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 1 August 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
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 557 536
Rank change year-on-year -103 -21 +110
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 8 2 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.006% 0.079%
As % of the Vendors category 0.036% 0.013% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 22
10th Percentile £386 - £501
25th Percentile £404 £613 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £625 £585
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% +6.84% +0.26%
75th Percentile £457 £638 £709
90th Percentile £472 - £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - £582
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%

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 22,051 15,518 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.36% 47.18% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,688 9,504 10,753
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £601 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.52% -4.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,117 782 883
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.55 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%
75th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £25.60
% change year-on-year +52.32% -12.83% -26.33%

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

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 5 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 1 August 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
London -68 5 £452 -27.72% 6
England -112 5 £452 -27.72% 10
Scotland - 3 £375 - 2
UK excluding London - 3 £375 - 7
Work from Home - 2 £432 - 1

SaltStack
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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) JBoss
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSH
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Unix
4 1 (12.50%) Rocky
4 1 (12.50%) SUSE
4 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Runbook
5 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) iptables
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Progress Chef
1 6 (75.00%) Puppet
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Rundeck
4 1 (12.50%) Salt
4 1 (12.50%) SELinux
4 1 (12.50%) systemd
4 1 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle