Salt Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Salt
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Salt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Salt 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.97% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 12.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £224 - -
25th Percentile £241 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - -
75th Percentile £620 - -
90th Percentile £623 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £431 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Cambridge

Salt falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 50 17 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 24.75% 8.50% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 6
10th Percentile £188 £225 £263
25th Percentile £266 £319 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £510
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -16.67% -7.27%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £663 £710 £656
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Salt relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Salt job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Salt
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Salt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Salt

Salt
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salt in Cambridge over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salt in Cambridge

Salt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) InfiniBand
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Administrator
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Grid Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) Ruby
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) GPFS
1 2 (33.33%) Lustre
1 2 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Puppet
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
3 4 (66.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (16.67%) Consul
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware