Puppet Contracts in England

Puppet
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Puppet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Puppet over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 336 279
Rank change year-on-year -35 -57 -43
Contract jobs citing Puppet 169 367 695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.73% 0.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.84% 4.67% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 282 529
10th Percentile £443 £458 £445
25th Percentile £500 £513 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £625 £586
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +6.66% +14.90%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £755 £765
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +12.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £67.75 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £72.38 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% +41.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - £84.00 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.09% +37.27% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Puppet is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,399 7,856 11,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.87% 15.68% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,735 8,341
10th Percentile £250 £350 £363
25th Percentile £409 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +13.86%
75th Percentile £625 £683 £675
90th Percentile £700 £756 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 184 163
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.83 £13.90
25th Percentile £17.72 £24.56 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.19% +167.44% -10.42%
75th Percentile £49.06 £73.72 £41.98
90th Percentile £70.63 £82.50 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.39
% change year-on-year -52.61% +156.81% -43.67%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in England.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in England.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -1 108 £600 -5.33% 47
North of England +29 36 £550 -10.93% 10
Yorkshire +40 31 £533 +3.90% 6
South East 0 9 £584 -4.69% 8
South West -20 9 £675 +3.85% 20
North West -2 5 £582 -10.46% 4
East of England +10 2 £675 +29.81% 4
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.69%) Apache
2 10 (5.92%) Confluence
3 6 (3.55%) OpenStack
3 6 (3.55%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.37%) IIS
5 3 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.78%) nginx
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.18%) Traefik
7 1 (0.59%) JBoss
7 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.59%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 85 (50.30%) AWS
2 61 (36.09%) Azure
3 36 (21.30%) GCP
4 29 (17.16%) GitHub
5 15 (8.88%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (8.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (6.51%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.92%) OpenShift
9 9 (5.33%) Route 53
9 9 (5.33%) Serverless
10 8 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.73%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.55%) Apigee
12 6 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.55%) Cloudflare
12 6 (3.55%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.61%) TCP/IP
2 20 (11.83%) VLAN
3 19 (11.24%) DNS
3 19 (11.24%) Firewall
4 17 (10.06%) HTTP
5 11 (6.51%) SSL
5 11 (6.51%) VPN
6 6 (3.55%) SMTP
7 5 (2.96%) IPv4
8 4 (2.37%) DHCP
8 4 (2.37%) Internet
8 4 (2.37%) Network Security
8 4 (2.37%) OSPF
8 4 (2.37%) SNA
9 3 (1.78%) DMZ
9 3 (1.78%) DSL
9 3 (1.78%) LAN
9 3 (1.78%) WAN
10 2 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.65%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.88%) Big Data
3 13 (7.69%) MySQL
4 12 (7.10%) Data Lake
5 9 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.33%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (4.14%) Sybase ASE
7 5 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.96%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.37%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.78%) Redis
10 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.59%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.59%) DataStax
11 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 75 (44.38%) Jenkins
2 39 (23.08%) Git
3 28 (16.57%) GitLab
4 20 (11.83%) JIRA
5 8 (4.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (4.73%) CircleCI
5 8 (4.73%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.14%) Travis CI
7 5 (2.96%) AppScan
7 5 (2.96%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.96%) Selenium
8 4 (2.37%) Subversion
9 3 (1.78%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.78%) Maven
9 3 (1.78%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.59%) Appium
10 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.59%) Gradle
General
1 58 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.12%) Finance
3 27 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.47%) Banking
6 9 (5.33%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.55%) Marketing
8 5 (2.96%) Retail
8 5 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.37%) Electronics
9 4 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.59%) Games
12 1 (0.59%) German Language
12 1 (0.59%) Military
12 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (22.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (13.02%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (10.65%) Architect
4 13 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 13 (7.69%) Lead
4 13 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (7.10%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 12 (7.10%) Principal Architect
5 12 (7.10%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 12 (7.10%) Senior
5 12 (7.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 11 (6.51%) Linux Server Engineer
6 11 (6.51%) Server Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) Site Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Storage Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Developer
9 8 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) Data Protection Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.43%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (5.33%) JSON
3 7 (4.14%) YAML
4 6 (3.55%) XML
5 5 (2.96%) Kafka
6 4 (2.37%) .NET
6 4 (2.37%) CSS
6 4 (2.37%) HTML
7 3 (1.78%) LDAP
8 2 (1.18%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.18%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.18%) Node.js
8 2 (1.18%) React
8 2 (1.18%) REST
9 1 (0.59%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.59%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.59%) OAuth
9 1 (0.59%) React Native
9 1 (0.59%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.47%) Data Centre
1 16 (9.47%) Public Cloud
1 16 (9.47%) Replication
2 9 (5.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.55%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.37%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.78%) PKI
8 2 (1.18%) CBDC
8 2 (1.18%) Clustering
8 2 (1.18%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.59%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 112 (66.27%) Linux
2 50 (29.59%) Windows
3 22 (13.02%) Unix
4 17 (10.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 9 (5.33%) CentOS
7 5 (2.96%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.59%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (45.56%) DevOps
2 70 (41.42%) CI/CD
3 57 (33.73%) Agile
4 56 (33.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (31.95%) Configuration Management
6 41 (24.26%) Containerisation
7 37 (21.89%) Scrum
8 27 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (14.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (14.20%) SDLC
11 22 (13.02%) ITIL
12 21 (12.43%) Test Automation
13 18 (10.65%) Change Management
14 17 (10.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 16 (9.47%) Service Management
16 15 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (8.88%) Task Automation
17 14 (8.28%) Project Management
17 14 (8.28%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 83 (49.11%) Python
2 56 (33.14%) PowerShell
3 48 (28.40%) Bash
4 19 (11.24%) Ruby
5 16 (9.47%) Perl
6 14 (8.28%) Java
7 12 (7.10%) Go
8 9 (5.33%) C++
8 9 (5.33%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.96%) Bicep
9 5 (2.96%) C
9 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.37%) PHP
11 3 (1.78%) C#
11 3 (1.78%) Groovy
11 3 (1.78%) Korn
11 3 (1.78%) SQL
11 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.18%) Scala
13 1 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 55 (32.54%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.49%) SC Cleared
3 27 (15.98%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.65%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.96%) Degree
6 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.18%) RHCE
7 2 (1.18%) SANS
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.59%) GIAC
8 1 (0.59%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.59%) LPIC
8 1 (0.59%) OCP
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (1.78%) NCSC
3 2 (1.18%) SLA
4 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.59%) NIST
4 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (35.50%) Docker
2 8 (4.73%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.96%) Firmware
3 5 (2.96%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.18%) NFS
5 1 (0.59%) Ceph
5 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.59%) KVM
5 1 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 136 (80.47%) Ansible
2 90 (53.25%) Terraform
3 75 (44.38%) Progress Chef
4 58 (34.32%) Kubernetes
5 23 (13.61%) Prometheus
6 17 (10.06%) Grafana
7 15 (8.88%) NetBackup
8 10 (5.92%) Packer
9 9 (5.33%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (4.73%) Kibana
10 8 (4.73%) logstash
10 8 (4.73%) Nagios
11 7 (4.14%) Graylog
12 6 (3.55%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (2.96%) Consul
13 5 (2.96%) HP Fortify
13 5 (2.96%) Nessus
13 5 (2.96%) WebInspect
14 4 (2.37%) CFEngine
14 4 (2.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (17.75%) Splunk
2 19 (11.24%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.88%) Veritas
4 14 (8.28%) VMware
5 11 (6.51%) Dell
5 11 (6.51%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.73%) F5
6 8 (4.73%) Sybase
7 6 (3.55%) Oracle
7 6 (3.55%) SAP
8 5 (2.96%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.96%) Centrify
8 5 (2.96%) Checkmarx
8 5 (2.96%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.96%) New Relic
8 5 (2.96%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.96%) Veracode
9 4 (2.37%) LogRhythm
9 4 (2.37%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.37%) SaltStack