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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 354 380
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 +143
Contract jobs citing Salt 3 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% 0.014% 0.077%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.13% 0.098% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £421
25th Percentile - - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £644
England median daily rate £513 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
England median hourly rate - - £60.00

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 2,274 2,039 2,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.60% 14.69% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 1,337 1,811
10th Percentile £350 £359 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -10.80%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £675
90th Percentile £724 £789 £750
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.76% -2.33% -8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 31
10th Percentile £20.96 £22.30 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £24.23
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.25 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +17.40% +47.36%
75th Percentile £63.32 £72.13 £61.25
90th Percentile - £106.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £48.36 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.49% -42.62% +19.95%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Weka
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 2 (66.67%) InfiniBand
1 2 (66.67%) NetScaler
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Grid Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) GPFS
1 1 (33.33%) Lustre
1 1 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Arista
1 2 (66.67%) Aruba
1 2 (66.67%) BigPanda
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk