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 12 October 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
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 523 596
Rank change year-on-year -28 +73 +173
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 6 33 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.087% 0.065%
As % of the Vendors category 0.038% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 23
10th Percentile £478 £508 £465
25th Percentile £500 £570 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +34.35%
75th Percentile £600 £708 £699
90th Percentile £623 £710 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £582 £466
% change year-on-year -18.38% +24.89% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 15,705 16,831 21,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.69% 44.57% 45.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,683 9,905 13,926
10th Percentile £275 £286 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 809 591 669
10th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -25.87% +83.01%
75th Percentile £38.94 £64.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.35 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.85% -29.41% +108.33%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaltStack over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SaltStack in the UK

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 4 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 12 October 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 -6 6 £550 -5.98% 2
London +5 5 £625 -11.66%
UK excluding London -25 1 £475 -18.38% 2
East of England - 1 £475 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Route 53
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
4 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Subversion
2 4 (66.67%) TeamCity
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) WCF
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Clustering
1 4 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) API Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Data Security
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 4 (66.67%) Kernel Tuning
2 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Security Hardening
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
3 4 (66.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) NFS
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas File System
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) iptables
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) QRadar
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) CyberArk
1 4 (66.67%) Qualys
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
1 4 (66.67%) VMware