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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 537 622
Rank change year-on-year +59 +85 +108
Contract jobs citing Salt 7 5 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.013% 0.061%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.11% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 23
10th Percentile - £435 £481
25th Percentile - £469 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile - £669 £770
90th Percentile - £725 £795
UK median daily rate £440 £550 £592
% change year-on-year -20.00% -7.09% -2.55%

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 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +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
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 1 May 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 +42 7 £440 -20.00% 6
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) BigCommerce
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DSL
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) Terragrunt
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Python Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Architect
4 2 (28.57%) GCP Architect
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) ARM Templates
1 4 (57.14%) YAML
2 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
2 2 (28.57%) VML
3 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
1 4 (57.14%) Log Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) B2B
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Acquisition
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Puppet
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
1 2 (28.57%) New Relic
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) Sitecore
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft