The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SaltStack products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaltStack over the 6 months to 15 May 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SaltStack.
SaltStack is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services
23,623
21,164
38,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
41.33%
42.39%
41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted
15,126
13,200
24,062
10th Percentile
£281
£225
£263
25th Percentile
£381
£356
£363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£475
£450
£460
Median % change year-on-year
+5.56%
-2.17%
+2.22%
75th Percentile
£575
£560
£563
90th Percentile
£675
£650
£645
UK excluding London median daily rate
£425
£430
£425
% change year-on-year
-1.16%
+1.18%
+3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted
722
865
1,247
10th Percentile
£11.32
£11.83
£10.91
25th Percentile
£14.50
£14.50
£13.00
Median hourly rate
£22.00
£19.00
£18.11
Median % change year-on-year
+15.79%
+4.91%
+6.53%
75th Percentile
£45.00
£33.75
£37.06
90th Percentile
£58.59
£52.12
£49.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£18.50
£18.00
£17.00
% change year-on-year
+2.78%
+5.88%
+8.07%
SaltStack Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing SaltStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
SaltStack Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaltStack.
SaltStack Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaltStack over the 6 months to 15 May 2021.
SaltStack Top 6 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 15 May 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 15 May 2021, IT contractor jobs citing SaltStack also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for SaltStack.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
