SaltStack Job Trends in the North West

SaltStack
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of SaltStack products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SaltStack over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 245 222
Rank change year-on-year +9 -23 +107
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.039% 0.026% 0.021%
As % of the Vendors category 0.095% 0.088% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83,000 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile £89,000 - £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £86,000 £73,750 £64,132
% change year-on-year +16.61% +15.00% -1.34%

All Vendors
North West

SaltStack falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,096 2,282 1,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 40.61% 29.30% 40.65%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,292 1,462
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,775 £26,550
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +11.06%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing SaltStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in the North West

SaltStack
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SaltStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SaltStack

SaltStack
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaltStack within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire - 2 £86,000 - 1
SaltStack
England

SaltStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) DPDK
1 2 (100.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
1 2 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform