Salt Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Salt
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Salt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Salt 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.045% - 0.094%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.38% - 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 261 213 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.84% 12.24% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 160 197
10th Percentile £284 £281 £358
25th Percentile £450 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £12.80 £21.49 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £23.46 £27.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £28.50 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -58.99% +91.72%
75th Percentile £49.50 £47.91 £112.00
90th Percentile £64.80 £58.51 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.50 £24.43 £69.50
% change year-on-year +20.77% -64.85% +91.72%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Salt job vacancy trend in the City of London

Salt
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Salt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Salt

Salt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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