Puppet Contracts in the UK excluding London

Puppet
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 289 271
Rank change year-on-year -41 -18 -22
Contract jobs citing Puppet 64 163 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.70% 0.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.77% 4.62% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 109 193
10th Percentile £461 £462 £431
25th Percentile £513 £520 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -3.00% +2.39% +14.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £56.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.81 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.09% +37.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 £78.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.09% +37.27% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,314 3,530 4,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.30% 15.09% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 2,575 2,939
10th Percentile £213 £283 £233
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £594
90th Percentile £651 £699 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £562 £565
% change year-on-year -8.36% -0.53% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 137 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £36.94
90th Percentile £70.93 £75.20 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.75%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +40 37 £552 -7.51% 7
Yorkshire +41 33 £545 +9.00% 3
South East +9 9 £584 -6.60% 9
South West -19 9 £675 +3.85% 20
Scotland +7 5 £600 -5.36%
North West +7 4 £582 -10.46% 3
East of England +9 2 £675 +29.81% 6
Midlands +16 1 £638 +31.44% 5
Wales +13 1 £690 +25.45% 2
West Midlands +8 1 £638 +31.44% 4
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (14.06%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) nginx
2 2 (3.13%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.13%) AWS
2 25 (39.06%) Azure
3 17 (26.56%) GitHub
4 13 (20.31%) GCP
5 8 (12.50%) Kong
6 7 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (9.38%) Apigee
7 6 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.25%) AWS KMS
9 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (6.25%) Route 53
10 3 (4.69%) Datadog
10 3 (4.69%) Serverless
11 2 (3.13%) IaaS
11 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (28.13%) VLAN
2 12 (18.75%) DNS
3 11 (17.19%) TCP/IP
3 11 (17.19%) VPN
4 10 (15.63%) Firewall
5 8 (12.50%) HTTP
6 3 (4.69%) IPv4
6 3 (4.69%) OSPF
7 2 (3.13%) BIG-IP
7 2 (3.13%) DHCP
7 2 (3.13%) DSL
7 2 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (3.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (3.13%) SSL
8 1 (1.56%) InfiniBand
8 1 (1.56%) LAN
8 1 (1.56%) SNA
8 1 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (12.50%) MySQL
2 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.56%) Big Data
6 1 (1.56%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (48.44%) Jenkins
2 20 (31.25%) GitLab
3 17 (26.56%) Git
4 11 (17.19%) JIRA
5 9 (14.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (12.50%) CircleCI
6 8 (12.50%) Travis CI
7 5 (7.81%) AppScan
7 5 (7.81%) Burp Suite
7 5 (7.81%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.56%) Appium
9 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.56%) Maven
9 1 (1.56%) MSTest
9 1 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.56%) Selenium
9 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.56%) Subversion
General
1 33 (51.56%) Social Skills
2 26 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 10 (15.63%) Finance
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
5 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.56%) Electronics
6 1 (1.56%) Games
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.06%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Data Protection Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Site Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Data Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) NetBackup Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Backup Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (12.50%) JSON
2 8 (12.50%) XML
2 8 (12.50%) YAML
3 4 (6.25%) .NET
4 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.13%) cloud-init
5 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.56%) Kafka
5 1 (1.56%) Middleware
5 1 (1.56%) Node.js
5 1 (1.56%) OAuth
5 1 (1.56%) OLE
5 1 (1.56%) React
5 1 (1.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Replication
2 11 (17.19%) Public Cloud
3 8 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.25%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Clustering
5 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.13%) PKI
6 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.56%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (68.75%) Linux
2 27 (42.19%) Windows
3 9 (14.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (10.94%) CentOS
5 4 (6.25%) Unix
6 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (64.06%) DevOps
2 26 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 22 (34.38%) Configuration Management
4 22 (34.38%) Containerisation
5 20 (31.25%) Agile
5 20 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (25.00%) Change Management
7 15 (23.44%) Task Automation
8 14 (21.88%) Project Management
8 14 (21.88%) Service Delivery
9 13 (20.31%) Data Protection
9 13 (20.31%) Test Automation
10 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (18.75%) Scrum
11 11 (17.19%) Continuous Deployment
12 9 (14.06%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (14.06%) DevSecOps
13 8 (12.50%) Secure Coding
13 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.13%) Python
2 29 (45.31%) Bash
3 28 (43.75%) PowerShell
4 7 (10.94%) Ruby
5 6 (9.38%) C++
6 5 (7.81%) Perl
7 4 (6.25%) Java
8 3 (4.69%) C
9 2 (3.13%) ActionScript
9 2 (3.13%) Go
9 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.56%) Bicep
10 1 (1.56%) C#
10 1 (1.56%) PHP
10 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) Degree
3 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) RHCE
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) GIAC
4 1 (1.56%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (1.56%) LPIC
4 1 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) NCSC
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (43.75%) Docker
2 7 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.13%) KVM
3 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.56%) NFS
4 1 (1.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (85.94%) Ansible
2 37 (57.81%) Terraform
3 29 (45.31%) Progress Chef
4 28 (43.75%) Kubernetes
5 17 (26.56%) Prometheus
6 14 (21.88%) Grafana
6 14 (21.88%) NetBackup
7 10 (15.63%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (12.50%) Kibana
8 8 (12.50%) logstash
9 7 (10.94%) Packer
10 5 (7.81%) Graylog
10 5 (7.81%) HP Fortify
10 5 (7.81%) Nagios
10 5 (7.81%) Nessus
10 5 (7.81%) Rancher
10 5 (7.81%) WebInspect
11 3 (4.69%) CFEngine
12 2 (3.13%) HAProxy
12 2 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (29.69%) Splunk
2 14 (21.88%) Veritas
3 11 (17.19%) VMware
4 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.81%) Checkmarx
5 5 (7.81%) Veracode
6 4 (6.25%) Oracle
7 3 (4.69%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.69%) New Relic
7 3 (4.69%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.13%) Dell
8 2 (3.13%) F5
8 2 (3.13%) PagerDuty
8 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.56%) BMC
9 1 (1.56%) HP
9 1 (1.56%) NetApp
9 1 (1.56%) Remedy
9 1 (1.56%) SAP
9 1 (1.56%) Symantec