Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 19 August 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 19 August 2018 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
South East > Surrey
6 months to
19 Aug 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 119 44 48
Rank change year-on-year -75 +4 +40
Contract jobs citing Puppet 41 105 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 1.26% 4.16% 4.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.93% 31.63% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 101 93
Surrey median daily rate £465 £500 £463
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -7.00% +8.11% +23.33%
10th Percentile £367 £363 £408
90th Percentile £607 £575 £550
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Surrey median hourly rate - - -
South East median hourly rate £61.25 £41.50 -
% change year-on-year +47.59% - -

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 Surrey with a requirement for systems management skills.

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey
Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 375 332 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 11.53% 13.14% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 218 304
Surrey median daily rate £475 £458 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +3.83% +7.65% +6.25%
10th Percentile £241 £302 £281
90th Percentile £595 £575 £550
South East median daily rate £440 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +3.58% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 11
Surrey median hourly rate £16.50 £21.00 £27.38
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -21.43% -23.29% -8.75%
10th Percentile £10.16 £15.80 £14.89
90th Percentile £28.25 £27.20 £49.50
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £14.68 £25.75
% change year-on-year +29.47% -43.01% +27.57%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Puppet as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in Surrey

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Puppet in Surrey

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Puppet in Surrey over the 6 months to 19 August 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Puppet in Surrey

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 19 August 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
Staines -9 15 £494 -5.95%
Guildford -18 8 £428 +6.21% 3
Epsom - 5 £350 -
Chertsey - 3 £425 -
Sunbury-on-Thames -13 2 - -
Camberley -8 1 £425 -5.56%
Puppet
South East

For the 6 months to 19 August 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Puppet also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Surrey region with a requirement for Puppet.

1 29 (70.73%) Ansible
2 24 (58.54%) DevOps
3 23 (56.10%) Linux
4 19 (46.34%) Python
4 19 (46.34%) Jenkins
4 19 (46.34%) Opscode Chef
5 17 (41.46%) Agile Software Development
6 16 (39.02%) Docker
7 15 (36.59%) Microsoft Azure
8 13 (31.71%) Open Source
9 12 (29.27%) Amazon AWS
9 12 (29.27%) TDD
9 12 (29.27%) Ruby
10 11 (26.83%) JIRA
11 10 (24.39%) Git (software)
11 10 (24.39%) Test Automation
11 10 (24.39%) Java
11 10 (24.39%) Perl
12 9 (21.95%) SQL
12 9 (21.95%) Configuration Management
12 9 (21.95%) Scrum
13 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
13 8 (19.51%) Bash Shell
14 7 (17.07%) MongoDB
14 7 (17.07%) Artifactory
14 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
14 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
14 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
14 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
15 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing

Puppet
Co-occurring IT Skills in Surrey 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
1 4 (9.76%) Confluence
2 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.88%) JBoss
3 2 (4.88%) Jetty
3 2 (4.88%) nginx
3 2 (4.88%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.88%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (2.44%) Mule
4 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft Azure
2 12 (29.27%) Amazon AWS
3 5 (12.20%) GitHub
3 5 (12.20%) IaaS
3 5 (12.20%) PaaS
4 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.88%) Force.com
4 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) npm
5 1 (2.44%) Quay.io
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.76%) HTTP
3 3 (7.32%) DNS
3 3 (7.32%) NAS
3 3 (7.32%) SAN
4 2 (4.88%) DHCP
4 2 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (4.88%) FTP
4 2 (4.88%) L2TP
4 2 (4.88%) MPLS
4 2 (4.88%) SSH
5 1 (2.44%) DSL
5 1 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) MongoDB
2 6 (14.63%) Hadoop
2 6 (14.63%) MySQL
2 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
2 6 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.76%) Big Data
4 3 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (7.32%) Couchbase
4 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.88%) Redis
5 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.88%) Riak
6 1 (2.44%) HBase
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) Jenkins
2 11 (26.83%) JIRA
3 10 (24.39%) Git (software)
4 7 (17.07%) Artifactory
5 5 (12.20%) Vagrant
6 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket
6 4 (9.76%) JUnit
6 4 (9.76%) Maven
7 3 (7.32%) Mockito
7 3 (7.32%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (2.44%) Cobertura
9 1 (2.44%) git-flow
9 1 (2.44%) GitLab
9 1 (2.44%) Gradle
9 1 (2.44%) gulp
9 1 (2.44%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (2.44%) JBehave
General
1 4 (9.76%) Banking
2 2 (4.88%) Marketing
2 2 (4.88%) Retail
3 1 (2.44%) Automotive
3 1 (2.44%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Administrator
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Unix Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) C++ Developer
6 2 (4.88%) CRM Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Development Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) JPA
1 6 (14.63%) Node.js
2 5 (12.20%) MCollective
2 5 (12.20%) Spring
2 5 (12.20%) Web Services
2 5 (12.20%) YAML
3 4 (9.76%) Hibernate
3 4 (9.76%) JSON
4 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (7.32%) J2EE
4 3 (7.32%) Kafka
4 3 (7.32%) React
4 3 (7.32%) RESTful
4 3 (7.32%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (4.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (4.88%) CSS
5 2 (4.88%) HTML
5 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.88%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Clustering
2 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.88%) PKI
2 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Cyberthreat
3 1 (2.44%) HACMP
3 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (56.10%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) CentOS
2 6 (14.63%) Unix
3 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (9.76%) Windows
5 3 (7.32%) Solaris
6 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.88%) SUSE
6 2 (4.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (2.44%) AIX
7 1 (2.44%) Android
7 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.44%) CoreOS
7 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) DevOps
2 17 (41.46%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (31.71%) Open Source
4 12 (29.27%) TDD
5 10 (24.39%) Test Automation
6 9 (21.95%) Configuration Management
6 9 (21.95%) Scrum
7 6 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
8 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (12.20%) Integration Testing
8 5 (12.20%) Load Testing
8 5 (12.20%) Server Hardening
8 5 (12.20%) System Testing
9 4 (9.76%) High Availability
9 4 (9.76%) Kanban
9 4 (9.76%) Performance Monitoring
10 3 (7.32%) BDD
10 3 (7.32%) Migration
10 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 12 (29.27%) Ruby
3 10 (24.39%) Java
3 10 (24.39%) Perl
4 9 (21.95%) SQL
5 8 (19.51%) Bash Shell
5 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
6 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
7 3 (7.32%) Groovy
7 3 (7.32%) Java 8
8 2 (4.88%) Apex Code
8 2 (4.88%) C++
8 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.44%) Go
9 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) NFS
2 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (4.88%) Veritas File System
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.44%) Ceph
4 1 (2.44%) etcd
4 1 (2.44%) flannel
4 1 (2.44%) GlusterFS
4 1 (2.44%) HDFS
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Clusterware
4 1 (2.44%) SkyDNS
4 1 (2.44%) vSphere
4 1 (2.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (70.73%) Ansible
2 19 (46.34%) Opscode Chef
3 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.32%) Salt
4 3 (7.32%) Terraform
4 3 (7.32%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 2 (4.88%) Cobbler
5 2 (4.88%) Kibana
5 2 (4.88%) logstash
5 2 (4.88%) NetBackup
5 2 (4.88%) SnapMirror
5 2 (4.88%) SnapVault
6 1 (2.44%) Graphite
6 1 (2.44%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.44%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (2.44%) Mesos
6 1 (2.44%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.44%) rkt
6 1 (2.44%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
2 5 (12.20%) VMware
3 4 (9.76%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.32%) Salesforce.com
4 3 (7.32%) SAP
4 3 (7.32%) Veritas
5 2 (4.88%) Brocade
5 2 (4.88%) NetApp
5 2 (4.88%) Sun
6 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.44%) Ivanti
6 1 (2.44%) Snow