Salt
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Salt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Salt over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 899 862 1167
Rank change year-on-year -37 +305 -349
Permanent jobs citing Salt 15 90 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.092% 0.042%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.63% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 52 38
10th Percentile - £58,750 £70,275
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,875 £72,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +25.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £107,250 £109,750 £128,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £120,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +41.18% +30.77% +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Salt is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Salt.

Salary trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Salt over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Salt in the UK

Salt
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 15 £75,000 -6.25% 5
London +112 13 £75,000 -3.23% 2
Work from Home +47 10 £75,000 -11.76%
South East -13 1 £120,000 +26.32% 1
UK excluding London -39 1 £120,000 +41.18% 3

Salt
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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 5 (33.33%) GitHub
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (20.00%) Route 53
5 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.67%) IaaS
7 1 (6.67%) PaaS
7 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.67%) Pulumi
7 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) FTP
2 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) JIRA
3 4 (26.67%) Bitbucket
4 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (20.00%) Subversion
5 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (6.67%) GitLab
5 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
5 1 (6.67%) Vagrant
5 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) Automation Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) Cloud Automation Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (46.67%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (20.00%) Site Engineer
6 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (13.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (13.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (13.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) Lead
8 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) ADO
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (20.00%) Blockchain
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
1 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (86.67%) DevOps
3 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (73.33%) Configuration Management
3 11 (73.33%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (53.33%) Agile
5 6 (40.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 6 (40.00%) Software Testing
5 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (26.67%) Open Source
8 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
8 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (20.00%) Identity Management
8 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (20.00%) Migration
8 3 (20.00%) SDLC
8 3 (20.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (93.33%) Java
3 7 (46.67%) Perl
4 4 (26.67%) Go
4 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (20.00%) Bash
5 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) C#
6 1 (6.67%) C++
6 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Ansible
2 14 (93.33%) Terraform
3 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (80.00%) Progress Chef
4 11 (73.33%) Puppet
5 4 (26.67%) Packer
6 1 (6.67%) Consul
6 1 (6.67%) Grafana
6 1 (6.67%) Kibana
6 1 (6.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Atlassian
2 3 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) VMware