Salesforce Architect Contracts

Salesforce Architect
UK

The median Salesforce Architect daily rate in the UK is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 615 708
Rank change year-on-year +118 +93 -259
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Architect 79 69 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 50 76
10th Percentile £475 £511 £600
25th Percentile £575 £553 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £656 £700
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -6.25% +16.67%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £803
90th Percentile £908 £775 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £663 £750
% change year-on-year +1.89% -11.67% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £102.87 £49.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +107.82% - -
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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Salesforce Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Architect in the UK

Salesforce Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Salesforce Architect in the UK

Salesforce Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Architect over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Architect in the UK

Salesforce Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce Architect in the UK

Salesforce Architect
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 Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +140 77 £661 -1.12% 19
London +121 46 £661 -2.04% 15
Work from Home +109 29 £650 -4.41% 10
UK excluding London +62 29 £675 +1.89% 2
East of England - 8 £750 -
Midlands +27 7 £650 -7.14%
North of England +31 6 £675 -6.90%
West Midlands +25 6 £694 -0.89%
North West +23 5 £700 -3.45%
South East +6 5 £550 - 1
South West - 3 £675 - 1
North East - 1 £650 -
East Midlands - 1 £515 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Salesforce 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 Architect in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 18 (22.78%) CRM
3 17 (21.52%) Apex Code
3 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
4 13 (16.46%) DevOps
5 12 (15.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 11 (13.92%) Lightning Web Components
6 11 (13.92%) B2B
7 10 (12.66%) Agile
7 10 (12.66%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 9 (11.39%) Finance
9 8 (10.13%) Migration
9 8 (10.13%) Scrum
9 8 (10.13%) Marketing
9 8 (10.13%) Data Modelling
9 8 (10.13%) Data Integration
10 7 (8.86%) Visualforce
10 7 (8.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (7.59%) Azure
11 6 (7.59%) Data Migration
11 6 (7.59%) Enterprise Architecture
11 6 (7.59%) Degree
12 5 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (6.33%) Middleware
12 5 (6.33%) Microsoft
12 5 (6.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 5 (6.33%) Presales
12 5 (6.33%) Architectural Design
12 5 (6.33%) Project Delivery
12 5 (6.33%) Requirements Gathering

Salesforce 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 2 (2.53%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 7 (8.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 6 (7.59%) Azure
4 5 (6.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.06%) IaaS
5 4 (5.06%) OCI
5 4 (5.06%) PaaS
5 4 (5.06%) SaaS
6 3 (3.80%) Boomi
7 2 (2.53%) AWS
7 2 (2.53%) Salesforce Einstein
8 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.27%) GCP
8 1 (1.27%) Miro
8 1 (1.27%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
General
1 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Finance
3 8 (10.13%) Marketing
4 1 (1.27%) Automotive
4 1 (1.27%) Banking
4 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.27%) Retail
4 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) Lightning Web Components
2 7 (8.86%) Visualforce
3 5 (6.33%) Middleware
4 4 (5.06%) HTML
5 3 (3.80%) REST
6 2 (2.53%) CSS
6 2 (2.53%) OAuth
6 2 (2.53%) SAML
6 2 (2.53%) SOAP
6 2 (2.53%) Web Services
6 2 (2.53%) XML
7 1 (1.27%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.80%) Low-Code
2 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.27%) CMDB
3 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.27%) Hackathon
3 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.78%) CRM
2 13 (16.46%) DevOps
3 11 (13.92%) B2B
4 10 (12.66%) Agile
4 10 (12.66%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 8 (10.13%) Data Integration
5 8 (10.13%) Data Modelling
5 8 (10.13%) Migration
5 8 (10.13%) Scrum
6 6 (7.59%) Data Migration
6 6 (7.59%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (6.33%) Architectural Design
7 5 (6.33%) Order Management
7 5 (6.33%) Presales
7 5 (6.33%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (5.06%) CI/CD
8 4 (5.06%) Code Quality
8 4 (5.06%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.52%) Apex Code
2 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.53%) SOQL
4 1 (1.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.59%) Degree
2 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (1.27%) GDPR
1 1 (1.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.80%) MuleSoft
3 3 (3.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Conga
4 2 (2.53%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.27%) Pardot
5 1 (1.27%) Siebel
5 1 (1.27%) Workday