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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 346 382
Rank change year-on-year -62 +36 +110
Contract jobs citing Salt 9 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.052% 0.055% 0.067%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.36% 0.35% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile - - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £440 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -20.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile - - £650
England median daily rate £488 £440 £550
% change year-on-year +10.80% -20.00% -12.00%
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 2,487 2,009 2,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.34% 15.88% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 1,386 1,595
10th Percentile £350 £368 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 42
10th Percentile £22.41 £23.59 £13.62
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.45 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +98.49% +2.88% -61.05%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £59.69
90th Percentile - £63.25 £66.55
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
% change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -51.51%

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
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the London region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 1 - -
Salt
England

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 (11.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 3 (33.33%) Serverless
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Ethernet
1 5 (55.56%) InfiniBand
1 5 (55.56%) NetScaler
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
1 5 (55.56%) Wireless
2 3 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) MPLS
2 3 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Law
2 2 (22.22%) Military
2 2 (22.22%) Police
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Grid Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) AI
2 5 (55.56%) Incident Management
2 5 (55.56%) Network Segmentation
2 5 (55.56%) Observability
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (33.33%) Open Source
4 3 (33.33%) Refactoring
4 3 (33.33%) Software Deployment
4 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) Time Management
6 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) GPFS
2 1 (11.11%) Lustre
2 1 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
2 8 (88.89%) Grafana
2 8 (88.89%) Prometheus
3 4 (44.44%) Puppet
3 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Arista
1 5 (55.56%) Aruba
1 5 (55.56%) BigPanda
1 5 (55.56%) CheckPoint
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
1 5 (55.56%) F5
1 5 (55.56%) Palo Alto
1 5 (55.56%) ServiceNow
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft