SOQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SOQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOQL over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 333 440
Rank change year-on-year +30 +107 +169
Contract jobs citing SOQL 6 7 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.062% 0.048% 0.050%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £422 - £515
25th Percentile £448 £413 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -20.45% +29.41%
75th Percentile £518 £475 £600
90th Percentile £522 - £615
UK median daily rate £500 £438 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -27.08% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

SOQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,668 5,075 8,649
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.63% 34.59% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,597 3,642 6,388
10th Percentile £350 £351 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £673
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 134 187
10th Percentile £27.25 £30.63 £25.90
25th Percentile £45.44 £46.25 £49.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £85.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.62%

SOQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SOQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SOQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SOQL.

SOQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceMax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (16.67%) QA Manager
3 1 (16.67%) QA Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (66.67%) Visualforce
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) API Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Business Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 1 (16.67%) Contract Management
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Quote-to-Cash
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Apex Code
2 3 (50.00%) SOSL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
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