Salt Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Salt
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Salt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Salt over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 339 441
Rank change year-on-year +35 +102 +164
Contract jobs citing Salt 3 8 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.055% 0.076%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.47% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £458 £451
25th Percentile £454 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £585 £494
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +18.48% -31.90%
75th Percentile £511 - £650
90th Percentile - £594 £680
UK median daily rate £440 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -24.40% +5.82% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Salt falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,600 1,692 3,759
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.06% 11.54% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,119 1,250 2,759
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £445 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -1.78% -5.59% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 75
10th Percentile £45.75 - £25.28
25th Percentile £56.00 £46.25 £42.93
Median hourly rate £63.40 £47.75 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.77% -25.39% +82.86%
75th Percentile £68.13 £51.44 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £35.14 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +8.11% -43.48% +155.56%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Salt trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Salt.

Salt daily rate 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 3 (100.00%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
1 2 (66.67%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
2 2 (66.67%) Server Building
2 2 (66.67%) Server Patching
2 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) VirtualBox
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Icinga
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) New Relic
1 2 (66.67%) Rackspace
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Zend
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Vertica