Salt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Salt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 783 685 795
Rank change year-on-year -98 +110 -48
Permanent jobs citing Salt 2 7 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.014% 0.026%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.034% 0.13% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 18
10th Percentile - £45,500 £71,750
25th Percentile - £50,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -20.00% +0.67%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile - £74,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - £45,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -40.00% -11.76%

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 5,901 5,504 7,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.54% 11.04% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,260 3,306 5,034
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £101,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Salt relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Salt job vacancy trend in the UK

Salt
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salt

Salt
Top 3 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 15 August 2026. 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
Work from Home -31 2 £140,000 +211.11% 1
London -55 2 £140,000 +86.67% 11
England -85 2 £140,000 +133.33% 12

Salt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Prefect
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Associate Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) AIOps
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) People Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow