The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 21 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 Glasgow 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 79 - 58
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Puppet 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.104% - 0.146%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.083% - 1.961%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All Systems Management
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
48 56 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 5.016% 7.245% 7.456%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 34
Average daily rate £345 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.45% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £252 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Puppet
Scotland

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Puppet Jobs Demand Trend

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) DSDM
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) RSpec

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) RSpec
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Build Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DSDM
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat