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 10 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 780 743 1090
Rank change year-on-year -37 +347 -150
Permanent jobs citing Salt 20 32 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.053% 0.054%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 18 22 56
10th Percentile £68,500 £58,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -15.15% +10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,625 £89,063
90th Percentile £80,375 £116,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% -3.85%

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 7,317 9,156 24,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.33% 15.08% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,085 6,960 12,461
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,056 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,513 £59,526 £56,480
% change year-on-year -5.06% +5.39% +2.69%

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 10 October 2024.

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 10 October 2024. 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 -37 20 £75,000 +7.14% 3
UK excluding London -28 16 £75,000 -6.25% 2
South West - 15 £75,000 - 1
London +18 4 £76,250 +8.93% 2
Work from Home +13 2 £58,750 -33.80% 2
North of England 0 1 £40,000 -38.46%
North West - 1 £40,000 -

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 18 (90.00%) AWS
2 17 (85.00%) Azure
3 11 (55.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 13 (65.00%) Tech for Good
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Platform Engineer
2 15 (75.00%) Operations Engineer
3 14 (70.00%) Automation Engineer
4 13 (65.00%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (65.00%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 13 (65.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (65.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 10 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (10.00%) VMware Specialist
8 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Junior
8 1 (5.00%) Junior DevOps
8 1 (5.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (95.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (95.00%) Configuration Management
3 17 (85.00%) Agile
3 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (75.00%) Software Testing
5 15 (75.00%) Test Automation
6 13 (65.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 13 (65.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
7 10 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) DevOps
9 2 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
9 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (10.00%) Validation
9 2 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
10 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
10 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Java
1 17 (85.00%) Perl
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 17 (85.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (100.00%) Ansible
1 20 (100.00%) Puppet
1 20 (100.00%) Terraform
2 19 (95.00%) Progress Chef
3 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.00%) SaltStack
2 2 (10.00%) VMware