SaltStack Contracts in the Midlands

SaltStack
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SaltStack products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SaltStack over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SaltStack.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 156 207
Rank change year-on-year +32 +51 -
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.32% 0.061% 0.040%
As % of the Vendors category 0.75% 0.12% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £564 - -
25th Percentile £573 £620 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £640 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% +29.29% -
75th Percentile £584 £660 -
90th Percentile £585 - -
England median daily rate £655 £575 £513
% change year-on-year +13.91% +12.14% +7.95%

All Vendors
Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,194 1,638 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 42.77% 50.09% 43.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 766 1,102 1,522
10th Percentile £213 £206 £187
25th Percentile £350 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% +13.58%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £563
90th Percentile £688 £690 £650
England median daily rate £515 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.83% +0.95% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 48 70
10th Percentile £10.93 £12.64 £9.74
25th Percentile £12.75 £15.00 £13.26
Median hourly rate £15.61 £20.71 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% +19.66% +15.35%
75th Percentile £26.50 £32.56 £23.13
90th Percentile £45.50 £66.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +74.42% +7.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SaltStack in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SaltStack in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaltStack within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +22 9 £582 -9.06% 2
SaltStack
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
1 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 9 (100.00%) Validation
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 9 (100.00%) Puppet
1 9 (100.00%) Salt
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 9 (100.00%) VMware