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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 866 905 1145
Rank change year-on-year +39 +240 -353
Permanent jobs citing Salt 28 88 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.084% 0.043%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.28% 0.57% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 25 49 44
10th Percentile - £60,950 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +3.03% +17.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £97,500 £102,813
90th Percentile £107,500 £98,900 £115,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £120,000 £85,000 -
% change year-on-year +41.18% - -

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 10,014 15,475 27,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 14.77% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,250 9,481 14,202
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,813
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +61 28 £75,000 -11.76% 6
London +116 25 £75,000 -11.76% 4
Work from Home +79 18 £75,000 -11.76% 4
UK excluding London -15 2 £120,000 +41.18% 3
South East +19 1 £120,000 +26.32% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (85.71%) AWS
2 13 (46.43%) Azure
3 8 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 7 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (25.00%) GitHub
4 7 (25.00%) Route 53
4 7 (25.00%) Serverless
4 7 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (17.86%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.57%) IaaS
7 1 (3.57%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) DNS
2 5 (17.86%) Firewall
3 3 (10.71%) BGP
3 3 (10.71%) IPv6
4 2 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (3.57%) FTP
5 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.00%) JIRA
3 6 (21.43%) Bitbucket
4 5 (17.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (17.86%) Subversion
5 2 (7.14%) GitLab
6 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.57%) Git
6 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.57%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.57%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Games
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Platform Engineer
2 17 (60.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (53.57%) Automation Engineer
4 15 (53.57%) Cloud Automation Engineer
5 12 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (39.29%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (17.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (14.29%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Lead
9 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Site Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) SAML
2 2 (7.14%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) ADO
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) Flash
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (39.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (10.71%) Blockchain
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Linux
2 12 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Debian
4 1 (3.57%) Windows
4 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (75.00%) Configuration Management
3 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 20 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
4 18 (64.29%) DevOps
5 13 (46.43%) Agile
6 11 (39.29%) Innovative Thinking
6 11 (39.29%) Software Testing
6 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
7 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (25.00%) Data Migration
7 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (25.00%) Migration
8 5 (17.86%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (17.86%) Identity Management
8 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (14.29%) Open Source
10 3 (10.71%) Capacity Management
10 3 (10.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (78.57%) Java
3 12 (42.86%) Perl
4 9 (32.14%) Bash
5 6 (21.43%) Go
6 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.57%) C#
8 1 (3.57%) C++
8 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 21 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (100.00%) Ansible
2 24 (85.71%) Progress Chef
2 24 (85.71%) Terraform
3 22 (78.57%) Kubernetes
4 21 (75.00%) Puppet
5 6 (21.43%) Packer
6 1 (3.57%) Consul
6 1 (3.57%) Grafana
6 1 (3.57%) Kibana
6 1 (3.57%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Atlassian
2 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.71%) Google
3 3 (10.71%) Juniper
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) VMware