Salt Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Salt
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Salt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 348 406
Rank change year-on-year -26 +58 +92
Contract jobs citing Salt 10 14 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.081% 0.047%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.39% 0.61% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 7
10th Percentile £239 £566 £373
25th Percentile £403 £570 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £582 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +16.40% -20.00%
75th Percentile £544 £585 £525
90th Percentile £621 £593 £581
UK median daily rate £506 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -13.02% +5.82% -13.73%

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 2,541 2,294 2,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 13.31% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 1,507 1,996
10th Percentile £231 £253 £273
25th Percentile £381 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.82% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £613
90th Percentile £638 £651 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 36 120
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.57 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £33.00
Median hourly rate £21.39 £37.08 £47.01
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% -21.11% +113.66%
75th Percentile £63.68 £54.13 £74.53
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.22 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £36.17 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.11% -34.25% +130.03%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salt job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Salt
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Salt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Salt

Salt
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salt in the UK excluding London

Salt
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 14 October 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 - 7 £483 - 1
South East 0 3 £513 -11.94%
Salt
UK

Salt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) GitLab
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Swagger
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) CentOS
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) ITSM
5 3 (30.00%) Observability
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) API Development
6 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (20.00%) Data Science
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (10.00%) ITIL
7 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
7 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Bash
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) Go
5 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (10.00%) C++
6 1 (10.00%) Perl
6 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) GPFS
2 2 (20.00%) Lustre
2 2 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Puppet
3 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (30.00%) Proxmox
4 3 (30.00%) Rundeck
5 1 (10.00%) Consul
5 1 (10.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Vertica