SaltStack Contract Job Trends in London

SaltStack
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of SaltStack products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SaltStack over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SaltStack.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 370 369
Rank change year-on-year -57 -1 +91
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 2 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.010% 0.007% 0.097%
As % of the Vendors category 0.024% 0.016% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile - £613 £683
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £625 £710
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% -11.97% +5.19%
75th Percentile - £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £432 £625 £598
% change year-on-year -30.88% +4.60% +3.91%

All Vendors
London

SaltStack falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,321 6,288 7,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.83% 46.00% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,438 4,095 4,853
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 120 93
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.37
25th Percentile £22.10 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.31 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.93% -4.33% -14.06%
75th Percentile £57.86 £47.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £74.25
England median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaltStack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SaltStack job vacancy trend in London

SaltStack
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SaltStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SaltStack

SaltStack
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 SaltStack within the London region over the 6 months to 27 July 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 - - 1
East London - 1 £432 -
SaltStack
England

SaltStack
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat