Puppet Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 22 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 London 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 257 306 384
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +78
Contract jobs citing Puppet 130 112 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.591% 0.410% 0.160%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.992% 7.325% 3.315%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 78 37
Average daily rate £450 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.62% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £312 £332
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £450 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category		 1301 1529 1478
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.915% 5.593% 4.823%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 862 844
Average daily rate £415 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £501 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 38 66
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £15.40 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 £33.80 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Puppet
England

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Puppet Daily Rate Trend

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Puppet across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Puppet Daily Rate Histogram

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +1 21 £400 +6.66%
Surbiton - 2 - -
Westminster - 2 £500 -
Canary Wharf - 2 - -
Docklands, London -2 1 £450 +12.50%
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 224 (75.68%) Linux
2 116 (39.19%) Java
3 109 (36.82%) Python
4 99 (33.45%) Red Hat
5 98 (33.11%) MySQL
6 93 (31.42%) Perl
7 90 (30.41%) Apache
8 80 (27.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 77 (26.01%) UNIX
10 72 (24.32%) Ruby
10 72 (24.32%) Git (software)
10 72 (24.32%) Bash shell
11 64 (21.62%) VMware
12 63 (21.28%) PHP
12 63 (21.28%) Jenkins
13 61 (20.61%) Nagios
14 59 (19.93%) Maven
15 58 (19.59%) Tomcat
16 56 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
16 56 (18.92%) Open Source
17 53 (17.91%) Continuous Integration
18 52 (17.57%) Amazon AWS
19 49 (16.55%) Oracle
20 47 (15.88%) Finance
21 45 (15.20%) Subversion
21 45 (15.20%) NoSQL
21 45 (15.20%) VMware Infrastructure
22 43 (14.53%) .NET
23 42 (14.19%) Configuration Management
23 42 (14.19%) Agile Software Development

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 43 (14.53%) .NET
2 37 (12.50%) Web Services
3 29 (9.797%) LAMP
4 23 (7.770%) J2EE
5 18 (6.081%) SOAP
6 16 (5.405%) REST
6 16 (5.405%) HTML
7 12 (4.054%) WebSphere
8 11 (3.716%) Java EE
8 11 (3.716%) Hibernate
9 10 (3.378%) Middleware
9 10 (3.378%) Spring
10 9 (3.041%) XML
10 9 (3.041%) HTML5
11 8 (2.703%) WSRP
11 8 (2.703%) JSR 168
11 8 (2.703%) DHTML
11 8 (2.703%) Flash
11 8 (2.703%) Ajax
12 7 (2.365%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 90 (30.41%) Apache
2 58 (19.59%) Tomcat
3 56 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
4 52 (17.57%) Amazon AWS
5 23 (7.770%) IIS
6 18 (6.081%) Amazon S3
7 12 (4.054%) Drupal
8 11 (3.716%) Confluence
9 9 (3.041%) Jetty
10 8 (2.703%) WebLogic
11 7 (2.365%) nginx
12 6 (2.027%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.689%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (1.351%) Rackspace Cloud
14 4 (1.351%) Liferay
15 3 (1.014%) LiveSite
15 3 (1.014%) Gunicorn
15 3 (1.014%) OpenStack
16 2 (0.676%) Route 53
16 2 (0.676%) GlassFish
Applications
1 2 (0.676%) MS Office
1 2 (0.676%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.676%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 1 (0.338%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.338%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 40 (13.51%) SAN
2 39 (13.18%) DNS
3 28 (9.459%) NAS
4 26 (8.784%) Firewall
5 24 (8.108%) TCP/IP
6 21 (7.095%) HTTP
7 17 (5.743%) SSL
8 16 (5.405%) Internet
9 15 (5.068%) LDAP
10 10 (3.378%) DHCP
11 9 (3.041%) SSH
11 9 (3.041%) Kerberos
11 9 (3.041%) SNMP
11 9 (3.041%) SMTP
12 8 (2.703%) Network Security
12 8 (2.703%) RTP
12 8 (2.703%) RTSP
12 8 (2.703%) Gigabit Ethernet
13 7 (2.365%) AMQP
13 7 (2.365%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (33.11%) MySQL
2 45 (15.20%) NoSQL
3 26 (8.784%) MongoDB
4 24 (8.108%) Hadoop
5 22 (7.432%) SQL Server
6 20 (6.757%) RDBMS
7 16 (5.405%) Redis
8 14 (4.730%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (4.730%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (4.054%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 8 (2.703%) CouchDB
10 8 (2.703%) Oracle 8/8i
11 6 (2.027%) Big Data
11 6 (2.027%) SQL Server 2008
11 6 (2.027%) SQL Server 2005
12 5 (1.689%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.014%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.676%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.676%) SimpleDB
14 2 (0.676%) DB2
Development Applications
1 72 (24.32%) Git (software)
2 63 (21.28%) Jenkins
3 59 (19.93%) Maven
4 45 (15.20%) Subversion
5 40 (13.51%) JIRA
6 31 (10.47%) Hudson
7 18 (6.081%) Selenium
8 17 (5.743%) Ant
9 16 (5.405%) TeamCity
10 15 (5.068%) Team Foundation Server
11 14 (4.730%) Gerrit
12 11 (3.716%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (2.365%) CruiseControl
13 7 (2.365%) Capistrano
14 5 (1.689%) JUnit
14 5 (1.689%) AnthillPro
14 5 (1.689%) EasyMock
14 5 (1.689%) Mercurial
14 5 (1.689%) RSpec
14 5 (1.689%) Mockito
General
1 47 (15.88%) Finance
2 26 (8.784%) Banking
3 16 (5.405%) Publishing
4 11 (3.716%) Investment Banking
5 7 (2.365%) Retail
6 2 (0.676%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.676%) Games
6 2 (0.676%) Back Office
7 1 (0.338%) Law
7 1 (0.338%) Advertising
7 1 (0.338%) Music
7 1 (0.338%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.338%) German Language
7 1 (0.338%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 77 (26.01%) Linux Engineer
2 69 (23.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 52 (17.57%) Administrator
4 49 (16.55%) Linux Administrator
5 48 (16.22%) Systems Administrator
6 45 (15.20%) Systems Engineer
7 42 (14.19%) Developer
7 42 (14.19%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 26 (8.784%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.743%) Architect
10 15 (5.068%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 11 (3.716%) Deployment Engineer
12 10 (3.378%) Infrastructure Architect
13 8 (2.703%) Senior Linux Administrator
13 8 (2.703%) UNIX Administrator
14 7 (2.365%) Configuration Manager
14 7 (2.365%) UNIX Systems Administrator
14 7 (2.365%) Technical Architect
14 7 (2.365%) Web Engineer
14 7 (2.365%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.92%) Open Source
2 14 (4.730%) Digital Media
2 14 (4.730%) Clustering
3 10 (3.378%) Replication
4 8 (2.703%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (2.703%) Taxonomies
4 8 (2.703%) Ontologies
5 5 (1.689%) RMADS
6 4 (1.351%) Mathematics
7 3 (1.014%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.014%) Cryptography
7 3 (1.014%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.676%) Social Media
8 2 (0.676%) IaaS
8 2 (0.676%) Video on Demand
8 2 (0.676%) Social Network
8 2 (0.676%) Smartcard
8 2 (0.676%) EFT
8 2 (0.676%) EFTPOS
8 2 (0.676%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 224 (75.68%) Linux
2 80 (27.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 77 (26.01%) UNIX
4 34 (11.49%) CentOS
5 33 (11.15%) Solaris
6 31 (10.47%) Windows
7 29 (9.797%) Ubuntu
8 16 (5.405%) Debian
9 14 (4.730%) Windows Server 2008
10 11 (3.716%) Windows Server 2003
11 10 (3.378%) SUSE
12 8 (2.703%) AIX
13 6 (2.027%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (2.027%) VMS
14 2 (0.676%) Fedora
15 1 (0.338%) Gentoo
15 1 (0.338%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.338%) HPUX
15 1 (0.338%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.338%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (17.91%) Continuous Integration
2 42 (14.19%) Configuration Management
2 42 (14.19%) Agile Software Development
3 36 (12.16%) E-Commerce
4 34 (11.49%) Load Balancing
5 24 (8.108%) Scrum
5 24 (8.108%) ITIL
6 22 (7.432%) SOA
6 22 (7.432%) TDD
7 16 (5.405%) BDD
8 15 (5.068%) Migration
9 14 (4.730%) Change Management
10 13 (4.392%) Project Management
11 12 (4.054%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (4.054%) OO
12 10 (3.378%) ATDD
13 9 (3.041%) Penetration Testing
13 9 (3.041%) Software Engineering
14 8 (2.703%) Information Architecture
14 8 (2.703%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 116 (39.19%) Java
2 109 (36.82%) Python
3 93 (31.42%) Perl
4 72 (24.32%) Ruby
4 72 (24.32%) Bash shell
5 63 (21.28%) PHP
6 35 (11.82%) Shell Script
7 28 (9.459%) SQL
8 22 (7.432%) JavaScript
9 19 (6.419%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.054%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.365%) C#
11 7 (2.365%) Groovy
12 4 (1.351%) sed
12 4 (1.351%) C++
12 4 (1.351%) AWK
13 3 (1.014%) Korn
13 3 (1.014%) C
14 2 (0.676%) C-shell
15 1 (0.338%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 29 (9.797%) RHCE
2 9 (3.041%) SC Cleared
2 9 (3.041%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.689%) Degree
3 5 (1.689%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.014%) CCNA
5 2 (0.676%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.676%) MCSE
6 1 (0.338%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.392%) QA
2 6 (2.027%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (15.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (8.108%) Samba
3 14 (4.730%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.716%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 9 (3.041%) NFS
6 7 (2.365%) VMware ESX
6 7 (2.365%) Squid
6 7 (2.365%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.365%) vCloud
7 5 (1.689%) Postfix
7 5 (1.689%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (1.689%) SRDF
8 4 (1.351%) Varnish
9 3 (1.014%) Xen
9 3 (1.014%) Nmap
9 3 (1.014%) vSphere
10 2 (0.676%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.338%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.338%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.338%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 61 (20.61%) Nagios
2 22 (7.432%) Cobbler
3 20 (6.757%) ZABBIX
4 15 (5.068%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 10 (3.378%) Zenoss
6 9 (3.041%) Splunk
7 8 (2.703%) OpenView
8 7 (2.365%) BladeLogic
9 6 (2.027%) HP Operations Orchestration
10 5 (1.689%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (1.351%) YUM
11 4 (1.351%) Cacti
12 3 (1.014%) Ganglia
12 3 (1.014%) CFEngine
13 2 (0.676%) Munin
13 2 (0.676%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.338%) Business Desktop Deployment
14 1 (0.338%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.338%) SCCM
14 1 (0.338%) SCOM
Vendors
1 99 (33.45%) Red Hat
2 64 (21.62%) VMware
3 49 (16.55%) Oracle
4 30 (10.14%) JBoss
5 24 (8.108%) HP
6 18 (6.081%) Microsoft
7 17 (5.743%) Cisco
7 17 (5.743%) Rackspace
8 15 (5.068%) Akamai
9 13 (4.392%) EMC
10 11 (3.716%) Veritas
10 11 (3.716%) RightScale
11 9 (3.041%) Informatica
12 8 (2.703%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.703%) NetApp
13 6 (2.027%) BMC
13 6 (2.027%) NetIQ
14 5 (1.689%) SAP
14 5 (1.689%) Sun
15 4 (1.351%) Intel
Linux Sys Admin
City, London
Key Skills Required:- -A proven in-depth experience with Nagios -Strong Debian or Red Hat Linux experience is crucial -Must be confident in at least 1 scripting technology -...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
DevOps Engineer
West London
Requirements/ Skills: Very solid infrastructure background, strong knowledge with HP servers (blade and c-class enclosures) Storage, VMWare, CentOS or Redhat and Networking. Working knowledge of Puppet configuration...
Experis IT
Rate: £450.00 - £540.00 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Devops Engineer - London - £450 - £500
London
Nagios,. The successful Devops Engineer must have demonstrable experience of designing software solutions, and possessing the technical ability to bring the initial design through to UAT and release...
ISL
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Linux Engineer, IT Telecom, Belfast, £100pd
City of London
Experience in the financial sector VMware HP Hardware & HP Health monitoring tools Scripting experience in one or more of Python/Shell/Perl/Ruby languages Network build/management systems,...
Orgtel
Posted: 15 May 2013
Linux Sys Admin
West London
Computer Futures are seeking a Linux Systems Administrator for a client based in West London. This is a 6 month contract with a view to go permanent thereafter.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
2 x Linux Deployment Engineers - City of London
London
Experience with running Linux on a virtual (VMware etc) platform... - Version control using GIT... - Software Development and Testing experience, Cucumber, RSpec, Mocha, Ruby. - Experience with VMware virtualization platform. -...
vCloud Innovation Limited
Rate: From £350 to £450 per day Depending on experience
Posted: 19 May 2013
Litux Engineer,IT Telecommunication,Belfast,£100pd
City of London
Critical business partner role alongside Systems Engineering, Problem Management, Change Management, Network Operations and Service Operations. 3-5+ Years Linux/Unix support or engineering, capable of providing 2nd/...
Orgtel
Posted: 15 May 2013
Systems Engineer - Web Platforms
City, London
Our client requires a Systems Engineer with Web Platforms experience to work onsite in Canary Wharf. To help keep our client's marketing sites and web applications running...
Experis IT
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
PHP Developer / Software Engineer / Web Developer / Programmer (Agile,
London
working in a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - developing software to use TCP, DNS and HTTP... - NoSQL solutions (Mongo DB, Simple DB, Membase, Redis) - RDBMS technologies (MySQL) -...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
DevOps Engineer - Team Foundation Server/ Powershell
London
As the DevOps Engineer, you will deliver full lifecycle project solutions on a scalable platform, whilst providing a knowledge transfer to employees.As the DevOps Engineer, you will...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
DevOps Engineer - City of London - Trading
City, London
DevOps - Engineer - Puppet - Chef - Big Data - Cloud - MongoDB - Jenknins - Maven - Cloud - Agile... Cassandra, MongoDB, NoSQL and other relevant Big Data/Cloud technologies. CloudStack, OpenStack API. CI tools - Jenkins,...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £500 to £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Java / Groovy Developer - Contract
Central London / West End
Excellent Java experience - Groovy and Grails experience - A background in building JVM based applications at scale - Full stack Javascript knowledge Desired Skills. - NoSQL - DevOps - Puppet, Chef, Salt - RabbitMQ -...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £500 per day negotiable
Posted: 16 May 2013
Drupal Developer
London
Needed:Must have: Drupal module development, 2+ years Drupal2+ years PHPGit or SVNGood to have: web services, Drupal Commerce, Puppet or Chef, Jenkins.Should have an account on...
Universe Technology Recruitment Ltd
Posted: 15 May 2013
Release Manager, Release Automation, Devops
City, London
Release Manager, Release and Deployment Automation, Devops Engineer, Orchestration, Microsoft, Unix, TFS, Puppet, Agile... The Release Manager, Automation Engineer or Devops engineer must have a good understanding of...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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