Salt Contracts in the UK excluding London

Salt
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Salt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Salt over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 - 416
Rank change year-on-year - - +59
Contract jobs citing Salt 2 0 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% - 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.11% - 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £456
25th Percentile - - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £550
75th Percentile - - £613
90th Percentile - - £632
UK median daily rate £440 £575 £592
% change year-on-year -23.48% -2.87% -5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,892 2,320 3,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.85% 11.30% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,687 2,611
10th Percentile £235 £212 £281
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £621
90th Percentile £656 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £562
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.36% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 74 136
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £28.75 £44.88
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% -35.93% +124.38%
75th Percentile £49.23 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.98 £70.28 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £25.77 £57.50
% change year-on-year +2.85% -55.19% +155.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Salt in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salt in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Salt in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
East of England - 2 £250 - 1
Salt
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware