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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 351 377
Rank change year-on-year -44 +26 +127
Contract jobs citing Salt 7 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.044% 0.015% 0.060%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.29% 0.098% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile - - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -12.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile - - £650
England median daily rate £619 £440 £550
% change year-on-year +40.63% -20.00% -4.35%
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 2,408 2,045 2,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.24% 15.30% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,657 1,367 1,690
10th Percentile £350 £367 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 34
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.63 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £44.50 £26.11
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% +70.47% +1.54%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £58.56
90th Percentile £64.65 £108.60 £61.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

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 (14.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Ethernet
1 5 (71.43%) InfiniBand
1 5 (71.43%) NetScaler
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
1 5 (71.43%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (42.86%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Grid Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) AI
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Management
2 5 (71.43%) Network Segmentation
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Open Source
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Time Management
5 1 (14.29%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) GPFS
1 1 (14.29%) Lustre
1 1 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) Grafana
2 6 (85.71%) Prometheus
3 2 (28.57%) Puppet
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
4 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Arista
1 5 (71.43%) Aruba
1 5 (71.43%) BigPanda
1 5 (71.43%) CheckPoint
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) F5
1 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft