Puppet Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Puppet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Puppet England / London
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	74	54	129
Rank change year-on-year	-20	+75
Contract jobs citing Puppet	697	804	425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	3.36%	3.70%	1.81%
As % of the Systems Management category	29.61%	33.72%	22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted	508	601	327
Median daily rate	£537	£500	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.45%	+5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£425	£400	£350
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£450	£408
% change year-on-year	+5.55%	+10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	0
Median hourly rate	£40.00	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	£47.50

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

Systems Management Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills	2354	2384	1900
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	11.35%	10.98%	8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted	1709	1701	1300
Median daily rate	£525	£480	£440
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+9.37%	+9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£365	£335	£278
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£439	£400	£377
% change year-on-year	+9.75%	+5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted	17	15	29
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£19.00	£21.35
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+110.52%	-11.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£17.97	£15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.00	£26.50	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£35.00	£20.19
% change year-on-year	-50.00%	+73.39%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Puppet as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Systems Management category.

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Puppet in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Puppet in London

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Puppet in London over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Puppet in London

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Puppet in London

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the London region over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-38	72	£550	+10.00%	44
Croydon	+6	35	£463	+17.83%	1
Canary Wharf	+4	5	£488	+30.00%
Kingston Upon Thames	-8	2	£375	-21.05%	1
Feltham	-	2	-	-
Bromley	-	1	-	-
Southwark	-	1	£520	-
Heathrow	-	1	-	-
Puppet England

Puppet
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Puppet also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Puppet.

1	987 (71.78%)	DevOps
2	871 (63.35%)	Linux
3	768 (55.85%)	Ansible
4	664 (48.29%)	Amazon AWS
5	618 (44.95%)	Opscode Chef
6	583 (42.40%)	Python
7	574 (41.75%)	Jenkins
8	541 (39.35%)	Agile Software Development
9	519 (37.75%)	Configuration Management
10	496 (36.07%)	Docker
11	450 (32.73%)	Java
12	412 (29.96%)	Continuous Integration
13	403 (29.31%)	Git (software)
14	380 (27.64%)	Bash Shell
15	365 (26.55%)	Ruby

16	283 (20.58%)	Unix
17	264 (19.20%)	Kubernetes
18	257 (18.69%)	Security Cleared
19	245 (17.82%)	Open Source
20	236 (17.16%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
21	234 (17.02%)	Terraform
22	222 (16.15%)	Finance
23	219 (15.93%)	VMware
23	219 (15.93%)	SC Cleared
24	178 (12.95%)	PostgreSQL
25	171 (12.44%)	Perl
26	170 (12.36%)	Red Hat
27	168 (12.22%)	Maven
28	166 (12.07%)	Oracle
29	162 (11.78%)	MySQL

Puppet
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	118 (8.58%)	Apache
2	115 (8.36%)	nginx
3	101 (7.35%)	Tomcat
4	93 (6.76%)	Elasticsearch
5	88 (6.40%)	OpenStack
6	76 (5.53%)	Cloud Foundry
7	57 (4.15%)	Confluence
8	43 (3.13%)	WebSphere
9	38 (2.76%)	Apache Spark
9	38 (2.76%)	IIS
10	33 (2.40%)	WebLogic
11	28 (2.04%)	JBoss
12	17 (1.24%)	CMS
13	10 (0.73%)	Apache Pig
13	10 (0.73%)	SharePoint
14	8 (0.58%)	Drupal
15	7 (0.51%)	Jetty
15	7 (0.51%)	WebSphere Application Server
16	3 (0.22%)	BizTalk Server
16	3 (0.22%)	WordPress

Applications
1	7 (0.51%)	HipChat
2	3 (0.22%)	MS Visio
3	1 (0.073%)	Microsoft Excel

Business Applications
1	19 (1.38%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	4 (0.29%)	Oracle Cash Management
2	4 (0.29%)	Salesforce.com CRM
3	2 (0.15%)	NetSuite
4	1 (0.073%)	Dynamics CRM
4	1 (0.073%)	Payment Gateway
4	1 (0.073%)	SAP Business One
4	1 (0.073%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	664 (48.29%)	Amazon AWS
2	140 (10.18%)	Microsoft Azure
3	122 (8.87%)	PaaS
4	103 (7.49%)	Amazon EC2
5	86 (6.25%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	80 (5.82%)	Amazon S3
7	74 (5.38%)	GitHub
8	67 (4.87%)	IaaS
9	46 (3.35%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	39 (2.84%)	Amazon CloudWatch
11	37 (2.69%)	Cloud Computing
12	33 (2.40%)	Amazon ELB
13	21 (1.53%)	Datadog
13	21 (1.53%)	OpenShift
14	19 (1.38%)	Route 53
15	18 (1.31%)	Google Cloud Platform
16	17 (1.24%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
17	16 (1.16%)	SaaS
18	14 (1.02%)	AWS Lambda
19	13 (0.95%)	Quay.io

Communications & Networking
1	153 (11.13%)	HTTP
2	143 (10.40%)	DNS
3	121 (8.80%)	TCP/IP
4	111 (8.07%)	Firewall
5	67 (4.87%)	SSL
6	63 (4.58%)	VPN
7	58 (4.22%)	LDAP
8	53 (3.85%)	SAN
9	39 (2.84%)	Network Security
10	34 (2.47%)	HTTPS
11	29 (2.11%)	DHCP
12	25 (1.82%)	Internet
13	24 (1.75%)	SSH
14	17 (1.24%)	IPsec
15	16 (1.16%)	Intrusion Detection
16	15 (1.09%)	Ethernet
16	15 (1.09%)	OpenLDAP
17	14 (1.02%)	OpenVPN
18	13 (0.95%)	NAS
18	13 (0.95%)	SNMP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	178 (12.95%)	PostgreSQL
2	162 (11.78%)	MySQL
3	140 (10.18%)	MongoDB
4	118 (8.58%)	NoSQL
5	102 (7.42%)	Big Data
6	96 (6.98%)	Hadoop
7	65 (4.73%)	Oracle Database
8	64 (4.65%)	SQL Server
9	54 (3.93%)	Apache Cassandra
10	49 (3.56%)	Relational Database
11	47 (3.42%)	Redis
12	45 (3.27%)	Amazon RDS
13	37 (2.69%)	Apache Hive
14	27 (1.96%)	HBase
15	20 (1.45%)	RDBMS
16	18 (1.31%)	Oracle Database 11g
17	15 (1.09%)	Data Warehouse
17	15 (1.09%)	Neo4j
18	14 (1.02%)	SQL Server 2008
19	12 (0.87%)	DB2

Development Applications
1	574 (41.75%)	Jenkins
2	403 (29.31%)	Git (software)
3	168 (12.22%)	Maven
4	128 (9.31%)	JIRA
5	77 (5.60%)	Subversion
6	76 (5.53%)	Vagrant
7	73 (5.31%)	Sonatype Nexus
8	58 (4.22%)	Atlassian Bamboo
9	56 (4.07%)	Gradle
10	54 (3.93%)	TeamCity
11	51 (3.71%)	Bitbucket
12	44 (3.20%)	Artifactory
13	43 (3.13%)	Selenium
14	41 (2.98%)	Ant
14	41 (2.98%)	Octopus Deploy
15	37 (2.69%)	JUnit
16	36 (2.62%)	Hudson
17	30 (2.18%)	Team Foundation Server
18	28 (2.04%)	Travis CI
19	27 (1.96%)	IBM UrbanCode

General
1	222 (16.15%)	Finance
2	109 (7.93%)	Banking
3	55 (4.00%)	Retail
4	26 (1.89%)	Telecoms
5	24 (1.75%)	Marketing
6	21 (1.53%)	Investment Banking
7	19 (1.38%)	Electronics
7	19 (1.38%)	Manufacturing
8	12 (0.87%)	Financial Institution
9	10 (0.73%)	Games
10	9 (0.65%)	Publishing
11	8 (0.58%)	Retail Banking
12	6 (0.44%)	Back Office
12	6 (0.44%)	Law
13	3 (0.22%)	Front Office
13	3 (0.22%)	Legal
13	3 (0.22%)	Multimedia
14	2 (0.15%)	Billing
15	1 (0.073%)	Corporate Banking
15	1 (0.073%)	Private Banking

Job Titles
1	630 (45.82%)	DevOps Engineer
2	202 (14.69%)	AWS Engineer
3	194 (14.11%)	AWS DevOps
4	172 (12.51%)	Linux Engineer
5	162 (11.78%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
6	160 (11.64%)	Developer
7	105 (7.64%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
8	86 (6.25%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
9	75 (5.45%)	Architect
9	75 (5.45%)	Java Developer
10	73 (5.31%)	Consultant
11	68 (4.95%)	Senior DevOps
12	67 (4.87%)	Unix Engineer
13	63 (4.58%)	Administrator
14	54 (3.93%)	Cloud Engineer
15	53 (3.85%)	WebOps Engineer
16	50 (3.64%)	Senior DevOps Engineer
17	48 (3.49%)	Systems Engineer
18	41 (2.98%)	Java Engineer
18	41 (2.98%)	Systems Administrator

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	144 (10.47%)	Elastic Stack
2	119 (8.65%)	Web Services
3	109 (7.93%)	Node.js
4	65 (4.73%)	Kafka
5	62 (4.51%)	REST
6	59 (4.29%)	CSS
6	59 (4.29%)	HTML
7	52 (3.78%)	Sensu
7	52 (3.78%)	Spring
8	51 (3.71%)	AngularJS
8	51 (3.71%)	RabbitMQ
9	50 (3.64%)	.NET
10	40 (2.91%)	LAMP
10	40 (2.91%)	RESTful
11	35 (2.55%)	jQuery
12	34 (2.47%)	HTML5
13	27 (1.96%)	J2EE
13	27 (1.96%)	Middleware
13	27 (1.96%)	XML
14	26 (1.89%)	JSON

Miscellaneous
1	60 (4.36%)	Public Cloud
2	59 (4.29%)	Data Centre
3	53 (3.85%)	Greenfield Project
4	52 (3.78%)	Analytical Skills
5	38 (2.76%)	Linux Command Line
6	37 (2.69%)	Computer Science
7	23 (1.67%)	Clustering
8	22 (1.60%)	PKI
9	21 (1.53%)	Fintech
10	16 (1.16%)	Client/Server
11	12 (0.87%)	Hybrid Cloud
11	12 (0.87%)	Management Information System
11	12 (0.87%)	Private Cloud
11	12 (0.87%)	Replication
12	11 (0.80%)	Algorithms
12	11 (0.80%)	Online Banking
13	10 (0.73%)	Enterprise Software
13	10 (0.73%)	iPad
13	10 (0.73%)	User Experience
14	7 (0.51%)	Derivative

Operating Systems
1	871 (63.35%)	Linux
2	283 (20.58%)	Unix
3	236 (17.16%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	140 (10.18%)	CentOS
5	131 (9.53%)	Windows
6	97 (7.05%)	Ubuntu
7	83 (6.04%)	Solaris
8	68 (4.95%)	AIX
9	45 (3.27%)	Windows Server
10	35 (2.55%)	SUSE
11	28 (2.04%)	CoreOS
12	14 (1.02%)	Windows Server 2012
13	13 (0.95%)	Windows Server 2008
14	11 (0.80%)	Oracle Linux
14	11 (0.80%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15	8 (0.58%)	Debian
16	7 (0.51%)	VMS
17	6 (0.44%)	Data ONTAP
17	6 (0.44%)	Mac OS X
18	5 (0.36%)	Scientific Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	987 (71.78%)	DevOps
2	541 (39.35%)	Agile Software Development
3	519 (37.75%)	Configuration Management
4	412 (29.96%)	Continuous Integration
5	245 (17.82%)	Open Source
6	158 (11.49%)	Continuous Delivery
7	144 (10.47%)	Test Automation
8	143 (10.40%)	TDD
9	128 (9.31%)	Microservices
10	122 (8.87%)	Scrum
11	114 (8.29%)	Migration
12	86 (6.25%)	E-Commerce
13	83 (6.04%)	Web Operations
14	82 (5.96%)	Software Engineering
15	73 (5.31%)	Digital Transformation Programme
15	73 (5.31%)	Load Balancing
15	73 (5.31%)	Mentoring
16	66 (4.80%)	OO
17	62 (4.51%)	Continuous Deployment
18	60 (4.36%)	High Availability

Programming Languages
1	583 (42.40%)	Python
2	450 (32.73%)	Java
3	380 (27.64%)	Bash Shell
4	365 (26.55%)	Ruby
5	171 (12.44%)	Perl
6	107 (7.78%)	SQL
7	102 (7.42%)	JavaScript
8	94 (6.84%)	Scala
9	90 (6.55%)	PowerShell
10	89 (6.47%)	Shell Script
11	80 (5.82%)	Groovy
12	73 (5.31%)	Go
13	48 (3.49%)	PHP
14	38 (2.76%)	Korn
15	28 (2.04%)	C#
16	20 (1.45%)	Clojure
17	19 (1.38%)	C
18	13 (0.95%)	C++
18	13 (0.95%)	C-shell
19	10 (0.73%)	Jython

Qualifications
1	257 (18.69%)	Security Cleared
2	219 (15.93%)	SC Cleared
3	44 (3.20%)	Degree
4	20 (1.45%)	Computer Science Degree
5	19 (1.38%)	DV Cleared
6	13 (0.95%)	CEH
6	13 (0.95%)	CISSP
6	13 (0.95%)	CREST Certified
6	13 (0.95%)	GIAC
6	13 (0.95%)	RHCE
6	13 (0.95%)	SANS
7	11 (0.80%)	RHCA
8	10 (0.73%)	BPSS Clearance
9	7 (0.51%)	Oracle Certification
10	5 (0.36%)	OCP
11	4 (0.29%)	AWS Certification
11	4 (0.29%)	Master's Degree
11	4 (0.29%)	Microsoft Certification
12	3 (0.22%)	Cisco Certification
12	3 (0.22%)	RHCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	26 (1.89%)	QA
2	8 (0.58%)	Disclosure Scotland
2	8 (0.58%)	PCI DSS
2	8 (0.58%)	SLA
3	4 (0.29%)	GCP
4	2 (0.15%)	Data Quality
4	2 (0.15%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	1 (0.073%)	MiFID

System Software
1	496 (36.07%)	Docker
2	95 (6.91%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	69 (5.02%)	Virtual Machines
4	42 (3.05%)	HDFS
5	38 (2.76%)	Active Directory
6	35 (2.55%)	VMware ESXi
7	32 (2.33%)	vCloud
8	22 (1.60%)	KVM
9	21 (1.53%)	etcd
9	21 (1.53%)	flannel
10	17 (1.24%)	NFS
10	17 (1.24%)	Squid
11	16 (1.16%)	GlusterFS
12	15 (1.09%)	LXC
12	15 (1.09%)	vSphere
13	13 (0.95%)	Apache ZooKeeper
13	13 (0.95%)	Hyper-V
14	12 (0.87%)	Postfix
15	11 (0.80%)	Ceph
16	10 (0.73%)	iptables

Systems Management
1	768 (55.85%)	Ansible
2	618 (44.95%)	Opscode Chef
3	264 (19.20%)	Kubernetes
4	234 (17.02%)	Terraform
5	124 (9.02%)	Nagios
6	80 (5.82%)	logstash
7	78 (5.67%)	ZABBIX
8	67 (4.87%)	Kibana
9	61 (4.44%)	Graphite
10	60 (4.36%)	Salt
11	51 (3.71%)	HAProxy
12	40 (2.91%)	Mesos
13	33 (2.40%)	Docker Swarm
14	32 (2.33%)	Hadoop YARN
14	32 (2.33%)	Packer
14	32 (2.33%)	Rancher
15	26 (1.89%)	yum
16	24 (1.75%)	Sysdig
17	22 (1.60%)	Grafana
18	19 (1.38%)	Consul

Vendors
1	219 (15.93%)	VMware
2	170 (12.36%)	Red Hat
3	166 (12.07%)	Oracle
4	77 (5.60%)	IBM
5	72 (5.24%)	Splunk
6	62 (4.51%)	Microsoft
7	57 (4.15%)	Atlassian
8	38 (2.76%)	SaltStack
9	36 (2.62%)	Google
10	30 (2.18%)	AppDynamics
11	29 (2.11%)	Cisco
12	22 (1.60%)	SAP
13	20 (1.45%)	Juniper
14	18 (1.31%)	Hortonworks
15	16 (1.16%)	NetApp
16	15 (1.09%)	Sonatype
17	14 (1.02%)	CA Agile Central
18	13 (0.95%)	New Relic
19	12 (0.87%)	Rackspace
20	11 (0.80%)	Cloudera