SaltStack Jobs

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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 836 954
Rank change year-on-year +148 +118 +28
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 4 60 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.061% 0.034%
As % of the Vendors category 0.021% 0.16% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 30
10th Percentile - £61,875 £38,725
25th Percentile - £63,125 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72,813 £95,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,875 £103,750 £75,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

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 19,209 36,496 43,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.91% 37.06% 41.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,748 25,167 24,673
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,834 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SaltStack in the UK

SaltStack
Top 3 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 1 May 2025. 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 +184 4 £65,000 -27.78% 4
England +138 4 £65,000 -13.33% 13
London +109 4 £65,000 -13.33% 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 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
1 3 (75.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (25.00%) OpenVPN
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Service Operations Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Unix Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) ITSM
2 3 (75.00%) Security Patching
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Puppet
2 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) EMC
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (75.00%) Remedy
1 3 (75.00%) Symantec
1 3 (75.00%) VMware