The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank - 73 -
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 0 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent - 0.563% -
As % of the Systems Management category - 9.524% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 0
Average salary - £37,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £46,750 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +18.05%
All Systems Management
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
58 42 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 4.970% 5.915% 4.545%
Number of salaries quoted 43 39 34
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £26,000 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £47,400 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Puppet
South East

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Puppet Jobs Demand Trend

Puppet
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Puppet across the Kent region.

Kent Puppet Salary Trend

Puppet
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Puppet.

1 3 (100.00%) Gentoo
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (100.00%) Zend
1 3 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
1 3 (100.00%) RSpec
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Capistrano
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Active Record
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
1 3 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Phing
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Puppet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (100.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) RSpec
1 3 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Capistrano
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Phing
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 3 (100.00%) Gentoo
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Active Record
1 3 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Zend