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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 371 433
Rank change year-on-year +1 +62 +121
Contract jobs citing Salt 1 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.007% 0.044% 0.038%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.047% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £543 £510
25th Percentile - £569 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £744 £688
90th Percentile - £778 £710
England median daily rate £513 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -11.94% -6.88% -1.96%

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 2,117 2,320 3,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.80% 14.50% 15.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,550 2,426
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.89% -6.35%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £700
90th Percentile £720 £755 £799
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 36
10th Percentile £21.45 - £25.71
25th Percentile £26.19 £23.80 £26.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.04% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £61.44 £61.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £63.95 £103.60 £87.03
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -29.84% +119.57%

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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Zend Framework
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Building
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Icinga
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Rackspace
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zend