SaltStack Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SaltStack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 13 October 2025, 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
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 350 410
Rank change year-on-year -31 +60 +50
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 1 12 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.070% 0.071%
As % of the Vendors category 0.013% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 12
10th Percentile - £566 £426
25th Percentile £463 £570 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £582 £466
Median % change year-on-year -18.38% +25.03% +9.02%
75th Percentile £488 £585 £541
90th Percentile - £593 £584
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +34.35%

All Vendors
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,629 7,657 9,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.30% 44.38% 46.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,737 4,374 6,335
10th Percentile £220 £220 £209
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 486 523
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.75 £14.30
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £17.74
Median hourly rate £21.39 £30.21 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.18% -29.76% +110.27%
75th Percentile £37.88 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.33 £70.00 £75.45
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -24.24% -24.79% +83.52%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SaltStack job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SaltStack
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SaltStack
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 SaltStack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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 - 1 £475 - 1
SaltStack
UK

SaltStack
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform