SaltStack Contract Job Trends 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 12 October 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
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 498 567
Rank change year-on-year -6 +69 +159
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 6 31 29
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.021% 0.096% 0.071%
As % of the Vendors category 0.045% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 21
10th Percentile £478 £539 £465
25th Percentile £500 £570 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +34.35%
75th Percentile £600 £708 £710
90th Percentile £623 £710 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +34.35%
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 - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

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 13,346 14,368 18,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.82% 44.62% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,496 8,597 12,043
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 513 615
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +81.86%
75th Percentile £43.24 £65.00 £62.77
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -23.08% -25.87% +83.01%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SaltStack job vacancy trend in England

SaltStack
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SaltStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SaltStack

SaltStack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaltStack in England over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaltStack in England

SaltStack
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 12 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
London +5 5 £625 -11.66%
East of England - 1 £475 - 1
SaltStack
UK

SaltStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Route 53
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
4 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Subversion
2 4 (66.67%) TeamCity
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) WCF
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Clustering
1 4 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) API Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Data Security
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 4 (66.67%) Kernel Tuning
2 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Security Hardening
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
3 4 (66.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) NFS
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas File System
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) iptables
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) QRadar
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) CyberArk
1 4 (66.67%) Qualys
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
1 4 (66.67%) VMware