Puppet Contracts in the North of England

Puppet
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 181 155
Rank change year-on-year +35 -26 -3
Contract jobs citing Puppet 40 38 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.84% 0.65% 1.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.43% 4.45% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 74
10th Percentile £456 £363 £454
25th Percentile £507 £426 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -0.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £582 £650 £638
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
England median daily rate £582 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -6.88% +8.70% +12.75%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 538 854 1,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.25% 14.60% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 636 773
10th Percentile £235 £318 £250
25th Percentile £397 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £576 £638 £613
90th Percentile £645 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 52 20
10th Percentile £16.79 £17.53 £15.91
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.34 £17.29
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +87.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £48.75 £50.17 £41.68
90th Percentile £82.50 £65.00 £51.68
England median hourly rate £28.50 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.43% +167.44% -7.37%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Yorkshire +46 31 £533 +6.50% 5
North West -1 9 £582 -10.46% 2
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (15.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) nginx
2 2 (5.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 24 (60.00%) AWS
2 18 (45.00%) Azure
3 10 (25.00%) GitHub
4 8 (20.00%) GCP
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (15.00%) Apigee
6 6 (15.00%) Kong
6 6 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (10.00%) AWS KMS
7 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (10.00%) Route 53
8 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.50%) Akamai
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (37.50%) VLAN
2 8 (20.00%) DNS
2 8 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (17.50%) DSL
3 7 (17.50%) Firewall
4 6 (15.00%) HTTP
4 6 (15.00%) VPN
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (42.50%) GitLab
3 13 (32.50%) JIRA
4 8 (20.00%) Git
5 6 (15.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (15.00%) CircleCI
5 6 (15.00%) Travis CI
6 4 (10.00%) AppScan
6 4 (10.00%) Burp Suite
6 4 (10.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 28 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
1 28 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Data Protection Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Windows Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Data Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Site Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Data Storage Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) NetBackup Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Backup Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Specialist
8 1 (2.50%) NetApp Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) NetBackup Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Network Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (15.00%) JSON
2 6 (15.00%) XML
2 6 (15.00%) YAML
3 2 (5.00%) cloud-init
4 1 (2.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) Replication
2 12 (30.00%) Public Cloud
3 7 (17.50%) Virtual Team
4 6 (15.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.00%) Clustering
5 2 (5.00%) PKI
6 1 (2.50%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (85.00%) Linux
2 24 (60.00%) Windows
3 7 (17.50%) Unix
4 6 (15.00%) CentOS
4 6 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) DevOps
2 19 (47.50%) CI/CD
3 15 (37.50%) Change Management
4 14 (35.00%) Service Delivery
5 13 (32.50%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 11 (27.50%) Data Protection
8 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (25.00%) Project Management
9 9 (22.50%) Agile
10 8 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 7 (17.50%) Configuration Management
11 7 (17.50%) Knowledge Transfer
11 7 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (17.50%) Project Delivery
11 7 (17.50%) Scrum
11 7 (17.50%) Server Building
12 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (15.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) Python
2 12 (30.00%) Bash
3 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 9 (22.50%) Ruby
5 2 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (87.50%) Ansible
2 18 (45.00%) Progress Chef
3 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
3 17 (42.50%) Terraform
4 14 (35.00%) NetBackup
5 13 (32.50%) Prometheus
6 10 (25.00%) Grafana
7 8 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (17.50%) CFEngine
8 7 (17.50%) PowerBroker
9 6 (15.00%) Kibana
9 6 (15.00%) logstash
9 6 (15.00%) Packer
10 4 (10.00%) Graylog
10 4 (10.00%) HP Fortify
10 4 (10.00%) Nessus
10 4 (10.00%) Rancher
10 4 (10.00%) WebInspect
11 2 (5.00%) Consul
11 2 (5.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Veritas
2 12 (30.00%) Splunk
3 7 (17.50%) Atlassian
4 4 (10.00%) Checkmarx
4 4 (10.00%) Veracode
4 4 (10.00%) VMware
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle
6 2 (5.00%) PagerDuty
7 1 (2.50%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.50%) NetApp
7 1 (2.50%) Symantec
7 1 (2.50%) Zscaler