SaltStack Contracts

SaltStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 May 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 629 781
Rank change year-on-year +82 +152 -124
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 22 66 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.12% 0.058%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.27% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 36
10th Percentile £561 £428 £400
25th Percentile £595 £456 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.83% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £710 £650 £575
90th Percentile - £675 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £582 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +1.22% +15.00% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,079 24,403 35,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.43% 43.19% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 16,323 23,440
10th Percentile £263 £273 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,125 660 880
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.24
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% +2.38%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.05
% change year-on-year -42.77% +96.90% +4.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SaltStack in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SaltStack in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SaltStack over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SaltStack in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SaltStack in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 May 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 +93 21 £680 +18.26% 10
London +88 17 £680 +18.26% 4
Work from Home +115 15 £680 +58.88% 8
UK excluding London +14 4 £582 +1.22% 7
South East +15 3 £582 +13.56% 4
Midlands +31 2 £582 -9.06% 3
South West +17 2 £582 +1.22%
West Midlands +16 2 £582 -9.06% 3
Scotland +2 1 £525 -11.32%

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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:

Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) GitHub
2 2 (9.09%) Route 53
2 2 (9.09%) Serverless
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) PaaS
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) German Language
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Site Engineer
1 12 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Python Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Configuration Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Development Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Subject Matter Expert
4 2 (9.09%) Unix Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Kafka
1 12 (54.55%) RabbitMQ
1 12 (54.55%) RESTful
2 3 (13.64%) YAML
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (9.09%) OAuth
3 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.55%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (45.45%) Algorithms
2 10 (45.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (13.64%) Windows
4 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) DevOps
2 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 10 (45.45%) Analytical Thinking
3 10 (45.45%) Microservices
3 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (45.45%) Task Automation
4 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
5 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) ITIL
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (13.64%) Validation
7 3 (13.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
8 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (9.09%) IT Asset Management
8 2 (9.09%) Security Patching
8 2 (9.09%) Storage Management
8 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) Shell Script
3 10 (45.45%) Java
4 7 (31.82%) C++
4 7 (31.82%) Go
5 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
6 3 (13.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Consul
1 12 (54.55%) Grafana
1 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 12 (54.55%) Prometheus
2 8 (36.36%) Ansible
2 8 (36.36%) Progress Chef
2 8 (36.36%) Puppet
3 6 (27.27%) Salt
4 5 (22.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) VMware
3 5 (22.73%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.09%) BMC
4 2 (9.09%) Qualys
4 2 (9.09%) Remedy
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Leostream