The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 21 May 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 West Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 56 94 -
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -
Contract jobs citing Puppet 36 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.804% 0.062% -
As % of the Systems Management category 30.00% 0.826% -
Number of daily rates quoted 36 1 0
Average daily rate £275 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All Systems Management
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
120 121 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 9.346% 7.544% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 71 53
Average daily rate £300 £305 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.63% -6.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £182 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £430 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 10
Average hourly rate £15.25 £15.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.66% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £15.00 £15.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £15.00 £147.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Puppet
Yorkshire

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Puppet Daily Rate Trend

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Puppet across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Puppet Daily Rate Histogram

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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Leeds +27 34 £275 -15.38%
Puppet
Yorkshire

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 36 (100.00%) Web Services
1 36 (100.00%) Linux
1 36 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 36 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 34 (94.44%) Ruby
2 34 (94.44%) Node.js
2 34 (94.44%) Python
2 34 (94.44%) C++
2 34 (94.44%) PHP
2 34 (94.44%) Configuration Management
3 33 (91.67%) DNS
4 32 (88.89%) Apache
4 32 (88.89%) MySQL
4 32 (88.89%) Redis
4 32 (88.89%) Route 53
4 32 (88.89%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (88.89%) Kanban
4 32 (88.89%) MongoDB
4 32 (88.89%) nginx
4 32 (88.89%) Amazon EC2
4 32 (88.89%) Amazon S3
5 25 (69.44%) Internet
6 20 (55.56%) Client/Server
7 19 (52.78%) DHCP
7 19 (52.78%) TCP/IP
7 19 (52.78%) SSL
7 19 (52.78%) Load Balancing
8 18 (50.00%) Test Automation
8 18 (50.00%) Telecoms
8 18 (50.00%) Oracle

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 36 (100.00%) Web Services
2 34 (94.44%) Node.js
3 16 (44.44%) POSIX
4 5 (13.89%) LAMP
5 2 (5.556%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 36 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
2 32 (88.89%) Apache
2 32 (88.89%) Route 53
2 32 (88.89%) nginx
2 32 (88.89%) Amazon EC2
2 32 (88.89%) Amazon S3
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (91.67%) DNS
2 25 (69.44%) Internet
3 19 (52.78%) DHCP
3 19 (52.78%) TCP/IP
3 19 (52.78%) SSL
4 16 (44.44%) HTTP
5 12 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.778%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (88.89%) MySQL
1 32 (88.89%) Redis
1 32 (88.89%) Amazon RDS
1 32 (88.89%) MongoDB
2 16 (44.44%) RDBMS
2 16 (44.44%) SimpleDB
2 16 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 16 (44.44%) Couchbase
General
1 18 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (5.556%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (5.556%) Administrator
4 1 (2.778%) Graduate
4 1 (2.778%) Developer
4 1 (2.778%) Software Developer
4 1 (2.778%) Python Developer
4 1 (2.778%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.778%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (94.44%) Configuration Management
2 32 (88.89%) Kanban
3 19 (52.78%) Load Balancing
4 18 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 16 (44.44%) TDD
5 16 (44.44%) Incident Management
5 16 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (44.44%) Capacity Management
6 14 (38.89%) Scrum
7 12 (33.33%) Security Testing
8 6 (16.67%) Performance Testing
9 2 (5.556%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 34 (94.44%) Ruby
2 34 (94.44%) Python
2 34 (94.44%) C++
2 34 (94.44%) PHP
3 16 (44.44%) Java
3 16 (44.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (5.556%) Degree
Vendors
1 18 (50.00%) Oracle
2 10 (27.78%) Percona
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