Salt Contracts

Salt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 561 628
Rank change year-on-year +40 +67 +173
Contract jobs citing Salt 13 24 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.056% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.45% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 30
10th Percentile £235 £525 £451
25th Percentile £345 £560 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £582 £563
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +3.47% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £596 £650
90th Percentile £469 £717 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -57.04% +5.82% -6.38%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,815 5,339 8,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.71% 12.37% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,206 3,814 6,080
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -5.45% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 103 186
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.05 £19.50
25th Percentile £20.54 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.36 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.34 £71.25 £83.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.38
% change year-on-year +37.50% -7.78% +116.88%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salt.

Daily rate trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salt over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salt in the UK

Salt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Salt.

Hourly rate trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 June 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
England +47 13 £440 -24.40% 24
London +53 7 £440 -20.00% 19
UK excluding London +29 5 £250 -57.04% 4
East of England - 5 £250 - 1
Work from Home +36 3 £483 -17.52% 6

Salt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
3 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
3 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) BigCommerce
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Run
4 2 (15.38%) Datadog
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.69%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) DSL
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) TeamCity
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
3 2 (15.38%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) JMeter
3 2 (15.38%) Terragrunt
3 2 (15.38%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Administrator
1 6 (46.15%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Python Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
1 4 (30.77%) YAML
2 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
2 2 (15.38%) LAMP
2 2 (15.38%) VML
2 2 (15.38%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) CentOS
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Debian
3 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
4 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
4 4 (30.77%) ITSM
4 4 (30.77%) Log Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) B2B
5 2 (15.38%) Build Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bash
3 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
1 4 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) VirtualBox
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Puppet
2 12 (92.31%) Ansible
3 9 (69.23%) Progress Chef
4 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
4 7 (53.85%) Terraform
5 2 (15.38%) Icinga
5 2 (15.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) New Relic
1 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Adobe
3 2 (15.38%) Rackspace
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) Sitecore
3 2 (15.38%) Zend
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Vertica