SaltStack Job Trends

SaltStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of SaltStack products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SaltStack over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SaltStack.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 698 651 838
Rank change year-on-year -47 +187 +107
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 5 4 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.010% 0.051%
As % of the Vendors category 0.022% 0.024% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £61,875
25th Percentile - - £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £72,813 £95,000
90th Percentile - £86,875 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Vendors
UK

SaltStack falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,845 16,677 35,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.68% 39.68% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,151 10,236 25,150
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £26,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,004 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SaltStack job vacancy trend in the UK

SaltStack
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SaltStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SaltStack

SaltStack
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaltStack within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England -64 5 - -
UK excluding London - 5 - -
North of England - 4 - -
North West - 4 - -
Work from Home +6 1 - - 4
South West - 1 - -

SaltStack
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 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Big Data
1 5 (100.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 4 (80.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (100.00%) gRPC
1 5 (100.00%) Material-UI
1 5 (100.00%) Node.js
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 5 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) CentOS
1 5 (100.00%) Debian
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) API Development
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Kanban
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
1 5 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Puppet
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat