Salt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Salt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Salt over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 716 889 844
Rank change year-on-year +173 -45 +358
Permanent jobs citing Salt 7 17 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.015% 0.094%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.17% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 49
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -3.23% -13.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £105,875 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -40.00% -11.76% +30.77%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,846 9,894 13,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.40% 8.86% 14.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,153 6,932 8,521
10th Percentile £33,300 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +6.48% -9.28% +3.52%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Salt.

Salary trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Salt over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Salt in the UK

Salt
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 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
England +167 7 £45,000 -40.00% 36
London +104 5 £75,000 - 31
UK excluding London +179 2 £45,000 -40.00% 7
Work from Home +112 2 £45,000 -40.00% 7
North of England - 2 £45,000 -
North West - 2 £45,000 -

Salt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 5 (71.43%) SaaS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (57.14%) Spinnaker
2 4 (57.14%) YouTrack
3 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
3 1 (14.29%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (57.14%) Law
1 4 (57.14%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
1 4 (57.14%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Python Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Python Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Junior
2 2 (28.57%) Junior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Django
1 4 (57.14%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Community of Practice
3 4 (57.14%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (57.14%) Customer Experience
3 4 (57.14%) Customer Service
3 4 (57.14%) IT Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Product Management
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
6 1 (14.29%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Puppet
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Consul
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Packer
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google