Salt Contracts in London

Salt
England > London

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 475 583
Rank change year-on-year +85 +108 -163
Contract jobs citing Salt 4 26 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.096% 0.054%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.58% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 20
10th Percentile £458 £481 £467
25th Percentile £469 £510 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -3.70% +40.63%
75th Percentile £544 £770 £741
90th Percentile £563 £800 £975
England median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +20.00%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,158 4,479 6,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.18% 16.56% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,553 3,267 5,158
10th Percentile £313 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £789 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 41 46
10th Percentile £18.00 £21.67 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £51.25 £22.27
Median hourly rate £25.36 £67.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -62.16% +180.22% -40.23%
75th Percentile £53.81 £83.00 £43.25
90th Percentile £69.70 £90.00 £80.63
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Salt in London

Salt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salt in London.

Daily rate trend for Salt in London

Salt
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Central London +36 1 £450 -30.77% 1
Salt
England

Salt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Route 53
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Unix Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Security Patching
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Check_MK
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Qualys
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) SaltStack
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft