Hybrid/Remote SaltStack Job Trends

SaltStack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 February 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
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 440 508
Rank change year-on-year +74 +68 +175
Permanent jobs citing SaltStack 1 3 19
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.006% 0.019% 0.069%
As % of the Vendors category 0.016% 0.048% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +41.56%
75th Percentile - - £81,875
90th Percentile - - £98,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +26.92% +4.00% -3.85%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,230 6,224 11,237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.99% 39.03% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,273 3,633 9,275
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £31,835
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,200
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.30% -10.96%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SaltStack and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SaltStack job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SaltStack
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SaltStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SaltStack

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