The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 75 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 6 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.592% 0.312% -
As % of the Systems Management category 7.895% 10.53% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 0
Average salary £60,000 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+11.76% +18.05%
All Systems Management
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
76 19 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 7.495% 2.960% 3.755%
Number of salaries quoted 72 16 18
Average salary £45,000 £53,750 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.27% -10.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £24,700 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,750 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
Puppet
Oxfordshire

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Puppet Salary Trend

Puppet
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Puppet across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxford Puppet Salary Histogram

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (68.42%) Apache
3 11 (57.89%) VMware
4 10 (52.63%) MySQL
5 9 (47.37%) Red Hat
6 8 (42.11%) Configuration Management
6 8 (42.11%) UNIX
6 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (36.84%) Xen
7 7 (36.84%) Replication
7 7 (36.84%) SAN
8 6 (31.58%) Windows
8 6 (31.58%) C
8 6 (31.58%) Perl
8 6 (31.58%) Python
8 6 (31.58%) Ruby
8 6 (31.58%) Hadoop
8 6 (31.58%) Bash shell
9 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
9 5 (26.32%) TeamCity
9 5 (26.32%) Apache Solr
9 5 (26.32%) High Availability
9 5 (26.32%) Neo4j
9 5 (26.32%) Amazon DynamoDB
9 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (26.32%) Clustering
9 5 (26.32%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 2 (10.53%) XMPP
2 1 (5.263%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 13 (68.42%) Apache
2 5 (26.32%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (26.32%) Apache Solr
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) Jetty
3 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
4 2 (10.53%) Mathematica
4 2 (10.53%) nginx
5 1 (5.263%) Kafka
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) SAN
2 4 (21.05%) NAS
3 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (15.79%) LAN
3 3 (15.79%) WAN
4 2 (10.53%) DHCP
4 2 (10.53%) Kerberos
4 2 (10.53%) DNS
4 2 (10.53%) SSL
4 2 (10.53%) SSH
4 2 (10.53%) AMQP
4 2 (10.53%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) MySQL
2 6 (31.58%) Hadoop
3 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (26.32%) Neo4j
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon DynamoDB
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.53%) SQLite
5 1 (5.263%) Redis
5 1 (5.263%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) TeamCity
2 2 (10.53%) Git (software)
2 2 (10.53%) GCC
2 2 (10.53%) GDB
2 2 (10.53%) Subversion
General
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Systems Administrator
1 14 (73.68%) Administrator
2 13 (68.42%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 13 (68.42%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (31.58%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Replication
2 5 (26.32%) Clustering
3 2 (10.53%) PKI
4 1 (5.263%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.263%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) UNIX
3 6 (31.58%) Windows
4 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
5 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (15.79%) Solaris
6 1 (5.263%) Debian
6 1 (5.263%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Configuration Management
2 5 (26.32%) High Availability
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (21.05%) Investment Management
4 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
6 1 (5.263%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.263%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) C
1 6 (31.58%) Perl
1 6 (31.58%) Python
1 6 (31.58%) Ruby
1 6 (31.58%) Bash shell
2 3 (15.79%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.53%) MATLAB
3 2 (10.53%) tcsh
4 1 (5.263%) Scala
4 1 (5.263%) Java
4 1 (5.263%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) RHCE
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (36.84%) Xen
3 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.79%) VMware ESX
4 2 (10.53%) qmail
4 2 (10.53%) Postfix
4 2 (10.53%) Sendmail
5 1 (5.263%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Nagios
1 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 3 (15.79%) Cobbler
2 2 (10.53%) YUM
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) VMware
2 9 (47.37%) Red Hat
3 3 (15.79%) Juniper
3 3 (15.79%) 3PAR
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco
4 1 (5.263%) IBM
4 1 (5.263%) HP
4 1 (5.263%) Dell