SaltStack Contracts

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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 552 642
Rank change year-on-year +28 +90 +188
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 6 35 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.081% 0.079%
As % of the Vendors category 0.041% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 25
10th Percentile - £506 £471
25th Percentile £425 £570 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £633 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% +10.00% +14.89%
75th Percentile £638 £710 £660
90th Percentile £657 - £673
UK excluding London median daily rate - £582 £584
% change year-on-year - -0.26% +17.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.25
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50

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 14,728 18,586 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.48% 42.82% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,008 11,542 16,145
10th Percentile £280 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 705 1,165 648
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.84 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +81.82%
75th Percentile £53.50 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.56 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.31% -23.00% +49.00%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SaltStack in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaltStack over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaltStack in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SaltStack in the UK

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Top 2 Contract 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 2 July 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 +32 6 £585 -12.03% 25
London +24 5 £585 -17.31% 19

SaltStack
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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GitHub
2 5 (83.33%) Nutanix
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Subversion
1 5 (83.33%) TeamCity
2 3 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Clustering
2 3 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Solaris
3 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) API Integration
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (83.33%) High Availability
2 5 (83.33%) Kernel Tuning
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Security Auditing
3 3 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) Data Security
4 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) NFS
2 2 (33.33%) Veritas File System
2 2 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) iptables
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) QRadar
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 5 (83.33%) Tivoli
3 3 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (33.33%) Control-M
4 2 (33.33%) Netcool
5 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (16.67%) Puppet
5 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) CyberArk
1 5 (83.33%) IBM
1 5 (83.33%) Qualys
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (83.33%) Splunk
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) EMC
2 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) BMC
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle