Salesforce Developer Contracts

Salesforce Developer
UK

The median Salesforce Developer daily rate in the UK is £485, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 504 531
Rank change year-on-year +64 +27 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Developer 92 84 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 64 94
10th Percentile £355 £413 £425
25th Percentile £387 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -12.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £650
90th Percentile £575 £625 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.11
25th Percentile - - £54.47
Median hourly rate - - £55.69
75th Percentile - - £57.53
90th Percentile - - £58.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,579 40,770 52,426
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 92.90% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,114 36,541
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,186 2,993 1,489
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £16.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.45 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.80% -16.67% +76.47%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.95 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -3.61% +107.50%

Salesforce Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Developer over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce Developer in the UK

Salesforce Developer
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 Salesforce Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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 +66 82 £486 -7.16% 251
London +41 45 £500 - 85
Work from Home +45 42 £475 -6.17% 177
UK excluding London +68 36 £450 -14.29% 178
South East +63 17 £449 -18.41% 62
North of England +17 9 £450 -25.00% 44
North West +18 8 £404 -32.67% 24
South West +39 6 £613 +16.67% 19
Midlands +11 4 £463 - 17
West Midlands - 3 £450 - 6
Scotland - 2 £415 - 10
East Midlands +6 1 £475 - 11
North East +3 1 £488 -7.14% 3

Salesforce Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 June 2025, Salesforce Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 92 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 63 (68.48%) Apex Code
3 55 (59.78%) Lightning Web Components
4 31 (33.70%) Agile
5 30 (32.61%) Visualforce
6 24 (26.09%) JavaScript
7 22 (23.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
8 19 (20.65%) HTML
9 17 (18.48%) Finance
10 16 (17.39%) CSS
10 16 (17.39%) DevOps
10 16 (17.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 16 (17.39%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
11 15 (16.30%) Marketing
12 13 (14.13%) REST
12 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (11.96%) Migration
13 11 (11.96%) SOAP
13 11 (11.96%) SOQL
13 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
14 10 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (10.87%) CI/CD
14 10 (10.87%) CRM
14 10 (10.87%) Degree
14 10 (10.87%) Computer Science
14 10 (10.87%) Data Migration
15 9 (9.78%) JIRA
15 9 (9.78%) Git
15 9 (9.78%) Validation

Salesforce Developer 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 2 (2.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 16 (17.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 5 (5.43%) Azure
3 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.35%) GitHub
5 3 (3.26%) AWS
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.17%) Figma
6 2 (2.17%) SaaS
6 2 (2.17%) Serverless
7 1 (1.09%) Bloomreach
7 1 (1.09%) Boomi
7 1 (1.09%) MailChimp
7 1 (1.09%) Rekognition
7 1 (1.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceMax
7 1 (1.09%) Social Studio
7 1 (1.09%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) DKIM
1 3 (3.26%) DNS
2 2 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.17%) GIS
1 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.09%) Metadata
2 1 (1.09%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Git
1 9 (9.78%) JIRA
2 7 (7.61%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (3.26%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (2.17%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (2.17%) UI Automator
5 1 (1.09%) Ant
5 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.09%) GitLab
5 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.09%) Postman
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.09%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.48%) Finance
3 15 (16.30%) Marketing
4 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.70%) Banking
6 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.17%) Automotive
8 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.09%) Billing
9 1 (1.09%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.09%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (59.78%) Lightning Web Components
2 30 (32.61%) Visualforce
3 19 (20.65%) HTML
4 16 (17.39%) CSS
5 13 (14.13%) REST
6 11 (11.96%) SOAP
7 7 (7.61%) React
8 6 (6.52%) Middleware
8 6 (6.52%) XML
9 5 (5.43%) JSON
10 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.35%) Node.js
11 3 (3.26%) jQuery
11 3 (3.26%) RESTful
12 2 (2.17%) Ajax
12 2 (2.17%) Semantic HTML
12 2 (2.17%) Vue
12 2 (2.17%) Web Services
13 1 (1.09%) Apache Cordova
13 1 (1.09%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.70%) Agile
2 16 (17.39%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 16 (17.39%) DevOps
3 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (11.96%) Migration
5 10 (10.87%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.87%) Computer Science
5 10 (10.87%) CRM
5 10 (10.87%) Data Migration
6 9 (9.78%) Validation
7 7 (7.61%) Project Management
7 7 (7.61%) User Experience
8 6 (6.52%) Case Management
8 6 (6.52%) Data Management
8 6 (6.52%) Data Modelling
8 6 (6.52%) Mentoring
8 6 (6.52%) Scrum
8 6 (6.52%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (6.52%) Web Development
9 5 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 63 (68.48%) Apex Code
2 24 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 11 (11.96%) SOQL
4 8 (8.70%) Java
5 4 (4.35%) SQL
6 2 (2.17%) Bash
6 2 (2.17%) Python
7 1 (1.09%) SOSL
7 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (10.87%) Degree
2 7 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.17%) SLA
3 2 (2.17%) WCAG
4 1 (1.09%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 92 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 7 (7.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.61%) MuleSoft
3 5 (5.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 4 (4.35%) Conga
5 3 (3.26%) Oracle
5 3 (3.26%) SAP
5 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.17%) Pardot
7 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.09%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.09%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.09%) Talend
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