) SOQL
4 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Conga
3 2 (5.88%) DocuSign
3 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Siebel
4 1 (2.94%) Workday