SaltStack Contracts in the UK excluding London

SaltStack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of SaltStack products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SaltStack over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 394 483
Rank change year-on-year +5 +89 -44
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 12 36 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.16% 0.069%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.35% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 16
10th Percentile £544 £456 £338
25th Percentile £567 £506 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £575 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% +15.58% +42.14%
75th Percentile £585 £630 £519
90th Percentile £593 £645 £550
UK median daily rate £655 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +13.91% +9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

SaltStack falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,987 10,207 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.14% 44.98% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,356 6,960 8,400
10th Percentile £211 £205 £189
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 428 636
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.95 £59.41 £41.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

SaltStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in the UK excluding London

SaltStack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SaltStack in the UK excluding London

SaltStack
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 SaltStack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +25 9 £582 -9.06% 2
Midlands +24 9 £582 -9.06% 2
South East +21 8 £584 +13.85% 3
South West +7 8 £582 +1.22%
Scotland +21 1 £525 -11.32%
SaltStack
UK

SaltStack
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps Specialist
1 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Configuration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
1 11 (91.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (91.67%) Validation
3 10 (83.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
5 1 (8.33%) Change Control
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (8.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Virtual Machines
1 11 (91.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
1 12 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 12 (100.00%) Puppet
2 11 (91.67%) Salt
2 11 (91.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Red Hat
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) BMC
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow