Puppet Contracts in England

Puppet
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Puppet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Puppet over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 345 289
Rank change year-on-year -31 -56 -61
Contract jobs citing Puppet 166 323 671
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.67% 0.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.79% 4.36% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 244 513
10th Percentile £450 £463 £439
25th Percentile £482 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £625 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +6.66% +14.06%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £754 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +14.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £67.75 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £72.38 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - £84.00 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 -
% change year-on-year -37.09% - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

Puppet is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,376 7,413 11,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.04% 15.44% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 5,375 8,251
10th Percentile £258 £352 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £684 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -8.48% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 173 161
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £52.13 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.58% +142.47% -13.13%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.90 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £52.93 £21.89
% change year-on-year -48.98% +141.78% -45.28%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London +10 100 £600 -4.00% 47
North of England +41 41 £525 -6.46% 10
Yorkshire +48 38 £525 +5.00% 5
South East +6 8 £575 -8.00% 22
South West -28 8 £613 -2.00% 20
North West +13 3 £582 -10.46% 3
East of England +8 2 £675 +29.81% 4
Midlands +13 1 £638 +7.59% 12
West Midlands +6 1 £638 +7.59% 11
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (8.43%) Confluence
2 13 (7.83%) Apache
3 6 (3.61%) OpenStack
3 6 (3.61%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.41%) IIS
5 3 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.81%) nginx
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.20%) Traefik
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.60%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 82 (49.40%) AWS
2 58 (34.94%) Azure
3 36 (21.69%) GCP
4 26 (15.66%) GitHub
5 14 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (6.63%) OpenShift
6 11 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.42%) Kong
9 8 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.82%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.22%) Route 53
10 7 (4.22%) Serverless
11 6 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.61%) Apigee
11 6 (3.61%) Cloudflare
11 6 (3.61%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.66%) TCP/IP
2 22 (13.25%) DNS
3 20 (12.05%) Firewall
3 20 (12.05%) HTTP
3 20 (12.05%) VLAN
4 14 (8.43%) SSL
5 12 (7.23%) VPN
6 8 (4.82%) Internet
7 6 (3.61%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (3.61%) SMTP
8 5 (3.01%) IPv4
9 4 (2.41%) DHCP
9 4 (2.41%) OSPF
10 3 (1.81%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.81%) DMZ
10 3 (1.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.81%) Network Security
10 3 (1.81%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.60%) HSRP
11 1 (0.60%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.45%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.83%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (7.83%) MySQL
3 12 (7.23%) Big Data
4 10 (6.02%) Data Lake
5 9 (5.42%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (4.22%) Sybase ASE
8 5 (3.01%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.41%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.81%) Redis
11 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.20%) DataStax
11 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.60%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 75 (45.18%) Jenkins
2 43 (25.90%) Git
3 28 (16.87%) GitLab
4 22 (13.25%) JIRA
5 11 (6.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (6.63%) CircleCI
5 11 (6.63%) Travis CI
6 8 (4.82%) SonarQube
7 7 (4.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.01%) AppScan
8 5 (3.01%) Burp Suite
8 5 (3.01%) Selenium
9 4 (2.41%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.41%) Subversion
10 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.81%) Maven
10 3 (1.81%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.81%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 63 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.08%) Finance
3 34 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.84%) Banking
5 17 (10.24%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.42%) Retail
7 6 (3.61%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.61%) Marketing
8 5 (3.01%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.01%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.41%) Electronics
9 4 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Games
11 1 (0.60%) German Language
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (25.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (11.45%) Automation Engineer
2 19 (11.45%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (9.04%) Architect
4 12 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (6.63%) Cloud Architect
5 11 (6.63%) Linux Server Engineer
5 11 (6.63%) Senior
5 11 (6.63%) Server Engineer
5 11 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Principal Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Site Engineer
7 9 (5.42%) Storage Engineer
8 8 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Data Protection Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Lead
9 7 (4.22%) Sybase Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.06%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (7.23%) JSON
3 9 (5.42%) XML
3 9 (5.42%) YAML
4 7 (4.22%) FastAPI
4 7 (4.22%) Kafka
5 4 (2.41%) .NET
5 4 (2.41%) CSS
5 4 (2.41%) HTML
6 3 (1.81%) LDAP
7 2 (1.20%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.20%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.20%) Node.js
7 2 (1.20%) React
7 2 (1.20%) REST
8 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.60%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.60%) React Native
8 1 (0.60%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.64%) Data Centre
1 16 (9.64%) Replication
2 14 (8.43%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.42%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.82%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.22%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.61%) Hedge funds
7 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.41%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.81%) PKI
10 2 (1.20%) CBDC
10 2 (1.20%) Clustering
10 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.60%) Digital Currency
11 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 102 (61.45%) Linux
2 41 (24.70%) Windows
3 22 (13.25%) Unix
4 13 (7.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (5.42%) Windows Server
6 7 (4.22%) CentOS
7 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (52.41%) DevOps
2 74 (44.58%) CI/CD
3 62 (37.35%) Agile
4 53 (31.93%) Configuration Management
5 52 (31.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (30.12%) Containerisation
7 40 (24.10%) Scrum
8 33 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (16.27%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (16.27%) Test Automation
10 22 (13.25%) SDLC
11 20 (12.05%) ITIL
12 18 (10.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (10.84%) Task Automation
13 17 (10.24%) Project Management
14 16 (9.64%) Change Management
14 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (9.04%) DevSecOps
15 15 (9.04%) Kanban
16 14 (8.43%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 90 (54.22%) Python
2 61 (36.75%) PowerShell
3 45 (27.11%) Bash
4 16 (9.64%) Shell Script
5 14 (8.43%) Java
5 14 (8.43%) Ruby
6 13 (7.83%) Perl
7 12 (7.23%) Go
8 9 (5.42%) C++
9 5 (3.01%) C
9 5 (3.01%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.41%) Bicep
10 4 (2.41%) Groovy
10 4 (2.41%) PHP
11 3 (1.81%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.81%) C#
11 3 (1.81%) SQL
12 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.46%) DV Cleared
4 20 (12.05%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.01%) Degree
6 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.20%) RHCE
7 2 (1.20%) SANS
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.60%) GIAC
8 1 (0.60%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.60%) LPIC
8 1 (0.60%) OCP
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.64%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) NCSC
2 2 (1.20%) SLA
3 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 69 (41.57%) Docker
2 8 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.61%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.01%) Firmware
5 2 (1.20%) NFS
6 1 (0.60%) Ceph
6 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.60%) KVM
6 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 135 (81.33%) Ansible
2 83 (50.00%) Terraform
3 72 (43.37%) Progress Chef
4 67 (40.36%) Kubernetes
5 26 (15.66%) Prometheus
6 20 (12.05%) Grafana
7 15 (9.04%) NetBackup
8 12 (7.23%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (6.63%) Kibana
9 11 (6.63%) logstash
10 8 (4.82%) Nagios
10 8 (4.82%) Packer
11 7 (4.22%) Graylog
12 6 (3.61%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (3.61%) Rancher
13 5 (3.01%) HP Fortify
13 5 (3.01%) Nessus
13 5 (3.01%) Salt
13 5 (3.01%) WebInspect
14 4 (2.41%) Consul
Vendors
1 31 (18.67%) Splunk
2 20 (12.05%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.04%) F5
3 15 (9.04%) Veritas
4 12 (7.23%) VMware
5 8 (4.82%) Sybase
6 7 (4.22%) Dell
6 7 (4.22%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.61%) Cisco
7 6 (3.61%) CyberArk
7 6 (3.61%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.61%) Juniper
7 6 (3.61%) Oracle
7 6 (3.61%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.61%) SAP
8 5 (3.01%) Centrify
8 5 (3.01%) Checkmarx
8 5 (3.01%) New Relic
8 5 (3.01%) Veracode
9 4 (2.41%) SaltStack