Salt Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Salt
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Salt 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.51% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 4.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £228 - -
25th Percentile £250 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £623 - -
England median daily rate £506 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -13.02% -6.88% -1.96%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 169 142 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.34% 9.86% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 90 142
10th Percentile £204 £231 £273
25th Percentile £405 £316 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £609
90th Percentile £646 £581 £723
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 22
10th Percentile £21.29 £32.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £33.23 £35.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £40.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.75% -18.37% -32.88%
75th Percentile £67.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £48.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.33% -28.57% +119.57%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Salt job vacancy trend in the East of England

Salt
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Salt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Salt

Salt
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Salt in the East of England

Salt
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire - 6 £431 - 1
Bedfordshire - 1 £483 -
Salt
England

Salt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (28.57%) OpenStack
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) InfiniBand
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Administrator
1 4 (57.14%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Grid Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) ITSM
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
4 2 (28.57%) Java
5 1 (14.29%) C++
5 1 (14.29%) Perl
5 1 (14.29%) Ruby
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) GPFS
1 2 (28.57%) Lustre
1 2 (28.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Puppet
2 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Progress Chef
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 1 (14.29%) Consul
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Vertica
2 1 (14.29%) VMware