Salt Contracts in the South East

Salt
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Salt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Salt over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 209 252
Rank change year-on-year +17 +43 -28
Contract jobs citing Salt 9 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.16% 0.053% 0.039%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.18% 0.39% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £576 - -
25th Percentile £582 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% - -
75th Percentile £585 £513 -
90th Percentile £598 - -
England median daily rate £582 £638 £638
% change year-on-year -8.71% - +34.21%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

Salt is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 764 762 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.54% 13.51% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 557 737
10th Percentile £213 £307 £250
25th Percentile £400 £432 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £613
90th Percentile £674 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £575 £572
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.52% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 29
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.50 £16.11
Median hourly rate £34.25 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.70% +173.26% -43.05%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £45.00
90th Percentile £49.88 £75.75 £67.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £55.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +155.81% -12.07%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Salt in the South East

Salt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salt in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Salt in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hampshire +8 9 £584 +16.70% 1
Salt
England

Salt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (22.22%) DevOps Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) Subject Matter Expert
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
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 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) 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%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) SaltStack