Salt Contract Job Trends in London

Salt
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Salt skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 390 438
Rank change year-on-year +25 +48 +151
Contract jobs citing Salt 3 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.050% 0.036%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.35% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £543 £510
25th Percentile - £569 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile - £744 £725
90th Percentile - £778 £770
England median daily rate £483 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -17.10% -6.88% -0.99%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,042 2,297 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.32% 14.32% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,560 2,650
10th Percentile £344 £331 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -0.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £719 £750 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 40
10th Percentile £25.20 £21.16 £25.41
25th Percentile £26.45 £23.80 £26.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £60.63 £63.50 £77.19
90th Percentile £63.71 £71.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -5.63% -23.81% +119.57%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Salt in London

Salt
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Salt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Salt

Salt
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Salt.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Salt

Salt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) BigCommerce
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Terragrunt
2 1 (33.33%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) LAMP
1 1 (33.33%) VML
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
1 1 (33.33%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Debian
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Server Building
2 1 (33.33%) Server Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VirtualBox
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Icinga
3 1 (33.33%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) New Relic
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Rackspace
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Sitecore
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Zend