SaltStack Contract Job Trends in Scotland

SaltStack
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 11 September 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
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.30% - 0.053%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £444 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.32%
75th Percentile £538 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £472 £625 £585
% change year-on-year -24.56% +6.84% -10.62%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,046 746 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.28% 46.05% 40.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 405 472
10th Percentile £215 £233 £171
25th Percentile £363 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £613 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 70 39
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.02 £12.48
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.30 £16.07
Median hourly rate £15.81 £19.23 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +1.21% +7.22%
75th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £38.38 £31.00 £46.23
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +7.36% -18.33% -27.54%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SaltStack job vacancy trend in Scotland

SaltStack
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SaltStack

SaltStack
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaltStack in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaltStack in Scotland

SaltStack
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaltStack within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Glasgow - 7 £525 - 1
SaltStack
UK

SaltStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (57.14%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Integration Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Private Cloud
2 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) SUSE
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (85.71%) Open Source
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Release Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Secure Coding
3 4 (57.14%) Validation
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Perl
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Salt
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle