Puppet Contracts in the UK excluding London

Puppet
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 291 270
Rank change year-on-year -33 -21 -26
Contract jobs citing Puppet 61 167 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.71% 0.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.63% 4.75% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 111 194
10th Percentile £459 £463 £427
25th Percentile £511 £520 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £56.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.81 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.09% +37.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 £78.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.09% +37.27% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,315 3,517 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.28% 14.96% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,576 2,986
10th Percentile £213 £281 £237
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £654 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 136 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.28 £75.25 £51.66
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North of England +33 35 £545 -8.60% 12
Yorkshire +47 31 £533 +6.50% 6
South East -6 9 £584 -4.69% 8
South West -17 9 £675 +3.85% 23
Scotland +10 5 £600 -5.36%
North West +8 4 £582 -10.46% 4
East of England -1 2 £675 +29.81% 5
Wales +15 1 £690 +25.45% 2
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (11.48%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) nginx
2 2 (3.28%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.82%) AWS
2 22 (36.07%) Azure
3 14 (22.95%) GitHub
4 11 (18.03%) GCP
5 7 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (9.84%) Apigee
6 6 (9.84%) Kong
6 6 (9.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.56%) AWS KMS
8 4 (6.56%) Route 53
9 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.92%) Datadog
9 3 (4.92%) Serverless
10 2 (3.28%) IaaS
10 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (29.51%) VLAN
2 10 (16.39%) DNS
3 9 (14.75%) TCP/IP
3 9 (14.75%) VPN
4 8 (13.11%) Firewall
5 6 (9.84%) HTTP
6 3 (4.92%) IPv4
6 3 (4.92%) OSPF
7 2 (3.28%) DHCP
7 2 (3.28%) DSL
8 1 (1.64%) InfiniBand
8 1 (1.64%) LAN
8 1 (1.64%) SNA
8 1 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) MySQL
2 7 (11.48%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.64%) Big Data
6 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (47.54%) Jenkins
2 18 (29.51%) GitLab
3 15 (24.59%) Git
4 9 (14.75%) JIRA
5 7 (11.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (9.84%) CircleCI
6 6 (9.84%) Travis CI
7 5 (8.20%) AppScan
7 5 (8.20%) Burp Suite
7 5 (8.20%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.64%) Appium
9 1 (1.64%) Maven
9 1 (1.64%) MSTest
9 1 (1.64%) NUnit
9 1 (1.64%) Selenium
9 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (49.18%) Social Skills
2 24 (39.34%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (22.95%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.75%) Finance
5 2 (3.28%) Banking
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing
5 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.64%) Electronics
6 1 (1.64%) Games
6 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Data Protection Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Site Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Lead
6 4 (6.56%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Data Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) NetBackup Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Backup Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.67%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (9.84%) JSON
2 6 (9.84%) XML
2 6 (9.84%) YAML
3 4 (6.56%) .NET
4 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.28%) cloud-init
5 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.64%) Kafka
5 1 (1.64%) Middleware
5 1 (1.64%) Node.js
5 1 (1.64%) OAuth
5 1 (1.64%) React
5 1 (1.64%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Replication
2 11 (18.03%) Public Cloud
3 6 (9.84%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.56%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.92%) Clustering
5 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.28%) PKI
6 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.64%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (72.13%) Linux
2 26 (42.62%) Windows
3 9 (14.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (11.48%) CentOS
5 4 (6.56%) Unix
6 3 (4.92%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (62.30%) DevOps
2 23 (37.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (36.07%) Configuration Management
4 21 (34.43%) CI/CD
5 19 (31.15%) Containerisation
6 18 (29.51%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (27.87%) Agile
8 16 (26.23%) Change Management
9 14 (22.95%) Service Delivery
10 13 (21.31%) Data Protection
10 13 (21.31%) Task Automation
11 12 (19.67%) Project Management
11 12 (19.67%) Test Automation
12 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (14.75%) Continuous Deployment
13 9 (14.75%) Scrum
14 7 (11.48%) Collaborative Working
15 6 (9.84%) Change Control
15 6 (9.84%) Secure Coding
15 6 (9.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (52.46%) Python
2 27 (44.26%) Bash
3 25 (40.98%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.48%) Ruby
5 6 (9.84%) C++
6 5 (8.20%) Perl
7 4 (6.56%) Java
8 3 (4.92%) C
9 2 (3.28%) Go
9 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.64%) Bicep
10 1 (1.64%) C#
10 1 (1.64%) PHP
10 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) RHCE
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) GIAC
4 1 (1.64%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (1.64%) LPIC
4 1 (1.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) NCSC
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (40.98%) Docker
2 7 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.28%) KVM
3 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.64%) NFS
4 1 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (85.25%) Ansible
2 34 (55.74%) Terraform
3 26 (42.62%) Kubernetes
3 26 (42.62%) Progress Chef
4 15 (24.59%) Prometheus
5 14 (22.95%) NetBackup
6 12 (19.67%) Grafana
7 8 (13.11%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (11.48%) Packer
9 6 (9.84%) Kibana
9 6 (9.84%) logstash
10 5 (8.20%) Graylog
10 5 (8.20%) HP Fortify
10 5 (8.20%) Nagios
10 5 (8.20%) Nessus
10 5 (8.20%) WebInspect
11 4 (6.56%) Rancher
12 3 (4.92%) CFEngine
13 2 (3.28%) HAProxy
13 2 (3.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Splunk
2 14 (22.95%) Veritas
3 10 (16.39%) VMware
4 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.20%) Checkmarx
5 5 (8.20%) Veracode
6 4 (6.56%) Oracle
7 3 (4.92%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.92%) New Relic
7 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.28%) Dell
8 2 (3.28%) PagerDuty
8 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.64%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.64%) BMC
9 1 (1.64%) Google
9 1 (1.64%) NetApp
9 1 (1.64%) Remedy
9 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.64%) Symantec