Salt Contracts

Salt
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 633 799
Rank change year-on-year +53 +166 -115
Contract jobs citing Salt 22 62 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.11% 0.065%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.42% 0.71% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 37
10th Percentile £525 £456 £471
25th Percentile £557 £483 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £584 £638
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -8.47% +35.64%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £738
90th Percentile £732 £770 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £582 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +10.86% -4.55% +57.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,275 8,706 13,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.18% 15.67% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,818 6,216 9,990
10th Percentile £288 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -2.65% +10.78%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 195 179
10th Percentile £14.66 £17.79 £13.20
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £57.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.22% +161.36% -44.30%
75th Percentile £50.25 £73.73 £42.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.45 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

Salt
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Salt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salt over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Salt in the UK

Salt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Salt.

Hourly rate trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +87 21 £582 -8.71% 3
UK excluding London +20 13 £582 +10.86% 2
Midlands - 11 £582 -
West Midlands - 11 £582 -
South East +21 9 £584 +16.70% 1
South West +20 9 £582 +16.40%
Work from Home +96 7 £585 +18.48% 1
London +66 6 £550 -15.38% 1

Salt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) IIS
1 2 (9.09%) nginx
1 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.09%) Route 53
3 2 (9.09%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) WhatsApp
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Datadog
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.64%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 2 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) Hudson
5 1 (4.55%) Travis CI
5 1 (4.55%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) German Language
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) DevOps Specialist
2 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (9.09%) Unix Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) VMware Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) YAML
2 2 (9.09%) LDAP
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Linux
2 17 (77.27%) Windows
3 16 (72.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (13.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Configuration Management
2 17 (77.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure Automation
3 14 (63.64%) Validation
4 13 (59.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 10 (45.45%) DevOps
6 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 4 (18.18%) Security Patching
8 2 (9.09%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 2 (9.09%) Information Security
8 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (9.09%) ITIL
8 2 (9.09%) ITSM
8 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 1 (4.55%) Agile
9 1 (4.55%) Containerisation
9 1 (4.55%) Pair Programming
9 1 (4.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (63.64%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (13.64%) Docker
4 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (100.00%) Ansible
2 21 (95.45%) Progress Chef
2 21 (95.45%) Puppet
3 18 (81.82%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.55%) Consul
5 1 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (4.55%) Packer
5 1 (4.55%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) VMware
2 16 (72.73%) Red Hat
3 15 (68.18%) SaltStack
4 3 (13.64%) Atlassian
5 2 (9.09%) Google
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) Qualys
6 1 (4.55%) CyberArk