Salt Contracts in London

Salt
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Salt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Salt over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 386 468
Rank change year-on-year +38 +82 +111
Contract jobs citing Salt 7 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.054% 0.040% 0.083%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.30% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 16
10th Percentile - - £481
25th Percentile - £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.73% -8.93%
75th Percentile - £688 £736
90th Percentile - £755 £800
England median daily rate £440 £582 £575
% change year-on-year -24.40% +1.22% -12.38%

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 2,030 2,351 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.63% 13.35% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,343 1,700 2,995
10th Percentile £351 £335 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £713
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 36 48
10th Percentile £26.45 £20.00 £22.43
25th Percentile £27.31 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £42.25 £25.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.00% -60.94% +167.67%
75th Percentile £57.69 £41.63 £82.63
90th Percentile £63.03 £69.13 £90.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +68.00% -43.18% +150.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salt in London.

Daily rate trend for Salt in London

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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) BigCommerce
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
2 2 (28.57%) Datadog
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) Terragrunt
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Python Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) GCP Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) ARM Templates
1 4 (57.14%) YAML
2 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
2 2 (28.57%) VML
3 1 (14.29%) LAMP
3 1 (14.29%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Debian
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
1 4 (57.14%) Log Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) B2B
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Acquisition
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
4 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bash
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) VirtualBox
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Puppet
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
4 2 (28.57%) Terraform
5 1 (14.29%) Icinga
5 1 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) New Relic
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Sitecore
3 1 (14.29%) Rackspace
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Zend