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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 364 374
Rank change year-on-year -91 +10 +51
Contract jobs citing Salt 2 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.010% 0.007% 0.043%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.087% 0.054% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £543
25th Percentile £475 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.04%
75th Percentile £525 - £744
90th Percentile - - £778
England median daily rate £500 £506 £582
% change year-on-year -1.23% -13.02% -3.00%

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 2,296 1,840 2,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.36% 13.70% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 1,198 1,355
10th Percentile £326 £329 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% -3.14% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £674
90th Percentile £725 £721 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 20
10th Percentile £24.02 £21.09 -
25th Percentile £26.79 £26.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +43.52% -55.00%
75th Percentile £79.19 £59.81 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.41 £101.20
England median hourly rate £65.45 £34.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +92.50% -10.53% -27.62%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Salt job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in London 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet