Salt Contract Job Trends

Salt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Salt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 516 565
Rank change year-on-year -90 +49 +98
Contract jobs citing Salt 12 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.024% 0.036%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £378 - £413
25th Percentile £419 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.80% -7.37% -18.59%
75th Percentile £556 - £588
90th Percentile £598 - £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,450 4,680 5,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.04% 15.99% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,432 3,206 3,735
10th Percentile £319 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -0.50% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 51 130
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.89 £21.77 £17.73
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.38 £51.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £79.10 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £27.88
% change year-on-year +117.05% -9.12% -39.45%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Salt job vacancy trend in the UK

Salt
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Salt
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salt over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Salt in the UK

Salt
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salt.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salt

Salt
Top 6 Contract Job 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 13 April 2026. 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 -101 11 £488 +10.80%
London -53 9 £350 -20.45%
Work from Home - 4 - - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £625 - 1
East of England - 1 £625 -
South East - 1 - -

Salt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 4 (33.33%) Serverless
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) InfiniBand
2 5 (41.67%) Ethernet
2 5 (41.67%) NetScaler
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
2 5 (41.67%) Wireless
3 4 (33.33%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (25.00%) MPLS
5 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Military
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Law
3 2 (16.67%) Police
4 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
2 1 (8.33%) Grid Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
1 6 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) AI
2 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
2 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) Network Segmentation
2 5 (41.67%) Observability
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (33.33%) Open Source
3 4 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 4 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (25.00%) Time Management
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) Lustre
3 2 (16.67%) GPFS
3 2 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (8.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
2 9 (75.00%) Grafana
2 9 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 7 (58.33%) Puppet
4 5 (41.67%) Terraform
5 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 1 (8.33%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (8.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Arista
1 5 (41.67%) Aruba
1 5 (41.67%) BigPanda
1 5 (41.67%) CheckPoint
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco
1 5 (41.67%) F5
1 5 (41.67%) Palo Alto
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat