Puppet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 397 317 293
Rank change year-on-year -80 -24 -62
Contract jobs citing Puppet 205 485 841
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.81% 0.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.03% 5.04% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 356 639
10th Percentile £450 £445 £450
25th Percentile £500 £513 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +12.47%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -9.60% +13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £48.88 £56.25 -
25th Percentile £52.81 £60.63 -
Median hourly rate £61.25 £73.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.10% +32.73% +37.50%
75th Percentile £70.31 £78.00 -
90th Percentile £74.63 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.09% +37.27% -8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 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
England -26 175 £582 -6.88% 99
London -3 108 £600 -4.00% 46
Work from Home +4 75 £582 -3.00% 57
UK excluding London -37 68 £565 -9.60% 62
North of England +35 40 £552 +0.73% 10
Yorkshire +39 31 £533 +6.50% 5
South East +9 10 £584 -6.60% 12
South West -13 10 £638 -1.92% 18
North West -1 9 £582 -10.46% 3
Scotland +2 5 £600 -5.81% 7
East of England +11 2 £675 +29.81% 4
Wales +12 1 £690 +25.45% 2

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (6.83%) Apache
2 11 (5.37%) Confluence
3 8 (3.90%) OpenStack
4 6 (2.93%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.95%) IIS
5 4 (1.95%) nginx
6 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.46%) Apache Solr
6 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.98%) Traefik
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.98%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 98 (47.80%) AWS
2 74 (36.10%) Azure
3 41 (20.00%) GCP
4 36 (17.56%) GitHub
5 16 (7.80%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (7.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.85%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.37%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.39%) Route 53
10 9 (4.39%) Serverless
11 8 (3.90%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.90%) PaaS
12 7 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.41%) IaaS
13 6 (2.93%) Apigee
13 6 (2.93%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.71%) TCP/IP
2 23 (11.22%) DNS
3 20 (9.76%) VLAN
4 18 (8.78%) Firewall
5 17 (8.29%) HTTP
6 12 (5.85%) SSL
7 11 (5.37%) VPN
8 8 (3.90%) DHCP
9 7 (3.41%) DSL
10 6 (2.93%) SMTP
11 5 (2.44%) IPv4
12 4 (1.95%) DMZ
12 4 (1.95%) Internet
12 4 (1.95%) Network Security
12 4 (1.95%) OSPF
12 4 (1.95%) SNA
13 3 (1.46%) Fibre Channel
13 3 (1.46%) LAN
13 3 (1.46%) SAN
13 3 (1.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.24%) MySQL
2 19 (9.27%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.80%) Big Data
3 16 (7.80%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (5.85%) Data Lake
5 11 (5.37%) Apache Cassandra
5 11 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.41%) Sybase ASE
8 6 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.44%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.95%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.95%) Redis
11 3 (1.46%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.98%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.49%) DataStax
Development Applications
1 94 (45.85%) Jenkins
2 47 (22.93%) Git
3 34 (16.59%) GitLab
4 30 (14.63%) JIRA
5 18 (8.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (4.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.90%) CircleCI
8 7 (3.41%) Travis CI
9 6 (2.93%) AppScan
9 6 (2.93%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.93%) Burp Suite
10 5 (2.44%) Selenium
10 5 (2.44%) Subversion
11 3 (1.46%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.46%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.98%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.98%) Maven
12 2 (0.98%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.49%) Jaeger
General
1 68 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.54%) Finance
3 32 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.80%) Banking
6 10 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.93%) Marketing
8 5 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.95%) Electronics
9 4 (1.95%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.95%) Retail
10 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.98%) Wearables
12 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.49%) French Language
12 1 (0.49%) Games
12 1 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (20.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (10.73%) Linux Engineer
3 19 (9.27%) Architect
4 15 (7.32%) Senior
5 14 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 13 (6.34%) Cloud Architect
6 13 (6.34%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.85%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.85%) Lead
7 12 (5.85%) Principal Architect
7 12 (5.85%) Principal Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.85%) Server Engineer
7 12 (5.85%) Site Engineer
8 11 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.37%) Linux Server Engineer
9 10 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.88%) Monitoring Engineer
10 9 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.39%) DBA
10 9 (4.39%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.73%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (5.85%) JSON
3 10 (4.88%) YAML
4 9 (4.39%) XML
5 7 (3.41%) Node.js
6 6 (2.93%) Kafka
6 6 (2.93%) Loki
7 5 (2.44%) .NET
7 5 (2.44%) LDAP
7 5 (2.44%) REST
8 4 (1.95%) CSS
8 4 (1.95%) HTML
9 3 (1.46%) RESTful
9 3 (1.46%) SOAP
10 2 (0.98%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.98%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.98%) cloud-init
10 2 (0.98%) Middleware
10 2 (0.98%) React
11 1 (0.49%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.68%) Data Centre
2 22 (10.73%) Public Cloud
3 16 (7.80%) Replication
4 11 (5.37%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.90%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.93%) CCTV
7 6 (2.93%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.93%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.95%) PKI
9 3 (1.46%) Clustering
9 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.98%) Life Science
10 2 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 132 (64.39%) Linux
2 66 (32.20%) Windows
3 32 (15.61%) Unix
4 17 (8.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (7.80%) Windows Server
6 10 (4.88%) CentOS
7 5 (2.44%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.49%) Rocky
9 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (45.37%) DevOps
2 79 (38.54%) CI/CD
3 67 (32.68%) Agile
4 66 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (31.22%) Configuration Management
6 50 (24.39%) Containerisation
7 40 (19.51%) Scrum
8 35 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
9 31 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (13.66%) SDLC
11 27 (13.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (13.17%) Test Automation
12 25 (12.20%) ITIL
13 19 (9.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (8.78%) Change Management
14 18 (8.78%) Task Automation
15 17 (8.29%) Service Management
16 15 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (7.32%) Microservices
16 15 (7.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (48.29%) Python
2 67 (32.68%) PowerShell
3 59 (28.78%) Bash
4 30 (14.63%) Ruby
5 18 (8.78%) Java
5 18 (8.78%) Perl
6 16 (7.80%) Go
7 9 (4.39%) C++
7 9 (4.39%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.44%) Bicep
8 5 (2.44%) C
8 5 (2.44%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.44%) SQL
9 4 (1.95%) PHP
10 3 (1.46%) C#
10 3 (1.46%) Korn
10 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.98%) Groovy
11 2 (0.98%) Scala
12 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (28.78%) Security Cleared
2 42 (20.49%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.66%) DV Cleared
4 18 (8.78%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.41%) Degree
6 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.46%) SANS
7 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.98%) RHCE
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) GIAC
8 1 (0.49%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.49%) LPIC
8 1 (0.49%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.83%) QA
2 3 (1.46%) NCSC
3 2 (0.98%) SLA
4 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.49%) NIST
4 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (37.07%) Docker
2 15 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.88%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.39%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.44%) Firmware
6 3 (1.46%) vCloud
6 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.46%) vSphere
7 2 (0.98%) KVM
7 2 (0.98%) NFS
7 2 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.49%) Ceph
8 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.49%) Postfix
8 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.49%) Xen
Systems Management
1 163 (79.51%) Ansible
2 110 (53.66%) Terraform
3 91 (44.39%) Progress Chef
4 75 (36.59%) Kubernetes
5 32 (15.61%) Prometheus
6 26 (12.68%) Grafana
7 17 (8.29%) Nagios
8 15 (7.32%) NetBackup
9 14 (6.83%) Graylog
10 11 (5.37%) Packer
11 10 (4.88%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (3.90%) CFEngine
12 8 (3.90%) Kibana
12 8 (3.90%) logstash
12 8 (3.90%) ZABBIX
13 7 (3.41%) Consul
13 7 (3.41%) Icinga
13 7 (3.41%) PowerBroker
14 6 (2.93%) HP Fortify
14 6 (2.93%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 39 (19.02%) Splunk
2 25 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.20%) VMware
3 15 (7.32%) Veritas
4 12 (5.85%) Red Hat
5 11 (5.37%) Dell
6 10 (4.88%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.90%) Oracle
7 8 (3.90%) Sybase
8 7 (3.41%) Centrify
8 7 (3.41%) CyberArk
8 7 (3.41%) F5
8 7 (3.41%) SAP
8 7 (3.41%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.93%) Checkmarx
9 6 (2.93%) New Relic
9 6 (2.93%) TOWER Software
9 6 (2.93%) Veracode
10 5 (2.44%) BMC
10 5 (2.44%) Remedy