The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 23 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 119 131 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 13 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.605% 0.176% -
As % of the Systems Management category 7.602% 2.010% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 0
Average salary £46,250 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.82% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +18.05%
All Systems Management
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
171 199 145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 7.961% 8.778% 7.556%
Number of salaries quoted 120 156 89
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £32,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £58,750 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Puppet
Berkshire

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Puppet Salary Trend

Puppet
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Puppet across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading Puppet Salary Histogram

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (79.17%) UNIX
3 13 (54.17%) Python
3 13 (54.17%) Java
4 12 (50.00%) PHP
5 11 (45.83%) Ubuntu
6 10 (41.67%) Nagios
6 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
7 8 (33.33%) MySQL
8 7 (29.17%) C++
8 7 (29.17%) Shell Script
8 7 (29.17%) Red Hat
8 7 (29.17%) Ruby
8 7 (29.17%) CentOS
8 7 (29.17%) Scala
8 7 (29.17%) Hadoop
8 7 (29.17%) Ganglia
9 6 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
9 6 (25.00%) Memcached
9 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
9 6 (25.00%) Redis
9 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (25.00%) LAMP
9 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (25.00%) Perl
9 6 (25.00%) Web Services
10 5 (20.83%) VMS
10 5 (20.83%) HTTP
10 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
10 5 (20.83%) Subversion

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 6 (25.00%) Memcached
1 6 (25.00%) LAMP
1 6 (25.00%) Web Services
2 4 (16.67%) Node.js
2 4 (16.67%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (12.50%) nginx
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) HTTP
1 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.333%) Internet
3 1 (4.167%) Firewall
3 1 (4.167%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) MySQL
2 7 (29.17%) Hadoop
3 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (25.00%) Redis
4 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 2 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.167%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Subversion
1 5 (20.83%) Mercurial
2 4 (16.67%) Gradle
2 4 (16.67%) Git (software)
2 4 (16.67%) Maven
2 4 (16.67%) Ant
General
1 5 (20.83%) Marketing
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Administrator
2 14 (58.33%) Linux Administrator
3 12 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
4 11 (45.83%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Release Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (20.83%) SaaS
2 5 (20.83%) Social Media
3 3 (12.50%) Replication
4 1 (4.167%) Social Network
4 1 (4.167%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (79.17%) UNIX
3 11 (45.83%) Ubuntu
4 7 (29.17%) CentOS
5 5 (20.83%) VMS
5 5 (20.83%) Fedora
5 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (16.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
2 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Scrum
3 5 (20.83%) Load Testing
3 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (16.67%) Build Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Release Management
4 4 (16.67%) SOA
5 2 (8.333%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.333%) MVC
6 1 (4.167%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
1 13 (54.17%) Java
2 12 (50.00%) PHP
3 7 (29.17%) C++
3 7 (29.17%) Shell Script
3 7 (29.17%) Ruby
3 7 (29.17%) Scala
4 6 (25.00%) Perl
5 4 (16.67%) Bash shell
5 4 (16.67%) SQL
6 1 (4.167%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (12.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Nagios
2 7 (29.17%) Ganglia
3 5 (20.83%) ZABBIX
4 4 (16.67%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Red Hat
2 5 (20.83%) VMware
2 5 (20.83%) Rackspace
3 3 (12.50%) Google
3 3 (12.50%) Percona
3 3 (12.50%) Twitter
4 1 (4.167%) JBoss