SaltStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SaltStack products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SaltStack over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SaltStack.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 937 1007
Rank change year-on-year +95 +70 -244
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 60 35 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.035% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.082% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 140
10th Percentile £66,000 £38,725 £46,125
25th Percentile £71,250 £61,563 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £75,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £105,000 £75,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -

All Vendors
UK

SaltStack is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,515 42,452 61,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.84% 41.89% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25,000 24,240 32,762
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,294 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in the UK

SaltStack
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SaltStack in the UK

SaltStack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaltStack over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SaltStack in the UK

SaltStack
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaltStack within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London +31 54 - - 6
England +104 40 £75,000 +7.14% 12
South West - 19 - - 1
Scotland - 18 - -
North of England +48 16 - -
Work from Home +72 13 £102,500 +60.78% 9
North West +23 11 - -
London +101 4 £75,000 +5.26% 5
Yorkshire +74 4 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - -

SaltStack
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 28 (46.67%) Apache
2 26 (43.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 47 (78.33%) AWS
2 35 (58.33%) Azure
3 26 (43.33%) Amazon EKS
3 26 (43.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 26 (43.33%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (43.33%) GCP
3 26 (43.33%) OpenShift
3 26 (43.33%) Serverless
4 7 (11.67%) Azure AKS
4 7 (11.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (11.67%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (11.67%) Datadog
4 7 (11.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (43.33%) AMQP
2 3 (5.00%) DNS
3 2 (3.33%) DHCP
3 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.33%) tcpdump
3 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.67%) Anycast
4 1 (1.67%) BGP
4 1 (1.67%) HTTP
4 1 (1.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (43.33%) Big Data
1 26 (43.33%) Cloudera CDH
1 26 (43.33%) Hadoop
2 18 (30.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (11.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (11.67%) MariaDB
3 7 (11.67%) MongoDB
3 7 (11.67%) MySQL
3 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (3.33%) Git
4 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 30 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 22 (36.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (30.00%) Finance
3 18 (30.00%) Law
3 18 (30.00%) Marketing
4 7 (11.67%) Retail
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (73.33%) Software Engineer
2 26 (43.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 18 (30.00%) Java Engineer
3 18 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 18 (30.00%) Lead
3 18 (30.00%) Lead Java Engineer
3 18 (30.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Senior
6 6 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (73.33%) Spring
2 26 (43.33%) AngularJS
2 26 (43.33%) gRPC
2 26 (43.33%) Material-UI
2 26 (43.33%) Node.js
2 26 (43.33%) OpenAPI
2 26 (43.33%) RabbitMQ
2 26 (43.33%) React
2 26 (43.33%) REST
2 26 (43.33%) Spring Boot
2 26 (43.33%) Swagger
3 7 (11.67%) ARM Templates
4 4 (6.67%) JSON
4 4 (6.67%) RESTful
4 4 (6.67%) XML
5 2 (3.33%) Keycloak
5 2 (3.33%) Middleware
6 1 (1.67%) Playwright
6 1 (1.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (43.33%) Cloud Native
2 18 (30.00%) Public Cloud
3 7 (11.67%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (11.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.67%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 34 (56.67%) Linux
2 29 (48.33%) CentOS
2 29 (48.33%) Ubuntu
3 26 (43.33%) Debian
3 26 (43.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (96.67%) Configuration Management
2 51 (85.00%) Agile
3 45 (75.00%) Software Engineering
4 35 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (43.33%) API Development
5 26 (43.33%) Collaborative Working
5 26 (43.33%) Containerisation
5 26 (43.33%) Kanban
5 26 (43.33%) Microservices
5 26 (43.33%) Open Source
5 26 (43.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 26 (43.33%) Scrum
6 23 (38.33%) Actionable Insight
7 20 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 18 (30.00%) Architectural Design
8 18 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 18 (30.00%) CAP Theorem
8 18 (30.00%) Community of Practice
8 18 (30.00%) Machine Learning
8 18 (30.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 51 (85.00%) Java
2 42 (70.00%) Python
3 33 (55.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (18.33%) PowerShell
4 11 (18.33%) Ruby
5 10 (16.67%) Bash
6 8 (13.33%) Go
6 8 (13.33%) Groovy
7 7 (11.67%) C#
7 7 (11.67%) Perl
7 7 (11.67%) PHP
7 7 (11.67%) SQL
7 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.67%) Lua
8 4 (6.67%) Tcl
9 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 30 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Linux+ Certification
4 2 (3.33%) RHCE
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.33%) KVM
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (88.33%) Terraform
2 42 (70.00%) Ansible
3 40 (66.67%) Puppet
4 37 (61.67%) Kubernetes
5 14 (23.33%) Progress Chef
6 10 (16.67%) Grafana
6 10 (16.67%) Prometheus
7 4 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (48.33%) Red Hat
2 26 (43.33%) Google
3 7 (11.67%) New Relic
4 6 (10.00%) VMware
5 4 (6.67%) Cisco
5 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.67%) TOWER Software