:: Salesforce / Hire Salesforce developers
Hire Salesforce developers who start in days, not months
Hiring a good Salesforce developer can take months. Ours join your team in about a week, work your hours with good overlap, and come with a lead who reviews their code. You interview them first, and you can scale up or down each month.
Interview before you commit
Start in 1 to 2 weeks
Monthly, no long lock-in
:: What we do
Salesforce roles you can hire
Full-time or part-time, one person or a small team.
01
Salesforce developer
Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL and integrations, for feature work and fixes in your backlog.
02
Salesforce administrator
Users, security, layouts, Flow, reports and day-to-day requests from your teams.
03
Technical architect
Part-time help with data models, integration design, limits and code review on bigger projects.
04
Integration developer
REST, SOAP, Platform Events and MuleSoft work to connect Salesforce to your other systems.
05
Marketing Cloud developer
Journeys, AMPscript, SQL queries and Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) setup.
06
Agentforce builder
Agent topics, actions and prompt templates for teams starting with AI agents in Salesforce.
:: Monthly rates
How much does it cost to hire a Salesforce developer?
Monthly rates for our Salesforce developers and admins, based on $25 to $35 an hour depending on seniority. No recruitment fee and no long-term contract.
Part-time
$2k – $2.8k
Per month, about 80 hours
A developer or admin for half the month, for steady improvements or a small backlog.
Full-time developer
$4k – $5.6k
Per month, about 160 hours
A dedicated developer who works in your sprints, tools and standups like the rest of your team.
Small team
$12k – $16.8k
Per month, three people full-time
For example a senior developer, a developer and an admin, for a larger build or a backlog across clouds.
Compared with hiring in-house
There is no recruitment fee, no notice period and no cost while you look for the next hire. You can scale up for a big project and back down when it ships.
What moves the rate
Seniority and years on Salesforce
Clouds involved, such as CPQ or Health Cloud
Overlap hours with your time zone
Developer versus admin work
Length of the engagement
:: Side by side
Dedicated developer or project team?
Pick the model that fits your backlog and your budget.
Dedicated developer
Project team
You manage
Daily tasks
Goals and sign-off
Billing
Monthly per person
Fixed price per phase
Best for
A long, changing backlog
A defined project with a deadline
Commitment
Month to month
Per phase
For ongoing upkeep without managing anyone, see Salesforce managed services.
:: Hiring guide
What to look for in a Salesforce developer
Certifications show someone studied. These signs show they can work in a real org.
Good signs
Explains when they would use Flow instead of code
Writes tests that check behaviour, not just coverage
Talks about governor limits and bulk data unprompted
Uses version control and sandboxes as a matter of course
Asks about your business process before your org
Can show code or a project they are proud of
Red flags
Wants to make changes directly in production
Writes code for everything, even simple automations
Cannot explain sharing and security settings
No experience reading someone else’s org
Vague about how they test and deploy
:: Interview questions
Questions that show real Salesforce skill
Use these in your interviews, with our candidates or anyone else’s. Good answers are specific and mention trade-offs.
Design
“How would you stop duplicate accounts?”
Listen for matching and duplicate rules, data entry points, integrations and how to clean what already exists.
Automation
“Flow or Apex for this process, and why?”
Good answers weigh complexity, volume, who maintains it and how it will be tested.
Limits
“A trigger fails on bulk updates. What do you check?”
Expect bulkification, queries inside loops, recursion and governor limits.
Security
“How do you give a team access to only some records?”
Look for org-wide defaults, role hierarchy, sharing rules and permission sets, in that order.
Delivery
“How do your changes get to production?”
Sandboxes, version control, tests, review and a deployment pipeline, not change sets made on a Friday.
Business
“Tell me about a change users did not adopt.”
Strong developers learn from users, not just requirements documents.
:: How it works
How hiring works
From brief to first commit usually takes one to two weeks.
Day 1
Brief
Tell us the skills, seniority, hours and tools you need.
Days 2 to 5
Shortlist
We send profiles that match, and you interview the ones you like.
Week 2
Start
Access, onboarding and a first small task to settle in.
Monthly
Review
A check-in on output and fit, with the option to scale up, down or swap.
:: Why Sterling
What you get
Developers you interview yourself
A lead who reviews their work
Daily overlap with your working hours
Your code, your repositories, your IP
Replacement if the fit is not right
:: Tools we use
Apex
Lightning Web Components
Flow
Experience Cloud
Marketing Cloud
MuleSoft
Agentforce
Salesforce DX
Git
4.9
Average rating on Clutch · 350+ projects since 2019
:: Questions
Questions about hiring developers
How much does it cost to hire a Salesforce developer?
Can we interview the developer first?
How quickly can a developer start?
What time zones do your developers work in?
What is Salesforce staff augmentation?
What is the hourly rate of a Salesforce developer?
Is it safe to hire offshore Salesforce developers?
Can we hire a Salesforce admin instead of a developer?
Do your developers work on our tools and processes?
Can we hire a developer for a short project?
What Salesforce skills can we hire for?
:: Related Salesforce services
Other ways we can help
Send us your brief. We’ll help turn it into reality
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