Salt Contracts in England

Salt
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Salt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Salt over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 530 607
Rank change year-on-year +49 +77 +121
Contract jobs citing Salt 13 23 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.050% 0.062% 0.057%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.32% 0.49% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 19
10th Percentile £235 £525 £481
25th Percentile £345 £557 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £582 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +1.22% -12.38%
75th Percentile - £585 £700
90th Percentile £469 £732 £800
UK median daily rate £440 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -24.40% +5.82% -18.52%

All Systems Management Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,050 4,675 7,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.68% 12.52% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,707 3,376 5,150
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £607 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -1.78% -5.59% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 96 161
10th Percentile £19.88 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.00% -43.18% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.48 £71.25 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £35.14 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +8.11% -43.48% +155.56%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Salt in England

Salt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salt in England.

Daily rate trend for Salt in England

Salt
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salt in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salt in England

Salt
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
London +38 7 £440 -20.00% 21
East of England - 5 £250 - 2
Salt
UK

Salt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
3 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
3 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) BigCommerce
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Run
4 2 (15.38%) Datadog
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.69%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) DSL
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) TeamCity
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
3 2 (15.38%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) JMeter
3 2 (15.38%) Terragrunt
3 2 (15.38%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Administrator
1 6 (46.15%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Python Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
1 4 (30.77%) YAML
2 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
2 2 (15.38%) LAMP
2 2 (15.38%) VML
2 2 (15.38%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) CentOS
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Debian
3 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
4 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
4 4 (30.77%) ITSM
4 4 (30.77%) Log Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) B2B
5 2 (15.38%) Build Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bash
3 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
1 4 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) VirtualBox
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Puppet
2 12 (92.31%) Ansible
3 9 (69.23%) Progress Chef
4 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
4 7 (53.85%) Terraform
5 2 (15.38%) Icinga
5 2 (15.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) New Relic
1 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Adobe
3 2 (15.38%) Rackspace
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) Sitecore
3 2 (15.38%) Zend
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Vertica