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 10 October 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
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 796 664 743
Rank change year-on-year -132 +79 -29
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 9 3 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.006% 0.012%
As % of the Vendors category 0.032% 0.014% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £71,375
25th Percentile £45,500 £83,000 £71,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £86,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -45.35% +16.61% +18.00%
75th Percentile £48,500 £89,000 £76,563
90th Percentile - - £77,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £86,000 -
% change year-on-year -45.35% - -

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 28,249 21,380 24,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.93% 43.25% 33.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17,891 11,069 12,259
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,656 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -10.71% -2.61%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -

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 8 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 10 October 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
UK excluding London -121 9 £47,000 -45.35% 6
England -119 8 £47,000 -45.35% 16
South West - 5 - - 3
North of England -57 3 £47,000 -45.35%
North West -22 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £47,000 -
Scotland - 1 - - 3
Work from Home - 1 £47,000 - 6

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 7 (77.78%) Apache
1 7 (77.78%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Amazon EKS
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) AWS CloudFormation
1 7 (77.78%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
1 7 (77.78%) GCP
1 7 (77.78%) OpenShift
1 7 (77.78%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Big Data
1 7 (77.78%) Cloudera CDH
1 7 (77.78%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 7 (77.78%) Aerospace
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) AngularJS
1 7 (77.78%) gRPC
1 7 (77.78%) Material-UI
1 7 (77.78%) Node.js
1 7 (77.78%) OpenAPI
1 7 (77.78%) RabbitMQ
1 7 (77.78%) React
1 7 (77.78%) REST
1 7 (77.78%) Spring
1 7 (77.78%) Spring Boot
1 7 (77.78%) Swagger
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) CentOS
2 7 (77.78%) Debian
2 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Configuration Management
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (88.89%) Open Source
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) API Development
2 7 (77.78%) Collaborative Working
2 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
2 7 (77.78%) Kanban
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 7 (77.78%) Scrum
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) AI
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Ansible
2 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (77.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Google
1 7 (77.78%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Alteryx
2 1 (11.11%) VMware