The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 56 69 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing Puppet 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.617% 0.104% -
As % of the Systems Management category 10.53% 2.083% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-11.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All Systems Management
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
38 48 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 5.864% 5.000% 7.855%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 22
Average daily rate £250 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £223 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £508 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 17
Average hourly rate £15.25 £16.25 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% -30.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Puppet
East of England

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Puppet Daily 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hemel Hempstead - 3 - -
Puppet
East of England

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
1 10 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (57.14%) Retail
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 3 (21.43%) Apache
4 3 (21.43%) Debian
4 3 (21.43%) Nagios
4 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
4 3 (21.43%) Postfix
4 3 (21.43%) Subversion
4 3 (21.43%) Memcached
4 3 (21.43%) Varnish
4 3 (21.43%) Gearman
5 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
5 2 (14.29%) Samba
5 2 (14.29%) SMTP
5 2 (14.29%) PHP
5 2 (14.29%) MySQL
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) FTP
5 2 (14.29%) NFS
5 2 (14.29%) SNMP
5 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (7.143%) DNS
6 1 (7.143%) NetApp
6 1 (7.143%) Veritas
6 1 (7.143%) Red Hat
6 1 (7.143%) Shell Script

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (21.43%) Memcached
1 3 (21.43%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) FTP
1 2 (14.29%) SNMP
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 2 (14.29%) SMTP
2 1 (7.143%) DHCP
2 1 (7.143%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (21.43%) Subversion
General
1 8 (57.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Build Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Deployment Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Release Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Debian
3 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
1 10 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
4 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.143%) Project Management
4 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.143%) Scrum
4 1 (7.143%) Network Architecture
4 1 (7.143%) Capacity Management
4 1 (7.143%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (7.143%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.143%) Korn
2 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
2 1 (7.143%) Perl
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Postfix
1 3 (21.43%) Varnish
2 2 (14.29%) NFS
2 2 (14.29%) Samba
3 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.143%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) NetApp
2 1 (7.143%) Veritas
2 1 (7.143%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.143%) VMware
2 1 (7.143%) Percona