Salt Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Salt
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Salt 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.63% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 10.71% - -
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 - -
East of England median daily rate £483 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 56 19 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 15.18% 4.69% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 10
10th Percentile £200 £225 £383
25th Percentile £250 £366 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +13.89%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £556
90th Percentile £700 £683 £595
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £63.50 £40.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +58.75% -18.37% -32.88%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salt job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Salt
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Salt

Salt
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Salt in Cambridgeshire

Salt
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 2025. 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
Cambridge - 6 £431 - 1
Salt
East of England

Salt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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