Salt Contract Job Trends in the South East

Salt
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Salt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 173 208
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 -
Contract jobs citing Salt 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.069% 0.027% 0.039%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.49% 0.20% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £570 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -10.09% +3.64% -8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 613 501 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.17% 13.31% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 371 466
10th Percentile £257 £260 £205
25th Percentile £387 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £574 £613 £615
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 33
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.99 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.54 £30.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.25 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% -39.57% +14.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £36.56 £68.63
90th Percentile £85.40 £37.37 £76.53
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Salt relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Salt job vacancy trend in the South East

Salt
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Salt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Salt

Salt
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
Hampshire -6 3 £513 -10.09%
Salt
England

Salt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Swagger
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 3 (100.00%) Rundeck
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware