SaltStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SaltStack products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SaltStack over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 717 1034 878
Rank change year-on-year +317 -156 -210
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 24 42 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.034% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.082% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 19 26 206
10th Percentile - £38,725 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £43,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 - £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

All Vendors
UK

SaltStack is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,290 50,949 50,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.87% 41.11% 39.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16,314 29,704 33,320
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,384
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +4.40%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SaltStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in the UK

SaltStack
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SaltStack.

Salary trend for SaltStack in the UK

SaltStack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SaltStack over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SaltStack in the UK

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 4 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
Work from Home +240 20 £62,500 -3.85% 36
England +320 19 £62,500 -1.96% 30
London +277 16 £62,500 -30.56% 7
UK excluding London +220 3 £62,500 - 32
North of England +150 3 £62,500 +25.00% 11
Yorkshire +95 3 £62,500 -3.85% 7

SaltStack
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 5 (20.83%) Apache
1 5 (20.83%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 14 (58.33%) Datadog
3 13 (54.17%) Azure AKS
3 13 (54.17%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (54.17%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (54.17%) Pulumi
4 7 (29.17%) AWS
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (20.83%) GCP
5 5 (20.83%) OpenShift
5 5 (20.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) AMQP
2 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) VLAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Big Data
1 5 (20.83%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (20.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 13 (54.17%) Jenkins
1 13 (54.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (4.17%) Banking
1 1 (4.17%) Finance
1 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Senior
2 13 (54.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 13 (54.17%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (54.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (54.17%) Senior DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (54.17%) ARM Templates
2 6 (25.00%) Node.js
3 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
3 5 (20.83%) gRPC
3 5 (20.83%) Material-UI
3 5 (20.83%) OpenAPI
3 5 (20.83%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (20.83%) React
3 5 (20.83%) REST
3 5 (20.83%) Spring
3 5 (20.83%) Spring Boot
3 5 (20.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) CentOS
2 6 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 5 (20.83%) Debian
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Configuration Management
2 19 (79.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (75.00%) Agile
4 15 (62.50%) DevOps
5 14 (58.33%) Analytics
6 13 (54.17%) Design Patterns
6 13 (54.17%) Log Analytics
7 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
8 6 (25.00%) Microservices
9 5 (20.83%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (20.83%) API Development
9 5 (20.83%) Kanban
9 5 (20.83%) Open Source
9 5 (20.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (20.83%) Scrum
9 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
10 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
11 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
12 2 (8.33%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (75.00%) Bash
3 16 (66.67%) PowerShell
4 14 (58.33%) Ruby
5 13 (54.17%) Groovy
6 6 (25.00%) Java
6 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (8.33%) Perl
8 1 (4.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) CCNA
2 1 (4.17%) CCNP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 17 (70.83%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (100.00%) Ansible
1 24 (100.00%) Puppet
2 23 (95.83%) Kubernetes
3 19 (79.17%) Terraform
4 16 (66.67%) Progress Chef
5 14 (58.33%) Grafana
6 13 (54.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (4.17%) Nagios
7 1 (4.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) New Relic
2 6 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (20.83%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.17%) TOWER Software
4 1 (4.17%) VMware