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 23 April 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
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 513 569
Rank change year-on-year -100 +56 +66
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 2 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.027% 0.046%
As % of the Vendors category 0.010% 0.057% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 15
10th Percentile - - £544
25th Percentile - £425 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -33.33% +17.39%
75th Percentile - £628 £705
90th Percentile - £653 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525
% change year-on-year - - +2.44%

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 19,659 14,020 18,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.35% 47.47% 42.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,561 8,809 11,569
10th Percentile £313 £293 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -0.82% -0.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 987 551 1,078
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £14.36
Median hourly rate £30.49 £27.35 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% +21.56% -48.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.19 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £24.66 £21.46
% change year-on-year +9.49% +14.91% -46.35%

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 23 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
Work from Home - 2 £432 -
London -56 1 £432 -4.00%
England -107 1 £432 -4.00%
Scotland - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Rocky
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) iptables
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
1 1 (50.00%) Samba
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (50.00%) SELinux
2 1 (50.00%) systemd
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX