Puppet Contracts in the South West

Puppet
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 129 143
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 -40
Contract jobs citing Puppet 10 45 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.32% 1.24% 0.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.46% 7.43% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 22
10th Percentile £525 £525 £413
25th Percentile £538 £584 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% +0.19%
75th Percentile £688 £691 £620
90th Percentile £700 £700 £673
England median daily rate £582 £625 £587
% change year-on-year -6.88% +6.52% +15.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -39.10% +41.82% -8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 407 606 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.85% 16.64% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 500 378
10th Percentile £205 £318 £261
25th Percentile £397 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 20
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £62.85 £16.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £73.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.21% +265.00% -54.25%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.35 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.28 £87.20 £55.03
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Gloucestershire -10 4 £550 -15.38% 10
Bristol +13 2 - - 6
Wiltshire -10 2 £600 -7.69% 3
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) IPv4
1 3 (30.00%) OSPF
1 3 (30.00%) VLAN
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Skype
3 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
1 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Information Security
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) NsoIT
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
6 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) Server Management
6 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (60.00%) Bash
3 5 (50.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Bicep
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) GIAC
4 1 (10.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Ansible
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Packer
3 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam