Salt
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Salt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Salt over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 709 993 988
Rank change year-on-year +284 -5 -274
Permanent jobs citing Salt 21 81 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.065% 0.084%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.42% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 18 59 99
10th Percentile £68,625 £51,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £78,438 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Salt is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,098 19,313 21,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 15.55% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,438 11,565 13,955
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.70% +4.55% +5.77%

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 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Salt in the UK

Salt
Top 7 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 6 December 2023. 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 +262 20 £75,000 -9.09% 10
London +218 16 £75,000 -11.76% 9
Work from Home +246 13 £75,000 +15.38% 7
UK excluding London +236 4 £65,000 +4.00% 3
South East +161 2 £67,780 +8.45% 2
North of England +146 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Yorkshire +95 2 £65,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
3 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (23.81%) Route 53
3 5 (23.81%) Serverless
3 5 (23.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Datadog
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) DNS
2 4 (19.05%) Firewall
3 3 (14.29%) BGP
3 3 (14.29%) IPv6
4 2 (9.52%) VPN
5 1 (4.76%) DMZ
5 1 (4.76%) LAN
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security
5 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (14.29%) Subversion
3 2 (9.52%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Maven
4 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Games
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (47.62%) Automation Engineer
3 10 (47.62%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Juniper Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Lead
6 3 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Lead Network Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) SAML
2 2 (9.52%) LDAP
3 1 (4.76%) ADO
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) Flash
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
4 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Debian
3 3 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (4.76%) CentOS
4 1 (4.76%) Rocky
4 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Configuration Management
2 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 14 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (42.86%) DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
5 7 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
5 7 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (23.81%) Data Migration
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (23.81%) Migration
7 3 (14.29%) Capacity Management
7 3 (14.29%) Digital Identity
7 3 (14.29%) High Availability
7 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (14.29%) Identity Management
7 3 (14.29%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) Java
3 9 (42.86%) Bash
4 7 (33.33%) Perl
5 3 (14.29%) Go
6 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.76%) Ruby
7 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) KVM
3 1 (4.76%) LXC
Systems Management
1 21 (100.00%) Ansible
2 20 (95.24%) Progress Chef
3 17 (80.95%) Kubernetes
4 16 (76.19%) Puppet
5 15 (71.43%) Terraform
6 3 (14.29%) Packer
7 2 (9.52%) Grafana
8 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
8 1 (4.76%) vRealize
8 1 (4.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (4.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 3 (14.29%) Juniper
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.76%) SaltStack
4 1 (4.76%) SAP