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 13 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 536 621
Rank change year-on-year -17 +85 +168
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 5 33 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.086% 0.059%
As % of the Vendors category 0.032% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 18
10th Percentile - £510 £550
25th Percentile £613 £570 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £598 £655
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -8.71% +52.92%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £712
90th Percentile - £710 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate - £582 £592
% change year-on-year - -1.69% +38.64%
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 15,513 17,031 22,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.13% 44.19% 44.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,498 10,278 14,586
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 797 693 649
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -27.06% +83.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -25.00% +100.00%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in the UK

SaltStack
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

SaltStack
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

SaltStack
Top 2 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 13 September 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
London +22 5 £625 -11.66% 2
England -8 5 £625 +2.46% 3

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Subversion
1 4 (80.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
1 4 (80.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) API Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Security
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Kernel Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) NFS
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas File System
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) QRadar
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) CyberArk
1 4 (80.00%) Qualys
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
1 4 (80.00%) VMware