SaltStack Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

SaltStack
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 11 September 2026, 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
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.61% - 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 1.39% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £444 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.32%
75th Percentile £538 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -11.32%

All Vendors
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 505 358 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 43.95% 48.18% 43.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 232 205
10th Percentile £260 £301 £200
25th Percentile £361 £377 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £452 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +0.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £575
90th Percentile £639 £600 £697
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 9
10th Percentile £13.13 - £16.01
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £25.15 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -46.32% +4.14% +36.29%
75th Percentile £15.78 - £34.50
90th Percentile £16.98 - £48.23
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £19.23 £19.00
% change year-on-year -17.78% +1.21% +7.22%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

SaltStack job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SaltStack
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SaltStack

SaltStack
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaltStack in Glasgow over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaltStack in Glasgow

SaltStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (57.14%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Integration Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Private Cloud
2 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) SUSE
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (85.71%) Open Source
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Release Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Secure Coding
3 4 (57.14%) Validation
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Perl
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Salt
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle