The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 24 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 48 55 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 8 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.536% 0.602% -
As % of the Systems Management category 26.67% 14.29% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 0
Average salary £58,750 £70,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.07% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +18.05%
All Systems Management
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
30 21 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 5.758% 4.217% 5.263%
Number of salaries quoted 27 15 22
Average salary £55,000 £38,750 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.93% -9.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,250 £38,700
10% offered a salary of more than £66,500 £45,000 £67,500
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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Puppet Salary Trend

Puppet
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Puppet across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Middlesex Puppet Salary Histogram

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 9 (100.00%) MySQL
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Apache
2 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) TCP/IP
2 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (88.89%) Nagios
2 8 (88.89%) Samba
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (88.89%) CentOS
2 8 (88.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (88.89%) OpenLDAP
2 8 (88.89%) Sendmail
3 7 (77.78%) UNIX
4 6 (66.67%) XenServer
4 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
4 6 (66.67%) DNS
4 6 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (44.44%) Xen
6 2 (22.22%) Bash shell
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
6 2 (22.22%) SAN
6 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (11.11%) OOD
7 1 (11.11%) HTTP
7 1 (11.11%) WSDL
7 1 (11.11%) OO
7 1 (11.11%) Ant
7 1 (11.11%) CSS

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (11.11%) WSDL
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) JDBC
1 1 (11.11%) JSP
1 1 (11.11%) Servlets
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XSD
1 1 (11.11%) XSLT
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) Ajax
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
1 1 (11.11%) Ehcache
1 1 (11.11%) JSTL
1 1 (11.11%) FreeMarker
1 1 (11.11%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) TCP/IP
1 8 (88.89%) OpenLDAP
2 6 (66.67%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) MySQL
2 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Ant
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Hudson
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Administrator
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 6 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (88.89%) CentOS
2 8 (88.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (77.78%) UNIX
4 6 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (11.11%) OOD
2 1 (11.11%) OO
2 1 (11.11%) Load Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash shell
1 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Samba
1 8 (88.89%) Sendmail
2 6 (66.67%) XenServer
3 4 (44.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle