Salt Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Salt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Salt over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 447 607
Rank change year-on-year +115 +160 -143
Contract jobs citing Salt 5 20 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.078% 0.040%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.47% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 12
10th Percentile £435 £456 £450
25th Percentile £469 £481 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £494 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% -17.71% +11.63%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £672
90th Percentile £595 £653 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £592 £608
% change year-on-year -2.87% -2.55% +23.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Salt is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,638 4,243 7,225
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.81% 16.59% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 3,133 5,385
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.22%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £565 £565
% change year-on-year -8.85% - +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 78 50
10th Percentile £21.49 £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £37.71 £52.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +76.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £87.50 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Salt trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Salt.

Salt daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Salt over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salt daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Route 53
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Datadog
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Hudson
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Unix Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (80.00%) Puppet
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Consul
4 1 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Packer
4 1 (20.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Qualys
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft