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 28 January 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
28 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 694 749
Rank change year-on-year +53 +55 +255
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 8 3 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.006% 0.045%
As % of the Vendors category 0.041% 0.015% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 13
10th Percentile £73,100 - -
25th Percentile £74,750 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £88,250 - £67,887
90th Percentile £88,700 - £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

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 19,321 19,716 26,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.62% 37.62% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,802 9,915 20,455
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,251 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.20% +7.90% -5.00%

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 28 January 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 +54 8 £82,500 +26.92%
UK excluding London - 8 £82,500 -
North of England - 7 £82,500 -
North West - 7 £82,500 -
Work from Home +49 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 (62.50%) Apache
1 5 (62.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (37.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) AMQP
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) HTTP
2 2 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Big Data
1 5 (62.50%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (62.50%) Hadoop
General
1 4 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
1 5 (62.50%) gRPC
1 5 (62.50%) Material-UI
1 5 (62.50%) Node.js
1 5 (62.50%) OpenAPI
1 5 (62.50%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (62.50%) React
1 5 (62.50%) REST
1 5 (62.50%) Spring
1 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
1 5 (62.50%) Swagger
2 3 (37.50%) DPDK
2 3 (37.50%) eBPF
3 1 (12.50%) NETCONF
3 1 (12.50%) RESTCONF
3 1 (12.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) NVMe
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) CentOS
1 5 (62.50%) Debian
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Open Source
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) API Development
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) Kanban
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (25.00%) High Availability
6 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
7 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) KVM
1 3 (37.50%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
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