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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 281 279
Rank change year-on-year -43 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing Puppet 76 160 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.70% 0.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.20% 4.75% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 101 201
10th Percentile £460 £485 £413
25th Percentile £507 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £631
90th Percentile £666 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +14.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £56.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £66.94 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.10% - -

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 2,375 3,366 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.40% 14.78% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,423 2,982
10th Percentile £213 £281 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 124 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.24 £12.63
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £27.31
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
% change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +42 40 £525 -4.11% 10
Yorkshire +49 38 £525 -4.11% 4
South East +5 17 £582 -2.18% 16
South West -25 17 £582 -6.88% 13
Midlands +25 12 £582 -1.77% 7
West Midlands +16 12 £582 -1.77% 5
Scotland +2 3 £525 -17.19% 1
North West +9 2 - - 4
East of England -5 2 £675 +29.81% 7
Wales +14 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 10 (13.16%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) nginx
2 2 (2.63%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (40.79%) AWS
2 22 (28.95%) Azure
3 15 (19.74%) GitHub
4 13 (17.11%) GCP
5 9 (11.84%) Kong
6 7 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.89%) Apigee
7 6 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.26%) AWS KMS
8 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.26%) Route 53
9 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.95%) Datadog
10 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.63%) PaaS
10 2 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.68%) VLAN
2 12 (15.79%) DNS
2 12 (15.79%) VPN
3 11 (14.47%) Firewall
3 11 (14.47%) TCP/IP
4 9 (11.84%) HTTP
5 3 (3.95%) BIG-IP
5 3 (3.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (3.95%) IPv4
5 3 (3.95%) OSPF
5 3 (3.95%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (3.95%) SSL
6 1 (1.32%) DHCP
6 1 (1.32%) DSL
6 1 (1.32%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.32%) LAN
6 1 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 7 (9.21%) MySQL
4 6 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.32%) Big Data
7 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (43.42%) Git
1 33 (43.42%) Jenkins
2 21 (27.63%) GitLab
3 10 (13.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 10 (13.16%) JIRA
4 9 (11.84%) CircleCI
4 9 (11.84%) Travis CI
5 5 (6.58%) AppScan
5 5 (6.58%) Burp Suite
5 5 (6.58%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.63%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.32%) Appium
7 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.32%) Maven
7 1 (1.32%) MSTest
7 1 (1.32%) NUnit
7 1 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.32%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.32%) Subversion
General
1 32 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (38.16%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.89%) Finance
5 2 (2.63%) Banking
5 2 (2.63%) Marketing
5 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.32%) Electronics
6 1 (1.32%) Games
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (34.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (13.16%) Automation Engineer
3 9 (11.84%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Data Protection Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Site Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior
8 3 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Data Storage Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (3.95%) Lead
8 3 (3.95%) NetBackup Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Backup Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.95%) YAML
2 16 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (11.84%) JSON
3 9 (11.84%) XML
4 4 (5.26%) .NET
4 4 (5.26%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.63%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.63%) cloud-init
6 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.32%) Kafka
6 1 (1.32%) Node.js
6 1 (1.32%) OAuth
6 1 (1.32%) OLE
6 1 (1.32%) React
6 1 (1.32%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Replication
2 9 (11.84%) Data Structures
2 9 (11.84%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.95%) Clustering
3 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.95%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.63%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.32%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (69.74%) Linux
2 38 (50.00%) Windows
3 21 (27.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (9.21%) CentOS
5 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (57.89%) DevOps
2 36 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (43.42%) Configuration Management
4 26 (34.21%) Containerisation
5 25 (32.89%) CI/CD
6 20 (26.32%) Agile
7 19 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (21.05%) Change Management
9 15 (19.74%) Infrastructure Automation
9 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (19.74%) Project Management
9 15 (19.74%) Task Automation
9 15 (19.74%) Test Automation
10 14 (18.42%) Service Delivery
11 13 (17.11%) Scrum
11 13 (17.11%) Validation
12 12 (15.79%) Continuous Deployment
12 12 (15.79%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 11 (14.47%) Data Protection
14 10 (13.16%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (60.53%) PowerShell
2 39 (51.32%) Python
3 29 (38.16%) Bash
4 6 (7.89%) C++
4 6 (7.89%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.58%) Ruby
6 4 (5.26%) Perl
7 3 (3.95%) ActionScript
7 3 (3.95%) C
7 3 (3.95%) Java
8 2 (2.63%) Go
9 1 (1.32%) Bicep
9 1 (1.32%) C#
9 1 (1.32%) PHP
9 1 (1.32%) SQL
9 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) Degree
3 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) RHCE
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) GIAC
4 1 (1.32%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (1.32%) LPIC
4 1 (1.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.42%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (42.11%) Docker
2 19 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (17.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.63%) KVM
5 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.32%) NFS
5 1 (1.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 68 (89.47%) Ansible
2 47 (61.84%) Terraform
3 39 (51.32%) Progress Chef
4 32 (42.11%) Kubernetes
5 18 (23.68%) Prometheus
6 15 (19.74%) Grafana
7 14 (18.42%) NetBackup
8 13 (17.11%) Salt
9 11 (14.47%) Docker Swarm
10 10 (13.16%) Kibana
10 10 (13.16%) logstash
11 6 (7.89%) Packer
12 5 (6.58%) Graylog
12 5 (6.58%) HP Fortify
12 5 (6.58%) Nagios
12 5 (6.58%) Nessus
12 5 (6.58%) Rancher
12 5 (6.58%) WebInspect
13 3 (3.95%) ZABBIX
14 2 (2.63%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 22 (28.95%) VMware
2 19 (25.00%) Splunk
3 16 (21.05%) Red Hat
4 14 (18.42%) Veritas
5 12 (15.79%) SaltStack
6 7 (9.21%) Microsoft
7 5 (6.58%) Checkmarx
7 5 (6.58%) Veracode
8 4 (5.26%) Oracle
9 3 (3.95%) F5
9 3 (3.95%) New Relic
10 2 (2.63%) PagerDuty
11 1 (1.32%) ArcSight
11 1 (1.32%) BMC
11 1 (1.32%) Dell
11 1 (1.32%) ForgeRock
11 1 (1.32%) Guidewire
11 1 (1.32%) HP
11 1 (1.32%) SAP
11 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow