SaltStack Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SaltStack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 548 653 586
Rank change year-on-year +105 -67 +217
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 2 9 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.016% 0.042%
As % of the Vendors category 0.014% 0.054% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £59,000
25th Percentile £83,000 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £89,000 - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £86,000 £73,750 £64,132
% change year-on-year +16.61% +15.00% -1.34%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,459 16,736 14,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 41.87% 30.08% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,356 8,701 10,900
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +4.55%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SaltStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in the UK excluding London

SaltStack
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SaltStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SaltStack

SaltStack
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaltStack within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +23 2 £86,000 - 1
North West +9 2 £86,000 - 1
SaltStack
UK

SaltStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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