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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 388 467
Rank change year-on-year +42 +79 +110
Contract jobs citing Salt 7 3 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.017% 0.096%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.35% 0.14% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 19
10th Percentile - - £481
25th Percentile - £525 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile - £575 £770
90th Percentile - - £800
England median daily rate £440 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -20.00% -12.00% +4.17%

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 1,988 2,176 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.84% 12.20% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,567 3,266
10th Percentile £363 £323 £400
25th Percentile £447 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £789
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 42 41
10th Percentile £23.78 £18.00 £21.67
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.81 £83.00
90th Percentile £66.43 £69.70 £90.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) BigCommerce
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DSL
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
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%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Python Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Architect
4 2 (28.57%) GCP Architect
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
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%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
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%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) B2B
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%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Puppet
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
1 2 (28.57%) New Relic
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) Sitecore
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft