After being formed at Maristas school in Bilbao, Salgado started his career at SD Patronato in 1998.

In 2001, Salgado joined the newly created team in his native town: Bilbao Basket.

With this team, he would go on to play during the next ten seasons, in three different level leagues on the Spanish basketball league system: LEB Plata, LEB Oro, and Liga ACB, playing also in two EuroCup semifinals, in 2009 and 2010.

[1] He signed with Lagun Aro GBC in July 2010,[2] from Bilbao's neighboring city of San Sebastián.

On July 18, 2016, he returned to Dominion Bilbao Basket,[3] where he remained until he retired at the end of the 2017-18 ACB season.