Salt Contract Job Trends in Central London

Salt
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Salt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - 130
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Salt 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.041% - 0.085%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.32% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate £500 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 314 237 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.99% 12.31% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 179 218
10th Percentile £292 £281 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £718 £775 £770
London median daily rate £545 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +1.68% -2.55% -8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £14.20 £19.26 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £19.85 £27.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £24.43 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% -64.85% +91.72%
75th Percentile £45.00 £39.08 £112.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £54.98 -
London median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.29% +43.52% -55.00%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Salt job vacancy trend in Central London

Salt
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Salt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Salt

Salt
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. 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
City of London - 1 - - 1
Salt
London

Salt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft