SaltStack Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 445 584
Rank change year-on-year +121 +139 -105
Contract jobs citing SaltStack 18 19 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.078% 0.079%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 25
10th Percentile £549 - £378
25th Percentile £589 £428 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £463 £538
Median % change year-on-year +46.49% -13.95% +13.16%
75th Percentile £710 £506 £575
90th Percentile - £658 £630
UK median daily rate £655 £575 £513
% change year-on-year +13.91% +12.14% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,149 10,604 17,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.25% 43.75% 39.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,905 7,138 12,088
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £631
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.19% - +8.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 251 252
10th Percentile £13.31 £16.61 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.00 £19.73
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +31.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £51.25 £66.00 £56.53
90th Percentile £72.25 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

SaltStack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaltStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SaltStack trend for jobs with a WFH option

SaltStack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SaltStack.

SaltStack daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SaltStack
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SaltStack over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

SaltStack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (11.11%) Route 53
1 2 (11.11%) Serverless
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 12 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Python Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Development Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) Unix Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Configuration Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) Kafka
1 12 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
2 11 (61.11%) RESTful
3 3 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (61.11%) Algorithms
2 11 (61.11%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Windows
4 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 11 (61.11%) Analytical Thinking
3 11 (61.11%) Microservices
3 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (61.11%) Task Automation
4 6 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Validation
5 3 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (11.11%) ITSM
6 2 (11.11%) Security Patching
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (5.56%) Change Control
7 1 (5.56%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
1 12 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 11 (61.11%) Java
3 8 (44.44%) C++
3 8 (44.44%) Go
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Consul
1 12 (66.67%) Grafana
1 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 12 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 6 (33.33%) Puppet
3 4 (22.22%) Salt
4 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Qualys
4 1 (5.56%) BMC
4 1 (5.56%) Remedy
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow