Salt Contracts in the UK excluding London

Salt
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 387 404 495
Rank change year-on-year +17 +91 -56
Contract jobs citing Salt 13 34 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.15% 0.095%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.55% 1.01% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 14
10th Percentile £565 £456 £495
25th Percentile £576 £480 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -4.26% +67.86%
75th Percentile £585 £616 £655
90th Percentile £595 £633 £656
UK median daily rate £582 £592 £638
% change year-on-year -1.69% -7.14% +34.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,375 3,366 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.40% 14.78% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,423 2,982
10th Percentile £213 £281 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 124 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.24 £12.63
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £27.31
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
% change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Salt in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salt in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Salt in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands - 11 £582 -
West Midlands - 11 £582 -
South East +17 9 £584 +16.70% 1
South West +14 9 £582 +16.40%
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps Specialist
1 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
1 13 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 13 (100.00%) Validation
2 12 (92.31%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Ansible
1 13 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 13 (100.00%) Puppet
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (84.62%) SaltStack