The first table below looks at the demand for Puppet skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 343 392 425
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +33
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 95 49 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.432% 0.207% 0.030%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.308% 4.087% 0.522%
Number of salaries quoted 83 49 7
Average salary £50,000 £41,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.48% +15.27%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +18.05%
All Systems Management
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1300 1199 1341
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 5.907% 5.053% 5.768%
Number of salaries quoted 991 999 1005
Average salary £43,750 £41,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.70% -3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £26,000 £27,650
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Puppet Salary Trend

Puppet
Salary Histogram

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

South East Puppet Salary Histogram

Puppet
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Surrey +47 35 £55,000 +7.31%
Berkshire +11 28 £45,000 +16.88%
Middlesex +4 8 £58,750 -16.07%
East Sussex -4 7 £32,000 -22.89%
Oxfordshire -8 7 £60,000 +50.00%
Hampshire +11 5 £35,000 -33.33%
Buckinghamshire - 3 £38,000 -
West Sussex - 1 £42,500 -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 180 (95.24%) Linux
2 103 (54.50%) VMware
3 97 (51.32%) MySQL
4 96 (50.79%) Nagios
5 87 (46.03%) Red Hat
6 81 (42.86%) Python
7 80 (42.33%) Windows
8 79 (41.80%) VMware Infrastructure
9 76 (40.21%) Perl
10 75 (39.68%) Apache
11 67 (35.45%) PHP
12 65 (34.39%) Ruby
13 63 (33.33%) Java
14 55 (29.10%) Configuration Management
14 55 (29.10%) Bash shell
15 50 (26.46%) vSphere
16 48 (25.40%) DNS
17 47 (24.87%) CentOS
17 47 (24.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 45 (23.81%) UNIX
19 43 (22.75%) TCP/IP
20 42 (22.22%) Oracle
21 39 (20.63%) Shell Script
22 36 (19.05%) PowerShell
23 32 (16.93%) SQL Server
23 32 (16.93%) Infrastructure Management
24 30 (15.87%) ITIL
24 30 (15.87%) Ubuntu
25 29 (15.34%) Opalis
25 29 (15.34%) SCCM

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 24 (12.70%) .NET
2 15 (7.937%) LAMP
3 12 (6.349%) Ruby on Rails
4 10 (5.291%) Spring
5 9 (4.762%) Web Services
6 8 (4.233%) Memcached
6 8 (4.233%) WebSphere
7 7 (3.704%) JDBC
7 7 (3.704%) Zend Framework
8 6 (3.175%) Hibernate
9 5 (2.646%) Node.js
10 4 (2.116%) ASP
11 3 (1.587%) Lucene
12 2 (1.058%) XMPP
12 2 (1.058%) Grails
12 2 (1.058%) XML
12 2 (1.058%) X-Windows
12 2 (1.058%) CPAN
13 1 (0.529%) XSD
13 1 (0.529%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 75 (39.68%) Apache
2 22 (11.64%) Tomcat
3 13 (6.878%) nginx
4 9 (4.762%) Apache Solr
4 9 (4.762%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (4.762%) Amazon S3
5 8 (4.233%) IBM Connections
5 8 (4.233%) Amazon AWS
5 8 (4.233%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (4.233%) Lotus Notes
6 6 (3.175%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (3.175%) Jetty
6 6 (3.175%) Liferay
7 4 (2.116%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.587%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.058%) Escenic
9 2 (1.058%) Confluence
9 2 (1.058%) WebLogic
9 2 (1.058%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.529%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 8 (4.233%) MS Excel
2 5 (2.646%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (25.40%) DNS
2 43 (22.75%) TCP/IP
3 24 (12.70%) SAN
4 19 (10.05%) LDAP
5 18 (9.524%) SMTP
5 18 (9.524%) Firewall
6 17 (8.995%) DHCP
6 17 (8.995%) HTTP
7 12 (6.349%) Cisco ASA
7 12 (6.349%) FWSM
8 11 (5.820%) SSL
9 10 (5.291%) NAS
9 10 (5.291%) OpenLDAP
9 10 (5.291%) Kerberos
9 10 (5.291%) BGP
10 9 (4.762%) VLAN
11 8 (4.233%) SNMP
11 8 (4.233%) OSPF
11 8 (4.233%) VRRP
12 7 (3.704%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (51.32%) MySQL
2 32 (16.93%) SQL Server
3 19 (10.05%) Hadoop
4 17 (8.995%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (7.937%) Redis
6 14 (7.407%) NoSQL
7 10 (5.291%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (3.704%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.175%) Amazon DynamoDB
9 6 (3.175%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.175%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (3.175%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.587%) HBase
11 2 (1.058%) Big Data
11 2 (1.058%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.058%) SQLite
11 2 (1.058%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.058%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 23 (12.17%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.11%) Git (software)
3 20 (10.58%) Subversion
4 13 (6.878%) Hudson
5 10 (5.291%) Ant
6 9 (4.762%) Capistrano
6 9 (4.762%) Gradle
7 8 (4.233%) Maven
8 7 (3.704%) PHPUnit
8 7 (3.704%) RSpec
8 7 (3.704%) Cucumber
8 7 (3.704%) Phing
9 6 (3.175%) JIRA
9 6 (3.175%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.646%) Mercurial
11 3 (1.587%) CruiseControl
11 3 (1.587%) Talend Open Studio
12 2 (1.058%) GCC
12 2 (1.058%) GDB
12 2 (1.058%) Selenium
General
1 12 (6.349%) Banking
2 10 (5.291%) Finance
3 5 (2.646%) Marketing
4 3 (1.587%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.529%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.529%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 95 (50.26%) Administrator
2 86 (45.50%) Systems Administrator
3 79 (41.80%) Linux Administrator
4 70 (37.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 35 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (15.34%) Linux Engineer
7 20 (10.58%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 18 (9.524%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (7.937%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.878%) Senior Linux Administrator
11 11 (5.820%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
12 9 (4.762%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
13 7 (3.704%) Release Engineer
14 5 (2.646%) UNIX Systems Administrator
14 5 (2.646%) UNIX Administrator
15 4 (2.116%) Automation Engineer
15 4 (2.116%) Senior Linux Engineer
15 4 (2.116%) Operations Manager
16 3 (1.587%) Operations Engineer
17 2 (1.058%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.29%) Clustering
1 27 (14.29%) Open Source
2 11 (5.820%) Replication
2 11 (5.820%) SaaS
3 8 (4.233%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (4.233%) Machine Learning
4 7 (3.704%) Computer Science
5 6 (3.175%) Cryptography
6 5 (2.646%) Social Media
6 5 (2.646%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.058%) IaaS
7 2 (1.058%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.058%) PaaS
7 2 (1.058%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (1.058%) PKI
7 2 (1.058%) Wiki
8 1 (0.529%) CMDB
8 1 (0.529%) Social Network
8 1 (0.529%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 180 (95.24%) Linux
2 80 (42.33%) Windows
3 47 (24.87%) CentOS
3 47 (24.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (23.81%) UNIX
5 30 (15.87%) Ubuntu
6 10 (5.291%) Solaris
6 10 (5.291%) Debian
6 10 (5.291%) Mac OS X
7 9 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (3.704%) Gentoo
9 6 (3.175%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (2.646%) VMS
10 5 (2.646%) Fedora
11 3 (1.587%) Windows XP
11 3 (1.587%) Windows 7
12 2 (1.058%) FreeBSD
12 2 (1.058%) AIX
13 1 (0.529%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.10%) Configuration Management
2 32 (16.93%) Infrastructure Management
3 30 (15.87%) ITIL
4 16 (8.466%) Load Balancing
4 16 (8.466%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (6.349%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (5.291%) Web Development
6 10 (5.291%) Operations Management
6 10 (5.291%) Workflow
7 8 (4.233%) Scrum
8 7 (3.704%) Time Management
8 7 (3.704%) Network Design
8 7 (3.704%) Penetration Testing
8 7 (3.704%) Software Engineering
8 7 (3.704%) Static Code Analysis
8 7 (3.704%) High Availability
8 7 (3.704%) Active Record
9 6 (3.175%) Investment Management
9 6 (3.175%) Load Testing
9 6 (3.175%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (42.86%) Python
2 76 (40.21%) Perl
3 67 (35.45%) PHP
4 65 (34.39%) Ruby
5 63 (33.33%) Java
6 55 (29.10%) Bash shell
7 39 (20.63%) Shell Script
8 36 (19.05%) PowerShell
9 25 (13.23%) SQL
10 22 (11.64%) C++
11 21 (11.11%) C
12 12 (6.349%) MATLAB
13 8 (4.233%) sed
13 8 (4.233%) Scala
13 8 (4.233%) AWK
14 4 (2.116%) VBScript
15 3 (1.587%) JavaScript
16 2 (1.058%) tcsh
16 2 (1.058%) C-shell
16 2 (1.058%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (14.29%) RHCE
2 18 (9.524%) Degree
3 10 (5.291%) PhD
4 5 (2.646%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.529%) CCNA
5 1 (0.529%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.529%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.529%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.058%) QA
System Software
1 79 (41.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (26.46%) vSphere
3 27 (14.29%) Samba
4 17 (8.995%) Xen
5 15 (7.937%) VMware ESX
6 12 (6.349%) Sendmail
6 12 (6.349%) Varnish
7 11 (5.820%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (4.233%) Postfix
8 8 (4.233%) NFS
9 7 (3.704%) Nmap
9 7 (3.704%) Squid
10 6 (3.175%) XenServer
11 4 (2.116%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (1.587%) Active Directory
13 2 (1.058%) qmail
Systems Management
1 96 (50.79%) Nagios
2 29 (15.34%) Opalis
2 29 (15.34%) SCCM
2 29 (15.34%) AppManager
3 21 (11.11%) YUM
4 13 (6.878%) Ganglia
5 12 (6.349%) NetBackup
6 9 (4.762%) Cacti
7 8 (4.233%) WSUS
7 8 (4.233%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 7 (3.704%) Zenoss
9 6 (3.175%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.587%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 3 (1.587%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 103 (54.50%) VMware
2 87 (46.03%) Red Hat
3 42 (22.22%) Oracle
4 29 (15.34%) SolarWinds
4 29 (15.34%) NetIQ
5 21 (11.11%) Cisco
6 15 (7.937%) Microsoft
7 10 (5.291%) JBoss
8 9 (4.762%) IBM
8 9 (4.762%) Rackspace
9 8 (4.233%) Lotus
10 7 (3.704%) Juniper
10 7 (3.704%) Zend
10 7 (3.704%) Google
11 6 (3.175%) SAP
11 6 (3.175%) NetApp
11 6 (3.175%) EMC
12 4 (2.116%) Intel
13 3 (1.587%) Perforce
13 3 (1.587%) HP
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