SaltStack Contracts in England

SaltStack
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of SaltStack products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SaltStack over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SaltStack.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 525 616
Rank change year-on-year +48 +91 +126
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 8 17 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.046% 0.073%
As % of the Vendors category 0.069% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 31
10th Percentile - £590 £426
25th Percentile £425 £628 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £680 £588
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +15.74% +11.90%
75th Percentile £628 £710 £663
90th Percentile £653 - £675
UK median daily rate £450 £678 £575
% change year-on-year -33.58% +17.83% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Vendors
England

SaltStack falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SaltStack in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaltStack in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaltStack in England

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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 SaltStack 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 +29 7 £450 -33.58% 7
SaltStack
UK

SaltStack
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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 6 (75.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Subversion
1 8 (100.00%) TeamCity
2 6 (75.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Administrator
1 8 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Clustering
2 6 (75.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Solaris
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) API Integration
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (100.00%) High Availability
1 8 (100.00%) Kernel Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Data Security
2 4 (50.00%) Security Auditing
2 4 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 4 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) Perl
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) GDPR
1 6 (75.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (50.00%) NFS
2 4 (50.00%) Veritas File System
2 4 (50.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) QRadar
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 6 (75.00%) Tivoli
3 4 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (25.00%) Control-M
4 2 (25.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 8 (100.00%) Qualys
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (100.00%) Splunk
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) IBM
3 4 (50.00%) EMC
3 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (25.00%) BMC
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle