SaltStack Contract Job Trends

SaltStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 September 2026, 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
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 547 539
Rank change year-on-year -104 -8 +74
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 27 5 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.015% 0.084%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.032% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 19
10th Percentile - - £509
25th Percentile £350 £613 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £625 £585
Median % change year-on-year -24.56% +6.84% -3.27%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £709
90th Percentile £645 - £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 - £582
% change year-on-year - - +8.28%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,863 15,724 17,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.67% 47.54% 44.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,925 9,673 10,099
10th Percentile £310 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £613 £625
90th Percentile £705 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,314 807 652
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.41 £17.79 £15.70
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.87%
75th Percentile £57.88 £43.21 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.69 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.30 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.76% -29.00% -29.41%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SaltStack job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaltStack over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SaltStack in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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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 SaltStack within the UK over the 6 months to 26 September 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 -103 16 £472 -24.56% 11
UK excluding London - 15 £563 - 3
London -76 12 £400 -36.00% 9
Scotland - 11 £488 - 1
Work from Home - 8 £400 - 2
South West - 4 £619 - 2

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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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Azure AKS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (11.11%) Datadog
2 3 (11.11%) GCP
2 3 (11.11%) GitHub
2 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
2 4 (14.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (29.63%) Integration Engineer
1 8 (29.63%) Senior
1 8 (29.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (29.63%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Platform Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Pulumi
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (70.37%) Private Cloud
2 8 (29.63%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
5 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
6 1 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (74.07%) Linux
2 12 (44.44%) Unix
3 11 (40.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.70%) SUSE
4 1 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Configuration Management
2 21 (77.78%) Test Automation
3 18 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 15 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (55.56%) Open Source
5 14 (51.85%) DevOps
6 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (29.63%) Release Automation
7 8 (29.63%) Secure Coding
7 8 (29.63%) Validation
7 8 (29.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 6 (22.22%) Load Balancing
8 6 (22.22%) Manual Testing
9 5 (18.52%) Asset Management
9 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (18.52%) Risk Management
10 4 (14.81%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Python
2 16 (59.26%) Perl
3 10 (37.04%) C
4 8 (29.63%) C++
5 3 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) VCAP
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (40.74%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (14.81%) VMware NSX
3 4 (14.81%) vSphere
4 2 (7.41%) Docker
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Ansible
2 15 (55.56%) Progress Chef
2 15 (55.56%) Puppet
3 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
4 5 (18.52%) vCenter Server
5 4 (14.81%) PowerCLI
6 3 (11.11%) Grafana
6 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
7 2 (7.41%) Salt
8 1 (3.70%) OPNET
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) VMware
2 11 (40.74%) Red Hat
3 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle