Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 14 December 2018

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SaltStack products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SaltStack over the 6 months to 14 December 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SaltStack.

SaltStack
UK > England
6 months to
14 Dec 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 930 962 1021
Rank change year-on-year +32 +59 +48
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 174 220 180
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 160 194 143
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -3.85%
10th Percentile £33,688 £35,900 £32,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -7.69%

SaltStack is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

All Vendors
England
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 63,134 74,508 76,680
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 42.65% 44.29% 43.78%
Number of salaries quoted 49,130 58,182 62,364
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.40% +1.11%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SaltStack as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in England

SaltStack
Salary Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SaltStack in England.

Salary trend for SaltStack in England

SaltStack
Salary Histogram in England

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing SaltStack in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2018.

Salary histogram for SaltStack in England

SaltStack
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaltStack within the England region over the 6 months to 14 December 2018. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
London +79 138 £65,000 -3.70% 13
South East +15 14 £55,000 - 1
North of England -13 14 £41,500 -20.95% 3
Yorkshire -2 9 £35,000 -33.33% 1
North West -6 5 £67,500 +28.57% 2
South West +17 3 £45,000 - 1
Midlands +30 2 £52,500 -11.02% 1
West Midlands +37 1 £52,500 -11.02%
East Midlands +26 1 - - 1
SaltStack
UK

For the 6 months to 14 December 2018, IT 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 permanent job ads across the England region with a requirement for SaltStack.

1 146 (83.91%) Linux
2 127 (72.99%) DevOps
3 122 (70.11%) Puppet
4 113 (64.94%) Ansible
5 112 (64.37%) Amazon AWS
6 109 (62.64%) Opscode Chef
7 95 (54.60%) Python
8 88 (50.57%) Docker
9 74 (42.53%) Bash Shell
10 70 (40.23%) Terraform
11 68 (39.08%) Agile Software Development
12 56 (32.18%) Configuration Management
12 56 (32.18%) Jenkins
13 53 (30.46%) Kubernetes
14 48 (27.59%) Unix
14 48 (27.59%) Microsoft Azure
15 47 (27.01%) Finance
16 46 (26.44%) Windows
16 46 (26.44%) Java
17 42 (24.14%) SQL
18 41 (23.56%) VMware
19 36 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
19 36 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
20 35 (20.11%) Open Source
20 35 (20.11%) MongoDB
21 34 (19.54%) Git (software)
21 34 (19.54%) Web Services
21 34 (19.54%) Red Hat
22 33 (18.97%) Perl
22 33 (18.97%) Amazon S3

SaltStack
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.77%) OpenStack
2 16 (9.20%) nginx
3 15 (8.62%) Apache
4 12 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.60%) CloudStack
6 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
7 4 (2.30%) JBoss
7 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (1.72%) NServiceBus
9 2 (1.15%) Confluence
9 2 (1.15%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 112 (64.37%) Amazon AWS
2 48 (27.59%) Microsoft Azure
3 36 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
4 33 (18.97%) Amazon S3
5 29 (16.67%) PaaS
6 26 (14.94%) Google Cloud Platform
7 25 (14.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (12.64%) Route 53
9 12 (6.90%) Office 365
10 10 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (5.75%) OpenShift
10 10 (5.75%) Serverless
11 9 (5.17%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 9 (5.17%) GitHub
12 6 (3.45%) IaaS
13 5 (2.87%) CloudFront
14 4 (2.30%) Azure Active Directory
15 3 (1.72%) Amazon ELB
15 3 (1.72%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.09%) Firewall
2 19 (10.92%) WAN
3 17 (9.77%) TCP/IP
4 12 (6.90%) SSL
5 11 (6.32%) DNS
6 10 (5.75%) SAN
6 10 (5.75%) VPN
7 8 (4.60%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (4.02%) HTTP
9 6 (3.45%) NAS
9 6 (3.45%) PCoIP
9 6 (3.45%) SNMP
9 6 (3.45%) VLAN
10 5 (2.87%) BGP
11 3 (1.72%) HTTPS
11 3 (1.72%) Internet
11 3 (1.72%) PBX
11 3 (1.72%) SSH
12 2 (1.15%) IMAP
12 2 (1.15%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.11%) MongoDB
2 30 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (13.22%) MySQL
5 14 (8.05%) Big Data
6 11 (6.32%) Relational Database
7 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
8 9 (5.17%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.87%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 5 (2.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.87%) Redis
11 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.30%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.72%) DB2
13 2 (1.15%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.15%) HBase
Development Applications
1 56 (32.18%) Jenkins
2 34 (19.54%) Git (software)
3 19 (10.92%) JIRA
4 16 (9.20%) Selenium
5 12 (6.90%) GitLab
6 6 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.45%) Maven
6 6 (3.45%) Subversion
6 6 (3.45%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (2.30%) Vagrant
8 3 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.15%) Grunt
General
1 47 (27.01%) Finance
2 20 (11.49%) Telecoms
3 13 (7.47%) Legal
4 6 (3.45%) Banking
5 3 (1.72%) Financial Institution
5 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.57%) Automotive
6 1 (0.57%) Games
6 1 (0.57%) Marketing
6 1 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (32.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (25.29%) Linux Engineer
3 28 (16.09%) Administrator
3 28 (16.09%) Systems Administrator
4 25 (14.37%) Developer
4 25 (14.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (14.37%) Unix Engineer
4 25 (14.37%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 23 (13.22%) AWS Engineer
6 22 (12.64%) Senior DevOps
7 19 (10.92%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (9.77%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 16 (9.20%) Java Developer
9 16 (9.20%) Senior Developer
10 15 (8.62%) Linux Administrator
10 15 (8.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 14 (8.05%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 14 (8.05%) Senior J2EE Developer
11 14 (8.05%) Senior Java Developer
11 14 (8.05%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.54%) Web Services
2 24 (13.79%) J2EE
3 19 (10.92%) AngularJS
4 16 (9.20%) J2SE
4 16 (9.20%) Jinja
4 16 (9.20%) React
5 13 (7.47%) LAMP
6 11 (6.32%) LEMP Stack
7 10 (5.75%) Kafka
8 8 (4.60%) Flask
8 8 (4.60%) Node.js
8 8 (4.60%) RESTful
9 7 (4.02%) .NET
10 6 (3.45%) Django
10 6 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
11 5 (2.87%) Celery
11 5 (2.87%) JSON
11 5 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.07%) Fintech
2 19 (10.92%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (9.20%) Mobile App
4 15 (8.62%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.02%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.45%) Hedge funds
7 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.72%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.72%) Cyberthreat
9 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Replication
10 1 (0.57%) Derivative
10 1 (0.57%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.57%) Eurex
10 1 (0.57%) Life Science
10 1 (0.57%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 146 (83.91%) Linux
2 48 (27.59%) Unix
3 46 (26.44%) Windows
4 26 (14.94%) CentOS
5 23 (13.22%) Ubuntu
6 20 (11.49%) Debian
7 14 (8.05%) DC/OS
8 11 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (4.60%) Windows Server
10 3 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (1.15%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.57%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.57%) Solaris
12 1 (0.57%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (72.99%) DevOps
2 68 (39.08%) Agile Software Development
3 56 (32.18%) Configuration Management
4 36 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (20.11%) Open Source
6 32 (18.39%) Test Automation
7 29 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 29 (16.67%) Microservices
8 28 (16.09%) Software Engineering
9 27 (15.52%) Scrum
10 23 (13.22%) Mentoring
11 21 (12.07%) Load Balancing
12 20 (11.49%) Continuous Delivery
13 17 (9.77%) Asset Management
14 15 (8.62%) Change Control
15 12 (6.90%) Data Protection
15 12 (6.90%) Migration
15 12 (6.90%) Project Management
15 12 (6.90%) Software Delivery
16 11 (6.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 95 (54.60%) Python
2 74 (42.53%) Bash Shell
3 46 (26.44%) Java
4 42 (24.14%) SQL
5 33 (18.97%) Perl
5 33 (18.97%) PowerShell
6 27 (15.52%) Go
7 26 (14.94%) PHP
8 19 (10.92%) Ruby
8 19 (10.92%) Shell Script
9 16 (9.20%) TypeScript
10 14 (8.05%) PL/SQL
11 13 (7.47%) C++
12 7 (4.02%) JavaScript
13 6 (3.45%) Scala
14 4 (2.30%) C
15 3 (1.72%) Erlang
16 2 (1.15%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (4.02%) Degree
2 6 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.30%) MCSA
3 4 (2.30%) MCSE
3 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.15%) RHCE
4 2 (1.15%) RHCSA
5 1 (0.57%) CCNA
5 1 (0.57%) CCNP
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (0.57%) GDPR
2 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (50.57%) Docker
2 26 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (9.77%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.32%) vSphere
5 10 (5.75%) KVM
6 7 (4.02%) Hyper-V
6 7 (4.02%) iptables
7 6 (3.45%) oVirt
7 6 (3.45%) pfSense
8 4 (2.30%) NFS
8 4 (2.30%) PowerDNS
8 4 (2.30%) QEMU
8 4 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.30%) Xen
9 3 (1.72%) RHEV
9 3 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.15%) Ceph
10 2 (1.15%) GlusterFS
10 2 (1.15%) HDFS
10 2 (1.15%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 122 (70.11%) Puppet
2 113 (64.94%) Ansible
3 109 (62.64%) Opscode Chef
4 70 (40.23%) Terraform
5 53 (30.46%) Kubernetes
6 22 (12.64%) Rancher
7 21 (12.07%) Salt
8 18 (10.34%) ZABBIX
9 14 (8.05%) Mesos
10 11 (6.32%) Nagios
11 9 (5.17%) Cacti
11 9 (5.17%) logstash
11 9 (5.17%) Munin
12 8 (4.60%) Packer
13 6 (3.45%) SmoothWall
14 4 (2.30%) rkt
14 4 (2.30%) SCCM
15 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
15 3 (1.72%) vRealize
16 2 (1.15%) Graphite
Vendors
1 41 (23.56%) VMware
2 34 (19.54%) Red Hat
3 28 (16.09%) Oracle
4 23 (13.22%) Google
5 22 (12.64%) Microsoft
6 13 (7.47%) Citrix
7 10 (5.75%) Cisco
8 7 (4.02%) SolarWinds
9 6 (3.45%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.87%) Juniper
11 3 (1.72%) Adobe
11 3 (1.72%) Mitel
11 3 (1.72%) New Relic
11 3 (1.72%) Okta
12 2 (1.15%) Black Duck
12 2 (1.15%) EMC
12 2 (1.15%) NetApp
12 2 (1.15%) Rackspace
12 2 (1.15%) Splunk
13 1 (0.57%) Trayport