Salt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Salt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Salt over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 894 832 1191
Rank change year-on-year -62 +359 -335
Permanent jobs citing Salt 10 87 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.094% 0.042%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.10% 0.65% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8 50 39
10th Percentile £69,875 £50,000 £62,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,813 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +30.91%
75th Percentile £99,688 £97,188 £110,000
90th Percentile £113,000 £110,000 £128,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £120,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +41.18% +30.77% +8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Salt falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,915 13,333 32,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.02% 14.42% 18.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,975 8,608 14,120
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +2.63% +5.45%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Salt.

Salary trend for Salt in the UK

Salt
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Salt over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Salt in the UK

Salt
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Salt within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -40 10 £75,000 -4.76% 4
London +61 8 £75,000 - 1
Work from Home +7 5 £75,000 -11.76% 1
South East -43 1 £120,000 +26.32% 1
UK excluding London -71 1 £120,000 +41.18% 3

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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) IaaS
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) FTP
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (10.00%) Subversion
4 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (10.00%) Vagrant
4 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Automation Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Site Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Blockchain
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Open Source
5 3 (30.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 3 (30.00%) SDLC
5 3 (30.00%) Security Hardening
5 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
7 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
7 1 (10.00%) Kanban
7 1 (10.00%) Project Management
7 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) Go
3 4 (40.00%) Perl
3 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (30.00%) Bash
4 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) C++
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
2 9 (90.00%) Terraform
3 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (70.00%) Progress Chef
4 6 (60.00%) Puppet
5 2 (20.00%) Packer
6 1 (10.00%) Consul
6 1 (10.00%) Grafana
6 1 (10.00%) Kibana
6 1 (10.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) VMware