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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Puppet
Rank 202 163 -
Rank change year-on-year
-39 -
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 2 22 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.040% 0.483% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.608% 11.17% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 0
Average salary £34,500 £49,096 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.72% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +18.05%
All Systems Management
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
329 197 222
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 6.543% 4.322% 5.321%
Number of salaries quoted 260 158 188
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £61,400 £52,500
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Puppet Salary Trend

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Warwickshire -8 2 £34,500 -29.72%
Puppet
England

Puppet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (80.00%) Nagios
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) PHP
3 3 (60.00%) Ruby
3 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (40.00%) IaaS
4 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) CentOS
4 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
4 2 (40.00%) OpenNMS
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) Debian
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Perl
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) HTTP
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) JBoss
5 1 (20.00%) Apache
5 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X

Puppet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (20.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) RSpec
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Capistrano
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Phing
2 1 (20.00%) PHPUnit
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) CentOS
3 2 (40.00%) Debian
4 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (20.00%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Active Record
3 1 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
1 3 (60.00%) Ruby
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Nagios
2 2 (40.00%) OpenNMS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) JBoss
3 1 (20.00%) Zend