Hybrid/Remote SaltStack Contract Job Trends

SaltStack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 15 August 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
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 - 319
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 5 0 14
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.037% - 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.081% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 12
10th Percentile - - £511
25th Percentile £350 - £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £690
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.22%
75th Percentile £450 - £710
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £400 £625 £585
% change year-on-year -36.00% +6.84% -1.18%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,153 4,590 5,644
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.31% 45.82% 43.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 2,863 3,587
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £519
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.25% -1.14%
75th Percentile £606 £618 £624
90th Percentile £696 £725 £723
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 152 141
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.43 £19.58 £21.19
Median hourly rate £53.00 £35.95 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.45% -20.12% -8.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SaltStack and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SaltStack job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SaltStack
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SaltStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SaltStack

SaltStack
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SaltStack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SaltStack

SaltStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSH
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Rocky
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) C
2 3 (60.00%) C++
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) iptables
1 1 (20.00%) NFS
1 1 (20.00%) Samba
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (80.00%) Puppet
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Rundeck
3 1 (20.00%) SELinux
3 1 (20.00%) systemd
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat