The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 20 June 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 South West 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 108 134 126
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -8
Contract jobs citing Puppet 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.098% 0.032% 0.066%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.869% 0.469% 0.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
107 213 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 5.253% 6.909% 8.437%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 125 120
Average daily rate £385 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £260 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 15
Average hourly rate £10.00 £22.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.54% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.20 £18.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.70 £24.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
Puppet
England

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Somerset - 2 - - 1
Bristol - - - -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 7 (70.00%) VMware
4 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (50.00%) MySQL
4 5 (50.00%) UNIX
4 5 (50.00%) Solaris
4 5 (50.00%) Git (software)
5 4 (40.00%) Oracle
5 4 (40.00%) Remedy
5 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (30.00%) Content Management
6 3 (30.00%) NetBackup
6 3 (30.00%) LAMP
6 3 (30.00%) ITIL
6 3 (30.00%) PHP
6 3 (30.00%) Mercator
6 3 (30.00%) Hudson
6 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (20.00%) Change Control
7 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X Server
7 2 (20.00%) nginx
7 2 (20.00%) Open Source
7 2 (20.00%) Windows
7 2 (20.00%) C
7 2 (20.00%) Perl
7 2 (20.00%) Apache

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (30.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) nginx
1 2 (20.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (30.00%) Hudson
3 2 (20.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Support
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) UNIX
2 5 (50.00%) Solaris
3 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X Server
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Content Management
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
1 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) C
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) NetBackup
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (70.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 4 (40.00%) Remedy
4 3 (30.00%) Mercator
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
View Puppet jobs Nationwide