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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 374 413
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 +145
Contract jobs citing Salt 2 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.032% 0.074%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.089% 0.22% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile - £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.52%
75th Percentile - £575 £625
90th Percentile - - £638
England median daily rate £513 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -11.94% +5.82% -13.73%
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 2,239 2,312 3,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.96% 14.70% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 1,515 2,293
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £429 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £770 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 36
10th Percentile £21.82 £22.81 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £30.25
Median hourly rate £34.75 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.31 £61.88 £67.75
90th Percentile £66.02 £103.60 £85.78
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +90.59%

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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Server Building
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) GPFS
1 1 (50.00%) Lustre
1 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (50.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Icinga
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic
1 1 (50.00%) Rackspace
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Zend