The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the Cambridgeshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 44 52 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing Puppet 6 10 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.097% 1.458% -
As % of the Systems Management category 12.00% 28.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £315 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.14% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All Systems Management
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
50 35 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 9.141% 5.102% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 13
Average daily rate £325 £350 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +37.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £433 £336
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £14.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Puppet
East of England

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Puppet across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Cambridgeshire Puppet Jobs Demand Trend

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Puppet across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Puppet Daily Rate Trend

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Puppet across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Puppet Hourly Rate Trend

Puppet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +7 4 £310 -11.42%
Puppet
East of England

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Puppet also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Puppet.

1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) WAN
2 6 (66.67%) Kerberos
2 6 (66.67%) RHCE
2 6 (66.67%) Nagios
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 6 (66.67%) LAMP
2 6 (66.67%) Debian
2 6 (66.67%) Subversion
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 6 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 6 (66.67%) Postfix
2 6 (66.67%) Sendmail
2 6 (66.67%) Bash shell
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (33.33%) Akamai
3 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (33.33%) NAS
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (33.33%) RHCT
3 3 (33.33%) BIG-IP
3 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) DHCP
3 3 (33.33%) Middleware

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Puppet also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Puppet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (66.67%) LAMP
2 3 (33.33%) Middleware
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 3 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) WAN
1 6 (66.67%) Kerberos
2 3 (33.33%) NAS
2 3 (33.33%) BIG-IP
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
2 3 (33.33%) SAN
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Subversion
1 6 (66.67%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Debian
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (22.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
2 6 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Bash shell
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) RHCE
2 3 (33.33%) RHCT
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 6 (66.67%) Postfix
1 6 (66.67%) Sendmail
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Nagios
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) Akamai
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) JBoss