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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 352 403
Rank change year-on-year -51 +51 +47
Contract jobs citing Salt 9 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.048% 0.048% 0.034%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £525 - £688
90th Percentile - - £755
England median daily rate £500 £440 £582
% change year-on-year +13.64% -24.40% -8.71%

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 2,626 1,932 2,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.87% 15.55% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,804 1,296 1,674
10th Percentile £358 £352 £330
25th Percentile £438 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 35
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +60.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £69.55
England median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +32.44% +41.27% -42.73%

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 18 June 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
1 5 (55.56%) Serverless
1 5 (55.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Ethernet
1 4 (44.44%) InfiniBand
1 4 (44.44%) NetScaler
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
1 4 (44.44%) 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%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon QuickSight
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Artifactory
1 5 (55.56%) Git
1 5 (55.56%) 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
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) AI
2 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (44.44%) Observability
2 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 3 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Bash
1 5 (55.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Puppet
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Arista
1 4 (44.44%) Aruba
1 4 (44.44%) BigPanda
1 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) F5
1 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk
2 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft